Grafton Sentinel Establishes Daily Publication Practice
The Grafton Sentinel details its history as a weekly founded in 1870, became a daily newspaper in 1903 excluding Sundays, with staff including M. B. MacLeod as General Manager and Eldora M. Nuzum as News Editor. It notes AP membership and standard subscription rates, and discusses the oil industry’s fragmented, competitive nature with thousands of small firms and no single company dominating crude production.
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U. S
What Constitutes The Oil Industry Today
The oil industry in the United States comprises thousands of separate enterprises and does not count service stations.
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United States
Brief Hospital Admissions and Discharges Report
Persons admitted to City hospital yesterday include Loren Everett Miller Route 1 Tunnelton Howard Smith Route 1 Newbury Mrs Rita Gavitt East Wilford street Mrs Florence Bolyard Lincoln street. Those leaving hospital were John Pauletta Tunnelton Ada Mae Withers West Main street Nancy Jene Bolyard Tunnelton and Miss Harriet Bolyard Beech street.
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Hospital
City Hospital
Loren Everett Miller
Tunnelton
Howard Smith
Newbury
Rita Gavitt
East Wilford Street
Florence Bolyard
Lincoln Street
John Pauletta
Ada Mae Withers
West Main Street
Nancy Jene Bolyard
Harriet Bloom
Beech Street
Calendar notices from St Pauls Methodist May 11 gathering
May 11 Circle No 3 of St Pauls Methodist meets at 2 pm at 116 Yates Avenue, hosted by Mrs Virgil Rohrbough. World War II Mothers event also noted for May 11.
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St. Paul's Methodist Church
Virgil Rohrbough
Yates Avenue
Community club and church events May schedule
A lengthy May calendar lists meetings across Mountaineer Council No 44 Daughters of America First Baptist church and various clubs. Events include dinners, officer installations, dues collections musicians unions and civic group gatherings through May 25 with hostesses noted for several affairs.
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American Federation "of Musicians
K. of C. Hall
B. of R. T
K. of P. Hall
Ann Hebb
Red Wing Club
West Wilford Street
Taylor County Fair Association
Mountaineer Council
United American Mechanics
Daughters of America
East Main Street
Andrews Church
Delta Nu
Clyde Ashv
Circle 1
The Bracelet Heist Ties Dustin and Wife
Detective Painter argues the bracelet theft was planned and Celia Dustin used sleeping pills to slip out for a rendezvous with a man she believed connected to the case. Dustin fears for Celia while Shayne weighs theories about Mike Shayne’s role and who else knew the bracelet’s value.
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Painter
Dustin
Mia
Mr. X
Shayne
Shayna
Simlux
Mark Dustin
Celia
Celle
Mr. Dustin
Dustin Ap
Voorland
Dick Tracy
Mike Shayne
Mra
Cell
Jessup
Noty
Walter Voorland
Randolph
Miami Beach
New World Opens to Mary Brooks at Age 115
In Washington and New York a 115 year old woman Mary Brooks sees for first time after cataract surgery. At Gallinger hospital doctors fitted her with glasses and tested her sight by identifying an orange from a nearby table.
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New World
Mary Brooks
New York
Little Sisters of the Poor
Gallinger Hospital
Washington
Alcatraz Island and Early 20th Century Trivia
A compact quiz and historical notes cover Alcatraz Island location, the composer Franz Schubert, and Gilbert Stuart as a renowned Revolutionary era portraitist. The piece notes Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Maurice J. Tobin as a later U.S. Labor Secretary, plus dates for early U.S. airmail and postwar UN Holy Land studies.
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San Francisco Bay
Franz Schubert
Gilbert Stuart
Pittsburgh
Maurice J. Tobin
Kool
Try and Stop Me. A phony Hollywood tale ends in tragedy
Ronald Colman cites a Hollywood phony with a fake Oxford accent and fake artifacts who passed bad checks and walked to the Santa Fe tracks to end his life. A millionaire hires a famed architect for a mountain bungalow but the work never starts, blamed on a lunatic drafter who added two bathrooms.
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Onald Colman
Herb Stein
Bennett Cerf
King Features Syndicate
Dustin and Randolph chase ruby bracelet link in Miami
Detective Shayne presses Randolph for clues on the Dustin case and a possible tie to the star ruby. Randolph reveals past insured thefts sold through Voorland, noting two prior holdups with high payouts and no recovery, hinting at a professional job and a possible connection to the hotel robbery.
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Earl Randolph
Miami
Randolph
Shayne
Nike
Sunlux
Mike
Tim Rourke
Tim
Walter
Painter
Brett Halliday
King Foal
Mrs. Dustin
Sumlux
Voorland
James T. King
Tropical Towers
Hunt Continued: Police Chief Shot During Attempted Arrest
Greenup County Sheriff Arthur Sparks says Meenach was killed 25 minutes before leaving the Russell police force to join Tennessee Gas Transmission as a watchman. The murder warrant naming Cameron was obtained by Kentucky state police Detective Arch Thompson. The U S Bureau of Land Management administers 125000000 acres of forested public land in Alaska.
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Hunt
Poice
John Lewis
Greenup
Arthur Sparks
Meenach
Russell
Tennessee Gas Transmission Company
Cameron
Kentucky
Arch Thompson
Lawmakers split on fair deal plan and TV research
The vote shows GOP opposition with five Republicans including Ives, Aiken, Langer, Lodge, and Tobey supporting the plan while Taft cautions similar fates for other Fair Deal proposals. Early TV experiments referenced seeing by telegraph as researchers debated future media. The article also notes best Christmas trees raised with wide spacing for symmetric growth and cites American egg averages in 1949 compared with 1925.
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GOP
Page One
Ives
New York
Aiken
Vermont
Langer
North Dakota
Lodge
Massachusetts
Tobey
New Hampshire
Taft
Classified all ads with paint sale and farm items
A collection of classified notices lists FOR SALE items including snow white paint, a heavy gas stove, a 5 year old Jersey cow with her heifer, and a 39 Plymouth coupe. Also advertised is a 6 room house at 917 West Boyd with bath in good condition for sale by owner Walter A. Wood and Bob Edwards route postings dated May to June.
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The
Sentinel
Jersey
Walter A. Wood
Washington’ Street
Bob Edwards
Plymouth
Neweat
West
Washington Street
Bath
W. Boyd
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National Representatives Inland Newspaper Representatives, Inc
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First Baptist Church
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Simpon Farm
George Radabaugh
Jacksons Mill
First Christian Church
Ann
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Morgantown Road
Quota Club
Grafton Hotel
Taylor County Garden Club
Ralph Fike
Brownlow Park
Womens Society of Christian Service
Simpson Grade School
George Shaffer
V.F.W
First Brethren Church
St. Charles Street
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion
Pyeter Halliday Coerce
Alcatraz Island
Fort Duquesne
United States Secretary of Labor
Tsuyoshi Inukai
United Nations General Assembly
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James Mason
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Constance Cummings
Ed AL Engler
Anpurieu
Wigarew
Areigny
U. S. Bureau of Land Management
Alaska
Grafton Court House
Bake Sale
Farmers Market
South Point Methodist Church
Lutheran Ladies Aid
Ed. N. Lock
Sidney Harvey
E. R. Frey
J. E. Frey
Snow-White Paint Co
Parkwood
Toledo
Ohio
Yoom House
Blacktop Road
W.A. Woodyard
Dodge
G. I. Loans
G. I
Veterans. Shale, Incorporated
Walnut Street
Morgantown
G. W. Lucas
J. Pabla
Susie
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Rose Mary's Greenhouse
Maple Ave
Duncan Ave
Clarksburg
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Cleveland
Myrtle’ Smith
W. Main St
Peter's
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