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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1923
Page
3
A dense page of Bluefield market notices and brief items highlights grocery specials from Blue Field Market Co and The Market. Also listed are used autos for sale, a removal notice for Mercer Tinning, church lectures, a Shriners notice, local deaths and accidents, and Sunday services at College Avenue Baptist.
A Ford automobile with a rebuilt body plowed through a stone wall in Raleigh Terrace near the Norfolk and Western office, causing damage to the wall and lawn. The car’s owner is unknown. occupants fled after briefly speeding away and returning before disappearing.
Creditors of Jones & Baker, a leading curb market brokerage, moved to protect interests by forming a committee with John A. Neyenshouse as chairman after involuntary receivership. Liabilities are unofficially estimated at 5 to 10 million dollars. book review will take at least two weeks. Rumors of DA probes and private fortune security circulated without confirmation. firm insists it is solvent and will pay one hundred cents on the dollar.
Spokane reports widespread flooding in Alberta towns after 16 hours of rain. Old Man River breached banks flooding Coleman Blairmore and Frank with water six feet deep in Blairmore streets. Rail and power disrupted as mines endangered and bridges washed away.
Washington meeting of Savings Directors from 12 Federal Reserve districts affirms Treasury Savings Certificates as a permanent financing tool. Howard T. Cree reports district investment near 10 million dollars last year, exceeding quota by 750000. Lew Wallace Jr urges increased sales to aid small investors while warning against wild cat stock salesmen. Certificates yield about 4 percent, mature five years, redeemable earlier with growth in value each month. Purchases available via local post office or Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond Virginia.
Mrs. D. D. Dodson of Norton Virginia was arrested by Chief Dillon and held for Mercer county grand jury after goods valued over 130 dollars were reportedly stolen from three city stores. A dress valued at 46.50 from Liberty store triggered the arrest as clerks described visitors and caught the thief with a large shopping bag. Two coats from Cox department store and items from a five and ten cent store were also reported missing.
Near Madison Georgia on June 14 federal officers attempted to seize a car carrying contraband liquor. Officer Henry Gaisley leaped onto the running board. the occupants fired, killing them. The two men, unidentified, were about forty and twenty one. Ninety six gallons of moonshine whiskey were found in the automobile.
The governor explains repeal does not legalize any prior illegal acts in New York. It aims to remove double jeopardy for eighteenth amendment violations, align with Judge Knox’s ruling that parts of the Volstead act are unconstitutional, and shifts prosecutions to federal courts to underscore violations as federal law rather than local regulation.
Paris June 1 The government won a confidence vote in the chamber of deputies by 343 to 181 after interpellations on royalist street violence. Resolutions by Emmanuel Brousse and Edouard Herriot urged repressing violence and backing government action, with Brousse’s resolution favored.
A severe electric storm struck Bluefield and surrounding areas Friday, crippling city and rail alarms, knocking out Norfolk and Western railway and transformer fires on Bland street, flooding streets and overflows at Hale's culvert as rain and hail fell for about forty five minutes.
U S Commissioner H M Tanner heard multiple cases of alleged violations of the national prohibition act. A H Goff and C E Smith of Grundy bond $1000 each for June term. W H Newman held for June 6 after Princeton entry. J F Anderson W A Phipps and Gilbert Hearn from Christian's Fork of Creek held on $1000 bonds. Telegraph Want Ads bring results.
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