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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1927
Page
1
A reflective piece on memory and introductions, noting the difficulty of recalling people, the desire for more social gatherings, and how women’s thrift supports finances. It compares Puritan restraint with modern attitudes toward courtship and concludes humans adapt across eras.
The article describes the new aviation stunt the outside loop performed by Lieut Doolittle in Dayton. It contrasts with the traditional inside loop and notes the danger, straps, and the thrill for aviators and the general public.
The article discusses widespread interest in debt and the mindset of using principal as a figure to compute the cost, highlighting a shift in how individuals and society view borrowing and financial risk.
The United States cruiser Memphis departs Cherbourg with Captain Charles Lindbergh aboard, ending his European tour in a blaze of public homage. Crowds cheer as he steps from French soil and signals farewell to France. The plan calls for a Washington welcome with President Coolidge decorating him upon arrival.
The Bellanca Columbia left Roosevelt Field at 6 05 am EDT and aimed east over the Atlantic. Aiming to beat Lindbergh’s time, Chamberlin and Levine cut Cape Race, Newfoundland, en route to Ireland, with an expected landing near Berlin around midnight Sunday.
Torrential rains and a cloudburst struck Wheeling West Virginia and neighboring towns causing one fatality. In Blaine Ohio seven year old Pauline Redlinski drowned after being swept from a streetcar. George Mills home store and Louis Mills garage were washed from foundations in Martins Ferry. William Johnson was injured by lightning and in suburb sections walls of water damaged lawns and drove debris through streets.
A late day storm in Grafton West Virginia with 75 mph winds toppled a barn at the Boys Industrial School in Prunty Town lifting it about 100 feet into a meadow. Four boy inmates escaped unharmed. A road house roof and downed wires disrupted traffic and crop damage was widespread.
Kingwood West Virginia residents cleaned up after a mid afternoon hail storm lasting about an hour. It damaged shrubbery, plants, buildings, churches and homes. The Herring and Martin buildings sustained window destruction and the Methodist Episcopal church lost 33 windows with memorial stones ranging six to six and a half inches in circumference.
Police reserves were summoned to manage crowds at two Windsor liquor stores after several women fainted amid the rush at 10 a.m. Long lines formed before opening and crowds became unmanageable. Officers restored order with hours of effort. many shoppers were turned away unserved at closing.
A late day blaze in Montgomery destroyed 23 downtown structures and damaged eleven more with losses exceeding $1 million. Four people were injured mildly as dynamite controlled the fire with help from Birmingham Mobile Opelika Wetumpka and Maxwell Field troops. City hall Western Union and Gay Teague hotel received smoke or water damage while shoppers gathered as police kept spectators back.
Five high school juniors and seniors in Dannemora New York perish when a squall capsizes their rowboat during a class picnic on Chasey Lake. A teacher Miss Alice Donk is rescued and revived after clinging to the boat’s keel. Two brothers on shore rescue the teacher.
Springfield reports that Governor Len Small’s tax suit was closed after Circuit Judge Frank W. Barton approved an agreement. Small will buy the state 660000 dollars plus costs, and the state absolves him of pocketing funds and of earning interest personally. The funds were deposited in a Curtis bank and reinvested to pay high rates while the state got 2 percent.
The Pittsburgh Gazette Times reports an imminent consolidation linking Pittsburgh Coal Company Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation Montour Railroad and Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad into the world’s largest coal group. Aimed at efficiency growth and expansion, the deal would add Frank B E Taplin of Cleveland to oversee the merged operations.
Four men including two Pittsburgh Police officers were arrested in Pittsburgh on charges of felonious shooting and assault in connection with a reported attack on three union miners. Officers A P Warren and Ernest Cooper were released on $1500 bond. Edward Kennedy and Warner Williams, coal miners at the Essen mine, remain jailed for lack of bond.
Washington on June 4 Senator Jones Republican Washington predicted the president Calvin Coolidge will be renominated next year with practical unanimity. He rejected claims a third term would lead to monarchy or despotism as baseless.
Tulsa report shows oil production in the Seminole area rising to a record 374,482 barrels in the 24 hours ending 7 a.m. with a daily gain of 6,672 barrels. Analysts expect 116 new wells to be completed within two weeks, among 434 wells currently drilling, with activity existing below the 2,700 foot level.
Colonel Henry Saxon Farley 88 of Laurens South Carolina died in New York at his daughter's home. He was said to have fired the first Confederate shot against Union forces.
Circulars flood Washington from an anti third term league based in New York. The movement clearly targets President Coolidge. George Henry Payne, former eastern manager for Hiram Johnson in 1920 and 1924, is named treasurer of the organization.
The sixth annual West Virginia publishers and employing printers convention in Bluefield adjourned after electing Typothetae officers. W. R. Ludwig Morgantown won president, Donald L. Boyd Wheeling vice president, FE. 8. Allshire Huntington treasurer, Ivan Goodall Huntington recording secretary. Officers and committees were named during a late session.
Topeka reports electricity generated by dust and high wind storms in western Kansas prairie has added to the costs of the wheat harvest. State weather bureau and Kansas State Agricultural College officials in Manhattan acknowledge reports of thousands of acres of growing wheat being electrocuted.
President Coolidge, visiting South Dakota, will rent the state game lodge near Rapid City for $200 a day during his summer stay. The lodge was built by the state on a 125 acre tract, but the land was leased to a private citizen who still holds the lease.
President Coolidge watched the U S fleet pass the Mayflower for 1 hour 40 minutes. Ninety seven ships including two dozen battleships cruised by at sea pace of ten knots with 12 aircraft from Langley taking flight.
Governor Fields directs relief effort as the National Red Cross marshals aid for eastern Kentucky. Relief trains move in and headquarters set in Lexington and Ashland. Estimates place property damage at 25 million dollars with 15 000 affected and 89 known deaths. Roads cut off and isolated communities face hardship as water reached 75 feet in places.
The Bel lanca monoplane Columbia departed Roosevelt Field bound for Europe aiming to break Lindbergh's long distance record. Clarence Chamberlin piloted with Charles Levine aboard as backer and passenger wife panic and observers tracked the perilous Atlantic crossing from New York to Nova Scotia and beyond.
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