Grafton Weekly Sentinel Headlines and Notices
Grafton Weekly Sentinel publishes weekly community news from Grafton West Virginia and surrounding area. Contains publisher information 102 Latrobe Street and phone 185 with editorial policy notes and advertising rates.
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Grafton Weekly Sentinel
Peoples’ Guardian and Friend
Grafton Sentinel Publishing Company
Grafton
W. Va
Postofice
Howard H. Holt
Latrobe Street
Associated
Associated Press
Neither Poverty Nor Riches Prayer Text
An Eastern religious proverb echoes the biblical line from Proverbs 30 8 asking for balance. The speaker desires neither poverty nor riches but sustenance in life and contentment with daily bread. The excerpt emphasizes humility and dependence on providence.
Wis History Chief urges Kenosha to form its own society
Wisconsin Historical Society chief lauds found records on Kenosha’s early career and urges the city to establish a local historical society. He notes every town holds odysseys of sacrifice and pioneer spirit, and history fosters pride.
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Wisconsin Historical Society
Kenosha
Crime and Teaching Styles Highlight Old Kansas Chronicle
A Kansas feature quotes Ray Nejers on crime and cost, recounting a brutal career with bullets and injuries while warning youth. It also reports a Canadian education board weighing a new teacher rating system based on personality, scholarship, and teaching ability.
Demands Grow for Teachers With Special Talents and Training
A plan proposes 10 percent weights for teaching skill, impartiality, interest in homes and pupils future, and community life participation. It would drop staff rated below 65 after two years, bar raises for those under .70, and deny permanent posts to substitutes under 70. The point is the shift from textbook knowledge to broader qualifications and community relevance.
Bingham Utah the world’s narrowest town amid copper mines
A National Geographic bulletin ranks Bingham Utah as the world’s narrowest town with a canyon only about fifty feet wide. Miners reach homes via three towering elevators and a serpentine street allows porch-to-porch handshakes. The daily blast rhythm and frequent avalanches punctuate life in the copper-mining community.
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Bingham
Washington, . C
National Geographic Society
Public Utilities Commission
Hidden mineshaft spectacle draws Utah tourists
In the mountain digs near the Bingham area 18 miles from Salt Lake City, miniature trains load ore as detonations epicly echo like a small Marne. Tourists reach the site by major rail lines and view the vast hospital looming over a town of about 600 residents.
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Marne
Eto of
Fingham
Salt Lake City
Bingham
Garfield
Denver
Rio Grande
Services For Aged Man Will Be Held Tomorrow
Washington March 2 Counsel for Gerald Chapman convicted of slaying a New Britain Connecticut policeman and under death sentence to be executed April 2 completed preliminary arrangements to docket in the supreme court a petition seeking a federal commutation authority. Funeral services will be held at 2 o clock Wednesday afternoon from the Evansville church for Americus Evans 79 who died at his home Sunday night. Interment will be in the Evansville cemetery Bartlett Funeral Company will handle the funeral.
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Washington
Gerald Chapman
New
Britain
Supreme Court
Evansville
Americus Evans
Atlanta
Fritawater
Chapman
Nave
Bartlett Funeral Company
Clearwater
Florida
Harry
Forbes
Akron
Ohio
Mylvin Tawens
Justine Wise Okahs Strike Support in Passaic Woolen Mills
Passaic New Jersey March 2 Justine Wise daughter of Rabbi Stephen S Wise spoke at three mass meetings in the Passaic Garfield Woolen district backing 7000 striking mill workers amid a six week strike that affects 11000 employees with 4000 laid off Wise urged ongoing protests against alleged blacklists and spies used by mill owners to subdue workers.
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Passaic
N. J
Justine Wise
Stephen S. Wise
Free Synagogue
Passaic-Garfield
Miss Wise
New Jersey Factory Destroyed by Blaze
Perth Amboy New Jersey March 2 UP After a twelve hour battle at the plant of the Standard Underground Cable Company firefighters used acetylene torches to cut holes in the iron floor and reach burning acid The fire caused damage estimated at more than 250000 and hundreds of men were thrown out of work
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Perth Amboy
N. J
Standard Underground Cable Company
Farm Relief Hearings Postponed by House Committee
Washington March 2 The opening of farm relief hearings by the House Agricultural Committee was postponed after a last minute shift by farm organization leaders. The panel will use the delay to dispose of minor bills and ready its farm relief measure with refinements from variers representatives.
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Washington
House Agricultural Committee
Variers
Two Crew Members Die in Tank Blast at Sea
Panama reports the deaths of W. Scon vd H. Carolin, first and second assistant engineers, in a February 27 explosion aboard the American steamer Santa Luisa after arriving from South Pacific ports. They were buried at sea.
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Panama
South Pacific
Scon
H. Carolin
Prominent St. Louisan Dies After Fraud Accusation
Murray Carleton, 73, a leading figure in St. Louis business, social, and religious circles for decades, died of bladder cancer while facing fraud charges tied to the Ferguson McKinney Manufacturing case. He and Forrest Ferguson were indicted last November for making a false financial statement that affected $7.6 million in bank dealings. Trials were postponed due to Carleton’s illness.
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St. Louis
Mrch
Murray Carelton
Ferguson-McKinney Manufacturing Company
Carleton
Forrest Ferguson
Ferguson-McKinney
Makdles
Sunlight Treatment Ends In Tragic Sunstroke
A doctor treats a nervous patient with the Cone method promising relief as the California sun supposedly cures him. A week later the patient reports improvement, but another week passes and the patient dies from sunstroke.
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California
Education Improves Conduct and Self Control
A college education is said to curb coarse behavior by teaching restraint and self discipline. It fosters polite interaction and discourages kissing or spitting in public settings.
Where smart men’s wear styles originate and travel
Style comes from the places smart men inhabit and observe. Observers monitor London and Cannes scenes, Palm Beach gatherings, and Riviera fashion to guide American designers. Current palettes feature cedarwood, silver, rust, onion blue, Caber checks, and Blairgowrie tweeds, seen first at resorts and later at country clubs nationwide.
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Demen
Hart Schaffner & Marx
London
Prince of Wales
Cannes
Helen Wills
Suzanne Lenglen
Palm Beach
America
Riviera
Europe
United States
Truste esale of Grafton lot under 1924 mortgage
Trustee will sell at public sale on March 20 1926 at 1 p m on the Taylor County Courthouse front floor the property in Grafton West Virginia described as Lot 218 on the Fetterman Plat. The deed of trust secures $600 from Home Building and Loan Association. Sale under will of Charles F W Kunst. Terms cash. Trustee W Merle Watkins.
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Taylor County
West Virginia
Florence D. Kelley
Bruce Kelley
A. W. Burdett
Home Building and Loan Association of
Grafton
Home Building and Loan — Association
Court House
Wilford Street
Fetterman
Bulgarian Herb Tea Promises Youthful Vitality for Pittsburgher
A Pittsburgh businessman, H. H. Von Seblick, touts Bulgarian Herb Tea as a pure herb remedy to extend youth and vigor. The ad claims the tea relieves constipation rheumatism and internal troubles, claims it heats the blood and boosts circulation, and urges readers to ask druggists for the tea in various package sizes and prices.
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H. H. von Seblick
Keener Dies at 73 in Grafton Home
George J. Keener aged 73 years 10 months 2 days died at his daughter Mrs H McWilliams 730 Pearl street due to stomach inflammation He leaves five daughters two sons a sister and eighteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren Funeral services at 1:89 pm Wednesday at Mrs Williams home with interment in Philippi cemetery The Bartlett Funeral Co of Walnut street will handle arrangements In other items a young Australian rode 8000 miles by bicycle around the coast in six months A notices include legal suit in West Virginia March 1926 regarding J M Bartlett will filing Bertha Gay Davis Miller is not a resident and must appear in court in one month for protection of interest.
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George J. Keener
Samuel B. Keener
Wheeling
Irvin F. Kinter
Fatmont
Claude Griffith
Logan Trader
H. McWilliams
Grafton
James B. Keener
Fairmont
A. S. Keener
Margaret Utterback
Brownsville
Fouth
West
Virginia
W. Va
Ola F. Bartlett
Bertha Gay Davis Miller
J. M. Bartlett
Andy
Grafton Sentinel
L. B. Burdett
Robinson, Warder & Robinson
Connecticut
Publication Notice in Grafton WV Court Case
In Taylor county circuit court First National Bank of West Union sues J A Finley J P Finley and Vera Finley in chancery to void a 1924 deed conveying half an undivided interest in Lot 302 on the Brown Whitescarver and Fetterman Plat in Grafton WV. J A Finley nonresident must appear within one month after first publication. Published in Gaston Daily Sentinel.
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Circuit Court of
Taylor County
First National Bank of West Union
West Virginia
J. A. Finley
Rt. P. Finley
Vera Finley
J. P. Finley
Brown, Whitescarver and Fetterman
Grafton
Gaston Daily Sentinel
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