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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1923
Page
3
Short town notices and classifieds list real estate plots for sale by Stone Securities Company with payment terms, plant sales, and local business notices. Items include a Bramwell vs Pocahontas event, a laundry agency transfer, estate and funeral notices, moonshine bond releases, and local public service updates.
The University Summer School invites the public to the third free lecture this afternoon at 4 in the College Avenue Methodist church auditorium. Dr Whitman T Barbe, author poet and WVU English professor, is expected to draw a large audience.
Former Bluefield grappler Mike Vanoff faced Joe Hollander the Terrible Pole in a ten minute handicap at the Athletic Stadium. Vanoff earned $10 for lasting full ten minutes, then drew in a twenty minute match. A big stadium bout is planned for Saturday at 7 30 with a large crowd expected.
Great Falls Montana June 28 Jack Dempsey put on an impressive six round workout under a hot sun. Critics who doubted his condition ten days ago saw speed and power in his attacks. Dempsey showed accuracy in his blows and extraordinary footwork as he sparred, signaling readiness for challenger Tommy Gibbons.
The comedy Turn to the Right will headline Chautauqua this season. A lively romance with humor and heart, it follows Joe Bascom and his friends as peaches, jam, and Mother Bascom’s fame help them navigate a tense crisis to a happy ending. performed by a New York cast organized by the Redpath Bureau.
London report notes Miss Dorothy Brandon says sympathy is stronger in men than women. She presented a new drama featuring a lame heroine and told how the audience clapped as she described the trials to triumph. She urged pooling knowledge to relieve suffering.
Paul Boggess, brother of Mrs Russell S Ritz of this city, died last night at 10 40 at his parents home in Alderson from typhoid fever after a two week illness. He had just turned eighteen and had graduated from Alderson high school this spring. Mr and Mrs Ritz and their children will travel by automobile to attend the funeral and burial.
The Daily Telegraph corrected the record on Mrs. Hiram Weimer s death report. She was the daughter of C W Thaxton not George M Thaxton. George Otto Thaxton and Mrs J A Broyles of 104 Reese Street are her half siblings.
In Great Falls Montana on June 28 officials reported $50,000 of Jack Dempsey's $100,000 final installment had been secured by 2 p m with the rest expected before night. Mayor Jim Johnson and Jack Kearns discussed funding with banker Geo H Stanton as promoters floated a possible postponement until July 14 but this could not be verified.
Ferdinand Herbin who ran a chain of luxurious gambling houses retires citing fatigue from police opposition in London. He ends a long era of high stakes gambling and regulatory pressure affecting his operations. The withdrawal marks a shift in London's clandestine gaming scene and law enforcement tensions.
New York doctors advise that golf is a strenuous mental game for men over fifty. They caution against playing more than eighteen holes in a single day.
A woman receives a note from her husband threatening self harm, but a month later she learns he is living with another woman, revealing a deception and personal upheaval.
Witnesses recount Blizzard directing union support and arming men to march on Blair and Marmet. Henry Kitchin admitted shooting a man after a confrontation, with prosecutors linking the fatal blow to George Mumsy's death in Blizzard's case. The judge rules on conspiracy evidence as trial proceeds.
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