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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1923
Page
3
Local items advertise peaches strawberries and other produce at The Market and The Mar et while Robins Rest Tea Room and West End Coal Co promote services. A special tax levy notice, theater plans, a blue stone council meeting postponement, a four judgments sermon, and a play at Caffee's Chapel appear among community notices.
Miss Alberta Reynolds registered nurse died at Cantawba Sanitarium Salem Virginia news arrived burial held at Basic City Virginia College Avenue Baptist services announced with morning worship at eleven and evening sermon on promises to the overcomer church welcomes all.
In loving remembrance of Ernest Merlin Anderson born October 24 1920 died June 12 1922. Our youngest son with short life yet deeply missed. By His hand thou shalt be brought up like a child and rest Upon thy Father's arm. MR. and MRS THOS E ANDERSON Falls Mills Virginia.
In Cleveland on June 15 the McGinnity syndicate offered terms for the Dempsey Gibbons title bout which Jack Kearns rejected. McGinnity said the offers still stand though the promoter will not schedule the fight for less than sixty days and may stage it within seven miles of Cleveland. Boats within city limits have been restricted.
Denver Colorado June 15 0000 6000 shopmen of the Denver and Rio Grande Southern Rail road were ordered to strike to morrow morning charging bad faith by the railroad. Attorney General Russell W Fleming said the railroad failed to live up to the May 11 gentlemen's agreement and released union men from their promise to return to work. He cited alleged failures in a June 14 letter to shop crafts union members.
Washington Pa June 15 Judge Heldain B Hughes of Washington county court collapsed near Waynesburg while about to sit beside his wife in his car He was fifty two a Wash ington and Jefferson College graduate and a leading member of the county bar. Top hat idols 6000 years old arrived in London from Panama interior via explorer.
Bluefield Post No. 9 approves a resolution urging full investigation of disability payments for veterans including one local case drawing 20 dollars monthly for a five member family. A June 16 to July 7 membership contest challenges McDowell County Post No. 8, and plans for a July 4 celebration at the Bluefield Fair Grounds include a prominent speaker and a special July Bluefield Legionnaire edition.
General Superintendent Rochester led eleven Pennsylvania Railroad officials touring the Norfolk and Western coalfield. The group arrived in Bluefield Friday, dined at the Bluefield County Club, and departed on train No 3 for Columbus using two private cars.
Heavy rain along the Dry Fork Branch of the Norfolk and Western railway caused several small slides blocking traffic for hours. A washout was reported at Simmons and floods reappeared in Bluefield areas. The current situation is minor compared with earlier in the week.
In Great Falls Montana on June 15 Jack Dempsey says Doc handles the business while he fights. Manager Jack Kearns meets bankers over a 100000 installment due today as Dempsey trains lightly. He boxed two rounds with Godfrey Burke and Drake and carries a discolored right eye from a butt last Wednesday.
Dorris Motor Car Co stockholders approve a merger with Haynes Automobile Co of Kokomo Indiana and Winton Automobile Co of Cleveland Ohio into Consolidated Motors Corporation with assets of 19 million dollars. Each company will keep manufacturing its own cars and a fourth model is planned though not yet decided.
Eight train passengers bound for Paris were injured when two coaches derailed by a bomb blast near Mayence. The blast occurred last night on the way to Paris. Several injured were German civilians. Two similar explosions near Offenburg and Bonn caused no injuries.
The article describes a cape closely linked to the blouse in 1950s fashion. It features a fur or floral collar, a double Pierrot ruffle, and a bow. The cape and matching dress use Cinderella silk with rose squares in blue bengaline. A gray felt hat with a blue crown completes the look.
Bertha E Shapleigh of Columbia University offers practical tips for automobile picnics. She recommends a compact covered hamper with essentials, solid alcohol stoves, a long handled fork, a wire broiler, and a coffee pot. She suggests preprepared rib chops, chips, and boxed cake, plus glass jars for salad and fruit, emphasizing easy preparation and outdoor enjoyment.
Chairman Hull of the Democratic national committee repeats charges of waste and extravagance linked to the proposed trial voyage of the shipping board liner Leviathan. He claims responsibility for the so called million dollar joy ride cannot be shifted to prior administration since the contract for reconditioning the vessel was not signed until 1922.
Edward Murray, arrested for driving while intoxicated in Chicago, said he had been celebrating the arrival of twin sons. He received only a small fine.
Verden June 15 Paul Keller mann director general of the Good hope mines Oberhausen was sentenced to five years imprisonment and a fine of 24 million francs for refusing to deliver coal shipments to France and for not paying the forty percent coal tax. Seven other men face trial on the same count.
Constantinople reports the governor notified allied high commissioners that Turkish prohibition law will take effect tomorrow, resulting in the closure of 2,478 establishments across the city.
State and federal agents raid Babe Washington on Greenbrier Coal and Coke land finding three whiskey prints, fifty gallons mash, and a complete fifteen gallon still. Washington, blind, could not pour and assisted by pouring into pint bottles while agents investigated. Still and mash destroyed. other arrests follow with fines and jail terms.
Prohibition agents city police and county officers on a state warrant searched passenger train No 3 and arrested Carrie Phillips of Northfork and Fannie Hereford of Gary both colored. They found seven gallons of whiskey in a shopping bag two travel bags and tin cans under the seat. The women are held for a hearing today. A Russia gender ratio note follows.
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