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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1928
Page
7
Coach Arch F. Peters leads the Woo High School basket squad through early cuts after a week of workouts with over 50 hopefuls. By week’s end he aims to trim to about 30 players and keep pruning toward the December 28 opener with Newburg in the local gym.
Fannie Brice narrates a tale of work and romance in 1928 cinema. Fanny supports her family while admiring a muscle builder, faces public teasing, and navigates theater costume work with Abe Thorne and Joe Lazarus. The scene shifts to a bustling workshop where designers argue about stormy stage costumes and deadlines.
With limited time, coach seeks two forwards a center and a guard with Jimmie Stafford to form a strong 1927 quint. Stafford Bevertin and other veterans show promise as Petersen aims for size and stamina to rival valley rivals. Practice focuses on filling four vacancies and shaping fundamentals and team play ahead of the opening game.
A nine day Telgrade wedding celebration ends with vast feasts for 550 invited and 2200 uninvited guests amid provisions including 46 pies 16 calves 1200 fowl and 80200 quarts of squid. New York poet wife files divorce suit response and theater magnate calls the book Loosened Cargo junk. Nashville farmer John Potts dies after hog attack severing a thigh artery. Los Angeles plane pilot becomes a matador after landing on a bull. plane damaged and bull killed. Santa Barbara sermons found in stones and marine brooks.
An advertisement claims many people suffer liver trouble causing yellow skin and fatigue. It promotes Orange Root Golden NUG GETS as a gentle, effective liver cleanser and tonic, priced 50 cents for 48 doses, available at Grafton Drug & Chemical Co.
Public health officials report influenza levels below epidemic in Grifton and neighboring areas though cases persist in institutions. Local doctors urge rest and avoidance of crowded, poorly ventilated spaces while weather shifts are hoped to curb spread.
A Washington, D. C. choir singer and a California college boy topped 60 000 entrants in the second national radio audition sponsored by the Alcatar Kent Foundation. Hazel Cecilia Arth the 239 contralto won the girls division singing Mon Coeur au Voix from Samson and Delilah in the finals broadcast over WEAR and 29 NBC stations.
Christmas Seals fundraising appeal from the Tuberculosis Association Committee urges reader support. The message calls for helping fight tuberculosis by buying seals as part of the holiday effort.
A lyric tenor and Gleek Club member at Whittier College won the boys' first prize by singing La Reve from Manon. Each recipient received 5000 dollars in cash and gold decoration plus a two year scholarship.
New York December 17 Eleanor Hoyt Wylie known as Eli nor Wylie novelist and poet died last night in London from a paralytic stroke. Born in Rosemont Pennsylvania she was daughter of Henry M Hoyt Washington solicitor general. She had a public elopement scandal in Washington years ago and later married Horace Wylie then William Rose Benet. Her works include Nets to Catch the Wind Jack Armour Jennifer Torn Venetian Glass Nephew The Orphan Angel. She is survived by her husband and a Harvard senior son Philip.
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