Young East Graham Boy Buried, Brother-In-Law Injured In Ditch Collapse
Millard Woody, sixteen, and his brother‑in‑law Joe Amos were buried and injured when a ditch excavation for a Hale Addition store foundation caved in on Bluefield avenue. Creed and Charley Woody escaped, while rescue took about thirty minutes for Millard. Creed, Charley, and J. B. Woody are linked to the project. the funeral plans were not yet set.
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Millard Woody
East Graham
Joe Amos
Hale Land
Creed
Charley Woody
Millard
Amos
Young Woody
O. K. Phiegar
Graham
Phiegar
Woody
Hawkins Undertaking Company
W. M. Painter & Son
Hale Addition
Bluefield Avenue
Charley
Creed Woody
J. B. Woody
Ships Flying Danzig Flag at Newport News
Oil tankers Baltic and Zoppit of Standard Oil enter Newport News for repairs while flying the Free City of Danzig flag. Their German crews are not allowed ashore. Each ship is about seventeen thousand tons. They are the first to enter the port under the Danzig flag.
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Danzig
Newport News
Baltic
Zoppit
Free City of Danzig
Standard Oil1 Company
Coal Schooner General Pershing Runs Aground
The American five master schooner General Pershing, carrying coal from Norfolk to Bremont, went ashore at Endy Mon Rock July 11 near Turks Islands Bahamas. The crew was rescued and some cargo and stores salvaged as the vessel breaks up.
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Turks Islands
Bahamas
General Pershing
Norfolk
Bremont
Endymon Rock
Engineer Dead Fireman Injured In Railroad Collision
William E. George an engineer on a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train was killed and fireman Frank A. Carr injured when their train crashed into a second train at Houston Falls near Pittsburg Pennsylvania July 13. No passengers were reported injured.
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Pittsburg
William E. George
Monongahela
Pennsylvania Railroad
Frank A. Carr
Houston Falls
Here
Prince of Wales invited to visit Japan after India tour
The Prince of Wales received an official invitation from the Japanese government to visit Japan at the end of his India tour, set to begin around late October. He has been resting this week after contracting a cold per his doctors orders.
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Japan
London
Prince of Wales
India
Coal Operator Drowns in Mountain Lake
Lewis Houck aged twenty eight a coal operator from Tunnelston West Virginia drowned while bathing in Mountain Lake Cumberland on July 13. He was believed seized with cramps and his body was recovered.
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Cumberland
Lewis Houck
Tunnelston
W. Va
Mountain Lake
Union men seek release under writ of habeas corpus
David Robb a financial agent for the United Mine Workers and eight other union men arrested in Mingo county on unlawful assemblage charges under Governor Morgan’s martial law arrived in Charleston under guard. They were jailed in Kanawha county and are to appear before the Supreme Court tomorrow to obtain release from McDowell county jail via a writ of habeas corpus.
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Charleston
W. Va
David Robb
United Mine Workers of America
Mingo County
E. F. Morgan
Kanawha
Supreme Court
McDowell County
Langin Field Aviation Disaster Verdict Cleared Pilots
Coroner's jury at Moundsville West Virginia finds the Langin Field crash unavoidable. It absolves Pilot Lieutenant C R Maciver and crew of responsibility after five deaths including Mrs George W Long and others. Witness accounts varied on causes and actions during the catastrophe.
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Moundsville
Marshall County
West Virginia
Langin_Aviation Field
W. Va
C. R. Maciver
D. H. Dunton
M. FE. Conwell
Lee
McCombs
MacIver
Dunton
Conwell
H. L. Lambert
Lambert Aircraft Company
K. J. Dooley
Lambert
Federal Board of Inquiry
James G. Long
Langin Field
Martin
Obregon Decree Invites Claims Delegates For Mexican Reconstruction
Mexico City July 3 The decree calls for nations whose nationals suffered from Mexican revolutions to appoint delegates to a permanent commission. It is seen as a major move in Obregon’s reconstruction program and a sign of the government’s aim to set Mexico’s house in order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Obregon
Mexico
Three Former Soldiers Buried in One Grave
New York reports a health service contract violation after an undertaker buried three former soldiers in a single grave at a Long Island cemetery, with other cases showing unclaimed veterans also interred together. Colonel C. K. Haskell noted the undertaker was an ex convict.
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New York
United States Public Health Service
Long Island
The
Health Service
C. K. Haskell
Chicago Selected as Elks Grand Lodge Headquarters
Chicago was chosen as the permanent headquarters of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks by the grand lodge of the order on July 13 in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Chicago
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Grand Lodge
Order
Weather Bureau Air Service Weather Report
The army navy aeronautical board urged establishing a weather reporting bureau for the U S air service. It also reviewed a crash near Morgantown Maryland last May that killed seven passengers and recommended inter service exchange of weather data and forecasts among flying fields.
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Washington
Joint
Army-Navy Aeronautical Board
Charles T. Mencher
Army Air Service
Weeks
Air Service
United States
Inspector General's Department
Army
Morgantown
Navy
Meat Service
Coast Guard Service
House Tariff Debate Delays Action in Congress
Washington July 15 The tariff bill debate dominated the House session as Watson Georgia and Myers Montana both Democrats clashed on tariff provisions. Green Iowa defended the bill while Carew New York criticized valuation policy and congressional timing. Hawley Oregon highlighted farm benefits and farmer dispersion. Turn to Page Six.
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Watson
Georgia
Myers
Montana
Washington
Tomgett
Wisons
Sesson
Representative Green
Iowa
Carew
New York
Hawley
Oregon
Mrs Eva Kaber Faints as Brother Testifies in Murder Trial
Cleveland July 13 The trial of Mrs Eva Catherine Kaber for murdering her husband Daniel F Kaber paused after she fainted during a cross examination of her brother Charles Brickel. A recess was ordered and court adjourned until tomorrow morning as doctors evaluate her condition and witnesses remaining.
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Cleveland
Eva Catherine Kaber
Daniel F. Kaber
Kaber
Charles Brickel
Crude oil and cotton used in tar and feather attack
In Enid Oklahoma on July 13 masked men removed Walter Billings a wealthy theatre owner and real estate dealer from his car whipped him and applied crude oil and cotton before leaving him in the country. Police linked the assault to alleged domestic trouble in the Billings family.
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Enid
Okla
Walter Billings
Billings
Billlings
Captain Wise Dies by Own Action in City
Captain William H. Wise seventy six Civil War veteran and financier here died this morning by shooting himself in the brain. He had been ill six months and despondency over his health is believed to have caused the act. He was born in Mansfield Ohio.
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W. H. Wise
City
William H. Wise
Mansfield
Ohio
Redpath Chautauqua Opens With Star Power and Music
The Redpath Chautauqua opened to about five hundred fans in Raleigh street tabernacle with six young ladies in the program and Whitney hitting a home run for the team. J W Huffman introduced as superintendent by A F Fox of the American Legion committee and made a favorable impression in the afternoon session.
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Redpath Chautauqua
Tabernacle
Raleigh Street
Redpath
Beatrice Baughman
Pauline Teeters
Clara Groves
Louise Bedian
Miriam Hoover
Margaret Dudley
Edwin M. Whitney
J. W. Huffman
Chautauqua
A. F. Fox
American Legion Committee
Huffman
American Legion Seeks Buyers For Season Tickets
Bluefield residents are urged to purchase season tickets to cover a $750 shortage in the guarantees fund. The Bluefield Post 9 American Legion has extended the sale deadline by one day after taking over the summer chautauqua to relieve city merchants of the yearly burden and push sales to meet the $1,750 goal.
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Fox
American Legion of
Bluefield
American Legion
Chattauqua
Legionnaires
Miner Commits Suicide in Train Path Collision Tale
Boston officials report a miner in Lialian area killed himself by placing his neck in the path of a draft of passenger coaches. Prohibition officers raid the Tiburton, seizing about 25,000 gallons of alcohol valued at 275000 and 250 casks of 19 proof liquor aboard. Officials estimate up to 5600 gallons may have been landed illegally.
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Lialian
Boston
Tiburton
Prohibition
New York
Bruno Roco
Widemouth
Norfolk and Western
William Johnson
Weldon Spencer
Courtney Scruggs
Alfred McKinney
American Railway Express Company
No. 2
J. A. Chambers
Akers
Railroad and Express
Commercial
Beaver Falls
Racine, Pa
Matoaka
Homewood Junction
G. O'Neil
Northfork
Rock District
Acceptance from Great Britain and Italy definite
Washington reports definite acceptances from Great Britain and Italy to President Harding's call for an international disarmament conference. China expected to respond soon. France previously expressed willingness to participate. Japan's reply pending formalities. London notes a Rome encyclical may follow the invitation.
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Washington
Harding
State Department
Great Britain
Italy
China
France
Japan
Tokio
London
Rome
London “Times
Larding
Dr William J Davidson Lies in State in Parkersburg
The local physician William Johnson Davidson lay in state in the main hall of the Masonic Temple Parkersburg with a guard from the Shrine in attendance. His death occurred early Wednesday and his body will be shipped to Flemington for funeral and interment Friday morning.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Masonic Temple
William Johnson Davidson
Temple
Flemington
Stepfather Charged With Murder Over Kerr Boy Death
Fred I. Keer, stepfather of five year old Lawrence Kerr, arrested on murder charges after the body was found in an abandoned cistern near their Rochester Pennsylvania home. The boy vanished last June and his body was located two weeks later by the stepfather and another relative.
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Rochester
Fred I. Keer
Lawrence Kerr
Prohibition Agent Gillette Charged in Latonia Killing
Huntington West Virginia July 18 James Gillette federal prohibition agent arrested on a war rant charging him with the killing of Lonnie Atwood a negro during a liquor raid ten days earlier Gillette waived preliminary exam before Common Pleas Judge Matthews and was released on a 5000 bond
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Huntington
W. Va
James Gillette
Prohibition
Lonnie Atwood
Gillette
Common Pleas
Matthews
Appointment of assistant state fire marshals named
Assistant state fire marshals James H. Riddle Jr of Wheeling and C H Wheatley of Huntington were announced by Mont Topping and have assumed duties in Charleston West Virginia.
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Charleston
W. Va
James H. Riddle, Jr
Wheeling
C. H. Wheatley
Huntington
Mont Topping
Mars
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Jamos
Welch
Qunday
Lieut
Medlvor
Inquest
Chicago Elk Headquarters
Weather Reporting Bureau
Army-Navy Board
Whitney
Legion
Jimmy
Sass
E. W. Seri
Fisher Operatic Company
Miss Rausch
Edward Amherst Ott
American Legion Chautaqua Committee
Eulerpean
Louise Bedlan
Miriam Hoover and
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