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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1936
Page
7
The Snortin Ridge Phone Co in Fairfield county Ohio operates a 30 mile line built by locals after being snubbed by a larger company. Ray Bussert's Revenge shop serves as relay to 14 customers in a three residence village with an easily overheard line and a single sheet phone book.
The supporting cast includes Tom Chatterton Joseph Swickard Mahlon Hamilton Lee Phelps William Lawrence and Harvey Clark. Les Selander directed and Frances Guihan wrote the screenplay for this production.
The comedy drama Picket to Paradise opens tonight at the Opera House. The production features fifty six elaborate sets including a Park Avenue mansion interior a New York nightclub the Metro newspaper newsroom a Wall Street floor a hotel lobby a magistrate court hospital police station and Grand Central stations in New York and Chicago among others highlighting the show’s lavish background.
Buck Jones stars in the Universal feature Boss Rider of Gun Creek where an innocent man faces life in prison after being identified as a murderer. A daring impersonation and escape unfold as the real killer dies, with Muriel Evans co starring in this thrilling western.
Ralph Bellamy stars in Twentieth Century Fox adaptation of Harold Bell Wright’s Wild Brian Kent at the Dixie Theatre twin bill. Mae Clarke plays the ranch owner Mae as a gang threatens Circle W. Bellamy’s playboy turns fighter to win back love and face danger in the bad lands.
The Dixie Theatre screens the new Harry Carey feature on tonight's twin bill. Ghost Town depicts a deserted Western town setting as part of the program.
The passage recalls how pay streaks sparked life in exhausted mines, creating temporary western towns that sprouted like mushrooms. Cit ies formed around ore riches, with mining tunnels and timbers, steel cages, flickering helmet lamps, and miners marching along ore veins while prospectors mined surface reefs for nuggets.
Mary Astor appears in her first starring role in Columbia comedy melodrama Lady From Nowhere at the Strand Theatre. The story follows Polly a manicurist who witnesses a murder flees racketeer Ed Lustig to Clearview Connecticut meets reporter Quigley and assumes the role of heiress Dorothy Barnes as police and gangsters close in. A hay wagon armored car showdown with local minute men provides the finale.
Morgan 25, lifelong friend of Miss Giltner, confessed firing five shots at the bride to be. She said she acted on impulse and with her father’s gun. Miss Giltner, daughter of Prof. Davis S. Giltner, dean at Michigan State College. State police medical adviser said she showed no remorse and was definitely insane. Prosecutor Dan McCullough ordered her moved to Mason jail.
Dean Giltner announced a murder charge plan and a sanity commission at the arraignment likely today. Miss Morgan, once a brilliant college student turned social worker, fell ill after a sedative overdose. Police accept an impulse to kill, while a Giltner family member suggests motive tied to a line of marriages within her circle, leaving Hope and Bessie as remaining brides and possibly creating loneliness.
The report details large note issuances and relief bond redemptions from 1932 to 1936. States including Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina West Virginia show significant totals and offsets. The Washington treasurer notes an overall improvement of about 8 million and mentions a 10 million emergency bond issue.
The report states about 750 billion in bonds retired with 1.445 billion left in the fund. Michigan paid off 1 million of its 77.5 million bonded debt this year as part of a complete amortization goal for 1944. A young woman who claimed self defense in a plea against her father appeared at the courthouse in rust and green attire with her lawyers.
The defense pressed to quash the indictment on constitutional grounds linking to a Virginia code section. The court overruled, Fulton reserved, and moved to void the venire list as Judge H A W Skeen recused due to distant kinship with Miss Maxwell's father, raising questions of eligibility to preside.
Tony Monti, a Sacramento newsboy known for his cheery greeting, becomes sole beneficiary of Joseph A. Woods. Woods, a lonely railway employee, died last May and left a $12,000 estate to Monti as designated.
For sale West Main street eight room house with furnace and a lot extending to Washington street in a desirable location and good condition Inquire 427 West Main phone 175 216 FOR SALE Home baked bread cakes pies and rolls Phone 309 W 216-31 FOR SALE Stewing and roasting chickens milk and grain fed full dressed 28c a pound delivered on Saturdays No phone order by postal D P Logan Route 5 216-11 No matter what UC have to sell There s a buyer waiting Use a for sale ad
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