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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1929
Page
4
A Fairmont Times report recalls a child’s self inflicted poisoning from strychnine in a medicine chest. Parents urged to lock medicines and cabinets to prevent accidents. The piece also laments sensational death coverage and urges restraint in reporting murders and legal executions. Authorities push for safer home practices and warned against petty political triumphs in Congress.
An old advertisement touts Kruschen Salts as a daily morning dose to shed two dozen pounds of fat. It promises health gains, clear skin, bright eyes, and energetic vigor, urging readers to start each day with half a teaspoon in hot water and buy an 85 cent bottle from Grafton Drug Chemical Co or any live drugstore.
Broad urging a calendar of high importance for Taylor and Monongah counties plus parts of Marion and Preston. The plea calls for rapid circulating petitions to the state road commission and swift, representative delegations to Charleston to secure favorable action on the intra state hard surfaced highway link. Action and boosters for the intercounty seat highway become watchwords.
Teachers plan large enrollments in June July and August at West Virginia University Salem College Wesleyan Broadus Marshall and other state schools as school authorities promote courses to enhance teaching. An Interior Commerce agreement will keep streams and lakes in national parks well stocked with fish, possibly introducing new varieties and boosting existing populations for anglers.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates hear a provocative speech by Professor Robert Rogers urging students to marry for money and act like gentlemen. The criticism labels the remarks vulgar and calls for true gentility rooted in Carlyle and Thackeray, arguing a snob cannot be a gentleman.
Today in Congress the Senate resumes debate on the national origin issue and census reapportionment. Committees continue hearings as lawmakers press for clarifications and policy guidance amid ongoing discussions and potential votes.
Elizabeth New Jersey June 13 jurors heard evidence in the trial of Henry Colin Campbell 61 a civil engineer and former convict charged with the murder of Mrs Mildred Mowry of Greenville Pennsylvania. The court charged the jury after a two hour plea by Prosecutor Abe J David that the prisoner be sent to the electric chair.
Pittsburgh markets show hogs steady with mostly 11.80 to 11.65 for 160 to 300 lb. cattle none listed while calves steady at 150 top vealers 16.00. Sheep slow with lambs about steady and fat lambs 6.00 to 7.00 dollars, produce demand moderate with cabbage cars weak, potatoes steady to slightly higher, and assorted regional prices for barrels and sacks.
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