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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1949
Page
6
The Grafton Sentinel publishes weekday editions from 100 Latrobe Street with sections for business office and print shop. Communications to the editor may be published if signed and not libelous, aiming for discussion of matters of general interest.
Funeral services will be held at 2p.m. Tuesday from the Stemple Ridge church in Aurora for Prank William Bill Douglas of 9235 West Boyd Street who drowned in Tygart Lake last night. Burial will be at Stemple Ridge cemetery under Bartlett Funeral home direction. Friends may call at 925 West Boyd Street from 7 p.m. today until 10 a.m. tomorrow. The Alps Mountains constitute 61 percent of Switzerland's area.
The article lists 21 senators including Knowland and various state affiliations. It notes a heated senate floor debate over the administration's handling of foreign affairs in China Europe and the Middle East. It adds advice that late cabbage should be set out in July with ample water and shade as it establishes.
Leslie Virgil Wiseman of Pruntytown died at 1 25 p m in the Veterans Hospital at Aspinwall Pennsylvania after about a month as a patient He was 53 former Baltimore and Ohio railroad employee unable to work for years due to ill health He was a member of United Brethren church and Masonic lodge born in Upshur county West Virginia son of Lemuel and Martha Reed Wiseman Surviving are his wife Amy Wiseman and children Mrs Robert Peters Pruntytown Mrs Carroll Peters Wickwire road Joann and Virgil Lee at home One sister Mrs Charles McVaney Buckhannon Military funeral services will be held Sunday at the White
A quotation attributed to a political figure condemns deportation of Eislers wife as a move that would deter people seeking a better life from turning to false decoys and tyranny, framing immigration policy as a threat to liberty and stability.
The new Democratic leader from Massachusetts supports the proposal for a longterm operation with UN cooperation. President urges early committee calendar placement, stressing need to stimulate American capital flows abroad and provide government guarantees to aid industry and agriculture by raising living standards in backward economies.
Douglas of Aurora is survived by two brothers, Tennessee and Keith, both of Aurora, and a sister, Alice Douglas, of Aurora.
The piece lists a World War II veteran aligned with the Lutheran church and members of VFW Horseshoe Run Fraternal Order of Eagles and Moose of Grafton. It also includes gardening advice about pruning roses and pesteriiog plants and a note on India’s air service route mileage rising from 4630 in 1946 to 13675 in 1948.
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