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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1920
Page
3
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Fifteen ships carrying 4,465,000 bushels of Canadian wheat left Fort William Ontario in the last day bound for United States ports, mainly Buffalo New York. Elevators at Fort William and Port Arthur have received 73,748,000 bushels to December 3, totaling 45,420,000 bushels, over twenty times last year's total. with remaining stock, the season may reach about 56,000,000 bushels.
Washington December 7 John Skelton Williams of Richmond Virginia was renominated today by President Wilson to be comptroller of the currency His name appeared among about seventeen thousand nominations mostly recess appointments and including around fifteen thousand army promotions Most major appointments had been announced previously
Federal grand jury finishes investigation into irregularities in the thirty-first congressional primary. Indictments issued against forty persons including Charles Anderson a Pittsburg city council member and Republican leader in the first ward.
President Wilson proposed extending a loan to the Armenian government. The state department has studied the question and concluded a credit of 25 million dollars would be necessary.
Federal and state authorities confiscated twelve gallons of home brew beer found in an unused room at the county courthouse in Martinsburg West Virginia. An investigation is ongoing with no arrests reported as of tonight.
Floyd Fitzsimmons promoter of the Leonard White and Dempsey Miske championship fights left for New York to push staging Jack Dempsey versus Georges Carpentier in his air arena at Benton Harbor Michigan. A Chicago December 7 date is referenced for the potential bout.
Akron December 7 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company directors, re-elected with the exception of J P Loomis who resigned, were expected to announce officers late today or tomorrow. L C Rockhill was mentioned among the directors.
Giles Street lists three homes priced at 5250 12000 and 6250 while Boone Union Augusta North East River and other streets show single homes ranging from 4250 to 12750. A business property on Bluefield Avenue is listed at 6000 and Rogers Street features two homes at 6100 and 9200.
Stockholders at an adjourned meeting on December 23 will consider permanent financing plans. The plans contemplate issuing 30,000,000 in mortgage bonds.
Memphis delegates from banking, business and farming groups across the South discussed measures to cut cotton acreage by fifty percent and to increase food crops and livestock farming at a regional meeting held here.
Twenty-eight of the thirty Pennsylvania bituminous coal mine inspectors closed a two days session in Pittsburg discussing the application of electricity to coal mining safety in mines and improving mining efficiency.
Wrentham Mass December 7 The palm lined Liang Liang island natives await a US Marine now claimed as their sultan by adoption The War Department confirmed the sultan’s death and will refer the claim of Robert A McLain ex marine who served there in 1910 to the Bureau of Insular Affairs for guidance
Secretary Baker was asked by the house military committee to appear before the department on Friday to explain why the war effort has recruited more than 180,000 men.
The New York Times observes a trend of people especially women adopting new names to match self image. It notes examples from Polly to Patricia and Daisy to Diana, with fashions swinging through Slavonic and French names and a belief that a name shapes personal identity and life perception.
In Follawsbee West Virginia a grand jury convened under $500 bond for Theodore Sponduri amid a card game raid claimed to involve $10,000 stolen during a masked invasion. The charge was presented to Mayor Berry naming Sponduri as proprietor of the establishment.
The national committee declares the party is heart and soul with the Russian revolution and the Russian soviet government and favors affiliating with the third international at Moscow. It notes it has not accepted the terms demanded by the third international for affiliation.
Daniel Cable, a Steubenville potter, reports an incident on the way home when a man leaped from the shadows and overpowered him in an attempted theft. Cable says the assailant searched him for money but fled after finding him penniless.
Miss Callie Stevens of Iren ton Ohio confined to bed six months due to rheumatism. After two bottles of The Reese Formula R-11 she regained movement and improved, praising the remedy. Ad lists numerous druggists and towns in West Virginia and nearby for purchase.
A man helped his victim to his feet then produced a roll of bills and offered two fives to the injured man with the remark that he needed it more. Cable was too surprised to accept the money.
Danny Frusch of Baltimore knocked out Artie Root of Cleveland in the ninth round of a twelve round featherweight bout in Akron. Root went down three times in the final round for a nine count.
A fire at Mount Holly Inn an apartment hotel housing Senator-elect O E Weller and about 150 Baltimore residents broke out at dinner hour. No deaths reported though the building was destroyed. The blaze caused substantial damage to the landmark during a night of rapid response by local fire crews.
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