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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1925
Page
8
Local brief items list coal companies, service ads, and notices in Pocahontas. Mercantile listings include Mercer Coal, Bowers Coal, Elkhorn Hazard Coal meeting notice, and a public debt disclaimer by Joseph P. Shelton. Also announces Play House Cafe changes, a beauty parlor, a funeral for Joseph C. Scott, and city court fines totaling 240 dollars. Gas project update notes West Bluefield.
An old advertisement claims gas pressure on the stomach disturbs sleep and press on heart causes restlessness. It promotes Ahlerika as a fast acting intestinal evacuant for gas and constipation, noting quick results and no griping. Available at The White Pharmacy and Central Pharmacy in Princeton via Rice Drug Co.
F. W. Lawrence of Sanderson & Peter and engineers approved extending the Bluefield Gas & Power main into West Bluefield Virginia. The Lynn Street main will be replaced with a larger line tied to the Bluefield avenue feeder reaching toward the state line, with laterals to streets lacking gas service.
Geneva Jan 19 Stephen G Porter head of the American delegation brands the British proposal by Lord Cecil as quite unacceptable to resolve far eastern opium issues. The United States seeks a ten year end to opium smoking. Britain wants fifteen years with a China suppression condition. Porter condemns the condition and objects to related cocaine and narcotic control recommendations as well. Britain France and Holland unite against resuming the first conference work to address opium smoking. A new British declaration proposes adding a protocol to the earlier convention for far eastern nations. Women shoppers later are reminded of a sale at M G Whitlow Hardware Co.
The January term of the U S district court for the Southern District of West Virginia opens in Bluefield at 10 o clock with Judge George W Mec Clintic presiding Ira H Mottershead clerk and deputy staff prepared docket and officials arrive by train No 4 Jurors witnesses and court officers fill Bluefield hotels ahead of the session.
In Macon Georgia Mrs F B Headden describes suffering from the change of life with relief after two weeks on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She praises improved health and urges others to try the remedy, noting widespread testimonials and pharmacist availability.
Amid sensational reports from Marion Virginia Roy Patrick twenty seven is jailed without bond on suspicion of placing dynamite to blow the Saltville dam on Christmas Eve causing massive lime refuse floods. Authorities cite threats against Mathieson Alkali Work and claim Patrick lacked an alibi. The arrest follows a widespread search and police guard at the jail. Meanwhile the Bluefield Kiwanis Club announces an automobile show in late February to raise funds for underprivileged children and education projects.
Two Weehawken men testified in Jersey City that a bootleggers trial condemned them to death by a jury of rum runners. They were allegedly rescued by the king of bootleggers as they were about to be drowned in the Hudson, with Key figures including William Griffin and Police Commissioner Harry Stearns tied to the case. The trial of twelve Hudson county men for conspiracy to violate prohibition resumes tomorrow morning.
Authorities in Saltville Virginia are conducting a thorough investigation into the muck dam collapse on Christmas Eve and the movements of Roy Patrick twenty seven who has been held without bond in Marion Virginia. The grand jury convenes next month will hear the results of the inquiry and Patrick remains in jail.
In Fethard, County Tipperary three youths on bicycles masked themselves and robbed the Provincial Bank, seizing thousands of pounds. Police hunt for suspects as the town reels from the bold daytime raid.
New York detectives arrest Mary Martinez after she fires five times into a car carrying her husband Louis and rival Anna Permentee. Permentee is wounded critically, Martinez unharmed after a short pursuit. Martinez admits jealousy over her husband and says Permentee planned to reveal details of their meeting.
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