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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1923
Page
15
The article argues a home can only be as good as its plan and urges careful forethought to ensure durability, livability, and value. It promotes the Home Industrial Exposition from June 18 to 23, highlighting modern building methods, materials, appliances, and labor saving features demonstrated by local dealers and manufacturers.
President Harding acted to preserve the job of George L. Williams a 57 year old mail room laborer from Jefferson City Missouri known for heroism during the 1921 mail robbery Williams had been left jobless by a contract change and would have been replaced today by a younger worker but for the presidents intervention
George E Fehtoffer of Indianapolis arrested in Cleveland on charges of sending a scurrilous letter to Miss Nettie Belle Darby a movie actress from Harpersville Alabama He will be taken to Indianapolis to stand trial Monday by federal authorities
The capital prepares for a Shrine welcome with banquets receptions concerts pilgrimages and mock battles on land sea and air. A Tuesday parade a Wednesday uniformed night procession a historical pageant and Shrine floats battle bands and a "dance of the states" along Pennsylvania Avenue ending with a mile long chorus of "America."
Clara Phillips, convicted of the hammer killing of Mrs. Alberta Meadows near Los Angeles in 1922, was brought to San Quentin state prison from an earlier escape and capture in Honduras. She entered the prison without tears, showing nervous strain, and rested after registration before prison duties.
London reports on Lady Astor’s ongoing political and social influence as she rejects alcohol at official events and plans a portrait. The piece also covers Max Beerbohm’s controversial London exhibit drawing royal scrutiny and the reaction of critics. It notes nearly 500 American students studying in English universities.
Three armed men snatched a satchel with 1 057 dollars from Walter Lotz paymaster of the Crescent Company in Jersey City near his car. The money from New York was being taken to offices when the bandits escaped in an awaiting automobile in front of many onlookers.
Walter L. Fisher of Chicago, former Taft interior secretary, is hired by Secretary Wallace as special attorney to lead the Agriculture Department’s challenge to Armour Morris merger. Hearings resume June 18 in Chicago as the government presses a monopoly and price control case.
Officers seized a fifty gallon still near Goodwill in Mercer and McDowell counties on Friday. In McDowell on Friday and Delta Hollow on Saturday, other fifty and sixty five gallon stills were nabbed by Prohibition Agents Day Taylor Watkins and deputies Lay Gibson. No arrests were made, but informants noted moonshiners move away from streams and carry water to operate stills.
Exter Ontario June 2 Mrs Silas Stanlake and four young children and her brother were cremated when a fire destroyed the Stanlake home at Sodom three miles from Exeter. Silas Stanlake saved his adopted daughter Beatrice aged twenty and son Harry twelve by lowering them to the ground from a window. He then tried to reach his wife and children but flames prevented him. Alfred Stanlake the wife’s brother died in an adjoining room. The father escaped by leaping from a window severely burned. Origin of the blaze is unknown.
More than 7 000 members from America and Europe will attend the annual convention of the Association of Advertising Clubs of the World in Atlantic City New Jersey tomorrow. Topics include protecting advertisers from fraud educating the public and gaining arsenal contacts. A reply from President Harding to the invitation has not yet been received.
Readers are urged to stock holders for hot dishes to avoid using dishtowels that could burn over flames and cause accidents.
Newport England reports a crowd of women cheering William Morgan after he is acquitted of killing his mother. The verdict ends a high profile murder trial that drew local attention and intense public interest.
National Geographic bulletin explains the Pacific pair are barren rock isles, uninhabited since discovery in 1574 by Juan Fernandez, and later Spanish then Chilean territory. San Ambrosio rises 1500 feet with waterless cliffs and deep offshore waters. San Felix is lower, both offering no habitable life. Names arose from Saint Felix and Saint Nabor, misrendered to Ambrose through map errors.
Johnson City Tennessee June 2 The state board of education voted six to two to fully exonerate John G Gilbreath president of East Tennessee State Normal School after investigating allegations of immorality against him.
Officials estimated forest fires in the Laurentian district north of Montreal will cause millions of dollars in damage. The area remains in darkness from heavy smoke and villages report power outages while residents keep lights burning.
A page of multiple property ads lists eight room brick residences on Jefferson Street and Wayne Street, six to nine room homes on Preston Washington East Princeton and Carolina avenues, and other listings on College Giles Giles Street Hinton Wythe and Maryland avenues. Prices range from 2 750 to 14 500 with cash and monthly term options. Otto E Roediger at No 2 Federal Street delivers details and arrangements.
Frederick G. DeWitt once Queens County district attorney and his mother in law Mrs. Milton Loudon were found with throats cut in Denver. Police believe DeWitt murdered his mother in law and then himself, amid health and financial reverses.
A basement fire at a loft building occupied by the Columbia Gas and Electric Company on Grand and Mott streets in New York drove families from their homes and sent heavy smoke into police headquarters. Three alarms were sounded as flames fed by excelsior and rubber insulation filled the lower east side.
The College Avenue Baptist Church opens with 11 o'clock morning services and a 9:20 a m Sunday school. Clarence K Ridley named superintendent, the woman’s missionary society hosts a kitchen and dining room shower, Rev W E Abrams arrives from Staunton Va to lead morning and evening services.
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