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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1925
Page
11
Classified notices list multiple rental options including furnished and unfurnished rooms, apartments, and houses. Entries show locations, rent terms, and contact details with names or phone numbers for inquiries. Frequent phrases advertise heating, water, and amenities in shared dwellings.
Readable fragments show a female helpful wanted ad seeking general work including dishwashing at 617 Raleigh Street. Another note mentions dishware handling at Bluefield Avenue and a job offer at Us Store near Princeton Avenue with a $18 wage.
Classified style items list multiple help wanted notices and requests. Listings include a coffee salesman position in Laurinburg, a mercantile company seeking customers and posters, a secondhand item buyer for a restaurant, old auto tires and tubes wanted, sewing and alterations help, and an experienced bookkeeper in Princeton West Virginia with references.
Puzzle clues and scattered definitions appear beside a string of late 19th or early 20th century Bluefield area property transfers. Listings include Essie Thompson parcels in Ma toaka, J R Ha in Bluefield, BE Oliver in Bluefield, G G Lester in Bluefield, T P Dillon near Princeton, and O J Faulkner near Glenwood with various lot numbers and prices.
Default has been made on a deed of trust. The trustee will offer for sale on the y day of 1926 at 10 o'clock in the forenoon at the front door of the firm in Bluefield West Virginia the land described as lot with improvements in the city near Mercer County. The parcel lies along a street and alley with detailed dimensions and bounds. Conveyed previously from John L Rabat and Annis Crockett to Napoleon Hensley and then to the trustee by trust deed dated June 4 and recorded in Mercer County. Richardson Jr., Trustee.
The District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia issues a bankruptcy notice for M. McKinney. Creditors are summoned to a first meeting on July 22 at 10:00 AM in Bluefield Mercer County to prove claims appoint a trustee and examine the bankrupt.
FOR SALE 1923 model Dodge Sedan call 1817 or 1003-3. ONE Star coupe newly painted condition bargain see at ME Agency Bland St. Touring car with good tires shocks and extras, phone 1927. L H Layne offers various autos in this brief classified listing.
Trustee sale on August 4 1925 at 2 oclock p m at the front door of the Bradmann building Bluefield West Virginia for Lots 14 15 and 16 in section 605 Alder street as described in Trust Deed Book 66 118 and related maps. Cash only. McKenzie trustee announces the sale.
Fragmentary OCR notes a continuation about lumber trade figures and a remark on popularity and fashion, mentioning a woman following a system for herself. No clear names, dates, or organizations are readable.
A forfeiture notice lists a 1925 Virginia plated two door roadster seized by the Mercer County Sheriff. The asset, described as a certain automobile, was declared forfeited and will be sold at public auction for cash at 2:30 PM in the Mercer County court house.
Sealed proposals will be received by the Blate Read Commission of West Virginia in Charleston until 10 oclock a. m. on the 4th for the construction of a state road project. Proposals opened immediately thereafter at the county courthouse in Charleston. Details include surface work and tar seal, with plans and forms obtainable from the commission office in Charleston. Bonds and checks required. The commission reserves the right to reject any bids.
Real estate transfers filed yesterday include C. Hearn and wife to Sarah E. Fleming for three lots in Hearn Addition Princeton priced at 1400 dollars. William A. McCue to W. F. Sanders for lot 1 in Bluefield section 1016 at 600 dollars. H. S. Whitman et al to C. H. Reynolds for lot South Bluefield at 1 dollar. J. A. Donahue and wife to J. J. McAnaney for lot 6 Bluefield section 823 at 5 dollars. Clarinda Hager et al to Ballard J. Hagar for one fifth of 88 acres.
Virginia Bureau of Markets notes live poultry market in Richmond with moderate supplies and slow demand, prices around 38-40 cents for colored chickens 11-3 pounds, roosters 15-16 cents, butter steady around 28-29 cents in Richmond, creamery prints 48-50 cents, eggs receipts moderate and market steady around 29-80 cents. Cattle receipts listed for Jersey City and Lancaster with limited trading, top cattle prices around 14.50 dollars and Virginia calves around 11.50, beef and grassers showing mixed strength to weakness.
A man identified as P De Urbina is pursued on charges of grand larceny and checks fraud related to Mrs. Gracie. Described as a social climber, he allegedly forged her name, stole jewels, and fled incognito to South America, with rumors of his presence on a steamer en route New York to Buenos Aires. Authorities plan to invite him back to the United States when he docks.
Lincoln and Baltimore markets report fluctuating cattle and calf values with steer and cow prices around 13 dollars per hundredweight. Sheep and lamb receipts total 7 940 with lambs up to 50 cents higher. Kentucky lambs $16.25 to $16.60, plainer lots $14 to $15.26. Baltimore market shows lower top at $15.75 for 190 to 160 lb weights, hogs steady to $12.90 for 90-130 lb slaughter, sows $8.00 to $11.90, and tuberculosis deaths in New York City down 44 percent in recent years.
The article argues forests are essential to national economic strength and industrial centers rely on forest products. It notes the need to revive idle land work and mentions over 500,000 boys and girls enrolled in farming under the Department of Agriculture.
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