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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1923
Page
3
A collection of small notices from Bluefield and nearby areas includes services for shoe cleaning and dyeing, removal sales, auctioneering, and laundry items. It lists local business promotions, union notices, and a child’s death with burial plans in Kingsport Tennessee.
Advertises Creomulsion as a new emulsified creosote remedy that soothes inflamed membranes and kills germs causing throat and lung illnesses. Claims include relief for chronic coughs, bronchial conditions, and post cold recovery with a money back guarantee if not cured by following directions. Creomulsion Co Atlanta Ga.
Patient recounts two years of night and day coughing from grippe leading to chronic bronchial asthma. After failing four doctors, Milks Emulsion halted symptoms within two months, rebuilt health and flesh, and offers a money back guarantee with six bottles. Distributed by The Milks Emulsion Co. Terre Haute Indiana. Sold by druggists everywhere.
Nora Tyree a Black woman from Kimball was found guilty by Justice of the Peace Jas H Gollehon after a Prohibition officer arrested her on passenger train No 29. Four gallons of moonshine were found in her possession while en route from Roanoke to Kimball. She received thirty days in Mercer county jail and a $100 fine. Funeral of a Child in Kimball. The service for the 22 month old daughter of Mr and Mrs R Burton was held on Balsam street with interment in Walnut Grove cemetery. A local contractor is building sidewalks on Scott street extension between Federal and Bland. Snowfall was light and confined to the area, no general snow in the region. Dollar Sale at the Market lists reduced prices on canned goods and preserves for Thursday and Friday with Bluefield noted.
Deputy Sheriff G T Hatfield led a search at Burnwell mine near Sprigg Kentucky for Charles Underwood reported missing since October 4. Underwood worked at the mine and vanished after the plant shut briefly that day, raising questions of foul play or accident.
Baltimore December 6. Geo Chaney of Baltimore loses to Ted Marchant of England by foul in the third round of a scheduled eleven round bout. After an earlier foul claim, Marchant floors Chaney then battering him against the ropes. Chaney is stopped when a groin hit ends the fight. Chaney weighed 136 pounds, Marchant 134 3-4.
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon and his brother R. B. Mellon received a cup for the best display of a single variety of bantams at the Baltimore poultry show. They own the Rolling Rock Club in Loughlin ton Pennsylvania. The years exhibition is described as the largest in Maryland history.
The Lions Club in Hamilton Hall hosted Rev. Frank Jackson of Grace Methodist Church who spoke on various topics. The meeting included secretary notes and a committee report while urging team captains to increase member attendance. Roanoke visitor W. A. Vaughan attended.
At the weekly Bluefield Post No. 9 rehearsal, drum and bugle corps officials discussed leadership changes. Longtime business manager Lewis H. Reiland resigned to serve as publicity officer for Bluefield Post No. 9 and chef de gate for the Voiture Locale of the Forty and Eight Society, to take effect at next meetings. John H. Young will replace him immediately. The corps plans more rehearsals and aims to appear on Bluefield streets with a larger band in the near future.
In Halifax Nova Scotia on December 5 W A Black Liberal Conservative won the federal bye election with a large majority. By 8:30 p m George A Redmond Liberal government candidate conceded the result.
Chicago December. Good Stanway II, carrying a string of blue ribbons and prizes, was declared grand champion and senior champion of Hereford bulls at the international livestock show.
New York reports nine hundred cases have been accepted at a Fifth Avenue birth control clinic in semi secret operation for eleven months. Margaret Sanger announced at a public luncheon that married women have been treated and that charitable groups had begun sending patients, despite police scrutiny. Relgious breakdown cited.
The Oklahoma City lower house faced a stormy debate over a measure to require groups to publish their membership lists. Representative Richard Elam led an amendment to restore sections the Senate had killed, while Warren Ferrell sought to postpone consideration, a move that was defeated.
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