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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1930
Page
7
A fragmented newspaper snippet blends a cryptic crossword with stray radio schedules and jokes. It mentions old time programs on WIZ WEAF and WHAS, then pivots to a domestic joke about two hats priced at 13 and 18 dollars and a superstition about the number 13.
An illuminating profile of a well known child star earning 500 dollars weekly. He rejects a 250 dollar offer, then hires out to a junk man for a dollar a day. He buys a Christmas present with his earnings, showing that only money paid directly to a child teaches thrift and money value, not parental savings accounts.
Eastern standard time radio listings from WEAF WABC WIZ WHAL WJZ WOR KDKA and WGY present a dense schedule of music bands, orchestras, comedies and serials including Uncle Abe and David Vincent Lopez Amos n Andy and various talk features. The column lists station call letters, cities and program blocks with no narrative beyond the timetable.
Richard C. Murdock of Osains Ing New York, age 25, received the Prix De Rome for landscape architecture. A Cornell University graduate, he earns recognition from the esteemed program.
A Tiffany-Stahl all talking picture, Painted Faces, opens last night at the Opera House. Joe E Brown stars with Helen Foster Doroth y Gulliver Barton Hepburn and Lester Cole in key roles. The plot blends vaudeville circus and jury room drama as Brown seeks to prove a boy’s innocence after a murder tied to a star actor’s abuse.
The Associated Press photo presents Augustine Waldemaras, former premier and dictator banished for one year as the Lithuanian government labeled him a danger to public order. The RCA Photophone record notes the banishment and a show at the Opera House for a film program including Joe Brown by Fraser Hyland with dialogue by Hattons. Gasoline tax revenue for the first half of 1980 reached 4 153 925 compared to 3 229 133 in the prior period.
Wheeling 80 year old Donald Heruantox charged with felonious assault leaps 200 feet from a hospital window and escapes deputies. Clarksburg 80 year old retired farmer John H Davisson kites when chair overturns at home in Mc Whorter. Charleston showers reach 107 as uferevity arrives. Boone Eason and Woot of Bluefield awarded contract for new library at New River state schioo in Montgomery. Pantaleone Megno case against Monongahela transportation company to be heard by state supreme court writ of error granted. Harrison county delegation discusses improvements for state routes 57 and 17 with state road commission. Lewisburg Glenn Tyree in army uniform goes on trial for 1923 slaying of taxi driver C Winebrenner. Bluefield S P Bell Spenser elected president West Virginia Bar Association. A Stockton celery ranch markets more than 4,000,000 dollars worth of celery in a year.
In River from Bridge at Tygarts Valley, Elkins, West Virginia, Eugene Doyles, 73, drowned after leaping from a bridge. Believed to have killed himself due to illness and heat. He is survived by his widow and two children.
An earthquake event was recorded in New York on July 29 with shocks at 2:05 and 2:10 p.m. (8ST) near Fordham University. Believed to be minor, the tremor was described as less violent than a prior Guatemalan quake two weeks earlier.
In Charleston West Virginia former United States Senator M M Neely Fairfield amounting to 14 cents for registering and campaign expense certificate filed with Secretary of State George Sharp. Neely stood unopposed for the Democratic nomination and other nine congressional candidates did not list contestable expenditures.
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