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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1920
Page
5
Chicago officers plan a beer bust to prevent beverages over 0.5 percent alcohol. Two deputies will monitor breweries to flag makers for license revocation under prohibition enforcement. The drive aims to convict tax dodgers and curb bootlegging while pursuing delinquent whisky seizures.
In Louisville Kentucky Edwin Bartelson alias Irvin Barrington known as Grand Dad Whisky faces charges for shipping 400 cases of illicit liquor to Chicago bootleggers. Investigators say the bourbon brand linked to last week’s Chicago whiskey distribution was unearthed at the home of Happy Jack Galligan and that Bartelson fled to Louisville as federal agents and city police probed the operation led by Division Chief Edward J Brennan.
King Alexander of Greece suffered a severe night after contracting a monkey bite while rescuing his dog from a battle with the animal. Reports say he had two fever attacks and intestinal complications and jaundice have set in.
Eight men posing as revenue agents robbed two men in a West Fifty second street garage. They seized two automobile trucks carrying 400 cases of whisky, then locked the captives inside the garage and fled. Police were alerted an hour later.
An earthquake struck northwestern Vera Cruz with Cordoba Jalapa Teocele and Casautlan districts feeling the tremor. No casualties reported but substantial property damage noted as the quake rumbled through the area that was hit last January.
Des Moines Oct 11 Franklin D Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to travel by airplane from Sedalia Missouri to Kansas City after delivering a speech at Sedalia. The plan underscores his use of air travel in campaign logistics during the period.
Louis Pickus is on a business trip to New York this week, focusing on meetings with clients and partners. The visit includes planned discussions on strategy, partnerships, and potential deals. He is expected to return by week’s end.
Indianapolis, Oct 11. Governor James P. Goodrich claims seventy five percent of U S coal operators have charged exorbitant prices since the war began. He says distributors too profit and backs Indiana fuel commission price controls to cut intrastate coal costs in half and vows to expose excess profits if the industry resists the new law.
Miss Laura Coley departed last Saturday for Montgomery to begin teaching for the upcoming school year. She will take up duties at a local school there and resume her teaching career in the fall term.
Mr and Mrs Geo Bair and their two children came home last Friday after a weeklong vacation to Craig Healing Springs and Roanoke Virginia.
Miss Otta Gorse, who has been visiting relatives here and at Nallen, returned last week to her home at Fayetteville.
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