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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1925
Page
2
Various business ads and public notices list coal companies with phone numbers, sale bargains, and dental or dry cleaning services. Local events include meetings of societies and voter registration updates, plus brief crime notes and a Cadillac purchase.
Norfolk and Western storekeepers concluded their two day conference in Bluefold at noon yesterday. Attendance from the system was unusually large with only three absent due to illness. Visitors praised the reception and credited local storehouse forces for the cordial hospitality.
Erie Pa June 27 A special committee reports against any investigation into allegations raised by Dr Carl Sundberg president of Thiel College Greenville Pa. They warn such probes would embarrass the board and students while urging the board to avoid unwritten contracts and rely on written agreements to guide future actions.
The Boston Advertiser reported Colonel John Coolidge, father of the president, worsened with severe abdominal pain and intestinal complications. Dr. E L Cram and other physicians prepared to monitor him overnight, with possible surgery discussed after tomorrow’s examination.
New York dispatch reports Immigration Commissioner Curran says only three ships carrying about 500 Scots Swedes and Norwegians are set to arrive at the start of the new immigration year on July 1. He cites new rules requiring each immigrant to hold a consul visa and a limit of ten percent of the yearly quota per consul per month.
Chicago man Culbran Son promotes a movement to begin each day with music. He envisions families, apartments, factories, and stores all starting with singing or playing as a daily discipline to energize minds and improve governance. He calls music a purifier and energizer.
Springfield reports Herrin in Williamson County has moved from feuds to reconciliation after a tornado devastation. A legislative committee notes daily noon prayer meetings at Annex Theatre drawing up to 1,000 participants. Stores closed. pastors cooperate and the town embraces the golden rule replacing armed disputes.
News from Shanghai Hong Kong and Canton describes continued anti foreign agitation targeting British and Japanese interests. Strikes spread from Shanghai to other coast cities with workers walking out while Hong Kong sees domestic walkouts and disrupted life. Food shortages persist in Chungking though foreign settlements in Hong Kong and Shanghai receive supplies.
In Spokane a seismograph at Gonzaga University recorded a shock and then quit. People in a fifteen story office building felt the top floor sway. Shocks were reported as far northwest as Seattle and as far east as Rosebud Montana near the South Dakota line. A third tremor occurred at 8 30.
Memphis June 27 The Tennessee Bar Association votes eighty one to fifty six to expunge from the record the address on the anti evolution law delivered at the forenoon session by Robert Keebler of Memphis The convention discards a resolution dealing with the Scopes trial and declines to act on the Dayton case with citizens and attorneys stating the case was begun in good faith and not for publicity.
A San Mateo County hospital incident triggered extortion plans against Mr. Jackling. A fake phone message led to a dummy package and a taxi driver arrest. two suspects Baker and Crawford face forthcoming charges as police probe wider involvement. Mrs Baker says her son overworked himself.
Nearly 300 workers are laid off when the Cleveland and Western Coal Company closes the Franklin mine near Bellaire Ohio citing non union competition from Kentucky and West Virginia. In Pittsburg a man with a gunshot wound is found dead in a culvert near Cliff Mines. authorities suspect homicide.
Washington jurist Miss Katherine Sutherland daughter of former Senator Sutherland of West Virginia sues Silas Jacobs owner of an automobile for $10,000 damages claiming a collision while she rode with Mayda Wiese Sutherland caused permanent injuries.
Earle Davis of Wheeling was probably fatally injured when his motorcycle was struck by a Wheeling Traction Company inter urban car six miles north of the city on June 27.
The coast guard tug rescued the disabled Eagle boat No. 9 and towed it toward Hampton Roads. The Eagle boat carries fifty naval militiamen from Norfolk aboard.
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