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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1929
Page
2
A dense listing of radio station call letters and time blocks across multiple networks. Codes show Newark WEAF WBAL WIZ WLW and others with acts like The Jameses Duke Ellington's Band Amos n Andy and Francis Craig's Orchestra. Includes frequent WEAF hour slots and nightly dance music.
After hours of searching at his wife's request, a Woods man was found dead. Police stated the man shot himself through the head, citing anxiety over ill health as the cause.
About sixty city homes were toured by judges Karl Nuzum C A Keef er and Ralph S Kunst in the Christmas lighting campaign first official inspection. Twenty six homes were declared eligible for prizes with winners to be announced after the new year. List includes W. Rowland Maple Ave George Jolliffe Jr Maple Ave A A Holt Walnut St Clyde Turner Yates Ave and others across West Main West Washington Walnut and Loveland Addition.
A four year old Anne believes she is catching stars, not butterflies, prompting parents to assess daydreaming as harmless imagination rather than danger. The piece argues active, responsive children thrive on play and local engagement, cautioning against overreacting to whimsical fantasies.
The analysis notes grades 11 and 12 girls show an attitude closer to adults than boys, though the difference is small. Social and economic status influence views on law, with findings that children do not differ greatly from adults in attitude. lawless views appear across high and low intelligence groups.
An old style advertises Cystex as a quick relief for bladder irritation and associated pains. It promises rapid improvement with a money back guarantee and urges readers to visit Grafton Drug and Chemical Co for purchase at 60 cents.
Briand and Premier Tardieu won a 303 to 260 confidence vote on their peace policies. The poll asked if they should continue the reparations settlement work at the second Hague conference meeting on January 3.
Coast action continued from page one reports obstruction of floating the lost vessel. It mentions a wounded man tied to the pliers, the other man missing, and the case turned over to Buffalo US district attorney with Treasury cooperation. Senator Copeland urged state authorities to assume jurisdiction.
A mob shot and left for dead a man known as Pugate in a Christmas morning attack. Jailer SL Combs was bound as the mob’s leaders. The feud stretches back decades with Amos Fugate killing Deputy Watkins, later retaliations, and a lineage of mob violence including Hen Kilburn’s 50 year old lynching alongside a Black man in the courthouse yard.
Bandits robbed Oakland Bank near Scottsville and fled toward Gallatin. Kirby president of Farmers Bank of Smiths Grove was shot and killed while a posse tried to stop the getaway. Officers pursued the robbers with guardsmen arriving from Bowling Green and tear gas bombs deployed.
New York dispatched from Adelaide, Cecil Madigan, an Australian explorer, confirms Lake Eyre in Central Australia as a vast salt lake. He notes its limitless salt with up to 3,000,000,000 tons in the northern part and potential value if potash is present. The lake reportedly bears a surface of crystal encrustations resembling ice floes.
Police reported Chief Michael O Neill was found dead in a clump of woods in Englewood New Jersey on December 27 authorities investigated the scene as a possible homicide or accidental death with routine police procedures underway for confirmation and cause.
Pittsburgh dispatch reports that a federal court in Cleveland denied a writ restraining completion of a lease transfer involving the Wheeling and Lake Erie station site in Cleveland to the Cleveland Union Terminals Company. The injunction was sought against the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Bullions and related contract transfers.
A Farrell Pennsylvania fire killed mother Rose Capson aged 22 and two children Mari 4 and Paul 2. Two other children Sarah 6 and John 3 were seriously injured. The mother guided her children to a bathroom as the fire trapped them while others escaped onto a roof.
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