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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1925
Page
4
A dense page lists mercantile offerings and services from Bluefield area shops including coal companies, shoe repair, home goods, and millinery specials. Listings feature contact numbers, prices, and brief sales pitches as merchants promote coal, shoe services, house ads, and clothing items alongside public notices and a small accident report.
A threatened anthracite coal strike has spurred full operation across Pocahontas district mines and boosted Norfolk and Western Railway activity. Daily carloads rose above 2,000 on the Pocahontas division, with about 2,400 cars delivered Wednesday and Thursday. Virginian to Norfolk and Western shipments via Matoka averaged around 75 cars daily.
The Colored Virginia Open Tennis Tournament centers Bluefield Colored Institute today and tomorrow. Drawings occur this morning at 9 and matches begin this afternoon. Entrants include Willwood Downing, Tiburn Downing of Roanoke, Meritt of Party Mouth, Elizabeth Hines North Carolina state champion, Dallas Brown of Institute, and others.
L C Dockery of Rovers Tennessee, employed at Cove Creek lumber camp in Tazewell county, was shot twice by Ed Cordell of Smyth Virginia while entering the dining hall on Sunday. Cordell is jailed in Tazewell county. Dockery is hospitalized at St Luke's after injuries to his neck and face. His parents were en route to Bluefield as his brother works in Bluefield.
Frederick Md Aug 6 1924 John Robinson a negro turned himself in to county authorities after his automobile struck and injured three children and a fourth person. Five bottles of moonshine were found in the badly damaged car. Dantel Jackson of Heading Ohio is held as a material witness.
Martins Ferry Ohio Aug 6 The Western Ohio steel boom tightens as all plants run at peak postwar output. Yorkville Wheel ing Steel reports a record week with 6,102,480 pounds poured into stock, about eight thousand tons of plate monthly. Bellaire Carnegie Steel aims for full eighteen shifts this week in a banner period unseen since wartime. Loughlin Tin Plate Martin Ferry unit runs overtime amid best week in over a year.
Gadsden State Bank assistant cashier G. T. Hobbs was killed when three masked robbers held up the bank at Gadaden near Yume Arizona just before closing. The bandits escaped with a small amount of money.
New York Aug 6 improved production and exploration methods indicate no imminent exhaustion of United States oil reserves. A 300 page American Petroleum Institute report to Washington asserts sufficient motor fuel and lubricant supplies beyond the period of discovery, citing recoverable reserves and potential new sources from deeper drilling and refining advances.
Sister Mary guides peach canning with multiple preserves including marmalades jams and sauces. Instructions cover cold pack method syrup variations and pickled peaches with spices. Detailed steps include selecting firm peaches peeling halving packing in jars and processing times for safe preserves.
A new work on stammering titled Stammering, it a Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue has joined the Bluefield Public Library shelves. Bogue, a noted authority who overcame his own stammer, recounts personal experiences and discusses effects on mind and body, offering guidance for children and warnings against unscientific cures.
Washington Aug 6 John Temple Graves the aged Southern writer remains alive at his home tonight though physicians and family have almost given up hope of recovery He was unconscious most of the time The report also notes Australia’s longest railroad at 5 433 miles with double tracks and branch lines.
A garbled listing of fire stations and addresses appears to outline fire alarm signals across multiple stations and streets. The fragment mentions stations such as Princeton Ave and Raleigh and Federal, plus numerous street corners, avenues, and blocks, but the text is heavily corrupted with mis-spellings and partial names.
Duluth Minn Aug 6 large religious meeting to be held in Chicago June 20 24 with the largest party of church dignitaries ever leaving Rome including ten cardinals. Knight of Columbus report 1-2 million expected attendance at the Eucharistic Council and 50 000 parochial school children training to sing the mass at Grand Park stadium. Selection of the 1928 convention referred to the board after invitations from Philadelphia San Francisco Baltimore and Detroit. Columbus Day 1926 to be devoted to Jesuit martyrs exercises and cooperation with the International Truth Society to refute accusations against the Catholic Church. The boy program adopted by the Knights to go into effect that day.
Farkoreburg West Virginia August 6 state police jailed Harris district residents C B Holliday and Jess Bibbes on charges of interfering with and restraining an officer after a near riot at the Belleville community pirate game earlier today. Trooper Crit Hall was involved in the confrontation.
Nearly a thousand people joined a disorderly breakup of a ball game and picnic after an argument with the umpire. State police and deputies restored order at Heathday and Pilhee. no further arrests reported. Separately in New York an arrangement was made to move publisher Cyrigff K. Cyrus to his private yacht Everhart. Mr Cyrus had a heavy cold but improved with treatment during the voyage home.
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