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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1929
Page
2
Article discusses psychological causes of poor appetite in children, noting oversolicitude, nagging, forced feeding, and emotional meal settings as factors. Advocates simple, attractive meals served with calm, nonchalant manner to reduce hunger strikes. includes a card of thanks from Haymond church ladies for a supper at Brown's Grove.
Columbus July 22 Theodora Hix 25 coed slain by Dr James H Snook. Attorneys say motive differs from prior claim. John F Seidel announced sanity hearing before first degree murder trial. Edith Morris Belfast born wife jailed for embezzlement after wedding.
Ad touts indigestion as cause of palpitations and heart trouble. It promotes "Zex" Pepsinated Magnesia Compound as a gas eliminator that clears the stomach and flushes the bowels, promising a clean refreshed feeling. Price six cents at drug stores.
A readable fragment lists Monday July 22 radio programs across stations WEAF WI2 WOR WAKC KDKA WGY WBZ and others with orchestras bands operas and talk, plus baseball scores and entertainment segments. Notable names include Floyd Gibbons Rudy Vallee Ellington and Lopez, with ongoing music hours and dance programs.
A long list of radio program blocks appears with stations WW, WEAF, WHAF, WEA, and others detailing piano ensembles, dance bands, and variety hours. The text moves to a family story about a youth named Claud. his father visits Grafton hospital after learning his son traveled away from home despite parental concerns.
The four power Pan Pacific treaty of 1921 binds governments to act to preserve peace in the east. Kellogg expects formal operation only after Japanese ratification, but asserts Russia and China, by adhering to the pact and renouncing war, have a moral obligation to avoid war in the Manchurian dispute. Kellogg, former secretary of state, shares this view.
The article notes a prominent figure returning to Washington to attend Japan's ratification ceremony and reports a Chinese nationalist appeal to the League of Nations over the Manchurian railway dispute with Soviet Russia. It also covers the parole of two Hamilton boys in a drowning case, their incorrigible status, and a judge's order sending them to reform school before parole.
An unspecified group or individuals had been held in the county jail until today, with no further details on charges or duration provided.
The final run of the Old Pepper locomotive ends in disaster as it toppled from the rails into a ravine and exploded. Guests of New Hampshire and the Boston and Maine railroad were stranded for hours in bitter cold atop the peak. Lieutenant Shirley Clinton, aide to Governor William G. Conley, subdued an agitated passenger as others near the train attempted to jump.
Clinton overpowered the man as Adelard Bushey, brakeman, held fast to the hand brakes while the train began to slide near the site where Old Peppersass had torn up the rails. State governors Tobey of New Hampshire Conley of West Virginia Weeks of Vermont Mammill of Iowa Christianson of Minnesota Caulsfield of Missouri and Deern of Utah were present.
Funeral services for Anna M Windle Lake aged seventy five were held at Simpson Baptist Church with Rev J W Kirby officiating. She died Friday afternoon after months of illness and had recently visited her nephew O Jay Fleming at the First National Bank. An early settler from Pennsylvania she lived sixty seven years in the area and was a devoted Baptist. Survived by sister Mrs Mary E Fleming brother John J Windle and many nieces and nephews. Interment at Simpson cemetery with Bartlett Funeral Home in charge.
More than 12 000 employees and guests joined the annual all day picnic of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Veterans Association at Olympia Park Versailles Pennsylvania on Saturday. Delegations from Grafton Fairmont Clarksburg and neighboring cities were present and gifts were given to E W Scherr and E A Peck with diamond service buttons presented by George W Sturmer grand president of the association.
John T Berry of Rockland Maine an Associated Press photo subject enjoys walking his patrol beat when not managing his inherited estate valued at 250000 dollars He has served as a peace officer for twenty years.
A boa constrictor suffered distress as 11 workers tried to remove an army blanket draped over its body at the zoological gardens. The effort failed, leaving the snake in evident pain while the throng watched.
A note requests information about Mrs C O W, previously living with Mrs Pillinger at 140 Latrobe Street, Grafton. Readers are asked to send details to Box B at the Grafton Sentinel, with the address 98 24 26.
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