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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1925
Page
1
Local Bluefield items advertise coal, lumber, real estate, and dry cleaning services. Notices include a hotel Norton convention trip, a shrine dance, and a public piano recital. Name changes, sales, and obituaries appear alongside merchant listings and club events.
Fez Morocco June Abd al Krim tightens hold around Wibane and Taounat sectors as his forces prepare renewed actions against the Great French strongholds north of the Ouergha river. French staff vows defensive strategy while repelling attacks. Moors intensify Taounat artillery. Lyautey reports Abd al Krim received several 77 calibre cannons and seeks tighter watch at Adjir port.
Walter C Pollock vice president of First National Bank of Bluefield spoke to the Bluefield Kiwanis Club about the area’s banking history from Bramwell’s first bank to the present. C Chisholm of United Tobacco Company illustrated South Africa’s mining growth and diamond industry prospects. Miss Rosella Smith sang with James Elmer Brown at the piano as visitors from upstate attended.
Hast Orange New Jersey June 8 Dr Edwin Leman who for thirteen years studied radium rays died last night as a martyr to science He recovered pure radium from ore and faced deadly exposure He collapsed three weeks ago two blood transfusions failed He lived since 1911 as a Chicago University chemistry student and added to the world supply of radium Though his blood deteriorated he knew radium research might kill him He is survived by a widow and three brothers.
R C Johnson aged seventy two of Richmond Va died at 7 40 yesterday morning at his daughter's home in the northwest section of the city from hemorrhage of the brain. He had been in Bluefield for two years and was formerly a Richmond post office employee. His wife preceded him in death. He is survived by his three sons in Richmond and by his daughter in Dinefield. The remains were taken to Richmond for interment.
A Royersford mother writes that her daughter after years of illness improved dramatically after taking Vogelin health tonic. She recalls headaches and weakness since ages 13 to 16 and credits the remedy with restoring energy and regularity, urging other mothers to try it. The letter cites struggles with prior medicines and endorses Vogelin as effective.
City board members will meet this afternoon to attend to all municipal business. The article clarifies that the municipal primary is not a holiday, so officials will conduct normal proceedings and handle agenda items as scheduled.
Washington June 8. The Supreme Court promulgated a new set of rules to grant greater discretionary latitude in choosing cases to review and to ease its burden. The reforms include stricter admission requirements, higher fees, and a framework to disbar members admitted with questionable qualifications, with enforcement details issued by Justice Van Devanter. The changes take effect July 1 and follow a February act narrowing appellate rights, increasing certiorari practice.
Port Huron Mich June 8 Belief was expressed this evening by Captain Paul Sorner chief of the coastguard Harbor Beach that thirteen year old James McCoy had perished in the ice waters of Lake Huron despite efforts of would be rescuers. James with his father and two younger brothers were three miles from shore when their row boat sprang a leak. The father placed a life preserver around the boy hoping currents would carry him to shore. The others were rescued but James was not landed and an immediate search was started.
In Tron Mountain Michigan on June 8, two thousand workers battled a vast blaze consuming rough lumber and kiln wood near the Ford Motor Company plant. Crystal Falls and Menominee fire crews assisted as the fire’s cause remained undetermined.
Fire stations and alarm locations across Bluefield are listed with cross streets and avenues including 18 Princeton Ave and 14 Bluefield Ave, 16 Bluefield Ave, 17 Bluefield Ave, 18 Bluefield Ave, 19 Bluefield Ave, 24 Federal and Raleigh Sts, 43 Raleigh and Stewart Sts, 41 Bland and Jones Sts, 44 Bland and North Sts, 46 South and Jefferson Sts, 47 Brant River and College Ave, 46 College Ave and Walton Ave, Roanoke and Clarke Sts, Hardy and Orange Sts, 38 North Midway, Henry and Greenbrier Sts, 214 Greenbrier and Logan Sts, 418 Upper Jones St, 416 Forest and Union Sts, 18 Oghkurat Ave and Bland & Means. Phone alarm lines referenced. alarm transfer details incomplete.
Chicago, June 8. The weather may return to a normal mood after a ten day spell of extreme heat and storms that killed over 600 people in cities like Philadelphia and New York. Strong winds caused injuries in Chicago while snow and rain disrupted rail lines from Denver to Corona Colorado. Moderate temps are forecast for the middle western states through Wednesday while the system moves east of the Rockies.
All in readiness for convention of medical men with lectures in the Assembly Room West Virginian. Schedule includes 1:30 extra abdominal conditions simulating acute abdomen by Dr Barbour, 2:00 nitrous oxide versus ethylene anaesthesia by Dr Riesman, 2:30 hysteria by Dr Maxwell, 3:00 cervical rib by Dr Joff, 3:30 pathology and treatment of chronic arthritis by Dr Pemberton. Public invited with entertainment and presidential address.
Merchants and business houses of the city are asked to display their flags today in courtesy to delegates and visitors to the fifty eighth annual convention of the Here Virginia Medical Associa ort Kernburg 4 Oration on Medicine Dr Curran Pope Louisville Ky 5 Entertainment.
In Pittsburg on June 8, the trial of Fortunato Calabro of Johnstown opened in federal court delayed by a missing government witness. Thirty Johnstown residents testified they redeemed about 30000 dollars in stamps for Calabro as a favor, and Calabro allegedly cashed five thousand dollars of stamps himself. The government says Calabro led a western Pennsylvania counterfeit ring with branches in other regions.
London reports the LNER revives stage coach custom by naming locomotives after famous race horses. early engines will bear titles like tying Fox Ormonde Hermit Ladas Persimmon Robert the Diable Donovan Doncaster and other runners. Southern Railway also names engines after notable men including His Majesty and The Prince of Wales. In time most passenger locomotives will carry names rather than numbers.
Canton and Yunnanese troops continue a forty hour battle around the Bund in Canton with light casualties. Cantonese gunboats shell near Honan while Yunnanese hold the Bund. In Shanghai strikes grow quieter as more workers quit under agitator threats. International tension rises with anti-British and anti-Japanese sentiment spreading.
In Lakehurst New Jersey June 8 mechanics rushed repairs on the airship Los Angeles hoping for orders from Washington to resume the Minnesota flight as soon as possible. Officials said completion would take three to four days after the craft’s landing. About 100000 cubic feet of helium valued at 40000 dollars had to be released before landing. Less fish is eaten in Great Britain after the war with per capita consumption dropping from forty one pounds in 1907 1910 to thirty eight pounds.
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