Poca-Bramwell Sweeps Doubleheader Over Bluefield
Poca-Bramwell won both ends of a scheduled doubleheader against Bluefield at Bramwell and here. In the morning game Fisher hit a three-base hit for a 4-3 victory after a ninth-inning rally, and Cy Smith pitched for Bramwell in a 5-3 afternoon win as Bluefield misplays helped the Indians.
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Poca Bramwell Tops Bluefield in Doubleheader Results
Poca Bramwell defeated Bluefield 4 to 3 in the first game and 5 to 3 in the second. Hayworth drove in runs with a double to left, McMillan doubled and Whitlock tripled in the eighth. Price singled and Dreifus scored in the sixth as Bluefield failed to reach base again.
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Sorrell
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Bramwell Pocahontas to Host Roanoke in Key League Clash
Bramwell Pocahontas, on a five game win streak over Bluefield, faces Roanoke’s City League leaders today in a standout matchup. Roanoke features ex Indians and ex Indian players in key roles with Spangler expected to pitch, while Bramwell Pocahontas aims to extend its appeal to local fans at Pocahontas with an 8 oclock start.
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Bluefield
Roanoke
C. Whitlock
Roanoe
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McMillan
Indians
Spangler
Thomas
Nidiffer
Bramwell
Pocahontas
Roanoke Boys
Coalfield Clube
Home runs boom as fireworks light holiday double bills
Major league baseball echoed in booms of firecrackers as hitters slugged 23 homers on July 14. Fifteen NL round-trippers vs eight in the American. Chicago led with seven homers in two Cubs Cardinals games, including Rogers Hornsby’s 22nd.
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Rogers Hornsby
Fifty eight American girls sail for France on Leviathan
Fifty eight representative American girls selected from across the country sail from New York for France aboard the Leviathan. They were chosen to back the Thomas Jefferson memorial drive which funds Monticello purchases. The campaign has already raised 300000 dollars and will push to raise 100000 more next year.
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France
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Dallas
Texas
Monticello
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Jack Dempsey Receives Ovation in Brighton Debut
In Brighton England on July 4 Jack Dempsey the world heavyweight champion made his first ring appearance in England. He sparred three rounds each with Phil Scott Eddie Hazen and Captain Ernest Chandler in a show that drew a standing ovation.
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Phil Scott
Eddie Hazen
Ernest Chandler
French Repulse Attacks Near Fez Morocco
An official communique says French troops repulsed Abd El Krim tribesmen west of Kiffane after lively fighting on Thursday and yesterday near Fez Morocco as of July 4.
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Abd-El- Krim
Kiffane
McLarnin Upsets Pancho Villa In Ten Rounds
Jimmy McLarnin a nineteen year old from Vancouver and California defeated Pancho Villa the flyweight champion in ten rounds in Oakland. Villa fought with a badly ulcerated tooth and could not make weight for the title fight.
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New York Athletic Club Wins Senior Meet Title
New York Athletic Club captured the national A A U senior track and field championship. Metropolitan athletes scored 5112 points to top Illinois Athletic Club, Olympic Club of San Francisco, and Hollywood Athletic Club in a tight team race.
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San Francisco
Illinois Athletic Club
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New World Record For Mooring An Airship
Bar Harbor Maine July 4 A new world record for mooring an airship was set today by the U S S Patoka mother ship of Navy dirigibles when the Shenandoah was made fast just 18 minutes after the air ships line had been picked up by the Patoka s boat The best time previously recorded for the mooring operation was thirty minutes Navy aviators stated The record was made when the dirigible returned from a short trip on which governors from three states were passengers They were Governor EB Lee Trinkle of Virginia Ed Jackson of Indiana and M K Trapp of Oklahoma
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Bar Harbor
Maine
Navy
Beliefs Baptist church fixed by the Bible
In Seattle at the nineteenth annual meeting of the Northern Baptist convention a resolution declares Baptist beliefs fixed by the Bible while omitting Park Avenue Baptist church due to a prior controversy. Judge F W Freeman of Denver led a fight over church harmony and announced an amendment to by-laws defining a Baptist church as one believing in New Testament fundamentals and baptism by immersion.
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Baptist Church
Park Avenue
Indianapolis
F. W. Freeman
Denver
Leavenworth Crowding Triggers Prisoner Transfers to Texas
Warden William S. Biddle announced that to ease overcrowding at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary 600 inmates will be moved to Huntsville Texas and fourteen Texas prison farms under arrangements with the Department of Justice in Washington.
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Huntsville
Texas
Shenandoah Returns to Lakehurst from Bar Harbor
The Shenandoah naval dirigible departed Bar Harbor at 2 PM EST for Lakehurst New Jersey. Weather permitting it was to fly over Camden where a tribute to arma governors was under way, with an expected hangar arrival early Sunday morning.
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Police Officer S Smith Expected to Recover
Police Officer A M Smith, wounded by Albert Robinson of Negros department last week, is out of danger per Roanoke hospital reports. Funeral for Patrolman C H Morgan held. Patrolman W M Terry to be buried Monday. Robinson held in Lynchburg jail, to face Roanoke grand jury Monday.
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Welch Briefs Continued From Page Eight
Nuptial knot tied in McDowell county courthouse for Cleve land Charles 33 and Martha Smith 23 of Befulon Pike county. Welch Chautauqua opens this afternoon with a concert. Thomas Brooks Fletcher U S Congressman will replace Governor Brough ill in tonight’s program. Vesper services at 7 45 precede the event. Kimball Kiwanis Club meets Tuesday at 6 pm Houston M E church with a birthday of country program. Attendees may win an attendance prize funded by secretary Guy C Lawhead. Directors' meeting to follow luncheon to discuss important matters.
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Houston M
Samos Island Through Ages Bygone Masters And Modern Winds
Washington based National Geographic bulletin surveys Samos in the Aegean, noting its layered rule by Greeks Romans Byzantines Arabs Venetians Genoese and Turks. It details remains at Tieani Hera temple aqueduct and ancient walls, today famed for wine cigars and tourism with winds, coves, and yachting.
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Porte
Belgian Mission to Discuss Debt Funding
Brussels July 4 The mission to discuss funding of Belgiums debt to the United States will leave here for Washington July 29.
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Belgium
United States
Teave
Washington
Not a Scratch Made on Police Court Blotter
Not a scratch was made on the police blotter Saturday with no arrests, disorder, or drink incidents reported. Bluefield enjoyed a calm Fourth as staff carried on quietly and Independence mood seemed absent.
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Bluefield
Pickwick Club collapse leaves many missing after Chinatown party
Rescuers hunted for bodies in the Pickwick Club wreckage in Boston after a Chinatown resort roof collapsed during a holiday dance. Eighteen rescued, hundreds feared buried as nightlong searchers faced brick and debris. officials cautioned final tallies would come tomorrow.
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Nearly Fifteen Hundred Guests at Mrs Houghton Fourth of July
London July 4 Nearly fifteen hundred guests attended the Fourth of July reception given by American ambassador Alanson B Houghton at Crewe House. The event included a dinner hosted by the American Society with guests such as Mrs Houghton Nicholas Longworth Viscount and Viscountess Lee of Fareham Mr and Mrs Irving T Bush Chandler P Anderson and other Americans. Houghton praised closer American British ties and recalled celebrations from a half century ago.
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Death Toll From Firecrackers Falls in Midwest
The death toll from American firecrackers declines as midwestern cities cut fatalities. Chicago reports four deaths and about twenty minor injuries, St. Louis two deaths with around 100 injuries, and Chicago’s fire department logs only one alarm from firecrackers.
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Fourth Celebrations Cause Twelve Deaths
New York July 4 report details twelve deaths and thirty seven injuries from Fourth of July events. among the dead are a fourteen year old struck by a stray bullet, a thirteen year old with a safety related wound, and a four year old girl from firework wounds. drownings, a canoe accident and an elevator shaft incident add to the toll along with automobile fatalities.
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New York
American Colony at Geneva Celebrates Independence Day
Geneva July 4 Hugh S. Gibson the American minister to Switzerland led the independence day observance. The American colony plus tourists heard him compare the American government to an adventure in fair play and condemn class hatred violence prejudice and envy as paths to chaos.
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Hugh S. Gibson
Switzerland
Little Colt Wins Independence Handicap at Hawthorne
Little Colt owned by G. Herbert Shimp of Chicago won the $7,500 Independence Handicap at Hawthorne in 1 58 for a mile and three sixteenths. General Thatcher finished second and Kentucky third.
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G. Herbert Shimp
Hawthorne
General Thatcher
Kentucky
Mrs Coolidge Laughs Off Near Accident in Swampscott
Mrs Oscar Coolidge today laughed off a close call yesterday when a motorcycle nearly struck her during a walk in Swampscott Massachusetts. State Police Sergeant Charles B Cooley, driver of the machine, reported the incident on a turn in the road and Mrs Coolidge accepted responsibility saying she was on the wrong side of the road.
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Tammany Celebrates Independence Day With Al Smith Boom
New York July 4 Tammany Hall staged its 136th Fourth of July celebration as an Al Smith for President boom. Governor Smith presided while speakers including Governor Ritchell of Maryland pledged Massachusetts votes for Smith at the 1922 Democratic convention.
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al Smith
Ritchell
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United States
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Ritchie
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Cotton Exchange at Shanghai Reopens After Closure
Shanghai reports the Chinese cotton exchange, previously announced to close indefinitely due to present disaster conditions, reopened this morning on July 4 as authorities restore operations and market activity resumes.
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Cotton Exchange
Shanghai
Ralph De Palma Wins 100‑Mile Race at Rockingham
Ralph De Palma, veteran racer, won the 100 mile automobile race at Rockingham Motor Speedway Salem New Hampshire from eleven rivals. His time on the dirt track was 1 hour 19 minutes 73 and 5 seconds.
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Attorney General Lee and Mrs. Lee Visit Bluefield
Attorney General Howard B. Lee and Mrs. Lee of Charleston are spending a few days in Bluefield. Five fined for cat torture in Hammond Indiana after men tied paper to a cat tail and lit it. Pony Express used eighty riders and four hundred horses in historic route.
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Mrs. Lee
Charleston
Bluefield
Hammond, Ind
Pony Express
Stolen Relics Hit Vatican Treasure Room In Rome
Thieves cracked into St Peters second treasure room and carried off irreplaceable items valued at one to three million lire. Four painters and two workers linked to St Peters, plus Giovanni Bellini who slept nearby, reported prowlers and a night-time auto, with loot including rings, crosses, a silver host vessel, and a silver ciborium later found to be silver, not gold.
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Silence Healing Tuberculosis Claims From French Hospital
Paris reports that several tuberculosis laryngis cases were cured by a "treatment of silence" at a Southern French hospital. Patients must not speak for months and may only whisper for a year, with women showing better outcomes due to endurance. A German stamp collector bought a rare stamp for $10,000 here and sold it for $20,000 three months later.
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