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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1938
Page
2
Judge William B. Casey of Wheeling sentences Steve Nagy to two years in the state penitentiary after Nagy pleads guilty to forging a $950 check. The report notes a Fort Myers hotel incident and a Port Lauderdale location reference.
Maude Adams veteran stage star and drama professor at Stevens College Missouri will read Christmas carols on a WJZ NBC broadcast at 8:30 p.m. A mixed choir will sing after. A second NBC Christmas night program features Roosevelt message read by Harry Hopkins and remarks from leaders William Green Phillip Murray Harold Dodds Charles R Hook William Bankhead Robert Taft and Stanley Reed.
A jumble of radio schedule items lists WEAF, WABC and WJZ programs from 1:15 p m through 4 p m including Irish culture, Bing Crosby and Carol services. Separate notices report funeral services for Lindsay P Satterfield and Earl Easley Evans with brief family context.
A dense listing of radio programs and times across stations such as WJZ WLW CBS NBC WSM CKLW WMMN and more. Includes sketch shows like Little Orphan Annie Tom Mix and Amos n Andy along with concerts orchestras dramas and variety acts scheduled hourly through midnight. Key performers Georgia names and station identifiers appear throughout the timetable.
RJ Scott notes a 1903 Colombian stamp catalog price for a CHY OF BOGOTA issue at 40 cents if imperforated and 7 dollars if perforated. The fragment mentions Cope 1938, syndicate, and a bizarre image of a mouse between eucalyptus trees in Australia, described as a flying creature with a stretched skin, plus a curious reference to a flying phalangier. The text mixes catalog data with odd, speculative imagery.
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