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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1920
Page
3
Prohibition Commissioner Kramer outlined plans to curb liquor handling by sharply reducing federal permits in the coming year. He said fifty to seventy five percent of wholesale licenses would not be re issued and broad scrutiny would target illegal sales from Boston to the Potomac. Retail druggists may face tighter controls as well.
Pasadena, December 29. Ferdin and Thum, cited as the inventor of sticky fly paper, was found dead at age sixty five today.
Actress Dorothy Gish wed actor James Rennie in a Greenwich Connecticut ceremony on a Sunday, confirming their marriage after a New York report.
The Mercer County Bar Association holds its annual banquet at Hotel Matz with Judge Harold Ritz and John Kee among attendees. The program features a series of legal talks and reminiscences followed by a banquet menu and music.
Senator Ashurst warned that the president signing the measure after December 31 would resemble pardoning a man after execution, as hundreds of western mine owners risk losing rights to claim jumpers waiting to file. The article notes mining claims hours spent and references continued coverage from page one.
A fragment indicates authorization for accept an advance type game to be played in New Hampshire on October 15 with additional eastern games to be scheduled.
A committee with an initial 300000 dollars was announced by business leaders of Irish ancestry to coordinate relief work. Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore heads the national council as part of the new organization.
Elbert H. Gary, chairman of United States Steel, told New York listeners that the current economy shows natural readjustments. He warned of a disquieting general atmosphere but expressed hopeful confidence in the nation’s future.
President Cloyd Goodnight of Bethany College announced a telegram from Carl Miller of Chicago offering Bethany a spot on Dartmouth College's 1921 football schedule. The proposal arrived on December 29 from Bethany, West Virginia.
The king has revived the Strabolgi peerage from 1318 and named the senior heir a locomotive engineer. The crown, acting as in England’s tradition, summoned the Yorkshire load owner now the ninth holder of the title.
Mrs Alta Kohler, 27, was bound over to the County Grand Jury on a second degree murder charge related to the fire that killed her two sons Ward four and William five in Hubbard Ohio. The incident occurred the night of December with the Kohler home destroyed by flames.
A telegram from Chicago states Carl V. Miller of New Martinsville West Virginia and Velma Riggs of Moundsville West Virginia were issued a marriage license there today. Miller is the athletic director at Bethany College and Riggs comes from a Marshall county family.
Three trainmen were killed and three others seriously injured when two trains collided near Crandall Georgia on the Atlanta division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The wreck blocked the tracks for about twelve hours.
Incendiaries try to set fire to the First Presbyterian Church at Fairchance near Uniontown Pa. Fires started by the main entrance were extinguished with no major damage reported.
Cleveland reports no verdict reached by the M Gannon jury as the case regarding William H. McGannon chief justice of the municipal court remains unresolved.
At 9 35 pm the jury told Judge Bernon it could not agree on the Harold C murder case and asked to retire. The judge granted a night lockup for the twelve jurors after they had finished final arguments at 6 11 o clock and went to supper.
Hamilton Bermuda December 29 William H Taft former U S president and Mrs Taft arrive on the Fort Victoria with the governor and American consul on a committee of Americans. The Tafts will remain in Bermuda two months.
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