Grafton Daily Sentinel highlights and editorials
A scanned front section notes editorial focus on communist bread pricing in Russia and the virility topic, with references to New York Carnegie Hall quintuplets and a Wheeling Intelligencer political forecast. It critiques Soviet bread card changes, comments on American inflation, and urges fiscal restraint. The piece discusses deficits, budget balancing, and Roosevelt administration policy.
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Russia
United States
Carnegie Hall
New ‘York City
Daily Press
Tatter
Welcome to our city refugees and growth ahead
The piece urges restoring private enterprise for employment, urging confidence in profit to expand business. It calls for hospitality to newcomers, helping them settle with schools, churches, clubs, and civic life, and pledges cooperation with federal dam authorities and contractors. It notes housing as the major early challenge.
Future of Tygart Valley Dam Prompts Community Planning
Letter argues the $12,000,000 Tygart valley navigation and flood control dam promises a long term boon for Grafton. The writer urges immediate intelligent planning to capitalize on the opportunity, warning that passive drift could yield only a temporary boom and little lasting benefit.
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Grafton Sentinel
Grafton
W. Va
Tygart Valley
Plan to keep US out of future wars gains traction
Washington reports cite a state department proposal to avoid entanglement by denying loans to belligerents and limiting credit risk. The plan aims to preserve American neutrality, steering away from automatic league participation and drawing in conflicts only by choice. Roosevelt era politics loom as Congress weighs inflation, labor, taxation, and public welfare measures.
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Tak
England
Civilian Conservation Corps
Roosevelt
Congress
Uncle Sam
League of Nations
League
United States
State Department
NRA
AAA
Munitions Planta
Ema
Donald Soren
Forged Note Heats Tense Night Operation
Greenleaf and accomplices stage a risky ruse to smuggle a forged message to Jensen via a night-time distraction. Jake slips the note under a shack door while Blane and others position shooters up the hill to mislead pursuers, aiming to spur Jensen into action before dawn.
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Jensen
Greenleaf
Blane
Tila
Whitey
Greenlent
Jake
Jehsen
Alling Station
Staton
Greenseat
O. K
Jana
Housing Crisis Prompts Citywide Remodeling Plan
The city faces a housing shortage as new residents arrive for the dam project. Repairing unoccupied houses could add rental income and spur growth, while surveys and a city planning board would guide modernization and attract new industries. Pro bono public matches civic effort to plan mass meetings and improve the town.
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Grafton
Hazel-Atlas Glass
Judge Makes Trade With Prisoner for Old Auto
Philadelphia story notes Magistrate Jacob Dodgale offered a jobless motorist Charles P Hodman of Sellersville a trade for Holmans 1927 automobile. Hodman accepted and the magistrate refunded the $6 fine after the exchange.
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Judge
Philadelphia
Jacob Dodgale
Charles P. Hodman
Sellersville
Holman
Clever play in central press bridge lesson by Shepard
Central Press contract bridge column by E V Shepard describes a hands on lesson where North and East clash over bids and plays. The discussion analyzes opening leads, defenders' decisions, and the impact of card placement on declarer outcomes in a four spade contract.
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Central Press
E. V. Shepard
East
South
West
Enat
Tidenne
Gooth
Nokia
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