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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1929
Page
3
Amelia Earhart launched a daily trans Lake Erie air service from Cleveland to Detroit in an amphibian plane, accompanied by a pilot and six passengers. Captain Frank T. Courtney left Detroit for Cleveland in a similar craft. Both planes are planned to complete the 55 minute trip regularly.
About 200 club women from across West Virginia attended the silver jubilee convention of the West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs in Charleston on May 14. The opening session featured Mrs. P F L Black Bluefield presiding, with Mrs. Julia G Hearne Wheeling and Mrs. John Harvey Huntington among organizers of social functions for the visiting delegates.
Fa Tirown former circulation campaign manager and son of J Slidell Brown publisher Randolph Enterprise Elkins visited Grafton for a short time today as a business visitor.
Governor Cony designated twelve WV delegates for the fifty-first annual American Library Association meeting in Washington. The list includes Lawrence F. Lynch, J A Jackson, Henry P. Linsz, Edwin M. Holliday, H B Odgers, John Echols, George S. Laidley, H D Rummel, W T Toney, Louise M. Hoxie, Mrs G DeRolt, and L D Arnett, from cities Clarksburg Wheeling Parkersburg Charleston Huntington Fairmont Morgantown.
Miss Bessie Brown, a Hazel Atlas Glass Company employee and Grifton resident, died after an automobile crash near Springfield Sunday. The body returned to Gladesville for funeral services at First Christian Church tomorrow at two, with interment in church cemetery. Survivors include her parents Mr. and Mrs. George Brown, sister Martha, and brothers Howard and Roy Brown.
Harry P. Sinclair, already serving a jail term for contempt of the United States Senate, is slated for re election as director of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation at the annual meeting tomorrow. He is chairman of the board as stockholders consider increasing authorized capital to 10,000,000 shares from 5,500,000.
Local hero Charles McDade, Grafton High School alumnus, tops the Fairmont State Teachers College Masquers cast in Ten Nights In A Bar-Room at Grafton High School auditorium tomorrow night. McDade, a four year member of the college club, plays Simon Slade the bar keeper. He is noted for heavy character roles and Shakespearean work earning Alpha Psi Omega honors.
Grant P Hall retires as state tax commissioner after six years in Charleston. He is succeeded by T C Townsend, also of Charleston, whose appointment was confirmed by the senate and who has been linked in reports from Washington as a candidate for internal revenue commissioner.
New York on May 14 news reports that two women physicians and three registered nurses arrested last month in a raid on the Birth Control Research Clinical Bureau were discharged. The case centered on alleged illegal dissemination of birth control information.
Greenville S C May 14 J W Kelly general manager of the New England Southern mills at Pelzer announced that more than 600 employees who struck yesterday were back at work. The walkout followed the discharge of two workers accused of soliciting funds for other strikers. The agreement bans fund solicitation in the mills but the discharged men were not reinstated.
A notice announces Pearl Peds Oldfield of Arkansas as the new head of the feminine bloc in the House of Representatives, succeeding her husband who died. The item notes her succession and Arkansas connection within the congressional leadership changes.
In Wheeling on May 14 Hazel Irene Shields 35 wife of a Bridgeport farmer pleaded guilty to a Mann Act violation. She was sentenced to one year and a day in Alderson prison for women after authorities traced her elopement with Ebert Russell former Rosemont merchant last fall. Russell already received eighteen months. The husband accompanied officers from Saturday, but the case centered on the couple's flight and reunion, with arrests made after capias issued by Judge Baker.
Mixed fragments describe a meat loaf recipe serving six with pork and beef, plus a strawberry roll using berries, flour, and fat. Additional notes include a cheese salad with vinegar and cream cheese, and scattered legal and home notice phrases.
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