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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1931
Page
4
The Grafton Daily Sentinel announces publication details and advertising rates. It lists editors and departments at 103 Latrobe Street and 185-3, Grafton West Virginia. Subscriptions range from six dollars yearly to three months.
A wartime plea in Fairmont Times urges readers to donate jars or cans of fruit to aid the needy, proposing a cooperative Summer Food program with fruit pickers and a link via the Salvation Army. The piece also discusses economic concerns over silver’s value versus gold and its impact on international trade and domestic manufacturing.
Springfield reports President Hoover will rededicate the Lincoln Tomb on June 17, viewing a new sarcophagus of red Ozark marble nine feet above Lincoln’s resting place. The interior will reveal unused galleries, nine bronze statuettes, and recount Lincoln legends including the 1876 body theft. An expected large crowd will hear historic tales from Grand Army of the Republic veterans.
A stark profile of Mahatma Gandhi as a world figure amid calls for a world conference to address silver valuation and economic recovery. The piece notes British opposition, Gandhi's ascendant influence in India, and his planned austere London living among mendicants during the empire’s looming Indian government revamp.
An air ambulance and crowd awaited at municipal airport as Sterling Boljer, 25, transport pilot, flew 70 miles from Lake Elsinore with a landing gear wheel missing. Three elderly women were aboard for their first flight. The plane teetered and nosed over after takeoff, but Roller managed a difficult landing with only minor damage and all aboard unharmed.
The Associated Press reports a major Coast Guard haul totaling nearly a half million dollars in liquor and boats. The largest capture, the Surf, a $100,000 yacht seized off Montauk Point, was found to carry $200,000 worth of liquor after trailing from a mother ship on rum row. In Block Island Sound a speedboat carrying $12,500 worth of liquor was seized.
In Little Harbor on the New Hampshire coast a patrol vessel incident left a motorboat crew to drive their craft onto the sands escaping with $20,000 in contraband. The crews of the other two boats were captured.
Dynamite damaged a highway in front of a miner's home near Wildwood as strikes prompted planned marches on coat plants. Police detained three suspects. nearby homes suffered shattered windows. Miners deny striking while mediators seek wage and recognition settlements. Union leaders report 14,000 to 27,000 miners involved.
Peoria Illinois June 15 The secretary of war and Inland Waterways Corpora tion chairman urged harmony between waterways and railways. Patrick J Hurley said transport modes supplement each other and were government aided in early stages. Major General T Ashburn echoed the view noting water transportation boosts revenue for railways and national economic balance relies on coordinated rail water and motor transport.
Harrisburg reports the Pinchot administration will repress violence in western Pennsylvania strike areas while protecting constitutional rights. Governor’s letter to sheriffs of Allegheny, Fayette, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland counties directs state police to curb violence and safeguard peaceful assembly and travel.
The text explains Sentinel classmea advertising rates two cents a word for the first insertion and one cent a word for each additional insertion. Minimum charge is 45 cents. Each initial and each figure counts as one word. Insertion must be consecutive and in the regular column style. Errors to be reported immediately. The Sentinel disclaims responsibility for more than one incorrect ingestion.
William John Patterson twenty four of Cadiz shot himself to death at the home of Ernest Thrasher a friend in an isolated section several miles north of Wheeling authorities were advised early today the incident reported from Wheeling on June fifteenth.
In the Northern District of West Virginia a hearing is set for July 16 1991 on the discharge petition of bankrupt Reginald EB Parkhill case No 9330. Creditors and interested persons must appear at Ellington before ten oclock to show cause why discharge should not be granted.
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