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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1929
Page
4
The Mexican government launches a campaign to curb alcohol with educational measures in schools and a focus on temperate consumption. Mild wines and beer remain allowed, with no total prohibition. Officials promote fruit juices and rice cream to counteract the demon rum amid ongoing revolutions and reforms.
The passage warns that future conflicts may erase entire cities and snuff out populations, citing a Cleveland building as an example. It criticizes statesmen for ignoring vital global interests and highlights public indifference to looming dangers.
A long rambled column condemns auto racing as a spectacle and praises Decoration Day crowds in Indianapolis and national cemetery events. It contrasts British election drama with American traffic hazards, blaming parental oversight for child auto accidents.
The city reels after a hospital disaster killing over 120 due to poison gas. Nationwide empathy grows while investigators seek blame and reforms. Massive efforts launch to prevent recurrence and reflect on wartime casualties’s overlooked toll.
George Hechmer funeral scheduled for June 3 1928 at St Augustine's Church with requiem high mass. He is survived by widow Mary Leuthke-Hechmer five children and two brothers John and Frank. Other brief items mention League of Nations Transit Section proposal for river law and cigaret exports, plus Manila's first talking apparatus and unsure reception of talkies.
Brooklyn actor William Bow cousin of Clara Bow appears inPara mounts The Wild Party at the Strand for a midnight show June 2 3 and 5 Bow an amateur athlete held interscholastic records for the quarter mile half mile and mile in the New York metropolitan district and studied under Dorothy Arzner in Hollywood
The Columbia production Driftwood at the Opera House presents a tense drama of life on a tropical island where men rule and women are objectified. Don Alvarado delivers a standout derelet role, with Marceline Day as the drifting girl and Alan Roscoe as the bully. Fritel Brunette the native girl, Nora Cecil the boarding house keeper, and Fred Holmes the husban contribute, under Christy Cabanne’s direction and Joe Walker’s cinematography.
The nation’s leading Mennonite colony, long centered in central Kansas, begins a westward move to cheaper farm lands near Spokane Washington. About 15,000 adherents have emigrated already, seeking 50,000 acres. the Washington tract, bought by the Mennonite Settlers Aid Society, is open to Mennonites with certificates of enemy exemption amid rising Kansas land prices. Colonization may continue for eight years as Newton remains a Mennonite hub in North America.
County detectives investigated the fatal shooting of Walter P. Willman of Pittsburgh in a Washington hotel. Willman and his fiancée Martha Snyder, 27, were en route to Wheeling, West Virginia, when she forced entry after he did not answer. Authorities suspect suicide, but his parents think the shot was accidental.
Pursuant to a 1929 circuit court decree in Taylor County West Virginia the undersigned commissioner will sell at public auction June 8 1929 at 1 30 PM the described real estate at the front door of the Taylor County Courthouse to the highest bidder the tract containing about 5 1 16 acres with coal reservation excepted bounded by rails roads and land parcels and conveyed previously to James A Preston by Albert G Hardiman and Rosalie Hardman February 26 1956.
Trustee W Merle Watkins to sell June 1 1929 at 1 PM at the Taylor County Court House front door. Property is south part of Lot 91 Fetterman Plat Gratton City facing Boyd Street to Washington Street rear, near Baptist Church. Cash terms. May 9 16 23 30.
Notice of sale under a 1926 deed of trust in Taylor County West Virginia to secure a note payable to The Taylor County Bank. The property in West Grafton fronting Pearl Street runs about 42.5 feet by 60 feet, part of Lot No 2 on the Yateg plat, Roscoe Marple conveyed by Mary Kuh. Sale at public auction at Taylor County Courthouse on June 16, 1929 at 1 o'clock PM.
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