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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1931
Page
1
A masked ball like event marks Siena's annual Palio festival with bareback riders, heavy nerbo whips, and brutal pace. Ten horses contest a perilous course as spectators watch a long tradition of joustlike competition and shared peril unfold.
Local notices advertise art prints at Fretwell's with Friday and Saturday availability, dance event at Lake Shawnee with Vagabonds music, and a Knights Templar meeting at Masonic Temple. Also listed are beauty shop connections, a royal reform note on military service, and a pending constitutional framework for a new republic.
Washington report profiles Robert Gibson Rayburn of Newton Kansas a 16 year old high school orator son of Evangelists James Rayburn and Mrs Rayburn. Born in a prairie town of 11034 residents he travelled with his family while training in music and speech. He aspires to a career in music though his parents wish him to be a preacher.
A fragmentary sports scene describes a dramatic effort by Marella and Mentone as they contend near a rock. A sudden leap by Mentone leads to a winning moment, with tense crossing and a blaze of effort across the field.
Davenport June 4. Mike Layden brother of Dinner Layden, part of Notre Dame’s backfield lore, shines as an athlete at Davenport High. He helped win state track titles with Victorles in hurdle events and anchored a winning half mile relay. He ran the hurdles in 1.4 and 24.1, breaking Frank Cuhol’s record. Elmer Layden, Notre Dame star, is noted.
Madrid reports Gen Manuel Aguirre, the new Spanish war minister, has cut enlisted ranks from 160 000 to 120 000 and reduced senior officers from 27 000 to under 10 000. The policy aims to lower costs, redirect funds to public works and education, and shift political energy away from military dominance.
Robert Waldon, son of Jake Waldon of Reese Street, was admitted to Brown’s hospital early today with a knife wound near the heart. Police seek James Weatherford of the North Side for questioning in connection with the stabbing at the fire ball on Bland Street. Waldon’s condition is not believed to be serious.
Nebraska launches a Pig Cellana project to stabilize Dock production and collect pie crop data from about 18 000 farmers and stock growers. Some residents face skin reactions when fabric contacts skin, hindering daily life.
Six cites in the United States and Canada bid for the 1982 convention of the International Brotherhood of Magicians in Columbus. The event drew several hundred amateur magicians and featured contests in livestock magic, slight of hand, billiard balls, expert card tricks, flowers, and escapes with top entrants named from Columbus, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Toronto, and other cities.
Wheat traders, anxious about large stores held by the grain stabilization corporation and a price drop as government support ends, were assured by Farm Board Chairman Stone that the plan will hold. The entire American carryover of about 300,000,000 bushels will not be forced on domestic or world markets, following recent disposal of about 35,000.
The article discusses stabilizing wheat stocks and farmer agency actions in grain markets, noting moves to prevent price drops and the role of cooperatives in orderly marketing. It also reports findings that over 100 grasses and 60 oat varieties suit southern Oklahoma farms, with Cuttle Floyd from Johnston County highlighted in a yearlong study.
Mills testifies that he told Shrove to secure San Diego girls, may obtain from Hollywood. He called Mrs Day in Hollywood and asked her to bring two girls to the party. Cross examination shows he had not met Jolbelmano months earlier and did not arrive late.
The state prohibition agents arrested two men and a woman in Carswell McDowell County for violation of the prohibition law. Rebecca Gress was convicted in Magistrate S. M. Buggesa's Welch court, fined 100 dollars and costs, and sentenced to ninety days in jail. Roby Goodson faced a potions charge with a 100 dollar fine and thirty day sentence. Milton H Richards, colored, was convicted of possession, fined 100 dollars and costs, and jailed thirty days. Arrests were by Eli Watkins and G B Ildebrand.
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