Christmas Season Celebrations Across Grafton and City Officials
The piece describes festive scenes with homes lit in colors and fires, families preparing Christmas Day feasts, and men aiding in preparations. It notes magistrates and Mayor Charles O. King avoiding cases on Christmas Day, aiming for clear dockets, while Grafton’s business and residential areas wear holiday dress. It adds a note that West Virginia coal will last about 1200 years.
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Charles O. King
Lilly and Wittman
Grafton
Bank survey shows city needs work and creates jobs
The Taylor County Bank completes a city survey detailing 619 buildings and homes needing repairs and paint, 209 retaining walls to build, over three miles of sidewalks, and numerous lots needing cleaning. It notes about 387 unemployed residents and argues repairs would create local work while credit and savings trends reflect cautious, cash based spending amid a broader national outlook.
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Taylor County Bank
Drunk Charge Dropped On Holiday Eve
Three men from Newbury were arrested by city police in Grafton on a drunkenness charge while holiday shopping. Mayor Charles C. King ordered them released with gifts for loved ones, telling them to take the presents and go home.
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Newbury
Grafton
Charles C. King
Lincoln's tomb at Springfield rebuilt and rededicated
The Lincoln tomb in Springfield was rebuilt and will be rededicated. In 1929 about three million Christmas and New Year cards were mailed to the letter office due to missing return addresses.
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Lincoln
Springfield
Chicago gang activities on Pacific Coast headline
Chicago underworld links emerge in Long Beach shooting as police trace principal figures from Chicago to the coast. The incident injured a Long Beach officer. J. Sherman and Ralph Sreldin are connected. Prohibition agent salaries range from two thousand two hundred to two thousand nine hundred dollars.
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Chicago
Pacific Coast
J. Sherman
Long Beach
Ralph Sreldin
Pantages wife freed from manslaughter probation
Mrs Lois Pantages wife of vaudeville impresario Alexander Pantages was released from a ten year probation after a manslaughter conviction tied to the death of Japanese gardener Joe Komomoto in an automobile crash. Superior Judge Carlos Hardy terminated the period yesterday in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Lois Pantages
Alexander Pantages
Pantages
Joe. Komomoto
Carlos Hardy
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