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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1925
Page
20
Chicago researchers describe tiny sealed air cells in sugar cane fiber as the key to insulation in synthetic lumber made from bagasse. Tests show heat loss reduction near three times that of white pine, with sound damping and reduced fuel needs.
In San Luis Obispo a bankruptcy hearing disclosed RE G Lewis raised funds from about 9,000 American friends since 1923. He claimed borrowing roughly 12 million dollars for land, mining, and oil ventures, with creditors spread nationwide and a Los Angeles trustee appointed to manage the estate.
New York March 26 a peace treaty was signed ending months of warfare between the Qu Leong and Hip Sing tongs. The signing occurred amid the presence of twenty special policemen and over 160 officers patrolled Mott Street and nearby areas during the conference.
Earl Smith of Akron was elected president of the Ohio Michigan Association of Civitan Clubs at the district convention in Akron. The banquet featured Guy Landis of Chattanooga as principal speaker for Civitan International. Gene Tunney and Harry Greb completed training in St Paul with golf and light gym work.
The champion will meet a challenger here tomorrow night in a ten round no decision contest. The match is billed as a test for both fighters with local fans期待.
London March 26 The Daily Mail reports Labour MP David Kirkwood has received numerous threatening letters after attacking the prince of Wales in Parliament and elsewhere. The Glasgow branch of the National Union of Railwaymen has approached the home secretary, who promised a full investigation and police protection, which Kirkwood refused.
Knoxville Tennessee March 26 James H Farmer eighty six veteran of the Mell War died here today in a fire he started while clearing a pasture. He became entangled in a thicket after lighting the brush and was burned to death before help arrived. He leaves one daughter and seven sons scattered across the country.
London March 26 For the first time since its 1854 formation the British Society of Engineers elected a woman Miss Annette Ashbury of Fulham as associate member. Ashbury was a wartime munition worker who rose to head a department making shells and later started a company manufacturing machinery parts and wireless apparatus.
The Lipp bill shifting motor truck taxation from horsepower to hundred weight cleared the senate and goes to Governor Donahey for signature.
More than thirty young men act as professional dancing partners for women in Paris cabarets earning nearly $5,000 a year. Reports say a South American woman paid over $500 for a single dance to display her wealth.
Harry C. Wilson retires as football and basketball coach at East Tech high school Cleveland. He will devote full time to teaching after coming from Huntington West Virginia three years ago.
London church organist Miss Helen Cope has played at Kingaway church for sixty years and has missed Sunday services only four times in that span.
British army doctors reject eighty two of every hundred applicants in London with a higher rate than two years ago. the share previously stood at fifty eight percent. The report notes the harsher screening amid wartime manpower needs.
Means phone alarms and alarms sent from Central Station. The list includes fire stations at Southside Northside Princeton Ave Russell St Bluefield Ave Mercer Stone Ave Bogas & Good 16 Bluefield Ave Thomas St Wiluefield Ave Chestnut St Spruce St Federal Raleigh St Wyoming Monroe St Gilles Princeton Ave Lee Franklin St Talbert Princeton Ave 31 Fire Station 32 Reese Marshall St 33 Allen Powell St 34 Pulaski Park St 41 Bland Jones St 42 Bland Williams St 44 Bland Ellis St 44 Bland North St 45 South Jefferson St 46 Penn Mar Ave Frederick St 47 East River College Ave 48 College Ave Walton Ave 2 Roanoke Clarke Sta Hardy Orange Sts 236 South Midway 28 North Midway 212 Henry Greenbrier St 214 Greenbrier Logan St 412 Upper Jones St 416 Forest Union Sta 418 Oakhurst Ave Bland St.
The article profiles Judge T. Blake Kennedy of the U S District Court in Wyoming. It notes his genial manner, courtroom humor, and suitability to the Teapot Dome lease case, detailing his background from Commerce Michigan to Cheyenne and his Republican ties. It recalls his role in notable trials and his pro defense rulings.
Okey scolds Mosey for playing cards over the weekend calling it a grave sin. Mosey replies with defiance and an assertion that he has paid for his sin.
Norfolk and Western Railway board authorized a 25000 investment in seven percent preferred stock of the new Virginia Beach hotel applauded by N. D. Maher and A. C. Needles. The move adds to hotel stock sales past 500000 with little expected railroad traffic growth.
Washington March 6 A likely appeal to the College of Methodist Bishops follows Baltimore conference opposition to consolidating the Northern and Southern branches. The review targets Bishop Candler's ruling that one fifth of delegates may vote aye or nay. Nashville plans a May meeting to hear the appeal. Dr Sherman criticized the ruling as unwise and contrary to the General Conference secret ballot decision.
Washington March 26, interior department warned against promiscuous settlement of Mohave desert lands in California. Hundreds of applications for home steads and land entries were received after reports of others cheaply acquiring water bearing lands. The Mohave is largely unsurveyed with sandy soil and limited cultivable land. best lands are mostly entered and homesteading may be costly and unprofitable.
Richmond March 26 The conference with William Green head of the American Federation of Labor and Virginia State Federation of Labor and Central Trades and Labor Council was postponed due to other duties. Green set next Monday morning for representatives of the Virginia factions to meet in his Washington office to decide the next annual meeting location.
Report notes negotiations aiming at an amicable settlement. Frank Morrison, secretary of the national organization, will meet with Virginians as the representative of Mr. Green.
Norfolk detectives seized 200 gallons of illicit whiskey at Merchants and Miners wharf in a Baltimore linked liquor ring raid. The packing cases bore marks of the Norfolk Jobbing Company and Maryland Lithographing Company, revealing a cross state shipment and reuse of cans from prior seizures.
Frederick Sutherland an auditor in the bureau of internal revenue was arrested in Washington for alleged tax reduction by misrepresentation. Former bureau employees James C. Clifford and John F. McCarren were arrested in Milford Connecticut. Sutherland is free on a $3000 personal bond as investigations continue and two more arrests were expected.
Miss Tenie Ray a sixty year old resident of Wellford Spartanburg county died from burns received while kindling a fire in the yard to wash clothes. She rolled in dirt trying to extinguish the flames and was found dead by her husband when he returned from the fields.
The Morning Post reports Professor Richard Schorr of Hamburg University observatory Bergedorf discovered a comet of the eleventh magnitude Monday in the neighborhood of the constellations Leo and Virgo.
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