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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1920
Page
4
A rhyme about practical thrift and old fashioned decorum urges wearing a trusted coat and hitching to familiar resources when newer options are scarce. The saying frames prudence as wholesome living.
A speculative cabinet list names Elihu Root and Philander Knox as Secretary of State. Hughes would lead the Justice Department, Vanderlip Treasury, Wood War, a Kansas senator as Agriculture, Iowa senator Labor, Hays as master, Weeks Navy, Lowden Interior, Hoover Commerce. The piece argues these figures bring unmatched experience to steady chaotic domestic affairs.
In a Polish official communique received here Bolshevik groups attacking along the Tetereft river near the Dnieper north of Kiev were repulsed. General Rydzmigly leads Polish forces. North of that sector the 25th and 26th Belviki infantry regiments were reportedly destroyed after fighting along the Beresina.
In Monongah this evening a toy telephone wire touched a 22 000 volt traction line, electrocuting a father and two children who were hurled down a fifty foot embankment. The mother, attempting rescue, was severely burned but survived. Mrs Dobasky’s family suffered fatal injuries in the incident.
Baton Rouge June 17. The Louisiana senate defeated the states rights woman suffrage bill by 23 to 16 in a 44 member body. Leaders favoring ratification of the federal amendment pledged to reintroduce a ratification resolution. A separate bill proposing a state constitutional amendment for woman suffrage has also been introduced in the senate.
Washington June 17 a plea to set coal freight rates below the general advance was presented to the interstate commerce commission by C D Boyd representing Harlan County Coal Operators Association. Boyd argued coal is a basic commodity and rate differentials must stay for consumers while George H Cummins urged funds to rehabilitate transport and maintain high service. Boston June 17 Governor Coolidge stayed in his hotel during a holiday rain day at Bunker Hill.
Thousands use a simple home treatment for catarrh and colds. Ask a druggist for Mentholated Arcine, mix with boiled water in a pint bottle, gargle the throat and sniff or spray the nostrils twice daily to keep nasal passages and throat clean and defend against flu germs.
A report notes xe traveling to Williamstown to participate in commencement work exercises at Williams College, highlighting the preparation activities and the involvement of the student in campus duties.
Phoenix Arizona June 17 The Arizona tax commission will hold hearings in San Francisco next week to place valuation on Standard Oil Company property in thirteen Arizona counties and to consider the assessment of Southern Pacific Railroad Company property in Arizona, it was announced today.
New York June 17 The American Labor party will remain a distinct labor party and not sacrifice its identity in a third party movement. A Chicago convention on July 10 will be attended by about 4000 delegates from over 2 million organized workers. William said the party forms in the growing global trade union movement.
The Williamson Coal Operators' Association argues that non-union labor in the Williamson Field has avoided strikes and preserved markets over twenty years. It cites District No. 14 data showing 705 strikes from 1916 to 1919 causing $3.87 million in wage losses and minimal gains, urging adherence to contracts and rejecting United Mine Workers as a source of industrial harmony.
Joseph E. Webb of Muncie Indiana endorses Bio-seven claiming it quickly restores nervous and run down health. The notice urges taking two after meals and one at night, with continued use for seven days, promising marked energy and ambition if results are not seen.
The speaker identified as Kohn from Greater New York declares the aim to be the greatest economic and political influence of the future. He says the group will hold fast to its mission to serve as the political instrument of the manual workers and awakened brain workers.
In North Kohala Hawaii a Japanese couple attempted a joint suicide by leaping from rocks into the sea. Tafaburo drowned, his partner pulled from surf. her bonds broke and later she and the infant child were found near the scene. Hawaiian divers recovered Tafaburo’s body.
A Chicago meeting of wool growers and bankers approved forming a committee to push the idea of making Chicago the wool center of America. The plan envisions funding the 1920 wool clip movement with Chicago bankers and a financing package of 100 million dollars annually.
The American Federation of Labor’s national committee for organizing iron and steel workers has been disbanded. A new committee will be formed by the federation’s executive council with plans for a new organizing campaign in the iron and steel district announced at the convention.
Box retrieved from the river by local boys contained the hide and head of a buck killed within the last three weeks in Clearfield county. Game wardens report the illegal deer kill and say officials are investigating the case.
Friends of Mr and Mrs George H Coughlin raise about 50 000 to fund a nationwide search for their 13 month old child abducted in Norristown Pennsylvania on June 2 and to aid police in capturing the kidnapper.
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