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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1926
Page
7
An American team invited to direct Agora excavations in Athens highlights the Agora as a historic crossroads of commerce, law, and philosophy. The article depicts modern Athens surrounding the ancient site and notes ruins, monuments, and the enduring influence of figures like Socrates and Demosthenes.
Photographs depict President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge at a 60 acre White Pine camp on Lake Placid shore in New York. Irwin P. Kirkwood owns the property. Guides Claude Goff and Edward Corbin discuss fishing prospects for the president.
Lincoln June 9 Roland Locke will not participate in the National A A U games in Philadelphia this July. He plans to race at Chicago this week as his final time trial of the year and would welcome a meet with Charles Paddock or Loren Muchison. He regards Hank Russell of Cornell as among the fastest sprinters and a strong challenger.
In Memphis at home, the A S Memphis 3 Mobile 0 final in AM game. Memphis scores three runs while Mobile tallies none. Seven pony agreement noted. Little 5 New Orleans 6. Atlanta 4 Nashville 3. Birmingham 7 Chattanooga 8. Ten innings played in one matchup.
Wheeling defeats Cumberland 9 to 3 while Scottdale tops Clarksburg 9 to 1 and Jeanette beats Uniontown 4 to 1 in league play.
Edward Pay son Weston, famed for walking across the continent twice, aged eighty seven, was found wandering in a daze by a New York policeman and taken to Bellevue Hospital psycho pathic ward for senile psychosis. He said he started walking from Philadelphia and thought he was still in Philadelphia. his listed address is Indiana Avenue, Philadelphia, with Mrs. Anna Curtis of Providence as nearest relative. Weston first drew attention in 1863 by a Philadelphia to New York walk in under 24 hours, and in 1922 at age 44 he covered 495 miles from Buffalo to New York in 28 days.
Kansas City 5, St. Paul 6, Minneapolis 4, Milwaukee 12 are listed as two games on the schedule. The United States owns about 30.9 million acres of coal lands with deposits exceeding 200 billion tons.
Washington June 9 The Interstate Commerce Commission has signed an agreement with railroads delaying any new order based on the revised Southern class rate structure. Carriers will first adjust tariffs and propose departures from the commission findings before any action. The commission calls the revision far more comprehensive than prior efforts, affecting broad principles and many details.
London dispatch reports Djebela tribesmen led by Kaid Ouldfar and Kaid dadi capture Sheshuan Holy City from Gyan fards with heavy Rift forces losses. Kaids escape Riff custody, unite tribes, storm the town and kill Riffians, ending the Rift-Die Die alliance and aiding Spanish pacification efforts.
Austin by June 9 The Supreme Court ruled that the recognized right of the press to publish reasonable and fair criticism of law enforcement is protected. The decision reversed a 15000 dollar libel judgment against Express Publishing and Light Publishing of San Antonio tied to a story linking Claude A Keeran to a nationwide narcotics conspiracy.
Mrs. H. Henry Stetson of the Huntington Valley Club in Philadelphia captured the women's Eastern championship at the Philmont Club finishing with 353 over sixty four holes. Glenna Collett, the national champion, placed second with 256 and Miss Edward Hawley Quier of Reading was third with 259.
Roy L. Clark of Tampa Florida was sentenced to ten days imprisonment for failing to pay a $75 taxi fare. He said he never wanted to ride in a taxi again after being driven from Albany to New York where he claimed to be a wedding guest and son of a Florida millionaire.
James D. Carson, campaign committee member for Ruth Bryan Owen, alleged irregularities in the Florida Democratic primary. He claimed a contest would be filed, outlining issues in the fourth Florida district as Owen seeks Congress.
The former president of Otobio State was chosen moderator of the byterian church in his chaneles assembly at Baltimore supported by the modernist faction.
Unofficial returns show Mrs. Owen tied to traitor Congress man W. J. Sears with a 408 vote edge for Sears. The wording suggests Mrs. Owen contested nomination results and the margin may affect official certification.
Washington reports that Chief Justice Taft is improving under heart specialists care. Doctors hope he can leave for his summer home in Canada on Friday but cannot guarantee a definite date.
In Little Rock on June 9 Wash Martin and Albert Jones, both Black men, were electrocuted at the state penitentiary. Martin was executed for the murder of Lena Blevins, a white woman from Little Rock, while Jones was hanged for killing a Black woman in Mississippi County.
Shanshai June 9 Mrs. W BE Sibley wife of a Canadian Methodist missionary at Jagh sien in Szechwan province was murdered Monday in Chengfu. The murderer was captured after a chase. Motive for the crime has not been established.
Toronto 8 6 frame Jersey O, Baltimore 5 Torescon 3 2. Second game: Syracuse 6 Rochester 1 Reading 0. Second game: Seokinson 12 Reading. Seven innings by agreement.
Silkworth and two associates McQuade and Quillan, previously convicted of malefactors, surrendered in federal court after probation denials. Preparations were made to move East View penitentiary inmates in Westchester County to serve their sentences.
Funeral services for Henry Hooper prominent tobacco official in Petersburg Va will be held at his residence after an illness of several months He was about seventy five Hooper served as secretary of the Petersburg Tobacco Board of Trade and was a Farmville native who had lived in Petersburg for 25 years.
Terre Haute Ind June 9 Eugene V Debs presidential candidate on the Socialist ticket is confined to bed after a relapse in health and nervous attack. He had been able to go to his office for several days.
Sir William Corry, aged 67, director of the Cunard Line and the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, died in London on June 9. He was a leading shipping authority in Great Britain.
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