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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1929
Page
2
A visiting observer notes nursery children climbing and balancing with apparent skill. Teachers do not warn constantly but watch closely to intervene only if a child cannot extricate itself. The lesson likens home play to a baby's athletic feats and endorses careful, nonintimidating supervision.
An advertisement extols MELLO-GLO Face Powder as a beauty essential. It promises a youthful bloom, long-lasting wear, and a smooth, shiny nose free of pastiness and irritation. The copy cites a French process and urges purchase from Gratton Drug and Chemiae.
A scattered OCR list outlines radio program timings across many stations in New York and other cities. It catalogs show titles, orchestras, and hours such as Buck and Wing Sentinels Orch Singers, and various programs from WEAF WIZ WABO and other outlets with times ranging from 6:00 to 11:30 PM and mentions of orchestras, concerts, and dance hours.
Morgantown June 13 The Marion County Historical Society will hold an open meeting at 2:00 p m Sunday at the Capt Booth school house near Booths Creek to determine the grave location of Captain James Booth who was killed by Indians June 16 1778 Two or three miles from Five Mile House the event will feature speakers including Thomas M Leeper a Booth descendant and others from the West Virginia Historical Society and allied groups.
About 1500 American Boy Scouts will attend the World Jamboree at Birkenhead across the Mersey from Liverpool from July 31 to August 13. Some 50,000 scouts from 42 nations will camp on over 400 acres to celebrate the movement’s 21st birthday and honor Sir Robert Baden-Powell. American contingents depart from several seaports and travel by train to the camp.
Reports from London indicate over 15,000 Boy Scouts from outside Britain will attend the jamboree, with 2,000 more from British dominions. English Scouts fill the remainder, and European royalty are set to attend, including the Prince of Wales as Chief Scout of Wales.
At the Hoover called oil conservation conference three days of talks focused on overproduction and imports. Texas California and Oklahoma urged further study and a survey by a joint federal and state committee to map the industry. Disagreements over foreign imports and independent operators persisted amid cautious action.
Delegates from various states are expected to prepare and propose a definite plan of procedures at the meeting, followed by discussion. The event suggests a coordinated approach among states to establish formal steps ahead.
Horace Seymour Shonnard, a New York stockbroker, wed Sophie Meldrim Coy, first wife of Yale football star Edward H Coy, in Savannah. The couple planned a European honeymoon after a municipal judge presided. Meldrim Coy, a Savannah girl, and Coy had eloped to Asheville in 1913 and faced divorce proceedings in Paris in 1925. Shonnard was later divorced in Paris last July, with two children involved.
Edwin Carewe and his divorced wife Mary Aiken Carewe, once married in Mexico in 1925, reportedly plan to remarry. The couple divorced there a year ago in a $110,000 property settlement. exact ceremony date and location remain undecided, with Lake Arrowhead, California cited as a reference point.
Severe wind and rain storms hit southern West Virginia late yesterday. A casualty occurred when Harry L. Miller, chief clerk for Hatfield Reli Company of Plymouth, was electrocuted repairing a downed power line. The event caused widespread damage and fumbled news items, including unrelated notes about a divorce in Nice, France.
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