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Grafton Sentinel

Location

Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Mar 12, 1949

Page

4

The Challenge For Living Lent Sermon Reflections

The article discusses Lent as a forty day test leading to Easter with March 2 Ash Wednesday and April 16 Holy. Dr. L P Jacks is cited on life’s challenge, praising endurance, adversity, and purposeful suffering as means to spiritual growth. A. F. Shomo of the Grafton Area Ministerial Association submits the piece.

Jesus L. P. Jacks Avisel Dr. Jacks God Jesus Christ Son of God Yinster A. F. Shomo Grafton Area

Jett mishap delays Royal Navy club speech in London

A scheduled speech at the Royal Navy club in London by Vice Admiral Sir John Edgell was interrupted when he revealed he had brought a shopping list from his wife. Members forgave him and played bridge, with reports saying Edgell won ten pounds. Separately Senator Homer Ferguson failed to catch a New York banquet train after sprinting from a taxi stand as the gate closed.

Royal Navy Club London John Edgell Jett Admiral Edgell Homer Ferguson New York Senstor Ferguson Slamo Bennett Cerg

DAILY CROSSWORD ACROSS 4 Aseed 21 Stolen 1 Harvest vessel

Crossword style clues mix across and down entries with várias terms and abbreviations. The grid includes references to harvest vessels seeds and various descriptors, indicating a complex puzzle with multiple thematic hints and cross references.

Beingon

Daily Cryptoquote Challenge Teases Old Phrases

A cryptogram puzzle presents AXYDLBAAXR as LONGFELLOW with mapping hints. The line IPFLF ZW Ud ZUGKZWZIZEF OFL WJU NPJ ZW UJI THWJ ZHHUTIKLFS -OHTKIEW prompts solving, while yesterday’s quote from Horace asks Why do you exhaust me with your complaints.

WJU Npj UJI Horace King Features Syndicate, Inc

Walks Out at UN Delegates Clash Over Hodge Comment

The U S delegate Leroy Stinebower walked out of the UN Security Council chamber at Lake Success after a tirade against Lt Gen John R Hodge prompting Julius Katz-Suchy to call him a gauleiter The episode mirrors Cold War protest tactics and involved Rear Adm W B Young USN as present in the international setting The report also notes unrelated facts about gas workers and a South American bird nickname.

Lake Success Stinebower Admi W. B Young USN International

West Virginia grads listed. railroader dies in Huntington

A lengthy list of graduates from a West Virginia education program includes many names followed by a note that Charles J. Breedlove Carmen L. McKinney Richard E. Mealey and James J. Gerkins earned diplomas after passing G E D tests. The page also reports the death of 53 year old Louisa Kentucky native Lon Patterson a Chesapeake and Ohio railway section foreman in Huntington after an operation and introduces Lilian M Kennedy named chief of nursing in the Veterans Administration regional office in Huntington noting her prior UN relief work.

Nancy Leigh Smith Donald Elroy Smith Eloise Stead Jack Dawson Stull Janet Clare Thayer Lawrence Waverly Tingler Irene Beulah Trickett Helen Jean Utt Mary Eileen Vegon Buford Boyd Vogel George R. Wagner Mary Kathryn McCoy Wardler Glenn A. Watkins Helen Gertrude Watkins Grady Paul Weav‘er Blaine Welsh Hoye” Gregghite Richard Leon Welliamson Paul Bernard Willis Bessie B. Wilson Charles Rey Wilson Barbara “Ann Withers John Lewis Ittman Alice Maris ‘Trimble Wood William Hyson Donald Wood David Lee Woodford Mary Gale Woodford Alberta Louise Woodyard William Clayton Young Helen Zorik West Virginia Department of Education Charles J. Breedlove Carmen L. McKinney Richard E.mealey James J. Gerkins Huntington Lon Patterson Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Louisa Kentucky East Point Patterson Lillian M. Kennedy Holyoke Massachusetts Veterans Administration Miss Kennedy Greece United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Program

Family secrets and conflicted marriage in chapter

Donna confronts her mother about past infidelity and the strain it places on family. The dialogue traces memories of Alan Colwell’s affair with a redheaded widow, Donna’s devotion to Mark Banister, and the complexities of preserving home, children, and social respectability. The scene underscores what marriage cost them and hints at future reckoning.

Mark Mrs. Colwell Donna David Mark Banister Banister Dad Ethel Hueston Alan Donne Bobbe-Merrill Campin Gether Ben Mari iKing Featurea Syndicati

First Natural Gas Well Drilled In New York 1821

The article notes that the first natural gas well in the United States was drilled near Donia New York in 1821. It mentions that many drugs chemicals and dyes are made from coal tar and saccharin and valuable oils come from coal tar. The text ends with the word pirate.

Donia New York

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