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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1925
Page
13
Bluefield Virginia reopens after a two week holiday with strong enrollment and harmony in schools. Town pride runs deep as salaries and term lengths were preserved during county retrenchment. Articles note returning college students, local entertainment by Bingham and Redpath Lyceum links, and a call to report missing dogs near East River Mountain.
Ralph Bingham presents a Friday evening program at 8 o clock in Memorial Baptist church. The event promises clean fun with an engaging start as he typically opens the show.
Sam Jaber, Pocahontas telegraph operator, recalls visiting his native home last year by camel across the Arabian desert. He now expects to travel by airship on his next trip, noting a radio craze in Assyria and hoping to speak with kin in the Holy Land from Eckman railroad yard.
An East River Mountain groundhog emerged a month early and was killed by M. L. Wagner who tracked it to its den. The animal had forecast misread weather and paid with its life. A second note offers a reward for two missing fox hound males from the local fox club.
Preaching nights announced at Memorial Baptist with Rev R E Karty of the Methodist church delivering the sermon. Rev M C Alexander preached Monday at the Methodist church. Virginia Side pastors alternate this week and a Coale revival begins Sunday at the Methodist church with a singer from the Pacific Coast accompanying the evangelist.
E L Whitley, prominent Galax businessman and produce dealer, suffered a stroke at his home Sunday, with telegrams indicating serious condition. Native of Tazewell, Whitley is a well known figure in the region and is partnered with C P Painter.
Weekend guest Ran dolph Sanders departs Sunday for Rich mond where he attends Rich mond Medical College. McCall Frazier returned to Washington with Congressman George C. Peery, traveling by automobile. Arthur Peery of Coop ers is back at work after a seventeen day layoff with a sprained back.
A burned shack in Ellwood City yielded a charred torso brought to Mercy Hospital in Pittsburg for experts to decide if it is a boy or animal. Police suspect Luigi Noschesi, fourteen, missing for days, but doctors differ on human origin. A partial exam tonight will lead to a sealed report for New Castle authorities.
WashingtonJanuary 5 The Supreme Court ruled in a Delaware and Hudson case that tentative railroad valuations set by the Interstate Commerce Commission are not reviewable by courts before final action. Justice Mc Reynolds delivered the opinion stating the commission’s tentative figures cannot be altered prior to final determinations.
After two years of coughing a well off man lost weight and energy, but a friend’s tip to Bronchuline Emulsion restored his life. The ad touts tough lingering coughs from grip and colds, claiming Bronchuline as the best remedy, available at Binefield Pharmacy, East End Pharmacy, Fairview Pharmacy, and other dealers.
Indianapolis Jan 5. Percy Tetlow president of the United Mine Workers West Virginia district disputed statements by Warren B Stone head of Coal River Collieries and L and E president. Tetlow said Stone’s claims that miners are content are false citing strike breakers at mines 3 and 4 who quit on December 12 and armed guards at mines 3 and 4. Stone asserts high wages under 1917 scale while Tetlow notes improbable earnings for machine runners and loaders under the company rate system.
The speaker argues that paying loaders 12 50 a day for eight hours and 45 cents a ton would force a thirty ton daily load per worker, which is impossible. He cites West Virginia mine inspectors reporting average output of ten tons a day and questions the stated scale.
Washington January 5 House leaders agreed late today on passage at this section of the rivers and harbors bill. The action advances the measure toward final consideration and funding for inland and coastal projects.
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