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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1929
Page
4
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The article notes a welcome rain ending a long hot dry spell across regions from the East to the West, easing parched fields and gardens. It discusses time reckoning in news reporting, then highlights Weston and Clarksburg federal building plans, and a British US naval parity agreement announced in Parliament by Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald.
Edward Mi Schilze of Chicago set a peculiar travel record by driving without license tags. He reached Washington outskirts unnoticed, then explained he left for New York after buying the car and asked his sister to mail the tags. Police at Bethesda finally issued the distant record for driving without tags.
The piece argues for equal naval class proportions among Britain the U S and Italy noting the 5 5 3 ratio applied only to first class battleships and urging a comprehensive schedule for all ships to curb rivalries. It also covers Mississippi water speed records and a theft wave of potatoes in the region with trucks stealing crates to markets in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Parliament reports recall of Lord Lloyd as British high commissioner in Egypt. Former Premier Stanley Baldwin led the attack with reinforcement from Winston Churchill. Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson signaled no shift in Egyptian policy unless internal affairs show liberal treatment. Clerk John A. Newcomb noted.
Wheeling in brief reports includes a mill worker and father of eighteen filing voluntary bankruptcy, a Dublin street gutter incident at Wheeling Point Mills, and a Wheeling woman fined ten dollars for an alleged man o n dry raid. Charleston entries note United Fuel Gas Co appeal in Roane county rights matter and Xanawha Power Co seeking PSC approval to modify Fayette county power plans. A physician note references a patient’s operation and a premier’s aim to represent France at a forthcoming conference. a man about to turn seventy on August 29.
Surgeon General Cummings announced progress toward eradicating leprosy in the United States through chaulmoogra oil therapy and research on transmission. He cited Dr N E Wayson’s Hawaii study and mentioned releasing three more survivors from Carville leprosarium as the eight-year total reaches 48.
Washington July 26. The proposed sliding scale in tariff rates on sugar will be presented to the senate finance committee next week. Public hearings will be reopened for consideration of the plan advocated by some groups as a substitute for sugar rates in the house bill.
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