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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1925
Page
2
A collage of notices lists coal orders and suppliers, auction and sale items, real estate offerings, a ball and dance event, church notices, a school publication, weather notes, and a grand jury case. Items mention Mercer Coal and Supply Co, Ser vice Coal Co, Bailey Lumber, Sun day church calls, and Major Reynolds memorial.
A national referendum on modifying the prohibition act was announced with President and cabinet to set rules and regulations for the 1926 election day proposal. Lee Emanuel ler noted the plan as part of the reform effort in New York.
A daughter was born Saturday at the Bluefield Sanitarium to Dr and Mrs Frederick W Black of Washington Street. The mother and baby are reported coasting along nicely. Police Court Bulletin notes fines for Richard Shelton 26 Henry Shelton 10 H P Boyd forfeited 10 after failing to appear. Albert Robertson, colored, jailed in Roanoke murder cases and sent to Richmond to begin life sentence. Louise Worley, ten, ill with typhoid at 308 Princeton Avenue shows no improvement.
New York reports cartoonist Bud Fisher known for Matt and Jeff arrives aboard the Leviathan with fiancée Countess Aedita de Beaumont of Paris and her seven year old son Pierre. The couple plans to marry next week, marking Fisher’s second marriage after a 1912 union with Pauline Welch.
Harry F. Somber of Wacheman Serber New York reported to police in Pittsburgh that a portfolio with jewelry and diamonds valued between 55000 and 59000 was stolen en route from New York. Detectives checked passengers with no clue, and police fear the loss was carefully planned with a thief boarding after learning the samples were on board.
In Wadhurst England an inquest returned a verdict of accidental death for the crash of a London Paris air line last Friday. Miss Katherine Burke of New York was killed and brothers Mon Signor Daniel and Joseph Burke injured. Pilot Roger Thierry the Frenchman was exonerated, saying fog forced a forced landing that caused the aircraft to strike a tree.
Mrs Wilhelmys says she was run down from overwork and worry with poor appetite and insomnia after the birth of her sixth child. A friend urged Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound, and after 9 or 10 bottles she reports improved strength, weight gain, better sleep, and no fainting spells. She lives at 309 Duke Street, St Paul, Minnesota.
Major Beck announced his death at Lynchburg Hospital following an appendicitis operation. Boyd A. Bennett city manager and ally of Beck, was en route from Bluefield to Lynchburg when news arrived. Beck, born 1885, led Lynchburg since 1920 and had previously managed Auburn Maine and Goldsboro NC.
Reported spree ends with a $200,000 gems theft after a hold up and safe blow, targeting Jacob Sakow’s residence. Police recover $7,000 while Liberty bonds cash and jewelry valued at $50,000 vanish. District attorney files case against the Cowboy gang led by Herman Rothenberg, with three indictments pending amid 37 trial delays noted in court records.
Survivor accounts from Clyde liner Co mache fire off Florida describe a chaotic stampede by the Negro crew as passengers sought life boats. Witnesses claim crew pushed, pulled, and dragged civilians, with some passengers dragged from boats and others forced overboard before rescue.
John Kozel a 38 year old Polish man was arrested at Crescent Ohio as an illegal entrant. He said he paid 10 for smugglers to bring him from Canada to Detroit Michigan. He faces deportation proceedings after transport to Steubenville Ohio for a U.S. commissioner hearing.
T Franklinville head of Johns Manville Corp died tonight in his Hotel Plaza apartment. Heart disease was the immediate cause. He was sixty three years old.
Washington October 19. Testimony shows W J Harahan of Chesapeake and Ohio opposed the Nickel Plate merger last January and F D Underwood withheld his vote as a director. Everett Jacobs testified about dissenting stockholders and concerns over terms while George H Minor read Erie minutes. H T Page, expert accountant, compared earnings and assets of the five railroad firms for 1920 24. Hearing adjourned until tomorrow.
Former British prime minister David Lloyd George spoke at London’s City Temple praising U S prohibition. He argued Americans’ dry policy boosts prosperity and warned against condemning the nation, noting 110 million people show success without drink and comparing to Canada. He cited Lincoln’s dream of ending slavery and drink.
The will of James M. Deering filed in Dade County court cancels all debts owed to him. It provides 100000 to Chicago charities, 500000 in trust for income, and 600000 for a Miami City Hospital charity ward. Executors include Charlies Deering. he died at sea September 21 aboard the Paris.
New York Oct 19. The financial program for Trumbull Steel includes a first mortgage loan and debenture note issue as part of its capital structure. The article notes large shipments of steel and signals a major expansion push.
Officials of credit banks reviewed the week’s actions at a meeting and plan a special stockholders’ meeting to sanction the directors’ recommendations. Parents of finished steel in the first half of October rose thirty percent from September and incoming business shows a proportionate rise.
Under the Dames of Malta, a social evening followed a day focused on registering delegates and visitors. The first business session of the convention is set to begin at Malta temple tomorrow morning with general and social meetings continuing through Thursday.
Pocahontas coal moves rapidly into New England as all-rail rate takes effect. Sixty cars were sent Sunday through Bluefield destined for New England points and Monday shipments were equally heavy according to reports.
The Icefield National Bank will open a modern safe deposit department in the Law and Commerce Building at Federal and Raleigh. Five hundred boxes installed with early rentals already. reservations accepted. Pricing starts at one cent per day with annual boxes at $8.00 and larger sizes priced by box size.
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