Mountaineer Captains End Varsity Careers at West Virginia
West Virginia University bids farewell to four captains ending 1926 1927 seasons Ross McHenry Wease Ashworth Okey Morrison and Kit Lewis retire from football basketball track and baseball respectively. McHenry earned all eastern guard honors and will coach freshmen in 1927 Ashworth known for dependable forward play heads to a new era with Truehart Taylor as successor Morrison and Lewis depart after strong showings guiding wrestling and baseball leaders.
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Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia University
Ross McHenry
Wease Ashworth
Okey Morrison
Kit Lewis
Pacific Coast
McHenry
Weare Ashworth
Buck Bannon High
West Virgin
Truehart Taylor
Quint
Emil Suder
Joe Millender
Feld
Mountaineer
Lost
Millender
Harrick
Charleston
Lewis
Golf Opens With American Wins in Ryder Cup
In Worcester Massachusetts on June 3 the United States took an early lead in the Ryder Cup after two-ball foursomes. Farrel and Turnesa defeated Duncan and Compston 6 and 4, Boomer and Whitcombe beat Diege and Mehlhorn 7 and 5, Hagen and Golden beat Ray and Robeson 4 and 5, and Watrous with Sarazen won over Havers and Jolly 3 and 2. Eight singles matches set for tomorrow to decide the cup.
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Brian Bell
Associated Press
Worcester
Mass
Worcester Country Club
Johnny Farrel
Joe Turnesa
George Duncan
Archie Compston
Aubrey Boomer
Charles Whitcombe
Leo Diege
Bill Mehlhorn
Scores From The Association As Toledo Edges Indianapolis
American Association action saw Toledo defeat Indianapolis 4 to 3 while Louisville beat Columbus 5 to 4 and Milwaukee overcame St. Paul 8 to 3. Wet grounds affected Minneapolis Kansas City play.
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Toledo
Indianapolis
Louisville
Columbus
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Minneapolis-Kansas City
Local Bluefield notices mix sales, dances and classes
Community advertisements list a June 4 round dance at Rock View hall with music by Serenaders and a 2.00 admission, Bake Sale for Bland Street Wesleyan, piano vocal and art classes starting June 7, a corps of groceries and promotions, a coal company ad, a car for sale, and notices of a pedestrian struck and police action.
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Rock View Hall
Russian taste in fiction analyzed in Prague report
Prague dispatch notes a Moscow union study showing pre war works favored by workers over post war novels. Readers prefer classic Tolstoy Dostoevsky Turgenev and Gontcharov, while moderns like Essenine Majakowski Bok are scarcely read. love scenes are deemed better in earlier literature.
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Prague
L’europe Centrale
Moscow
Trud
Tolatol
Dostolevsky
Turgeneff
Gontcharov
Essenine
Majakowski
Bok
Russia
Oime
Baptist Modernists Win Convention Tilt
In Chicago on June 3 the Northern Baptist Convention faced a brief split between fundamentalists and modernists during officer elections. W C Coleman of Dichita Kansas was elected president despite opposition from the modernists who backed Dan F Rittenhouse of Columbus Ohio. The struggle continued in the American Baptist Foreign Missions Society directorate with the fundamentalists failing to gain their slate.
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Chicago
Northern Baptist Convention
W. C. Coleman
Dichita
Kas
Dan F. Rittenhouse
Columbus
Ohio
Coleman
American Baptist Foreign Missions Society
Foreign Fields
President Coolidge to Review U S Fleet at Hampton Roads
President Coolidge sails from Washington aboard the Mayflower to Hampton Roads for the first fleet review. Ninety eight vessels will form the fleet near Cape Henry with Mrs. Coolidge and Navy officials aboard. The review near Old Point Comfort is set to begin about 12 39 p m and last around ninety minutes.
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Washington
Coolidge
Hampton Road
United States
Cape Henry
Old Point Comfort
Newport News
Norfolk Naval Base
Marketing Plan Ends Meat Trade War Across Americas
London June 3 INS A settlement of the two year long triangular chilled meat trade war among American British and Argentine firms is near. The big three companies Ves tey Swifts and Armours have offered smaller firms a larger share through a mediator and a formal agreement on percentages is expected to be signed soon. The plan aims to restore profits for all firms and end the dispute that cost about fifty million dollars.
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London
INS
Vestey’s
Britain
Swifts and Armours
Amerca
Government Interested in Prevention of Floods
Representatives from all federal branches attend a flood control conference called by Chicago Mayor Thompson New Orleans Mayor O Keefe and St Louis Mayor Miller. The speakers express deep interest and determination to solve the flood problem.
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Chicago
Thompson
O'Keefe
New Orleans
Miller
St. Louis
Conference resolves to study Mississippi challenge plans
Delegates express commitment to exploring multiple approaches to the Mississippi issue. They urge thorough study and coordination of the best plans, with the resolutions committee to report at the opening of the conference's third day tomorrow morning.
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Resolutions Committee
Actor Einar Hanson Dies After Auto Crash Near Santa Monica
Swedish film and stage actor Einar Hanson died from injuries after his car overturned on the coast highway north of Santa Monica. He said he was blinded by headlights and tried to avoid a crash when his vehicle hit sand and somersaulted, pinning him beneath. Hanson had starred opposite Pola Negri in films.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Einar Hanson
Hanson
Pola Negri
Robert McKim Near Death After Stroke in Los Angeles
Actor Robert McKim fifty lay near death in a Los Angeles hospital after a stroke of apoplexy. He had been unconscious since removal from a train the previous day, and doctors gave him a poor chance of recovery. McKim, known for heavy roles, co starred with Douglas Fairbanks in The Mark of Zorro and had left films over a year ago after a nervous breakdown. He was transported here from an Utah city yesterday.
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Los Angeles
Robert McKim
McKim
Douglas Fairbanks
Fairbanks
Utah City
Gun Club To Hold Its Third Registered Shoot
The Bluefield Gun club plans the third in a five shoot series at the traps in Cumberland Heights south Bluefield this afternoon. Roanoke Gun club members may visit. Mullens trip postponed by rain. jackets for recent buyers will be available from the secretary at the traps.
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GUN Club
Bluefield
Trapa
Cumberland Heights
South Bluefield
Roanoke
Mullens
Nationwide war roadhouse waged by Massachusetts reformers
Massachusetts women leaders launch a nationwide effort to curb roadhouse vice. They push state police license authority and stricter rules on booths, privacy curtains, and music, citing five backed by the new roadhouse law and noting under-25 attendance at resorts.
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Francis R. Murphy
Boston
Jane 3
INS
Massachusetts
National Congress of
Parent-Teachers
Hawaii
Massachusetts Civic Baggie
William Tilton
Washington
Sudbury
Middleton
Scituate
Hanson
Westwood
Commissioner of Public Safety Authority
Commissioner of Public Safety
Schrippenkirche Berlin Feeds Homeless Sundays
The Schrippenkirche in Berlin serves soup and two rolls every Sunday morning to homeless and destitute individuals, offering a sermon alongside the meal.
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Schrippenkirche
Berlin
London Gas Meters Create Coin Shortage
Many shillings are placed in London gas meters causing temporary coin shortages until meters are cleared and coins rejoin circulation.
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London
Longtime Bluefield Operator Maggie Montgomery Dead
Maggie Montgomery 52, longtime Bluefield Telephone Company employee and chief operator before retirement, died after a five year decline at her home on Jefferson Street. Survived by her aged mother Mrs. Robert Nixon 82 sister Mrs E F Saylor Ludlow Ky and brother Ed M Montgomery Chicago. Funeral services set for this afternoon at Bland Street Methodist Church.
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Ee Ureday
Jebereen Oan
Wen
Bluefield
Bluefield Telephone Company
Miss Montgomery
Robert Nixon
Ludlow
FE. F. Saylor
Ed M. Montgomery
Chicago
Mo Ery
Nefield
Burial Planned for Local Figure in Ludlow Ky
The funeral will be conducted by the Rev. J. A. Baylor at Street Methodist Church. The body will be taken to Ludlow Kentucky tonight for burial Sunday. Employees of the Bluefield Telephone Company will act as pallbearers and flower bearers.
Wells and Wade Target Pacific Crossing Nonstop Race
The Evening Post reports first entrants for the $25,000 Hawaii nonstop flight prize. Linto Wells and Lt Leigh Wade announced plans to circle the globe in 15 days, seeking to span the Pacific from New York to Hawaii.
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New York
Evening Post Today
James B. Dole
Honolulu
Pacific
Hawaii
Linto Wells
Leigh Wade
Evening Post
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Lewis Furniture
Princeton Avenue
Harry L. Greenspon
PHON
Bluefield, W. Va
Edwardes’ Collegiante
Howard Abbott
Mineral Street
Phoppe
Greater Bluefield Business College
Great Business Training School of
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Grover
Bland Street Wesleyane
Western Union
Red Ash Coal Company
Care Daily Telegraph
Jo, CO
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Jease J. Bell
Ford
Pocahontas
Coal and Coke Building
Bluefield Building and Loan Association
John C. Creig
Augusta Street
Reese Taylor
North Street
Taylor
J. Phillips
J. J. Phillips
Dana
Eugene
R. B. Parrish
Law and Commerce Building
George KR. Walker
Legion Dance
Blue City Blue Boys
John Alden
L. M. Cooper
Bluefield Avenue
Poplar Street
Alden
Cooper
Kansas
J. R. Gillespie Grocery
McMullin & Ball
K. Wyatt
Eaeley-Penn Drug Co
Smithfield
United Market
California
Huffman
Ideal
Beauty Salone Tree Wave
Missionary Society of Flrst Baptist Church
Phillip
LF Dodsey
Princeton Road
Baptist
Robert M’kim
Colonial
Theatre Today
Carl Laemmle
Marion Nixon
Pat O'Malley
Gladys Brockwell
Hobart Bosworth
Nellie Revell
Equestrienne
Bluefield Furniture Co
Maggie Montgomery
Mangus.phillips Shoe CO
Princeton Ave
Wells
Wade
Madam Dovina
Graham Ave
Beth
Rownes
J. S. Compton
Compton
C. G. Gunn
Rev
Jacob H. Rosenburg
Memphis, Tenn
Bible School
Westminster Presbyterian Church
M. G. Whitlow Hardware CO
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