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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1929
Page
7
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In New York on May 4 a small industry tale notes George Strobel runs perhaps the city’s only furniture factory devoted to poker tables. His grandfather founded it 76 years ago, serving political and social clubs while avoiding professional gambling clientele.
New Orleans pictures of society girls and quotes from them will keep cigarette ads in papers despite the Junior League’s move. In New York a Belgian refugee, Bertha Margolies, rises from typist to scholarship sculptor with a year abroad funded. Reports from Nantucket mention shells showing colors upon impact.
A collage of short items mentions shell color guidance used by ships, a Cuban embassy plea over saloon tiling, a bootleg raider’s home alarm failure, a 100 foot rope trap thwarted by federal agents, Peggy Joyce buying a Riviera villa named Doll's House, aspiring Edison women, and Welford Wilson, 14, winning a junior high oratorical contest and $100 prize as he advances toward a national contest.
Buckhannon May 4 Special The West Virginia Wesleyan tennis team with five players and a manager will leave Monday for a four game Pittsburgh district trip. Bethany College, Washington and Jefferson, Duquesne, Carnegie Tech, and Pitt are on the schedule with two local matches already completed. Rain postponed the Elkins Davis and Elkins game to a later date.
The Davis players Ira McDowell Carroll Westfall and John Mott join Louie Kolopus of Elyria Ohio and Farland Arnold of Buckhannon as the tentative first five for the Bobcats tennis squad. Joseph Evans of Grafton serves as varsity tennis manager while Professor William A Hallam of Washington and Jefferson is named coach. The Methodist team plans a southern trip with only Carnegie Tech offering a return match on May 17.
Plans for a community creamery are being advanced with a petition to be signed by farmers across Taylor County and adjoining areas. A large meeting of business leaders professionals and civic clubs is planned for Friday May 10 at the Grafton Taylor County courthouse to discuss local industrial interests and development.
The piece traces how First Lady Mrs. Hoover and later administrations faced shrinking silverware at the White House. From Wilson to Hoover to Coolidge, silver was scarce, prompting purchases of American Colonial inspired Minuet pattern silver and candelabras to suit state dinners and decor.
The article recalls how Mrs Taft reorganized White House silver storage and dining service, moving from ad hoc chests to a dedicated silver closet with vault doors. It contrasts past customs under presidents like Grant and Roosevelt with Taft's cost-saving, kitchen-driven hospitality, and ponders First Lady Mrs Hoover’s likely preferences for the forthcoming American Colonial service.
In Mt. Vernon New York Homer Bussey admits striking his wife with the pistol butt after she pointed a firearm at him. Coyne notes the prisoner described the assault as he entered their apartment. A separate item mentions Texas Tech students planning to adopt an orphan.
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