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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1930
Page
7
A sheriff has bought property in West Virginia and adjacent Virginia for state purposes. The transaction involves the sheriff acquiring real estate to support state operations, with details limited in the available text.
Associated Press reports William K. Van derbilt publishes Taking One's Own Ship Around the World. Limited edition copies at 100 dollars each tell of his circumnavigation aboard the 213-foot Yacht Ara Las Vegas New Mexico bride Dorothy Sebastian notes tears at wedding as divorce appears on license. Senator Smoot mentioned in Washington dispatch.
In a debate telecast Senator Conally of Texas urged a plan for downtown New York meals to be donated to the poor. The idea proposed that one meal per week be scaled to 2750-9850 and funded if granted, a notion tied to broadcasting interests and amateur ventures. Meanwhile Onondaga Indians received 100 bushels of wait and $700 as annual payment from state for lands sold 125 years ago. London reported Britain pays unemployment doles for 400,000 people totaling $100 million yearly. Amelia Earhart flew an autogiro twice. she declined to ride with fiancé George Palmer Putnam, citing unfamiliarity with the machine.
Italy favors bigger cars and lower license fees for six cylinder autos, renewing a regulation from three years ago. An announcement signals a push to develop broadcasting and entertainment via improved radio and television experimentation, with plans to transmit images between cities in the future.
The final showing tonight features Olive Tell as a siren and homewrecker in Lawful Larceny. On screen she is a dazzling thief who drains mens fortunes, while in private life she hoards old clothes, filling every nook with trunks of cast-offs.
The Associated Press reports CBS aims to transmit a 50 watt short wave television signal from its chain headquarters by February. Engineers complete preliminary arrangements for the atmospheric experimental telecast as of today.
Rome reports seven young American students from a Wheeling college will enter the priesthood. Cardinal Viedr Baalligy Poropitte is to officiate at special services. Washington names Benjamin Farrell and Henry Sank among those to be ordained.
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