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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1924
Page
58
Local classifieds list services and notices from Bluefield and Pocahontas areas. Items include coal and fuel providers, chiropodist, rental space, job training, merchandise shipments, American Legion activities, church events, lost and found jewelry, Masonic notice, real estate services, restaurant ad, gramophone records, and furniture store news.
The wedding at the Graham home united Miss Mabelle Rucker and Harry Burnett of Bluefield. Rev. Thorn performed the ring ceremony beneath a roses arch. Bride wore Madona blue with roses. attendants included Miss Eva Deaton as maid of honor and Harry Ross as best man. Afterward the couple left for a honeymoon to Toledo Niagara Falls Yosemite Valley and western points.
Mary Glenn Hicks visits aunt Mrs. Bernard Mason in Pearisburg Virginia. Master Charles Eldred Hicks shows improvement after a peer operation at St Luke s Hospital. Miss Oralee Harry of Bramwell Road visits relatives in Binefield. Mrs David Jeliffe returns Friday night from a visit to her mother Mrs R R Harry on Bramwell Road.
A Pennsylvania train carrying the Pittsburg National League baseball team to Cincinnati was wrecked at Walters Mills near Carnegie. No players or crew were seriously injured though two passenger coaches derailed. The wreck blocked both tracks and rerouting was planned to prevent delays.
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri is confined to bed in a local hotel with an arthritis attack. Doctors report his condition as not dangerous but not very good this evening.
Maynard O Gibbs mining engineer and longtime Bluefield resident was killed in a slate fall at No 10 mine of United States Coal and Coke in Gary. Warned before entry, Gibbs died as a lamp burned beneath him during rescue. He was thirty two, a Virginia Tech graduate, married to Carrie Cofer with daughter Alice and a late infant son. Funeral plans set for after train No 2 arrival with American Legion escort.
The article recalls Lawrence L. McClure, once a Graham baseball star, now an assistant United States district attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia. It notes his athletic record in major colleges and professional baseball and his first Bluefield appearance in this role alongside Bern a Pettigrew.
New Brunswick New Jersey June 21 George Meier eighteen was named by Veronica Schultz seventeen of Plainfield as the assailant who last night beat her skull with a hammer. Meier was arrested in New Brunswick late tonight as a statement from the prosecuting office said he confessed to the attack.
The Bluefield visitor in the hotel registers is F R Ramsey of Austin Texas, identified as the farthest from home today.
A column discusses abnormal people who feel superior and grow bored with life. It argues that boredom stems from indifference and egotism, contrasting it with the normal person who finds satisfaction in daily experiences, food, travel, and small pleasures. It suggests the bored rarely attempt to seek variety.
Princeton Power Company crews under John Catron move rails from Bluefield Avenue to Bland Street for a temporary track. Work will start at the intersection of Princeton Avenue, not a street, as previously planned. Foreman Catron receives much credit for the rapid Bluefield Avenue reconstruction.
In London efforts begin this year to stamp out mosquitoes with coordinated actions marking a new push against the pest. The announcement signals heightened public health measures and vector control across the country.
Sir Harry Poland at 95 credits longevity to never marrying. In Italy's Alps five shepherds died in a sudden blizzard while tending flocks.
Riga reports that large quantities of Scotch whiskey are being sent to Russia, claimed for medicinal purposes, amid stricter controls and trade scrutiny.
The Mingo County Court-appointed board selects Garry and Sheeffey for plans to build a memorial building in Williamson. It will honor soldiers sailors and marines of the late war and serve as Eph G8 Post headquarters with rest rooms assembly hall gym showers and a large auditorium.
Fairmont West Virginia June 21 During debris clearing in the wreck of a Baltimore and Ohio freight train at Barrackville workers unearthed the body of Virginia Glover twenty seven of Mannington He had been crushed beneath derailed cars Officials think a broken wheel caused the wreck Two other men were slightly injured one with a broken leg
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