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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1929
Page
2
A mother laments her son Douglas rejecting well to do peers for rough neighborhood friends across the railroad. The boys’ rough, dirty play hides vitality and initiative as they form a secret fort, trap, fish, and raid docks, challenging adults and testing character. The piece argues to value underlying qualities over class.
AP listing of evening and late night programs across WEAF WJZ WOR WABO and WBAL stations with times, show titles, and performers including James A. Doherty May Singhi Breen Peter de Rose Rosario Bourdon George Olsen and the Palais d Or Dance Orchestra plus dance hours news and musical features across key networks in New York Baltimore and Newark.
A fragmented broadcast log lists hourly WJZ and WEAF programs across stations in Pittsburgh Schenectady Springfield Detroit Atlanta Nashville and Louisville with musical programs sports dances orchestras and organ recitals. Additional items include a W.V.U. radio institute note and a May 3 lecture on intramural sports while London Anglican clerical figures show clergy counts and ordination candidates.
Two years after our first tournament, last year’s conditions halted play. Officers donated system trophies requiring three wins for permanent retention. At season end awards were given: Singles, Girls Chas W Galloway Trophy to Miss Ethel Miller of Baltimore.
April saw four notable real estate closings signaling a revival. BLUEVILLE offers a four room home with garage and garden at 2500. owner open to trade for a larger house. LOVELAND features a six room modern home with full basement at 84750 and option for an additional lot. EAST END lists a five room house with bath and garage at 2100 with easy terms for railroad employees.
Archibald Fries Rudy and Marie Gildoa among champions from Baltimore named for doubles events and H B Voorhees trophy. Monongah division includes Grafton Fairmont and Clarksburg with local players expected to join. A preliminary tournament may decide entrants for the Eastern Line meet in July ahead of September finals between Eastern and Western Lines at a neutral site.
Eyewitness Miss Bannon recounts a chaotic high speed car theft as three hold up men forced a driver to flee. They robbed a police officer’s car, pressed a revolver, and planned further robberies as bystanders screamed. The trio eventually abandoned Miss Bannon and fled, avoiding further harm.
Chicago police press the probe into a range of suspects after a teeny-tiny lead list yields fake names. An unidentified Rockford citizen identifies Fred Burke in a photo of a man seen with a machine gun on an island in the Rock River, tied to the massacre. A nationwide search follows as authorities pursue real names and connections.
Detroit May 2 James Greathouse 18 of Reedsville West Virginia surrendered to police admitting he killed his friend Charles Cassidy 35 after an argument over a rent debt. Initial statements claimed he was kidnapped and forced to confess by another man who killed Cassidy.
On April 27 near Morgantown West Virginia James Greathouse confessed to shooting Charles Cassidy five times during an argument over rent. He said Cassidy owed the landlady, then fled with him before the fatal shooting. Greathouse later surrendered to police in Detroit to divert suspicion. Cassidy, a 34 year old miner, was found roadside after last being seen with Greathouse. authorities noted Cassidy had drawn $21 in pay prior to the killing.
The market reversed from a sharp selloff on fears of higher broker loans, then rallied as buying appeared in Morgan stocks. Dividends resumed at low next, with Call renewals at 10 percent. Radi rose to a record above 112, leading the market. West Virginia created its Game and Commission in 1921, with 45 privately owned… The state university enrollment surged over fivefold in twenty years.
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