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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1929
Page
7
New York on May 22 reports Madison Square Garden hosting a nightly dance derby with 28 teams and hundreds watching. The piece paints tired dancers, semi professional onlookers, and a late night circus of prizes, bells, and carnival tents a scene of weary motion and muted spectacle amid a showy but fading energy.
Federal advisory council flags banking rate moves while a Roanoke crowd reads a sensational Orange Root tonic endorsement. Nurse Emma Hughes testifies to dramatic improvements in Highland Park patient Tisha Cawthorne after ten days on the tonic. Local ads tout the remedy as a cure for nervous exhaustion, constipation, and rheumatic complaints, with endorsements from multiple Virginia towns and a $1.25 price tag.
Chicago judge David Robinson condemns a treasury department survey of vice resorts aimed at collecting income tax. Washington officials deny internal revenue involvement. An Army plane lands after bombing New York City in flight from Dayton.
Smith opened with a strong round beating the course record by two strokes with 66 while lying twelve strokes ahead of Henry Cotton of England. He carded 12 birdies and was only twice over par on the 6,507 yard course. The young talent lamented three putts on the last hole despite a runaway lead.
In New York on May 22, Fidel Labarba, famed undefeated flyweight champion, is favored 8 to 5 to beat Kid Chocolate at the New York Coliseum. The bout headlines a feature card as Labarba seeks to halt Chocolate's long streak of 156 straight bouts without a loss.
Fairmont May 22. The American Legion leader Paul V. McNutt pleads for hospital construction funding and opposes drafting manpower alone. He cites 2 762 veterans with direct service linked mental illness and 1 671 eligible for care but blocked under current law, urging universal service and a wartime mobilization that includes labor and industry.
The Grand Theatre presents William Humes in Alias Jimmy Valentine this Friday and Saturday. Noted cast members Leila Byxns, Karl Dane, Lionelle, Tully Marshall, and Jack star in a dramatic turn as a former criminal seeks to go straight while being chased by old foes.
A wartime era cinema feature brings the underworld tale State Street Sadie to the screen under Archie Mayo's direction for Warner Brothers. Conrad Nagel and Myrna Loy star alongside a large cast with two hundred extras. The film presents a stark, nonglorifying glimpse of bootlegging and gangster life with prewar tonal flair and sharp social implications.
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