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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1930
Page
4
Grafton Daily Sentinel illustrates weekday edition details with publisher and office addresses. It notes classified rates, contact rules, and deadlines for submissions and notices, including press timings and composition charges.
A local editorial urges budget cuts to reduce a ten cent per hundred tax levy, proposing a forty cent cut for relief and to attract new investment. It highlights Salvation Army fund drives, tax payer organizing in Taylor County, and a Northwestern Turnpike discussion about a George Washington Highway linking Washington to West Virginia, with inter-state feasibility concerns.
A letter from iatton West Virginia urges forming a Taylor County Taxpayers League to discuss tax cuts. The author argues the municipal, county, road, and school levies could be reduced by ten cents each, totaling forty cents per hundred dollars, and suggests convening a committee to negotiate with levying bodies. The Editor’s note endorses the thrust, praising taxpayers as boosters seeking substantial tax relief this year.
A Florida reader writes from Miami on May 22, 1930, praising a Grafton visit and recounting a nostalgic cross country trip with the Ford. The letter touches on leaving Virginia, following the journey through Old Virginia and Fredericksburg, and memory of Monroe’s home county while noting five gallons of gas used at Bryant's garage and various small-town stops.
A lengthy reminiscence covers a cross Florida Virginia journey ending in Miami and the writer apologizes for misnaming the local paper, notes about the Miami Herald and Miami Daily News towers, and requests publication of an article while urging support for a veterans aid extension before the Rankin bill.
The statement from the Uncompensated Disabled Veterans of World War connected to U. S. Veterans Hospital at Castle Point New York expresses sincere year end appreciation for Chairman Howard F. McNulty. The notice appears as a fragment from a prior Sentinel publication.
The Reno Post No. 7 Grand Army of the Republic held its annual Memorial sermon yesterday morning preached by Rev. B L Arnold of the Methodist Protestant church. Five G A R members attended along with several other war veterans. The American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps appeared in full dress uniform.
The narrator recalls a dramatic seaplane tour circling Havana, Cuba, admiring its crowded old city roofs, Spanish charm, and contrasts with Miami. They land at the inner harbor, note an American naval memory, then tour La Union hotel district, observing Cuba’s tobacco and sugar trade, poverty among rural workers, and aristocratic streets with open-front shops and iron balconies.
Announcement signed by Walter A Wood seeking the Republican nomination for Superintendent of Schools in Taylor County. Readers invited to vote and offer goodwill. The note from Grafton, R F D No 2 precedes the message. A second fragment recalls a brief Havana hotel stay with constant activity and limited rest after a lengthy trip.
W. Herbert Welch, a high school freshman, won the O Jay Fleming essay contest for the best 150 word piece on the new calendar. The prize of five dollars in gold was awarded today, with 80 entrants in the field. Judges praised Welch s argument and factual presentation though no complete essay will be published.
Behenéctady May 26 Willand Rotter was nominated the party candidate for suvernor by the state Communist organization here last night.
President signs a pension measure benefiting 35 Bowman claimants with 18 pending cases. The article lists numerous private pension awards to individuals across West Virginia towns such as Philippi Terra Alta Petersburg Clarksburg and Morgantown, noting Bowman’s record twelve dozen or more private bills.
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