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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1925
Page
2
Multiple briefs detail coal prices and specials from Mercer Coal & Supply, City Coal Co, and other Bluefield vendors, plus layaway ads, grocery offers, barber shop hours, Christmas sales, leather goods alert from Henry Rodgin Co, and local notices on meetings, surgeries, and criminal cases.
Howard Humphries a Bluestone shops foreman and well known railroad man died after 2 PM in Bluefield Sanitarium from blood poisoning. He had been patient since October 15 after a toe injury led to infection and diabetes, with foot amputation two weeks ago. Funeral plans to ship body to Little Rock Arkansas with his father sister and brother.
The Lewis Furniture Company on Princeton Avenue drew a crowd of thousands for a Christmas party attracting many children. Sixteen numbers entertained the crowd before Harry Kammer handed out candy packages, leaving an estimated 1600 children without candy but promising more in a day or two.
The Capitol debates whether Colonel Mitchell should receive retirement credit for time served under sentence. A possible automatic pardon upon resignation is noted, while a refusal could force him to serve as an example to others. Retirement rules and May 1928 eligibility are debated with potential policy shifts.
The city planning commission held its first meeting and elected R. J. Devlin as chairman and Boyd A. Bennett as secretary. They reviewed duties and discussed several matters with no action aside from approving a name change for Sprindale avenue to Cornett avenue. Members listed are R. K. Devlin chairman Boyd A. Bennett secretary Mrs W. C. Pollock Mrs. O. M. Deyerle and Maria J. Garry.
Italian deputies ratify a bill approving a war loan tied to measures reaching the United States. Signed by the finance minister Count at Washington, the action was completed by mid November as part of broader wartime funding.
In Dows Iowa on December 18 seven or eight robbers fired almost a hundred shots and dynamited the Dows Savings Bank safe stealing between 10000 and 20000 dollars before slipping away. Police and county officers joined by bank officials hunted for clues as fingerprint experts prepared photographs.
Austin Texas Dec 18 Speaker Lee Satterwhite will announce at 11 tomorrow whether he will call a special session of the Texas House to investigate Governor Miriam A Ferguson's administration. He spoke after a conference with Attorney General Dan Moody.
Traffic Officer Louis Gross remains firm on safety while sharing holiday cheer in Dice Pennsylvania. He tags drivers with a Red Cross seal on train violation notices to encourage better behavior and buys seats at the corner store when his supply runs low.
St Louis December 18 Gus C Nations and five other former officers and directors of the Federal Home Building Corporation, which collapsed in 1923 with about 390000 in investor losses, were reindicted by a federal grand jury on charges of using the mails to defraud.
Dorothy Devore noted actress and former bathing beauty will marry A W Mather head of Consolidated Amusements Company Ltd of Honolulu in San Francisco tonight. The courtship began in Honolulu several months ago.
Prohibition officers seized liquor valued about 2000 dollars at Keystone late Friday afternoon. Willett of Point Virginia arrested with a Dodge with secret compartments. Still and mash seized in multiple locations. several defendants fined and jailed.
Swiaziski surrendered to McDowell county authorities and appeared before Justice A. C. Hufford. He was fined 150 dollars and sentenced to ninety days in jail with a prospect of commitment to a state institution for treatment.
Rome reports Italian Somaliland has been occupied and destroyed by Italian forces in reprisal for the killing of two Italian NCOs and an artilleryman by native forces of Sultan Osman Mahmud. An Italian naval squadron blockades the coast.
Ottawa reports a favorable trade balance larger by 100 million dollars for the year ended November 30 1926 compared with the previous year. Exports reached 1 220 000 000 while imports were 874 000 000 giving a balance of 346 000 000.
Washington reports November U S auto production at 327 617 passenger cars and 37 704 trucks, below October but well above November last year. The Commerce Department released the figures, noting a strong month despite the drop from October.
Bootlex coal has appeared near Sunbury Pennsylvania nine miles from major mines residents pay sixteen to eighteen dollars a ton for the bootlex product shipped from an unrevealed source and delivered at night. Paris reports former Premier Golliness and Senator Jean Philip elected to the senate finance committee to succeed Paul Doumer and Henry Berenger named ambassador to the United States.
Paris announces bread will cost 1 franc 70 centimes per kilogram from December 18, the highest price yet charged, about three cents per pound. The move affects consumers nationwide as authorities set new pricing.
Three bell boys employed in downtown Pittsburg hotels were held for court after federal agents arrested them for selling and possessing quo. A fourth bell hop was discharged when identification failed.
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