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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1925
Page
8
A garbled OCR snippet mentions Virginia and figures like 4.50 and 3. It references sets, miles, cones, and dates with unclear context. The text is incomplete with multiple misreads, making precise events or entities hard to identify.
A compact devotional line cites St. Chrysostom on avoiding riches and embracing virtue, framing wealth as not essential but not to lack either. The excerpt reflects spiritual teaching—God’s moment, human origin, and practical moderation.
Business circles show buoyancy after news of northern and eastern markets opening to West Virginia coal. With the best coal proven as a substitute for anthracite, demand can grow if coal men push advantages, demonstrate merits, and introduce the product. The line is clear toward success and prosperity.
The Charleston Gazette lauds an Interstate Commerce Commission ruling raising a joint rate to the east for West Virginia smokeless coal. The decision, effective above the Clearfield rate, aims to revive coal business by opening markets in Pennsylvania Maryland New Jersey New York and New England. It signals renewed opportunity and economic momentum for the state’s coal industry.
The city of Rinefield parts with City Manager C Ridley who leaves to become a university instructor in city management and public affairs. Supporters praise his training and service while wishing him success in the new role.
A driver who fails to slow at a street intersection is deemed reckless and unfit to operate a vehicle, illustrating the danger of speeding through cross traffic. The incident underscores the need for cautious driving and adherence to traffic rules.
A column recalls events from twenty years ago in Bluefield including Rudder arriving in Pinefield and making a home, a wreck near the scale house, coke action declining, Hawley named Bluefield fire chief, a ten years ago note of a Dell Kendall-Werthner recital, and the first playgrounds opened on Beaver High School ridge back, with prizes for Labor Day parade floats.
President Coolidge argues Congress should rest rather than be recalled for tax cuts, saying the economy improves without a special session. He contends no emergency exists and tax reform can wait for a regular December session as prosperity persists.
The proposal for twenty debates between Dr John Roach Straton and Clarence Darrow to push a national anti evolution campaign is seen as ill advised. The piece argues debates would yield only publicity and renewed controversy with no real change in beliefs, as many hold faith from childhood and will endure despite challenges.
A poem celebrating persistence. The speaker describes doubters who say a task cannot be done and a determined mover who grins, rolls up sleeves, and starts to work. He tackles the challenge and completes it, inspiring others to try.
A discussion on fundamental beliefs ends without effect as both sides hold firm. A Chicago man sought for fatally firing an apparently unloaded pistol at a girl, a deadly hoax that raises questions about hidden motives behind reckless acts.
The article notes the theory of relativity may need modification after Dayton Miller reports ongoing ether drift tests at Mount Wilson. It recalls Michelson and Morley’s 1887 experiment and Miller’s long series from 1901 to 1925. Tempel’s comet reappears, seen 1915 and 1920, with Harvard Observatory reporting its return.
A collage of quips on crime beer taxes and domestic disputes from various papers. The Kansas City Star cites gunmen outpacing traffic deaths in Chicago, while the World Herald notes stricter beer penalties in England. Capper's Weekly comments on a family government shift, and Sioux City Journal reports a woman defend herself after abuse.
A garbled mosaic of spoken lines features a canoe tire pump life-preserver joke, family banter about old knockers, Aunt Helen, Aunt Helen, a child seeking medicine, a shop assistant mishearing anti fat, a farmyard chicken, and tramp quips about water and prayers in a domestic scene.
The piece argues nations struggle to prevent war while class conflict remains unaddressed. It cites President Coolidge and calls for lawful power to avert strikes. It compares society to a closed aquarium where life recycles materials, oxygen, and carbon dioxide in a continuous loop.
A quirky collection of light hearted lines and observations from Tom Sims recalling jokes on daily life. The snippets joke about food, fashion, car upkeep and manners with playful twists and wordplay.
A publicist writes to Manufacturers Record arguing modern science and evolution are biased against faith. He cites gravity, German higher criticism, soda as medicine, and materialism in universities, claiming life’s meaning rests on religious belief and revelation. He warns worldly success without soul matters.
Beckley Post-Herald reports the Interstate Commerce Commission approved through freight rates for West Virginia smokeless coal to northern points, including New England. The ruling opens competitive markets after fifteen years of effort, with expected boosts to Beckley area business amid a rebound in coal demand and prices.
A Clarksbury Telegram column recalls two fatal incidents linking old dangers to modern travel. One involves a minister's son killed when his horse team bolted. the other a Gilmer Station woman trapped on a railroad trestle. The piece urges caution near railroad tracks and at grade crossings, noting railways remain dangerous even for short cuts.
The piece argues that great executives create lasting institutions through cooperation and succession, unlike extreme individualists. It contrasts Morgan and Rockefeller with lone figures, defends evolution as a hypothesis, and urges scientific restraint and integrity in education, law, politics, and theology.
President William Green sketches the AFL plan opposing the surtax on big incomes and a sales tax, seeks tax cuts for workers, opposes government wage and hour interference, favors railroad labor board abolition, and supports federal retiree pay increases and private industry workers compensation. He endorses state efforts on child labor and anti-prison product laws and supports U.S. participation in the world court.
A compilation notes various curiosities and statistics from the era. It mentions baby fish on water lice, helium liquefaction, soybean cultivation, Mercury’s high speed, college enrollment in the United States, rain insurance demand, Cook County onion sets valued over a million dollars, Tokyo household debt post earthquake, silver as a conductor with cost issues, radio-driven science shifts, and a tongue with three taste regions.
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