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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1925
Page
1
A Saturday morning essay reflects on happiness amid poverty and illness. It contrasts an emaciated passerby’s contentment with comfortable lives, arguing true wealth is health and spirit. The piece also notes auto dealer trade practices and the fleeting stay of many dealers in business.
The piece notes 50 000 Americans wearing wooden shoes or sabots for moisture heavy work and cites uses in cheese factories packing and sugar beet fields. It covers prices about 98 cents to 1 15 a pair and mentions comfort but tells of low popularity due to foreign image. It previews a Florida Lakes Highway trip next Friday with calls to boost delegation size and learn from North Carolina. It then muses on piano tuning and shifts to a discussion of male coloration in animals with a turn to Page 51x.
Dominick Bavely asserts continued control of his household in Fairmont West Virginia with twelve children and a wife who have adopted his wife’s maiden name. He sought a circuit court order to change his own surname to Soapy hoping to end ridicule from neighbors and friends.
Philadelphia dated report states President Rea of the Pennsylvania Railroad will retire at month end upon turning seventy. He refused other presidencies and plans to return to his farm near Philadelphia to pursue hobbies. His successor is not named but signals point to General William Wallace. Rea served 64 years, supervising Hudson tunnel work and extending lines into New York City.
Indianapolis September 19 A jury trial of John J McNamara for blackmail nears completion with defense finished and arguments to the jury expected to begin Monday The charge alleges he acted as business agent for the local structural ironworkers union and interfered with Elks Club construction in 1924 over labor employment disputes
Wilbur Nebraska a wealthy farmer R F Prince found to be richer in bonds and in faith of neighbors after losing a box with fourteen thousand dollars in bonds under a car seat An honest neighbor returned the box and bonds after finding them in his car praising local integrity
The Rev Dr Clarence True Wilson denounces a youthful underling for issuing a covert attack on prohibition in the name of the Churches of Christ America. He cites poor enforcement, asserts prohibition has cut liquor traffic and saved billions, and says the council lacked authorization from member churches.
Columbus Ohio September 19 The bodies of two infant princes of the mound builders believed descended from the Sour ee a Sa family were found buried in pearl shrouds. Excavations near Bainbridge uncovered the infants placed at right angles to adults with mica designs and tusks adorned with pearls. A ceremonial eagle stone pipe eleven inches long was also unearthed, the finest mound sculpture to date.
Police fear hatchet warfare erupts as Hip Sing and On Leong tongs clash in Chinatown. Federal and city raids deport 72 more Chinese, bringing total held for deportation to 265 after raids that found 15 hatchets and evidence of renewed violence. Jung Fung faces murder charges related to Yung Sue Gum’s death. bail denied.
A Swissvale businessman claims eighty seven residents from Braddock Swissvale and nearby townships signed a petition urging the governor to order immediate removal by fire or razing of homes and shops. The signer who read the petition objected. The author said a woman's organization circulated the paper for a “cleaning up” effort. Only one of eighty eight asked to read the document and refused to sign.
Washington observers reported a testimonial dinner honoring Rear Admiral William Anson retired for fifty years in the navy and the shipping board and his seventieth birthday. Prominent figures including Newton D. Baker Secretary Hoover and Bishop Boyle spoke while the Navy Band provided music and radio coverage via station WRC.
Joseph N Craddock former Clarksburg mayor and Democratic candidate for sheriff and congressman was probably fatally injured in a fall from a staging while fishing near Largo Florida He and his wife moved to Florida from Clarksburg several months ago.
Dudley F Malone argues against the fusion of creed and politics in Tennessee’s anti evolution law. He urges academic and religious freedom, warning that constitutional religious liberty and church state separation must not be narrowed by literalist creeds. He condemns the law as a creed driven political act and calls for vigilance by progressive Christians and educated citizens.
Local newspaper notes multiple advertising demonstrations including a Philadelphia bank ad, a Pocahontas church coupon leading to a $1 000 donation, and a surge of responses to a want ad. The piece urges readers to place ads to reach the world.
Boston reports Henry Ford in a Christian Science Monitor interview at the Wayside Inn Sudbury says fuel of the future will come from fermentable vegetable matter and alcohol from potatoes. He envisions electricity heating cities and powering industry, with underground coal conversion and power by wire. He mentions a new flour from wheat germs in development at a nearby grist mill.
Fairmont West Virginia September 19 invitation letters announce the United Mine Workers of America will stage its largest ever meeting and parade with John L Lewis to attend. Van Bittner chief international representative for northern West Virginia sent press invites noting Lewis will be present for the parade and program.
Roy Humphrey of Keokuk Iowa is dead and three others are injured after a pile up of five racing cars at the Illinois State Fair program. The race featured Homer Ormsby from Indianapolis Dutch Baumann from Indianapolis and Benny Shoaff of Springfield among the drivers.
Eager Bluefield residents rush to register for the Goodwill excursion to Charlotte Friday and Saturday with over a hundred signups and about fifty more awaiting decisions. Chamber committees promise ample insignia and orderly arrangements for all registrants.
The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America announces a campaign to boost temperance teaching in churches amid national prohibition. Secretary Cavert says reliance on law has weakened church education and calls for a revived program across Sunday schools and adult classes to promote temperance ethics.
Geneva Sept 16 The conflict between Great Britain and Turkey over Mosul worsened after Tewfik Rashdi's league of nations statement was read as repudiating the Turkish position. L C M Amery said Britain would not be bound by the decision unless promised another acceptance. Amory stressed British troops would stay in Mosul. del Mcheur appealed for restraint pending council findings.
Ruth Given infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Given of Frame Town Braxton county was killed instantly at 3 PM when an auto driven by her father plunged an embankment near Brooks Bridge on the Swale road. The father escaped injury and Mrs Given received cuts to the face. Mr and Mrs J M Young of Strange Creek, other occupants, were lightly injured.
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