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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1924
Page
4
Offers from coal firms and shops announce prices and delivery for coal, ash, and lamp fuel plus millinery, fruit cake, and bakery items. Also listed are garage services, car storage, rent ads, bake sales, and community notices including church events and story hours.
Bluefield news notes include dairy herd testing led by Dr. Boane and state officials, a memorial service planned by Bluefield Lodge 269, vehicle incidents and thefts, and ongoing building upgrades along Bland Street. Local visitors, town officials, and business notices appear amid schedules and community announcements.
Officials reported a gradual rise in shipments amid the holiday period. The lake trade closure has reduced output, prompting shippers to redirect to eastern markets. Warm weather nationwide is noted as the major factor shaping production this season.
The West Virginia Supreme Court issued an alternative writ directing Fayette County to show cause why C B H Mahan the Democratic candidate for assessor should not be declared elected. Mahan asserted unofficial returns gave him a 15 vote lead while canvassed totals showed a 41 vote margin over Republican Hi S Fields.
Cuvier Grover Flint, grandson of John Fiske and son of Grover Flint, was described in an aged advertisement as a white male 24, sound and intelligent, belonging to an aristocratic family, offered for lease at $1,000 a year. He said Harvard ties and a World War call influenced his life, and he faced inheritance delays after his Petersham aunt’s estate went to a cousin.
About 90 superintendents engineers and chemists from five states attended the twenty eighth annual Central States Water Association gathering in Wheeling West Virginia. Delegates toured the citys filtration plant while National President George C Gensheimer of Erie Pa spoke on advancing water distribution systems and District President Frank C Jordan of Indianapolis discussed modern chemistry. States represented included Ohio Pennsylvania Indiana Michigan and West Virginia.
Catlettsburg Kentucky December 5 Walter Hensley thirty a farmer was shot and probably fatally wounded at his home early today Police hold Allen Mann twenty on a charge of shooting with intent to kill Hensley in a statement to Chief of Police Henry L Hendrick this morning Mann was absolved from blame and the shooting was called accidental by witnesses said to have seen Mann with a revolver and threatening to kill Hensley if he died a murder charge could follow the chief stated
Rome December 5 Premier Mussolini secured Senate approval of the government’s internal policy by a 206 to 64 margin with 36 abstentions. The vote signals strengthened political standing for the premier and governing bloc.
New York December 6 Mrs Anna Buzzi was acquitted by a Bronx Supreme Court jury in a murder case involving Frederick Schneider a wealthy Bronx contractor and her common law husband.
In Reval Esthenia on December 5 two air force officers were sentenced to death and shot for remaining inactive during the communist outbreak last Monday.
London bishop Dr. Arthur Warman and his silver wedding anniversary are noted with remarks on marriage age. He suggests delaying marriage until at least 21 to avoid “shipwreck” of early unions. Also mentions Edwin traveling to Washington and German mercantile fleet growth by 700,000 tons over three years.
W A Phillips coal operator died Wednesday night at Philadelphia and will be laid to rest this afternoon at his Mt Carmel home. He was 78, born in Wales, active in Pocahontas field development, led multiple coal companies, and served on several boards. He celebrated his fiftieth wedding anniversary last year.
Mrs Pearl Saunders Whittaker died at her Elkhorn home after a brief illness leading to pneumonia and complications. She was forty nine, widowed with one son Julian F. Whittaker and three brothers, survived by two sisters. She came to the coal field early, lived in Ennis and Elkhorn, active in church and community work. funeral at 10.
The piece notes white blueberries grown in Whitneyville on land owned by Newell Albee who restricts picking to a few. It references Socrates and a convivial bowl of philosophers who discussed squaring the circle as an impossible task.
A simple home remedy advises dissolving two Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in four tablespoonfuls of water to gargle the throat. Repeat in two hours if needed. Use genuine Bayer tablets marked with the Bayer Cross, sold in boxes of twelve for a few cents.
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