Coal and service ads fill busy Bluefield page
A jumble of coal company ads, dry cleaning specials, and local notices fills a Bluefield page. Listings include Mercer Coal Company and Citizens Coal & Supply Co with price mentions like $4.60 and $4.25 for nut and Raven coal, plus furniture repairs, business courses, dry cleaning deals, tea rooms, and social event notes. Local addresses and phone numbers appear throughout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens Coal & Supply Co
Hirlott
North Treet
Des Moines Register Segregates Crime News Experiment
Des Moines Iowa April 4. The Des Moines Register will begin printing crime news on an inside page after a local federation of women's clubs urged segregation to protect children and general readers. The paper will run the experiment for a week beginning Monday with crime news placed separately like sports and market items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Jocal Federation of Ywroamen's Clubs
Genera
Des Moines Register
Register
Coal and auto parts sale and local events
Special prices on Pocahontas ROM and Glen Alan Egg coal plus reduced grades at Bluefield Parts & Bearing Co. Phone 2166. Easter bake sale at First Christian Church and a Miller tire line at igit End Tree Shop. Scott to sing at Grace Methodist revival. No evening service at College Avenue Baptist. Sunday School and morning service at usual hours. Extension workers depart for Ennis. A. W. Thomas jailed on liquor charge. Farry M. Waugh to start grading His Avenue. contract returned to Charleston. Roanoke population listed as 63,000 in forthcoming chamber pamphlet about Roanoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Scott
Thomas Scott
Grace Methodist Revival
Bmy
Hamilton Hall
Band Street Methodist Church
College Avenue Baptist Church
Farry M. Waugh
Waugh
Bernard McClaugherty
State Board of Adoration
Charleston
Roanoke
Chamber of Commerce
McNeal Hospitalized After Peculiar Street Accident
S. S. McNeal suffered a partial leg injury when struck by a car driven by B. B. Frazee outside the Kell Agency on Bland arrest night. He was taken to St Luke's Hospital for an x ray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McNeal
Bland
8. 1
Kell Agency
B. B. Frazee
Mr. Frazee
St. Luke’s Hospital
Mrs Devlin to Address Bluefield Colored PTA
Mrs R J Devlin president of the Bluefield Parent-Teacher Council will speak to the Bluefield Colored Institute training school's PTA on Tuesday evening. The address will be in the Institute auditorium and all interested in PTA activities are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent- Teacher Association of the
Bluefeld
Witt
Genoa Avenue
J. Dabney
Beler
Rosa Hobson
J. F. Stephens
Irs
Lula P. Johnson
Mra. M. Mosély
Harry Watkins
Charua
Glee Club
Mra
Mrs Sarah A John Dies at 100 in Sturgis Michigan
Sturgis Mich April 4 Mrs Sarah A John died at her home near here today aged 100 years She celebrated her hundredth birthday February 1 this year She was born in Bridgeport Pa
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sturgis
Mich
Sarah A. Johu
Here
Bridgeport
Warlick's Warrick Daily Reduction Sale Attracts Bluefield
A Telegraph representative visited Warlick Furniture Company and found strong home loving interest in Bluefield for Warrick's Annual Daily Reduction Sale. Prices drop daily by five percent from an initial twenty percent cut, with items across dining, living and bedroom furniture, rugs, lamps, and even Haviland China on offer. Readers are invited to view Warlick's two page advertisement for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Telegraph
Warlick Furniture Company
Bluefield
Warrick
Warlick’s
Warlick
Safa
Auch Reductions
Bond Election Aims to Fund Colored School Needs
A local board of education seeks a $600,000 bond for colored school improvements, including new graded schools on the North side Wilson and upper Jones streets, plus upgrades at Genoa Avenue to convert into junior and senior high facilities with a gym. The plan lowers school taxes from 30 to 20 cents, avoiding higher levy. Citizens urged to support the issue to advance education and welfare of colored students. Palm Sunday services at John Stewart Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church noted with multiple events and a Junior church baptism planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Wilson
Jones Street
Genoa Avenue
Beaver High School
Bulla
Mic
Arch Mar
Tera
John Stewart Memorial
B. J. Martin
John Stewart Church
Condition Cartoonist Darling Is Improved
Physicians report improved condition of cartoonist J. No Darling after a minor operation for peritonitis. The article notes recent hospital progress and nearby residence activity with local revival meetings and community notices.
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Darling
Dhey Molnes
J. No
Ini) Darling
Drake U Relays Attract 2500 Athletes From 150 Schools
Des Moines April 4 described the sixteenth Drake University relay carnival set for April 24 and 25 with about 2,500 competitors from 150 universities colleges and prep schools from the Alleghenies to the Pacific coast. The entry list closes April 15. The meet features a mile race between Willie Ritola and John Ray and Harold Osborne of the Kinola Athletic Club will seek to boost his world mark in the high jump. Occidental College Stanford College and Dartmouth are among western and eastern entrants.
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Des Moines
Alleghenies
Pacific Coast
Drake University
Willie Ritola
Johc Ray
Harold Osborne
Kinola Athletic Club
Occidental College
Stanford College
Far West
Dartmouth
Frigerio and Nurmi Victors at Quebec Trials
Ugo Frigerio of Italy defeats Phil Granville of Canada in the five mile Quebec provincial championship with a 46 minute 52. seconds time. Paavo Nurmi of Finland wins the mile and a half run, lapping Jimmy Connolly as he posts 9 minutes 1? seconds. Also, Charles Morrison of Martha is released on $10,050 bond after a hearing in Huntington for alleged shooting of Wesley McAllatery.
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Montreal
Que
Ugo Frigerio
Italy
Phil Granville
Canada
Quebec
Granville
Aly Yarda
Wan
Frigerio
Paavo Nurmi
Finland
Jimmy Connolly
Georgetown University
Nurmi
Huntington
W. Va
Charles Morrison
Martha
Wesley McAllatery
Mormon Joe Receives White Man's Justice in Prison
Cortez Colorado April 4 White Man s justice visited Mormon Joe a Ute Indian prisoner in Montezuma county jail when he pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was immediately sentenced to 15 to 25 years in Canon City for killing Mexican prisoner Chavez with a table leg during a dispute over the burial alive of the medicine man s granddaughter. The case linked to the death of Nay s eighteen day old daughter is also being reviewed with Nay headed for a federal grand jury in Pueblo next Tuesday. government officials foresee stronger accessory charges in the wider case.
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Cortez
Colo
Canon City
Montezuma County
MecKean
Consolidated
Ate Indian Agency
Mormon Joe
Joe Chavez
Chavez
Plat Nay
Nay
Peubotto
Colq
Norman Joe
United States
Stenhan
Denver
Local Health Notes From Bluefield Area
Mrs. Hugh Gearheart of Magnolia street is reported quite ill at home with pneumonia. Attorney General Howard J. Lee of Charleston is spending a few days in Bluefield and Mercer county on business. Mrs. W. M. Abshire of Third street, previously ill for several days with pneumonia, is improving.
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Mamie Pearls
Jones Street
Arista
A. G- Young
S. N. Gibson
Nev. Nesbitt
Nannie Mullens
New York City
Erama Johnson
Katherine Waugh
Graham Young
Richmond
Richapond Atte School
Arista School
Tay Young
James Hogan
Hugh Gearheart
Magnolia Street
Cineral Howard J. Lee
Charleston
Bluefield
Mercer County
W. M. Abshire
Third Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Allen Street Coal Company
Daily Telegraph
Wilsel
R. P
Joy Shoe Shine Parlor
Princeton Avenue
Ladies’ Department
Mercer Coal Company
Thornton
Batley Humber Company
Bluefield Normal Business College
Bluefield Avenue
Tyler Street
W. F. Cunnningham
Lin Economy Dry Cleaning Co. Oe
Cappepiy Dry Cleaning Co. Rhone
Ieal Hoonis
Greater Bluefield Business College
Commerce Street
Kor Boller
Arlen ‘Street Coal Company
Standart Puel & Supply Co
Cochran
Sane
Sanitary Fish and Vegetable Market
Preston
South Mercer Street
J. E. Charlton
Uy Teal
West Virginia Top Co
Coca Cola
American Legion
Endowment Fund
McKinney Watchmaker
Home Jewelry Co
Raleigh Street
Argabright and
Frantz
Matt
Reasonalle
Motor Salen Company
Altamont
N. Y
Jas, G. Litz, Agt
Hank Bligg
Hinefield
W. Ya
the Joyce Co
Jewelers Ete West Virginian
Rogers
WM. H. Carr
N. Gougham
Weat
Virginia
Phoug
Mercer Funeral Home
Bland Street
Modern Funeral Establishment
Harry L. Green
Merchantiolog
Bradmano Bldg
Hall
Bradmans Building
R. L. Morris
Blusfield, W. Va
Rom
Glen Alan Egg
Bluefeld Tee & Cold Storage Co
Ato
Bluefield Parts & Bearing Company
Igit
Giles Street
Ladies of the First Christian Church
Wurgess Electric Co
Buuy
Bland Street Methodist Church
Isaac Wright
Ennis
A. W. Thomas
Monroe County
R. Taylor
Thomas
S. S. McNeal
Mrs. Devlin
P.T. Association
Sarah A. John
Bluefeld Furniture Co
T C. Saunders
Christian Endeasver Society
Wm. Washington
Scott Street
Lynchburg
James Wright
Beckley
B. C
Nannie Vaughn
Farmville
M. &. Walden
Reese Street
Bessie
Maya) Johnson
Matthew Hunter
Frank Carrol
Warren
Ohio
Emma Faines Carroll
Maggie Austin
Drake U
Henry Rodgin Company
Bluefield, W. VA
Goodykoontz Drug Co
Princeton
Bluefield Pharmacy
Bluefield Ave
Telephous
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