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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1907
Page
4
Judge Holt in Cumberland voices that selling intoxicating liquors is dangerous under any license status and that current laws are so strict it is nearly impossible to sell legally without infringing. He decries the liquor trade as a perilous business in today’s legal climate.
Property listings offer Main street at 5000 value for 3000 cash with options to name or run a business. Includes Wee Bide large residence central area and Pearl street wall frontage. Also corner lot at Juan and Kooits, Cor senion 60 acre farm, 103 acre farm, and an 8 tie fee city tract. Will sell or trade, contact Ernest L Love of Loves Hardware Store in city.
A chaotic ad page lists a Free Pants promotion by the Grafton Tailor Company offering a chance to win five dollars in pants. Nearby items include weather notes, a Pomp Factory car whistle signal, fence building, fabric and binding ads, West Side Meat Market offerings, typhoid water filter, local sausage and dairy ads, and Florence Bros. Poe & Go meat market prices.
Panama canal clash between Canal Commission chairman Bhontz and chief engineer Stevens deepens after Roosevelt reorganization. A truce exists as Stevens loses power to seven executive departments led by Shonts, sparking talk of resignations and tense White House talks. Monkeys Have No Pens notes flea myths and zoological contrasts.
Lancaster Mass Jan 10 sale of Baron Wilkes the great trotting horse to B Krell of Carthage Mo announced by John E Thayer price not disclosed Thayer bought Baron Wilkes from R G Stover of Paris Ky payment about 25090 Knute Nelson nominee in Minnesota politics Jan 19 40 year English professor Lemuel Torwin dies of pneumonia Duquoin floods cause extensive damage Boston bank absorption news of National Bank of the Republic absorbing Wreemeos National Bank
A fragmentary report details a conspiracy alleging murder plots against army officers at Fort Reno involving Captain Macklin and corporal Edwin L Knowles of Company A Twenty-fifth Infantry. Knowles was bound over to the grand jury on an assault charge for December 21.
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