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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1920
Page
4
The Daily Telegraph Printing Co Bluefield West Virginia lists advertising rates and subscription terms. Rates cover mail zones within West Virginia and distant zones with tiered monthly and yearly prices and carrier delivery options.
Fragmentary quotation praises love of God over worldly pleasure. The writer signs as Carlysie and asserts an eternal affirmative guiding actions and moral resolve.
The piece argues parties should align with national platforms while seeking fair primaries possibly via precinct conventions rather than a return to old conventions. It notes Bluefield’s summer progress with new residences and projected homes, linking activity to potential drops in building material prices.
The piece quotes Homer Cummings advocating a broad “any kind of a league” stance and questions whether Wilson and Cox support that view. It probes whether Wilsonian or Coxian positions align with this league concept and asks how voters should respond to a potential contract with Europe and Asia.
A worried view outlines brutal conflicts between Greece and Turkey, Poland and Russia, and broader world tensions. It accuses America of provoking turmoil by allowing Trotsky to depart for Russia and cites Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis condemning Bolshevik influence and anti American rhetoric amid looming global strife.
The Morgantown Post critiques cultural modernity and political disruptors. It cites Wilkinson of Georgia and Christensen of Utah amid debates on Debs and Mary Pickford, while noting miners, teachers, fashion shifts, and moonshine lore as signs of a restless era.
A Baltimore businessman argues that denying Trotsky a passport could have altered war outcomes. He criticizes the armistice for halting allied advances and warns that Bolshevik aims and German opportunism grew from that pause, potentially endangering world peace.
A collage of lines notes betting sums for clubs and players 1000 to beat rivals 100000 for stars moonshine sickness linked to price anger in Kentucky village betting on hats and car owners ruffling pedestrians across papers.
Vienna reports barter remains vital as the Austrian peasant trades clothing, hides, and yarn for eggs butter and other staples. A retired officer exchanged roebuck hides for groves, a village glovier turned hides into cider mutton and veal, and wool from eleven sheep knit stockings for winter.
Twenty years ago today a new fire company was formed with Jas E Walton as captain and T E Sullivan as assistant. W W Thompson a noted Bluefielder died in Baltimore.
The Bahamas issues an order in council to fully protect the flamingo colonies nesting in its marshes after a government expedition documented their habitat. Since 1801 sponge fishermen decimated the population from about 6 000 to 7 000, raising extinction concerns.
Recipes of Our Pioneer Mothers describe home remedies using roots herbs and barks for disease. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound emerged from these recipes and became a popular cure for female ills, praised for restoring health and happiness across the nation.
Newcastle on Tyne reports that America threatens Britain's coal monopoly in Europe. W J Noble chair of the Tyne Improvement Commission cited new competition from the United States and Australia, noting large American coal stocks in Scandinavia and a contract for 200000 tons from Australia.
Reports say Mme Currie could follow Dr Carrelle to the United States, taking a gramme of radium and seeking support from the Rockefeller Institute. The motive is the French grant of 12 000 francs being insufficient for her experiments.
A speaker warned against underestimating American coal competition in postwar markets. He cited 1913 and 1919 shipment figures to Europe and the Mediterranean, noting United States coal rising to 12,713,000 tons in 1919 from 476,000 in 1913 while U K exports fell.
United Kingdom and United States trade data for 1913 and 1919 reveal large declines in coal shipments and tonnage to South America. Mr. Noble argues increased production was needed to regain trade, citing higher US coal prices and a government embargo as creating an opportunity.
England logged 35 854 flights carrying 70 000 passengers in the first year of civil aviation with only one fatal accident at the International Air Show. Comptroller-General Sir F H Sykes stated that Britain has conquered the air and aims to develop commercial potential. The total miles flown were not disclosed in the readable text.
Motion picture companies paid about $200,000 for the privilege of shooting films at the recent papal ceremony, securing rights to capture the event on camera.
Initial year figures show 734 200 pounds revenue and 116 488 pounds of goods carried. By March end air cargo between the United Kingdom and the continent exceeded 204 000 pounds. England licensed 114 aerodromes and registered 518 aircraft in the first year of civil flying.
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