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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1931
Page
16
Confidential ad page lists items for sale across categories such as Baby Chicks Building Material Machinery Household Goods Coal and Wood Furniture Stoves Livestock Miscellaneous Jewelry Musical Instruments Plants and Seeds Poultry and Supplies Radio and Office Supplies Typewriters Rentals. The noisy OCR fragment shows broad marketplace notices without specific offers or prices.
Sheriff Harman will auction cash sale of band saw mill, three dinkey engines, two loaders, twenty five log cars, lumber trucks, about one mile steel rail, rail tractor and two stacks of lumber near Gratton Tazewell County Virginia on June 6 1931 between 11:00 AM and 4:00 PM with other personal property.
Bankrupt Lewis D. Brown of Bluefield Mercer County West Virginia pending discharge under federal bankruptcy acts. Court schedules a hearing July 3 1981 in Bluefield to consider discharge and directs notices to creditors. Also includes two West Virginia divorce publication orders against Jean Pitesa and Virginia Blanch Wyrick.
Representatives of eleven southern West Virginia Rotary clubs gathered in Beckley for an inter-city meet. J. H. Ellis of the Louisville Times and Phil Gonley of Charleston spoke at the banquet. A golf tournament saw H. A. Duncan Jr. of Oak Hill as low gross and J. R. Charlton of Montgomery as low net. Cities represented included Charleston, Montgomery, Madison, Fayetteville, Oak Hill, Hinton, Princeton, Bluefield, Lewisburg, White Sulphur Springs, and Mullens.
At French Lick Indiana June 4 the National Association of State Chamber of Commerce heard William Estes of Oklahoma City call the oil industry “almost a total wreck” and urge a special congress session to enact a protective tariff. J B Frederick of Kokomo urged railroads to study other transport forms before raising rates. Richmond, Virginia was chosen as next year’s meeting site with Julian H Hill of Virginia elected national president.
Radio listings from New York and stations nationwide detail schedules across WEAF WJZ WABC and more for Friday June 5. The entry notes a Marine Band concert via WJZ NBC from Washington at 10 am and a Carnoustie Scotland rebroadcast via WABC CBS at 12 35 pm, plus a long slate of daily programs and music across multiple networks and affiliates.
Four home runs including Hack Wilson highlight the Chicago Cubs 6 to 4 loss to Brooklyn. Wright Lom bari Cuyler and Hornsby homered for Brooklyn Chicago Ramirez Jurges Grimm Lombardi Wilson contributed for the Cubs in the third game of the series. Umpires Klem and Stark called time 1:40.
General C A Desaussure of Memphis Tennessee was chosen as commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans over General R A Pierce of Union City Tennessee by a 690 to 159 vote. Richmond Virginia was set for the 1932 reunion.
New York June 4 executives of the Commonwealth and Southern corporation report gratifying progress in placing the system for a recovery era. 1930 net income was 20 555 368 dollars after preferred dividends 60 cents a share versus 1929 69 cents. Gross earnings 141 656 530 dollars. net operating income 72 684 117. The firm runs one of the nation s two largest electric power networks serving eleven states.
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