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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1931
Page
2
Moone's Emerald Oil marketed to relieve bunion pains and foot troubles promised in a two ounce bottle. The ad claims 2-3 applications reduce pain in minutes and shrivel corns with nightly use. Grafton Drug and Red Cross Pharmacy back the offer with a money back guarantee on the first 85 cent bottle.
A dense listing of NBC and CBS radio programs with start times, guest performers and show titles. Includes Rudy Vallee Orchestra, Gene Austin songs, Kate Smith, Dennis King, Pryor's Band, and The Quarter Hour segments. Also notes W2XCR TV variety block from 6:00 to 8:00 PM and program cues across networks.
Coventry maintains an eyeless Eden in Foleshill where 300 bachelors live in huts, paying 1.50 weekly rent under strict no women visitors rule. New York reports Duchess de Richelieu sent a bouquet to a ship with a furniture bill suit. Los Angeles notes Jim Thorpe enters films as a frontier battle star. London reports Bulwich College bans cinema for boys, headmaster condemning Americanized films.
Ajected notes from J W York Dr William M Mston describe measuring emotions by machine for hair colors. Early findings suggest blondes may skew toward crime, while other profiles remain inconclusive. Mentions Manchester Tweed fares and Sydney Elborne in a bye election context in England.
Four men suffered serious injuries when a Blue Ridge bus bound for Baltimore collided with a car on Weynesburg Road at the National Highway near Washington Pennsylvania. Five bus passengers were shaken but unharmed. Injured: C. C. Tennant, 26, of Rivenville West Virginia. Arlie Toothman, 30. William Patterson, 45. Garfield Hancock, 44, all Grantsville West Virginia. Bus driver Stanton Massie, 23, of Hagerstown Maryland, unhurt.
Clearfield Pennsylvania June 18 the volunteer firemen strike was called off last night after council approved a $30,000 relief fund. Four companies about 400 men walked out Tuesday after the appropriation. A fire at the Clearfield fair grounds caused about $2,000 damage with only 12 responders. Negotiations begin to reestablish the fund and workers warned of possible court action if demands are unmet.
Mr George L Kinsey is recovering after a Monday tonsil operation at Grafton City hospital. He required three weeks of treatment prior to the surgery and is employed at Wolfe and Murphys barber shop.
Lampton's Trimdon today won the Ascot gold cup, a premier flat race of the season, beating nine other British, French and American owned houses. Lord Glanely's Singapore placed second and Mrs Arthur James Salthon Leap third. A K Macoufer Brumeux was unplaced.
Dr Reed Merr former pastor of Andrew’s M E Church who served in Grafton in 1945 and 1916 arrived in Grafton on mining business. He is retired from regular ministry to devote himself to coal mining near Fairmont and is resting at Oakland Maryland, formerly owned by L L Lear, now in Clarkeburg, while still occasionally preaching near Oakland.
York June 18 P- .ot. RA Baer of the American Chemical Society urges better for children's intellectual needs. An advertisement touts Mrs Bern of Bern North Carolina shedding 47 pounds in months with Kruschen Salts, claiming strength and rejuvenation, advising diet changes and a daily half teaspoon dose in hot water each morning.
Paandena Gal June 18 Weather forecast calls for heavy rains from 1938 through 1940. A F Gorton of La Jolla California explains long range cycles at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting. He notes precipitation may rise to a maximum around the next sunspot peak. Mrs J R Jones has left for Fairmont to visit her daughter Mrs Claude E Vincent.
Sentinel classitea advertising rates are two cents per word for the first insertion and one cent per word for each additional insertion. Insertions must be consecutive and set in the regular style. Minimum charge is 45 cents. Each numeral and figure counts as a word. Errors should be reported immediately.
West Virginia announces creation of a new division within the state department of education to be called the division of consolidation as stated by state superintendent William Cook Huntington Jennings Randolph of Elkins is elected West Virginia district governor of Lions International at the close of the ninth annual district convention in Charleston Six miners in Kanawha county are held for interfering with an officer during eviction from company houses in Charleston The Rockbridge Marble corporation of Moundsville is granted incorporation papers by Secretary of State George W Sharp capitalized at 250 000 Palmont miners at the Galloway mine of Simpson Creek coal company vote to call a strike in Charleston
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