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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1923
Page
2
Various small notices from Bland Street property values to local sales and meetings. Auctions and room rentals listed alongside community events at Bluefield and Narrows. A brief death report, railway staff travel, and upcoming Baptist sermon noted.
More than twenty Telegraph carrier boys were entertained by the Miller Brothers at the fairgrounds this week. They were given passes to all attractions and freedom of the show, a jolly treat for the youths who serve subscribers of the Telegraph. The boys praised the Miller Brothers as all round sports.
Washington June 27. Chairman Hull of the Democratic national committee denounces President Harding's taxation remarks as misleading in a statement on his Utah speech. Hull compares 1922 and 1923 expenditures noting only a $65 million net reduction and disputes claims of a large deficit wipeout and surplus creation.
Mrs Hiram Weimer dies at 11 50 AM at her mother Mrs George Thaxton s Allen street home after a three year illness with fourteen days of serious decline She was twenty years old born and raised in Bluefield a Lutheran church member Survived by her mother husband and brothers and sisters The funeral will be held Friday at 2 PM at the Thaxton residence with Lutheran rites and Rev J M Carter officiating Interment at Walnut Grove cemetery
W E DeBrick and relatives were told of a brother-in-law's death in Altoona Pennsylvania but found the report false. A dead man in Altoona carried a card with the name W P B Rader and address Nace Virginia, leading authorities to misidentify the deceased’s relation to Mrs. DeBrick.
Citywide canvass proceeds rapidly with a four day push to reach a $100,000 goal. Chairman Mann urges reporting to the general chair man and seeks volunteers to expand Thursday through Saturday efforts. Telegraph Want Ads promise results.
The Southwest Virginia Evangelizing Board of the Christian church held a well attended East Radford meeting to map a second year of missionary work. Members from Narrows Blacksburg Saltville New Castle Graham Wytheville Pulaski Galax Pocahontas Pembroke Salem East Radford heard J W West outline plans to increase church loyalty and faith while continuing revival efforts and new church planting led by President J S Dudley and Vice President Dr J P McConnell.
The Spectator reports U S death by own action fell to 15.1 per hundred thousand in 1922 from 15.7 in 1921 with an estimated 15,000 to 16,000 suicides across seventy six large cities. San Diego led at 47.8, Sacramento 37.9, San Francisco 30.4, Los Angeles 30.3, Portland 27.2, Seattle 27.1, Trenton 24, Denver 28.9. Somerville 6.1 and Williamsport 6.4 posted the lowest. The piece urges curtailing firearms and poison sales and notes public indifference to preventing self harm.
John L. Whitfield, suspected of first degree murder in the shooting of Patrolman Dennis Griffin, was arrested in Detroit after a ten week manhunt. He was brought to Cleveland police headquarters for questioning and likely arraignment Friday as crowds gathered at depots in Elyria and Cleveland.
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