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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
6
An old advertisement urges readers that pimples reveal sluggish blood and skin disorders. It promotes S. S. S. as a vegetable blood purifier with no minerals, claiming it cleanses accumulations and clears skin irritations with medical guidance available from Atlanta.
Mrs. Lethecoe awoke to two attackers at the Commercial Hotel in Glen White, suffering deep cuts from a razor. Two unknown men were arrested for trespassing but later released after fines. the assault remains under investigation. Mrs. Lethecoe and other witnesses traveled to Martinton for a trial related to the Glen White case. Tanganyika Territory named by British colonial office.
The Maefield Colored Institute marked its twenty-fourth annual session with a large audience as sixty-seven students graduated. Of them fifty were secondary students and seventeen earned normal certificates for teaching. Dr. A K Thompson gave the address with George S Laidley representing the state board of education. W W Sanders presented diplomas. J Walter Parnes spoke on education. remarks followed by Prof. J W Robinson and R P Simms concluding the program.
A Cincinnati Times-Star report recalls a club poker night where Jim Corbett and seven friends in a low‑paying theatre trade staged a dramatic game. They agreed to cap bets and play for amusement but all seven players ended with pat spades after Corbett manipulated the deck.
Sid Hatfield, Matewan police chief, and Mrs. Jessie Testerman, widow of Matewan’s mayor, were arrested in Huntington on improper conduct charges and wed yesterday after a night in the Huntington jail. A Baldwin Felts chief reported Hatfield recovered a gun and holster once owned by his brother Albert Felts, tied to the Matewan incident.
Two white men were robbed of over 150 dollars by two African American men in an automobile on East Princeton Avenue after boarding at the carnival grounds. The Cadillac touring car sped away toward Princeton as officers and Mayor Stahlman pursued, but no report on the robbers had been received by early morning.
Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston to a soap maker father and Quaker-rooted mother. He left school young, trained as a printer, started his own shop in Philadelphia at seventeen, and rose to high influence as a printer, publisher, and Pennsylvania assembly clerk before becoming a renowned ambassador in France.
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