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Grafton Sentinel in Grafton, West Virginia
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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1927
Page
4
Decoration Day Observance and Local Business Woes
The article notes Decoration Day as a cherished homecoming for Grafton natives, urging programs to honor distant sons and daughters. It also discusses widespread economic softness, detailing national trade declines, coal market slack, overproduction, and railroad slowdowns affecting West Virginia's economy and the local business climate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Wise counsel on patience and self reliance
The piece urges calm during economic slack, advising managers to trim expenses and wait for demand to rebound. It recounts Lindbergh’s mother who let him decide, stressing independence, responsibility, and the value of making own choices. It contrasts wise self reliance with overprotective parenting that stifles growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Lindbergh
Paris
Lucky Lindbergh
Honor for John Fitch and Robert Fulton in steam ship legacy
The War Department monument at Bardstown Ky honors John Fitch as inventor of the steamboat while noting Fulton sparked the steam navigation era. Fitch predates Fulton’s Clermont but failed to achieve practical success. both are credited with advancing a pivotal technology and its commerce impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Bardstown
John Fitch
Robert Fulton
Fulton
Fitch
Clermont
America
Forerunners of Fulton and Fitch in steam plowing
Be plowed by steam craft. Fulton had better fortune. We recognize Fitch as the forerunner, but Fulton was the developer. There is honor enough for both. One big life insurer finds one death in six due to heart disease. The excessive speed of modern life wears down vital organs until a sudden funeral ends the pattern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton
Fitch
Benefits of a Balanced Life for Longevity
The text argues that accumulating money or constant frenzy harms happiness. It advocates a serene mind and sound constitution as the best life, urging moderate mental and physical exertion, proper diet, ample sleep, sun, fresh air, and yearly physical exams to extend lifespan and improve well being.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Master Locomotive President Washington Shown At Baldwin Works
The President Washington locomotive features five automatic coal positions, reduced manual labor, and automatic fuel control to maintain steam. Innovations include a stationary bell with automatic clapper, oiling devices, speed and recording indicators, vanadium steel parts, and a design enabling 100 mph without loss of traction. Engine and tender weigh 263 tons, boiler pressure 230 psi, and fuel capacity 17 tons coal with 11,000 gallons water. Tested March 24 1927 at Baldwin Works, public display in eastern cities and at Wheeling Parkersburg and Clarksburg drew about a half million viewers. Now that Lindbergh’s flight is completed, entertainments wane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Wheeling
Parkersburg
Clarksburg
Retreat May Continued from Pare One Retreat May Continued
Conference results remain undisclosed but indicate powers favor keeping troops in the Peking and Tientsin area to protect residents if needed. Japan has landed 2000 troops at Tsingtao and plans to move toward Tsinanfu, while Britain readies a battalion to Tientsin from Shanghai.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ition
Peking
Tientsin
Japan
Tsingtao
Tsinanfu
Shantung Province
Shantung
China
Great’ Britain
Shanghai
Border Regiment
Quiz former cult queen testifies in dissolution suit
Esther Hansel, ex member of the House of David, testifies under cross examination in Michigan details alleged mistreatment by Benjamin Purnell. She describes a boat trip and notes Purnell surrounded by young women. defense questions imply witnesses are ex members seeking money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph
Mich
Esther Hansel
House of David
Benjamin Purnell
Wy. J. Barnard
Purnell
Barnard
Benjamin
Lfe
Further Floods Feared Along Upper Mississippi
River observers warn of renewed floods in the central valley of the Mississippi as the Cairo weather office predicts the river will reach 47 feet there by Sunday. At Cairo the river stood at 44.2 feet, with flood stage at 45 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Mississippi
Great River
Weather Bureau
Cairo
Illinois
Automobile Mechanic Sentenced to Life for Death Case
A mechanic received life imprisonment after his defense motion for a new trial failed. He described tensions with his wife and mother, claiming the woman threatened suicide and that he found her dead, then hid the pistol before reporting the incident to authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams
Prisoner Breaks From Cell At Cadiz Ohio
Cadiz Ohio June 1 A prisoner named Sheri John Quigley on a routine nightly round observed the escape of E B Pryor 25 from a county jail cell Pryor from Frederickstown Pa was wanted for forgery and was reported seen in Connellsville Pa and in several other places in the pursuit ongoing with authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cadiz
Sheri John Quigley
E. B. Pryor
Frederickstown
Pryor
Connellsville
Lindbergh Elected to Berkeley Flying Club Honorary Member
In Martinsburg on June 1 Captain Charles A Lindbergh was elected to honorary membership in the Berkeley Aviation Club and will be invited to visit the flying field near the city during the Maryland National Guard summer encampment in August. President Coolidge and the Prince of Wales are noted as other honorary members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsburg
Charles A. Lindbergh
Berkeley Aviation Club
Maryland, National Guard
Coolidge
Prince of Wales
Two Men Die From Burns In Kenmore Mine Explosion
In Wheeling Ohio on June 1 Joe Bamich 35 and Marke Sedarlich 46 of Cadiz Ohio died of burns at Wiley General Hospital from an explosion that blasted five kegs of powder in the Kenmore mine two days earlier. The flesh was burned from their bodies and both men left families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
Joe Bamich
Marke Sedarlich
Cadiz
Ohio
Wiley General Hospital
Kenmore
Police Chief Takes Blame for Queens Parade Incident
New York June 1 Police Commissioner Joseph A. Warren assumed full responsibility for the city police action regarding attempts to prevent uniformed Ku Klux Klan members from taking part in a Memorial parade in Queens. Warren said the klansmen clearly breached faith with the police and had been forbidden to parade in regalia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lindberghs Farm Years Fueled Flight Lessons
Charles Lindbergh spent three years on a Minnesota farm turning unproductive land into income. He earned $500 which he used for his first flying lessons, while his father Charles A. Lindbergh devoted time to politics and farming. The future aviator roamed the pines along the Mississippi, trained with his dog, and built a small craft in youth before pursuing a lone, daring transcontinental flight. The piece notes his self reliance and upbringing as context for the famed solo crossing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York-Paris
Congress
Minnesota
Little Falla
Minn
Mississippi River
Sweden
Charles
A. Lindbergh
Hrangeline L. Lind
Bergh
Bonita Witt
Star
America
Lipa
New York
Patsy
St. Loui
Mississippi
Mrs. Lindbergh
McCue Sheet Metal and Lumber Co Ad Open House
AM materials and work strictly first class. Estimates gladly furnished on request. McCue Sheet Metal and Lumber Co 40 West Main St, in the former occupied by.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCue Sheet Metal and Sing Co
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