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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1929
Page
7
A thrifty home dinner plan priced under two dollars outlines six portions from a liver dish with onion and spinach, a pear cocktail, and a chocolate coffee dessert. Costs are itemized for ingredients, with steps for preparation and a menu of radio station programs interleaved in the text.
A nostalgic piece recalls Jim McCaffrey, last stage coach driver on Fifth Avenue from 1895 to 1900, who watched New York transform from horse drawn to motor buses. It notes grand residents, social circles, and the shift to modern traffic with enclosed buses and limited passenger interaction.
Associated Press photo caption notes Paul Bester of St. Louis appointed as a member of the federal farm loan board by President Hoover.
Program schedule from WEAP New York shows evening line up with orchestras bands and acts including Bourdon Concert Orchestra Cavaliers An Evening in Paris Gas and Luce with the Town Band The Gossipers sketches and Hotel Orchestra Hour Benny Polack’s Hotel Dance Orchestra and acts by Billie Jones and Ernie Hare Celia Turrill Uncle Bob’s Circus and Quaker Girl and Orchestra headline with times from 7:30 to 8:00 and 3:30 memories
Mrs Albert McGreg of West Leisenring Pa praises Orange Root Iron and Celery Compound after health improvement. She details fatigue relief, renewed energy and weight gain, attributing the recovery to the tonic and the golden Nuggets. The ad notes prices and sale via Grafton Drug and Chemical Co with parcel post option.
The listing shows Orange Root 11:00 News from Studio with Orchestra, 461.3-WSM Nashville, 650 frequency, 8:40 Craig's Orchestra, 9:00 WIZ and WEAF for one hour, then 10:00 Symphony Studio Orchestra.
Overnight news reports from Cleveland state 124 deaths after a basement steam pipe rupture caused an explosion and fire. The incident prompts fire wardens to provide figures as the death toll climbs. Other items include GM acquiring 40 percent of Fokker Aircraft, a deadly shooting in Kentucky, and various international updates.
Sixty five West Virginia University students will spend summer at military training camps with 33 joining the Infantry officers camp at Camp Knox Kentucky and 22 entering the engineer camp at Fort Humphreys Virginia Camp Knox opens June 15 and Fort Humphreys June 14 Names listed include Richard Brand Morgantown James Brewster Jr Weston Stewart Brown Wheeling Kenneth Cameron Wheeling Robert Cooper Philadelphia George Cunningham Morgantown John Ebeling Wheeling Frederick Ford Dunbar Herbert Hilliard Morgantown Sammuel Hobday Berkeley Springs Ben Humphreys Masontown Pa Byron King New Salem Pa John Eisner Fairmont Fred Lardin Parnassus Pa H William Largent Morgantown Harold Layman Morgantown John Machesney Morgantown Harrison Markley Morgantown Donald McGill Wheeling Azel Meadows Huntington Ennis Magaley Chester Salvatore Merendino Clarksburg Vincent Merendino Clarksburg James Nuzum Morgantown Horace Parrack Morgantown Frederick Parsons Ripley August Petroplus Morgantown
A long stream of names from Morgantown, Fairmont, and surrounding towns appears alongside brief notes about a mouse at a Junior League meeting in Fairmont, a blind man seeing a picture, a bunion derby joke, and assorted local incidents. The clipping covers wage cuts at Valley Camp Coal, a Weston house fire, a pageant ending a women’s club convention, and several small reports from Huntington Charleston Moundsville and Parkersburg.
Parkersburg May 17 Police seek four Cabell County inmates who escaped from the state road camp near Grantsville in the early morning hours. The escapees are Harry Simpson Truchart Lawson Cecil Jordan and Clyde Hager Buckhannon. Also noted Weslayan College student James Lowther of Clarksburg received graduate scholarship consideration from Northwestern University Evanston Illinois for studies next fall and a dean’s office fellowship. He recently placed third in a national oratorical contest.
Fragmentary obituary items mention Dr John Francis Cowan a 50 year old surgery professor at Stanford University Minneapolis and Rev John Nicholas Lenker a 70 year old clergyman and translator of Luther while a stray market remark on turkeys and cooperative farming appears amidst the text.
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