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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1925
Page
2
The page compiles shop promos and notices across Bluefield including coal and supply firms, a new pharmacy under Westercraft name, a violin studio move, a quality hats clearance, real estate sale offers, lodging and transportation notes, church events, and criminal reports. It notes a false alarm, larceny charges, forgery arrest, and public notices.
The state supreme court dismissed from docket the case styled by W L Hunter and others against A K Lusk and others of Wyoming county for failure to prosecute after four terms. The court heard arguments in several cases from Wyoming and Mingo counties and continued others until next month.
William Martin and Ed Irwin admitted stealing 180 postal savings stamps from a boarding house in Grant Town and tried to cash or secure a loan with the stamps at post offices in Port Marion Morgantown and Uniontown before police intervened. They are held in jail awaiting arrival of Fairmont officers.
Dr. W. W. Morton recalls a severe nerane outbreak in Webster County with a toll comparable to the 1917 18 influenza. He notes a similar fall 1880 epidemic in the Hol river region causing many deaths and mentions a local family wiped out.
The board confirmed Bennett as the new city manager. Other actions include treatment of Montvale Park and a $600 claim by Mrs. Henderson being rejected for improper itemization. The city to study paving on Wyoming Street and Groveland Street light initiation, while Burgess Electric’s request for free permits was denied. Salary increases for Amanda Rex and Jennie Baker were approved.
Divers recovered two bodies from the sunken submarine S-51 near Newport R I as crews worked through the night. Navy personnel at the submarine base in New London praised radio man James Harran for his super-human handling of messages and his potential promotion to chief petty officer. A Swedish scientist unveiled a color-changing paint signaling overheating in machinery.
Gossip from Balmoral Castle claims Queen Mary danced the French tango with a head servant at the annual servants ball, a rarity in royal entertaining. London reports also note changes in children's literature tastes, Shakespeare League findings, and a crackdown on whistle for taxis under wartime rules.
Freiburg im Breisgau Germany Sept 29 the French aviator udonne Coste was fined 5000 gold marks with the option of spending two hundred days in jail for the trial costs and his confiscated plane. 2600 marks of the fine were counted paid by his detention. Coste and Thierry crashed in the Black Forest while attempting an unauthorised flight from Etampes France to edad.
Des Moines state board of control bureau of child welfare announced about 100 600 names will appear on the list of Iowa residents ineligible to marry. The names belong to inmates of state insane asylums or hospitals.
Paris reports the death of Leon Bourgeois former French premier and one of the creators of the League of Nations. He suffered a sudden attack ending a long illness that hindered his recent work for the League. Paris press hailed him as founder and champion of the League’s spirit before the Versailles treaty.
A Princeton residence owned by Chris Langford was totally destroyed by a blaze last night. Firefighters could not reach the hilltop home due to distance from a hydrant, and only a small portion of silverware was saved. Langford, who had been away, was briefly knocked back by flames as he opened a bathroom door and the fire spread after a bathroom floor collapsed. The fire reportedly started in the basement near paint. Insurance details were not learned.
Philadelphia report details chauffeur Peter M. Long in pursuit of a parked auto thief who stole Brigadier General Butler's car. Shots were fired as the fleeing thief circled the block and then vanished in a traffic jam, with no injuries reported to the man.
In Pottaville Pennsylvania on September 29 two teens George Kosar sixteen and Yan Andruski fifteen residents of William Penn near Shenandoah were severely burned while handling blasting powder. They filled pockets and a bag with explosive, lit a match and flare up ignited the powder. Doctors offered little hope for recovery.
Atlantic City N J September 29 Alexander Dunbar was elected president of the clearing house section of the American Bankers Association to succeed W Allendorfer of Kansas City.
A swarm of bees invaded a county jail in Chardon Ohio causing a stir in jail cells and courthouse yard. The insects settled in a liquor mash barrel and were subdued by a beekeeper who placed them into three hives. The beekeeper remains unfazed amid the commotion.
A fragmented OCR listing places and street intersections in Bluefield and Raleigh area states fire alarm signals. It mentions fire stations on Southside and Northside and several streets and avenues near Princeton Ave and Bluefield Ave. The note reads like a directory of alarm locations and cross streets without a narrative event.
American Captain Lansing C. Holden and Dr. V. Sparks, traveling from Ouezzan, faced Rif Rif tribes in a four hour clash. They sheltered in a valley under heavy fire until tanks and machine gunners neutralized the attack, leaving the hills cleared.
Rates on low volatile coal in lump egg and nut sizes are published under docket 16 006 amended to date and take effect October 15 with ten days’ notice. The list of certs per gross ten to typical points includes Baltimore 3.45 and up to Boston 6.70 with many New England and East Coast cities priced between 3.94 and 7.45.
Washington September 29 The shipping board votes to transmit a letter to President Coolidge regarding its stance on President Palmer of the fleet corporation. The resolution directs the letter’s sending, while indicating no clear shift in Palmer’s resignation. The board asserts its independent status and calls for revising current conditions with the fleet corporation.
In Omaha Ford reliability test, one of seventeen crafts arrived at Fort Cop field from Des Moines. Pilot Casey Jones was out after his aircraft struck a motorcycle while taxiing. Jones and his mechanic escaped injury, reporter Frank Bogart slightly hurt. The eighth plane to land was Jones's, with the Kerker plane No. 20 first at 3:20, then Ford plane No. 20.
Hancock authorities plan to indict Fred G. Beale, missing since last Friday when his wrecked car and a charred corpse were found, as Delaware Grand Jury weighs charges of looting James H. Davis's grave. Indictment sought. Beale linked to insurance activity and recent disappearance.
Two of three men who robbed the Queen City Bank in Seattle captured and identified as T. H. Johnson and James Burns. They had broken from King County jail on September 15 with four others. a third robber was captured later.
Paris reports claim Germany seeks to tie war guilt to security talks while France and Britain confirm Locarno conference for October 5 at Locarno Switzerland. Briand and Chamberlain announce opening date and reject re opening of war guilt issue.
Federal prohibition agents seized an underground brewery in an abandoned mine at Pittsburg and confiscated 6,000 gallons of beer along with equipment valued at 20,000 dollars. Two men were arrested and a third escaped.
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