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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1913
Page
6
An advertisement extols Pinex syrup as a powerful pine extract remedy for throat complaints and coughs. It markets ease of use, pleasant taste for children, and a money back guarantee, urging readers to obtain Pinex through their druggist or by mail order from The Pinex Co.
Florence Lillian Henderson presents a domestic scene at a fashionable establishment as Mrs Ainslee frets over her husband Bob who reassures her and explains a late managerial meeting with promotions and a suggestion for improving trade. The dialogue hints at suspense and social setting in a yearlong marriage.
A stagey tale follows Staggers, a reformed tramp kept by Laura Ainslee who sews him into a wedding suit. He saves Bob Ainslee from robbers in a rainstorm, prompting Bob to reward him with a future wedding outfit. The scene ends with Staggers planning marriage to a restaurant owner and receiving the suit as a gift from Bob. A moral note and a closing column quote follow.
A fragment shows a manufacturer declaring arrests against labor agitators and a gaunt figure with a skull head tauntingly offering to be the original agitator. The dialogue hints at a confrontation over labor unrest and suppression.
A fragmented 18th century style exchange questions authority and labor figures. Hunger proclaims himself as agitator while a manufacturer humorously refuses to arrest his top Labor Agent. A brief aside notes Washington as 1776 era champion yet a judge disputes that claim.
An Italian law protects national patrimony by restricting art exports and allowing a government commission to pre emptively acquire declared objects. A dealer misled officials by undervaluing a painting attributed to Jakob van Ruysdael, triggering a high profile sting that exposed press and expert criticism of the commission’s judgment.
A health testimonial promoting Cardual claims relief for womanly troubles and improved appetite and sleep. The article also recounts a painting scandal where a dealer sold a fake modern painting to the government, was threatened with criminal action, refused to name the genuine painter, and returned the money, with the affair subsequently hushed up.
New York plans a practical test of high frequency electrical currents in public schools. Superintendent Maxwell and Nikola Tesla will wire a classroom unknown to teachers or students and compare results to an unwired room. Stockholm findings showed energized pupils gained vigor and higher class standing. Kansas towns rent jails in a rivalry between Hugoton and Ford.
Missioners grew disgusted by the long absence of county jail prisoners at Hugoton and rented the hastile to a family for a home. Hugoton boasted, Ford felt slighted, no jail birds in Ford for two and a half years. The Ford calaboose may be rented cheaply as a chicken house.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Riley are in the city after traveling from Rose Street where Mrs Riley’s mother Mrs W C Riley is seriously ill. She will be taken to a Baltimore hospital in a day or two. Mrs Willie Grant of Washington DC has returned home after visiting Mrs Frank Godwin.
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