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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1900
Page
7
A brief page item notes the Dry Goods department reopening as Everything New with a new display of glass and ornamented frames. Joan N. Tr and Loan & Co are mentioned in relation to the display and inspection.
A new entity named New River and Kanawha Coal Company unites fifty West Virginia bituminous coal firms that control most soft coal mines along the New and Kanawha rivers. The merged group will operate the mines and plants while retaining ownership of each company’s facilities. It plans to start operations on April 1 and will oversee more than 4,000,000 tons of coal and about 1,000,000 tons of coke, shaping freight flows for the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.
In Mt Liberal Indiana a boy named Hall tethered to a frightened horse by two older companions Pitman and Copen haver suffers fatal injuries when the horse bolts. The riders release the bridle and strike the animal, causing Hall to fall under hoofs as the horse runs nearly two miles before capture.
Dr Charles Sabin Taft longtime Army surgeon who helped tend President Lincoln after the 1865 Ford’s Theatre shooting died at Mt Vernon He and Dr Seale helped move Lincoln to Peterson's house and Taft kept vigil at the dying president’s bedside a robust figure in uniform tipped the stage role in a scene captured in many deathbed images The Dominion notes Hou Morgantown commander Brown reports Humane Society aid and chartering of a local branch to enforce laws and broaden county reach.
Notice urges taxpayer J C Cesoweth to pay the 1899 city tax as the city needs revenue for lands. Mention of hat line and Realieh stiff style appears in the fragmentary text. The remainder is unclear.
An old column remarks on tabasco in soup and a half pint of sauce, then discusses a kidnapping case in Omaha. It questions ransom amounts, notes romantic melodrama influence, and compares abduction methods to Italian brigands while reflecting on public safety and societal fears.
An ad extols a topical product named Mother’s Friend to ease childbirth without drugs. It claims to strengthen the body, reduce pregnancy discomfort, and mentions a Panama Missouri mother praising it after use. The language reflects period advertising.
236 acres in Logan County Ohio offered with 200 acres of black loam soil and rest relay soil all under drained. Expected yield about 90 bushels per acre this year. Near R station on a good free Pike. Features a good house and multiple barns with a reliable spring. Price 55 dollars per acre with other bargains in Ville Ohio.
A detailed advertisement for a comprehensive guide on canaries parots and all cage birds with engravings lithographs and breeding tips. It promises information on song fancy canaries diseases remedies and building and stocking aviaries to profit, with delivery offered by Associated Wandanal in Philadelphia.
General Grosvenor of Ohio receives a cane from Representative Sibley of Pennsylvania. The wood and bronze originate from the Royal Savage, the infant American navy’s first war vessel sunk in Lake Champlain on October 11, 1776. A recovered hull fragment provides the bronze fittings for the walking stick. The handle is bronze and shaped like an eighteenth century cannon.
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