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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1925
Page
2
A buyer seeks an eight room house, prefers south Bluefield, willing to pay down. State location and price. Address “Buyer,” care Coal and Supply Co. 1404 for standard grades. Nestle Lands Permanent W. Price $15.00. Room at Bidg. Phone 1915.
The project is near completion with completion expected before the fall football season, ensuring the stadium will be usable as scheduled.
The Bluefield Gun Club holds its weekly practice this afternoon at 1 30. Traps open promptly to allow members to shoot before the baseball game. President Weller urges broad member turnout to share trap duties.
An automobile stolen from Mrs. F L Harney of Freeman was found yesterday at Keystone. The car had been moved in the morning and authorities notified. Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency handled the case with circulars issued. An ad in the Daily Telegraph helped locate the owner and a reward was paid.
Weekly reports from the Pocahontas Operators Association show production rising in the Pocahontas coalfield. For the week ending July 11 the district yielded 243,977 tons, about 20,000 more than the prior week, while coke output ran around 56,000 net tons.
Norfolk July 24. Anti aircraft gunnery experiments testing air and surface craft value in warfare were completed off the Virginia Capes between the battleship Texas and the dirigible Shenandoah. Official results were withheld but the Texas scored more hits as a sleeve target dropped by the Shenandoah was stored for examination. The airship circled over Norfolk and Portsmouth before heading toward Lakehurst.
Kane Pennsylvania July 24 An oil well was brought in on the Fred H Pittock lease seven miles from here drillers expect about one hundred barrels daily The drill reached 1900 feet tapping the oil sand a flow rose above the derrick forcing work to stop until a safer boiler position could be found due to fire risk There are several small producing wells on the lease.
In North London a five story concrete stable houses Polonius and Candidate, two champion chestnut horses. They ascend a wide peat carpeted staircase from street to bed and depart each morning to the Richmond show. Each floor holds two dormitories with stalls, wide gangways, and ample light for grooming and feeding.
In the new Potsdam city directory BEitel Friedrich, second son of the former Kaiser, is listed only as a farmer with no hereditary titles shown.
A garbled list details fire alarm signals and station lines across multiple streets including Bluefield Ave Chestnut St Cherry St Princeton and Northside. It cites numerous intersections such as Raleigh Stewart Wyomng Monroe St Penn Mar Ave Frederick St East River College Ave Walton Ave and Greenbrier St with scattered phone numbers and station references.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled rates for lake coal remain reasonable, a decision hailed as a West Virginia victory by Boone County Coal Corporation and Kanawha Valley operators. Key figures from Kanawha Coal Operators Association praised the outcome, while dissents favored lower rates for coal districts near Lake Erie. The ruling preserves existing differential structures affecting southern West Virginia coal bound for lakes and western markets.
Hearings before Examiner Kephart in Washington covered rail lines from Minnesota to West Virginia and Kentucky. The case involved major carriers on lines such as the Baltimore Ohio and Lake Erie, Nickel and Lake Erie, and Wheeling and Lake Erie with assets valued at about 750 million dollars and annual coal revenues near 30 million. The commission rejected reopening the record for new coal industry evidence, and the parties debated using a mileage based freight rate theory to influence lake cargo coal markets.
Washington July 24 A senate committee recount shows Iowa Senator Brookhart gaining 300 votes on Democratic challenger Daniel Steck after initial Steck lead vanishes. Recount figures from FettogusereDip Buchanan County show Brookhart 91 Steck 12 then Brookhart 275 Steck 298 in the township tally. Supporters expect further gains in Lee and Linn Counties.
In Los Angeles on July 24 nine men and three women were impaneled after three days of voir dire to hear evidence in the alleged plot by three men to kidnap screen star Mary Pickford and hold her for 200000 dollars. Court adjourned until Monday for testimony to begin.
Los Angeles July 24 an eight and a half pound baby girl was born to Mrs Carter DeHaven here today The actress has two other children Carter Jr and Marjorie the newcomer will be Gloria Mildred
J J Bennet president Nickel Plate testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission that merging five railroads into the Nickel Plate system could cut annual operating costs by 46 million dollars. Stakeholders questioned the data as cross examination continued.
The Rev. Carl Zeigler of Trenton pleaded guilty in Long Branch to embezzlement of Ku Klux Klan of New Jersey funds. Miss Margaret Roberts, also of Trenton, was not held. Zeigler was jailed in default of $10,000 bail. Roberts and Chamberlain had been tied to El Paso, Texas.
New York July 34 Jack Delaney heavyweight from Connecticut scored a technical knockout over Jack Burke of Pennsylvania in the ninth of a ten round bout Delaney who was slated to face Paul Berlenbach for the light heavyweight title next month had already been stopped Burke three times before the referee intervened Burke weighed 164 and Burke 172 pounds with Burke saved by the bell in several rounds
In Jacksonville on July 24 a report states actions by the late Richard Croker former Tammany Hall leader conveying his Palm Beach estates valued at several million during his lifetime to J B Me vacated or annulled by court actions.
Judge Rhydon M. Call declared Donald and the Palm Beach Estates corporation null and void. The decision awards title to the Palm Beach homestead to the widow and Croker’s heirs by his first wife, overriding Croker–McDonald contracts and conveyances.
London July 24 Daniel Lambert born Leicester 1770 died Stamford 1809 proven fattest man ever lived at 739 pounds. Waist measured nine feet four inches around and calf circumference 37 inches. A group of eleven men once stood within a buttoned waistcoat that belonged to Lambert.
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