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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1929
Page
7
An advertising claim extols S S S as a cure for pimples boils eczema and skin blemishes. It asserts restoring red blood cells improves health energy vitality and confidence, noting the remedy is plant based and has over a century of use with two available sizes.
In New York City every day except Sundays about fifteen million dollars in coin and currency pass through the streets for banks and payrolls. Armored-car crews guard the routes with machine guns ready at a moment's notice, guarding the vast sums from the Federal Reserve Bank on Wall Street to uptown institutions.
A trucking firm operates 76 armored cars with 300 sharpshooters, moving bank cash and bullion. Each car insured at 8 million, crew bonded equally, 30 cars run daily between banks. Since 1922, biggest jobs include moving 4 billion dollars to a new Federal Reserve vault and relocating Chase National Bank. The firm serves 500 banks and 3,000 businesses, even handling payrolls in an armored downtown room.
Chicago report says John A Swanson pledges to seek a grand jury investigation into the entire city administration. He targets the office of Corporation Counsel Samuel A Ettelson and the buildings department. An initial conference with Councilman Arthur Fas holds the plan. Alliance forms with Albert Brunker and civic leaders backing the move.
Odd proto-crime and public order items from various cities report plans to foil prohibition offices by diluting liquor in sewers to keep content under one percent. Other items note car intoxication penalties, a Sumatra ape for sale at $26,000, navy personnel counts, and a major aviation holding company with $70 million in assets.
Puzzle clues mixed with brief world news updates arrive with scattered locations and names. Reports note aviation attempts from Roosevelt Field to Home Roa dtreet end. ships burn at Woods Hole. political moves in Richmond and Washington. London cabinet stirs over Trotzky. Catholic churches handed to priests in Mexico City. Berlin churches told to toll bells for Versailles anniversary.
Garden notes warn against planting dahlias or fleshy root plants in land left out of cultivation for years or over old straw berry beds and neglected lawns without checking for wireworms. These pests stay 2 to 3 years in soil but rarely infest cultivated ground. carbon bisulfide can kill them but harms shallow rooted perennials. Tobacco-soaked soil may deter wireworms around tubers. Also suggests perennials for color and insights on camellias, propagated by cuttings or grafting, noting slow but steady growth.
Mrs. R L Seamon of Huntington claims ORANGE ROOT Iron and Celery Compound restored her health after chronic stomach trouble and nerves. She reports her three year old son thrives on it, gaining weight and vitality. Advertisement urges readers to buy 2 or 3 bottles at Grafton Drug & Chemical Co. with tonic and Nugget price list.
Morgantown and Monongalia County reports note a $1 bounty for each gray fox pelt by the Wild Life League. London dispatch says Queen Victoria sought red fox protection but viewed gray foxes as pests. A Be**d town item tells of a royal car rescue after a breakdown near Buckingham Palace. Charleston notes include a top high school graduate and an awning height enforcement move in the city.
Es 7 a as 192 Epes meeting at Steubenville October. The association formed in Mouzay France on Thanksgiving Day 1918 by battery members from the northwestern counties of West Virginia, later including men from nearly every state due to replacements.
In New York Lindbergh appears in a summer compendium under his name and his wife. London notes Margaret Bondfield's levee attendance with casual attire rules. Pleasantville reports Lieut Wilfinbarger, an aviator, married as an airplane played a bridal tune. Mullica Hill records the first Quaker wedding in 121 years at a meeting house built in 1808. Newark notes the only woman Rotarian, Miss Florence O Neill, becomes honorary member on her marriage to Johnny Schwinn.
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