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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1929
Page
4
The Grafton Daily Sentinel notices traditional ads and subscription rates while a Clarkburg Exponent essay contemplates failure and youthful aspirations. It notes reader letters rules, delivery expectations, and pricing.
This feature urges a hopeful 1929, notes widespread illness and modest local business recovery, and reports the Interstate Commerce Commission overruling objections to a compromise railroad freight rate for Lake cargo coal. It explains a midpoints difference of 35 cents and predicts potential boosts to lake coal sales and regional stability. It also recounts a personal car crash experience and reflections on the aftereffects.
Detroit January 1 two patrolmen heures Gaprell and Harry Lee were arrested on manslaughter charges after Harold Burkart twenty five New Year reveler died. Witnesses said a bullet fired by a policeman killed him and Stephen Kim was wounded in the shoulder during the fusillade.
Governor Franklin D Roosevelt proclaimed a new era of good feeling in a broad speech. He praised Alfred E Smith and vowed to keep state government nonpartisan while pushing water power development, judicial simplification, workers’ compensation, fair wages, and farmer relief through reform of town and county governance.
Louis Springborne a 49 year old man told Chicago police he is a stickup addict who cannot resist the urge to rob. He said the New Year prompted him to surrender and avoid temptation, confessing to multiple robberies last month before spending New Year’s Eve in custody.
Reports from London Berlin Paris and cities worldwide depict festive New Year scenes as 1929 begins. Royal greetings in Rome and Tokyo mark the pass to a new year with diverse customs from public pardons to Arctic toasts by explorers and officials.
Reports say fighting occurred in Afghanistan but negotiations with rebels continued and peace was hoped to be re established soon. The legation noted that some foreign women and children possibly taken from Kabul by British planes could return to the capital as conditions normalize.
NY Jan 1 Dr D T MacDougall described Palo Verde tree cells as living for about 150 years and endlessly active while ceasing only when leaves die. Tokyo reports loss of the Toyotomi Maru after a distress call with four crew saved and others feared drowned. The ship, built in Glasgow in 1888, measured 2238 tons.
In Detroit on January 1 a bombing damaged the Giuliano home injuring the Italian Jewish publisher Vincent Giuliano and family. Police could not establish a motive but noted Giuliano testified as a defense witness in a prior trial linked to a Columbus Day parade shooting amid anti fascist tensions.
Giuliano asserted that an anarchistic group he has pursued through the Tribune of America may be behind the bombing. He rejected links between the Columbus Day shooting trial and the bombing, saying no connection exists.
New York reports 1565 total deaths in 1928 linked to poisoned alcohol. Dr Charles Norris notes increases in motor accidents and homicides tied to bad liquor and says safe drinking no longer exists as bootleg alcohol circulates widely.
Hogou Jan ty is raised as interest grows in the Sunday baseball controversy. Boston Braves vice president Charles F. Adams indicates council approval concerns. Em il Puchs club president summoned by the city finance commission for testimony tomorrow. Council tables Sunday play permit applications while a bill seeks to empower an independent commission to grant such permits.
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