Pocahontas Coal Market and Local Notices
Bluefield Bluefield area classified items include Pocahontas Nut coal offered at cash price for limited days, furniture and real estate notes for a seven room house with $00 down, and a ton weight description. Also listed are fare goods, a Rialto Theatre screening of a photoplay, bakery items, and various business moves including Thurman Boone Co. and Bryant Typewriter Co. notices.
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South Bluefield
Aes Ee Fox
Care
White House and Shipping Board Breach Widened
Continued discussion shows changes in corporate executive salaries and personnel by a four member committee. A forecast says several executives will have salary reductions after the revision.
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White House and Shipping Board
Salvation Army Man Takes Over Local Typewriter Firm
H. C. Sprague, longtime Salvation Army worker in Bluefield, has taken over the Bryant Typewriter Co on Bland Street. He remains with the Salvation Army on a year’s furlough to regain health while fixing typewriters and selling Woodstock models as district distributor and performing mimeograph work.
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H. C. Sprague
Salvation Army
Bland Street
Bryant Typewriter Co
Sprague
Belvation Army
Woodstock
Apr
Hnaign Forague
Bluefield
Ralae Street
Reed Makes Second Contribution City
For the second time this week C G Reed contributed to the city by posting 100 dollars on Monday. The bond was forfeited for failure to appear in answer to charges of driving while intoxicated and he was arrested again with Mrs N D Stalland on a statutory offense. Each was fined 25 dollars and other colored individuals Mathan Price Willie Thomas Pula Webb and Mary Pool faced statutory charges and small fines. Adalee was charged with drunken disorderly conduct and liquor possession with bond forfeited at 125 dollars for failing to appear. John Means was fined 25 dollars for drunkenness.
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C. G. Reed
Reed
N. D. Stalland
Mathan Price
Willie Thomas
Pula Webb
Mary Pool
Coal loadings rise in northern West Virginia
Coal loadings continue to rise in northern West Virginia with pay day approaching Saturday. On Oct 6 206 non union mines loaded 478 cars of coal while twelve union mines loaded 26 cars according to Brackett statistical service figures.
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Fairmont
W. Va
West Virginia
Brackett Statistical Service
MacMillan Returns From Arctic Voyage With Norse Ruins Claim
Donald B. MacMillan sails Bowdoin into Sydney after three months in the Arctic. He plans next summer’s search for Norse routes to New England and says Norse ruins at Peast Inland deserve further study. The Bowdoin faced storms and a Labrador gale on the voyage, and the crew prepared for further exploration with airplanes.
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Sydney
Donald B. MacMillan
Arctic
New
Wiscasset Ne
MacMillan
American
bext @ummer
New England
Baffin
Greenland
Bowdoin
Labr
New Foundland
George Bay
Lee
Red Island
Paul Koels
Nations Move Toward Global Armament Reduction
Washington reports a union endorsing disarmament steps and a plan for demilitarized zones along frontiers. Japanese and British delegates pledged cooperation with world powers to curb naval and land armaments, with support from Denmark and Great Britain.
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Washington
Ee Ee Union
P Munch
Denmark
Sane
Briggen
L. Spears
Greatin
Union
Fusanowake Mayeda
Poewe
R. 8
Hudson
Great Britain
Work of Recovering Bodies Is Suspended
Submarine 8 51 wreck off Block Island marked by a lone buoy as salvage ships Camden and Chittenden withdraw to base. Recovery work halted pending Washington orders after Rear Admiral Christy recommended turning salvage duties to a commercial agency.
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New London
Conn
Block Island
Camden
Chittenden
Washington
New York
Navy Department
H. H. Christy
Seal Pump to Prevent Sale Bootleg Gasoline
New York October sixth The Tide Water Sales Corporation announces all pumps and filling stations will be sealed to prevent bootleg gasoline. Vice President F H Dickson says over six million gallons of substitute were sold at the price of good gas and pumps removed from more than six hundred stations in the city. He cites about fifty million gallons of adulterated fuel used in the past year, supported by Standard Oil and Gulf Refining officials who plan to curb the practice.
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New York
Tidewater Sales Corporation Today
F. H. Dickson
Dickson
Standard Oil Company
Gulf Refining Company
College Town Invaded by Pheasants in Buckhannon West Virginia
Local reports say flocks of pheasants invaded Buckhannon with several birds found on streets. A businessman witnessed two birds drop at his feet after flying low near an electric sign. Football practice was disrupted when a pheasant fell into a wire screen on the Wesleyan College field. Quail coveys were also noted within city limits to frame Buckhannon as a game town.
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Bockponnes
W. Va
Bockhannon
Doe Maretney
Wesleyan College
Buckhannon
State Fund Shows Healthy Balance In West Virginia
Charleston October 6. The September report by State Treasurer Johnson shows a September 30 cash balance of 11 097 669 in all funds and a grand total of 31 097 819 including investments 954 700 school fund 2 470 360 road sinking fund 4 267 800 interest and sinking fund 12 167 300 workers compensation.
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Charleston
W. Va
Johnson
Thirty Million Dollar Coal Merger Put Through
Nashville dispatch reports the Chattanooga Coal and Coke Company and the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company were acquired for 1.25 million dollars each, forming a 30 million dollar merger the largest in the coal and iron industry in over two decades. The sale of Chattanooga Coke and Gas Company awaits stockholder ratification. The Bon Air Company and Southern Iron Alloys Company join the deal, with William J. Cummins named chairman of the executive committee to steer the merged firm.
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Nashville, Tenn
Chattanooga Oal and Coke Company
Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company
Chattanooga Coke and Gas Company
Rockdale
Bon Air Company
Southern Yerro-Alloys Company
Chattanooga
Cleveland
Tenn
William J. Cummins
Mr. Cummins
Real estate operator Felt dies. heirs clash over policy
Philadelphia officials probe the death of Maurice E B Felt found fatally shot in the home of Miss Lillian Emanuel executors plan a legal fight to bar Mrs Emanuel from benefiting from a $25 000 life insurance policy Felt had placed in her name The lawyers argue over proceeds and the rightful beneficiary amid an estate dispute
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Philadelphia
Maurice EB. Felt
Lillian M.manuel
Felt
Samanuel
Legion's Omaha Convention Focuses on Address by Coolidge
The American Legion halted routine business to hear President Coolidge speak and to review him in the parade. A five member aeronautical subcommittee will report on Mitchell’s air service plan and a separate air department may be urged. Tomorrow features speeches by military leaders and committee reports on constitutional amendments and world peace.
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Omaha
Associated Press
American Legion
Coolidge
Legion
Aie
Legionnaires
Severa T Couat Protean
Eee
Time Committee
Wilkesseitchell
Mitchell
Anoiver
Aeronautical Committee
Air Service Department
Army
Arguments Closed in Double Appeal Oil Cases
In San Francisco on October 6 the double appeal of Doheny and the Edwand Lo heny oil interests from the Los Angeles district court ruling canceling Doheny leases on California naval oil lands was argued in the U S circuit court of appeals. Senator Atlee Pomerene presented the case for the government detailing the $100000 tender to Interior Secretary Fall, while Doheny’s counsel contended the leases and contracts should be restored and cited Judge McCormick’s findings of fraud. Kellogg defended the $100000 loan as a personal loan between Doheny and Fall.
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San Francisco
Thevernment
Edwand Loheny
United States District Court
Los Angeles
Doheny
California
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United States
Atlee Pomerene
Ohio
Oll
Albert Fall
Fall
Interior
Frederick R. Nosoes
York
Pomerene
McCormick
Kellogg
Coal production records broken in West Virginia output surge
R M Lambie of Charleston announced at Welch that present bituminous coal output is vastly higher than last year, with early 192 Jrotectes indicating a rate considerably above August totals and suggesting a record-breaking production trend.
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West Virginia
R. M. Lambie
Charleston
State Department of Mines
Welch
Thorny Rhine Pact Issues Discussed at Locarno Conference
Locarno Switzerland Oct 5 German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann and allied delegates debated the Rhine pact guarantees at the security conference. Key questions involve French military protection for Poland and Czechoslovakia and how France can extend guarantees beyond the general covenant protections. No agreement yet on whether France can assure Poland and Czechoslovakia against aggression.
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Locarno
Switzerland
Germany
Gustav Stresemann
Eves
France
Poland
Dr. Stresseman
M. Brian
Income tax return study shows 1923 figures
The Bureau of Internal Revenue released complete 1923 income data: 7,698,321 individuals paid $663,651,605 and corporations paid $937,106,798 to fund the government. Individual taxable income rose to $24,040,197,364 while corporations with taxable income totaled $6,963,511,483 across 233,339 and 212,662 filings respectively.
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Washington, Dct
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Rene Pocemte
Bureau
Police Lack Clue To Identify Nude Decapitated Man
New Castle Pa October 6 Police tonight were without a clue to the identity of a man whose nude and decapitated body was found concealed under a pile of leaves in a swamp near the Beaver River by a hunter. The spot is two miles from the nearest highway and almost inaccessible by vehicle. police believe the body was carried there and hidden with great caution.
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New Castle
Beaver River
Death of Czar Nicholas II requires proof before probate
New York October 6 Surrogate John P O'Brien set conditions for Prince Serge Georgievich Romanov to obtain letters of administration for the czars U S credits He demanded proof of death order of precedence among heirs and a detailed list of heirs including Empress Marie and Princess Zenia and Olga before action on the estate.
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New York
Nicholas II
Russia
John P. O'Brien
Serge Georgievich Romanovsky
Serge
Marie
Copenhagen
Zenia
Olga
Denmark
Death from voluntary gas exposure in WWI tests
William Roth, a private in a training camp unit, died of tuberculosis today after participating in army gas exposure tests during World War I. He volunteered to enter chambers with mixtures of poison gas as part of the experiments.
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St. Louis
William Roth
Sas
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P. O
Pocahontas
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Ser
Golden Rod
Mercer Street
Prince Ave
Federal Street
Princeton Ave
S. Thurman & Boone Co
M. Turner
Cc. H. Strum
Princeton
Will Ted
Rialto Theatre
Wonder Exchange
Exchange Harbor
United Market
Secker
Bartlett
DeAnjou
Tech Frome United
Etbel
Ramage
St. Luke's Hospital
T. Ramage
Edi Tame
C. J. Pedigo
Robert White
Ae Princeton
J. Richards
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
J. & Turner
Squire H. B
Marcelling
P. W. Bowman
J. B. Eades
Osteopathic
Harry L. Greenspon
Sean Ore
Aliff Transfer Co
Seeeeit Ave
Thomas &J. Bluefield Hardware Co
N. Y
Jas. G. Lits, Agt
Commercial Bank
Pf. D
Altamont
Mercer Funeral Home
Nixon
R. L. Morris
W. V
WM. H. Carr
Coal & Coke
Res
Donald Mmillan
College
Virginia
Workmen's Compensation Fund
Lillian Emanuel
Dennison
Flemkuhi
Shepherd
Houbigant’s
Houbigant
Fox Pharmacy
Hotel West Virginian
Dead Man
Doan
W. H. Miles
Bluefield Ave
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co., Mfg. Chemists
Buffalo, N.Y
Alabama
Federal and
Raleigh Streets
THE
Bluefield National Bank
Buverie
Ye West Va
Joe
Bryant Typewriter Company
DR. J. S. Compton
Goodykoontz Drug CO
Three Good Drug Stores
East End Pharmacy
Bluefield Pharmacy
Fairview Pharmacy
Bland and
South Streets
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