Life Path and Counsel From Proverbs 2
A compact reflection on seeking wisdom and avoiding folly from the book of Proverbs. It emphasizes that accepting instruction leads to life while refusal to heed correction results in error.
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1925
Page
6
A compact reflection on seeking wisdom and avoiding folly from the book of Proverbs. It emphasizes that accepting instruction leads to life while refusal to heed correction results in error.
Analyzes Williamstown views on resource sufficiency for 350 to 674 million people, noting current U S population about 114 million. Warns urban sprawl, reduced farmland, and rising food import needs as cities expand into rural areas, making sustenance and employment for vast populations unlikely.
We We re Doing TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Henry St George Tucker named president of Jamestown Exposition Company Judge Thomas Curtain dies at Bristol Ed Herndon Norfolk Colliery bank boss commits suicide TEN YEARS AGO TODAY armed Mexicans cross Rio Grande Mrs Hattie George dies at Midway W Massey and friends escape injuries in automobile wreck near Athens
The passage argues that overcrowding would ruin living standards and oppress mobility if the U S population rose to 600 million. It warns of increased distress and dependence, contrasting potential economic activity with social and moral decline and reaffirming the American ideal of happiness and security for a progressive people.
A column argues for social responsibility toward underprivileged children noting 600000 in the United States and that about eighty percent of criminals come from this class. It warns charity harms independence and reflects on Lincoln Garfield and other leaders born into adversity.
Poem celebrates national pride and devotion to the flag. It speaks of dawns, banners, and unwavering allegiance to the land, duty after God, and unity of worshipers across nations. The speaker pledges loyalty in war or peace and readiness to serve as a patriot band.
The piece argues adversity reveals true character and questions reformers. It distinguishes poverty from genuine underprivilege, condemns paternalistic help, and warns that self-reliance is vanishing as society debates betterment efforts.
An investment banker notes a branch advertising spend of forty thousand dollars yearly by an association of about seven hundred members and predicts eighty million a year in ten years if growth continues. The piece cites advertising expanding markets, more production and wealth, alongside patent office fees and inventions driving efficiency and wealth creation.
The text argues newspapers serve a natural need for personal updates about friends and acquaintances, contrasting gossip with useful information. It also defends the modern path to wealth, noting that as wealth grows so do opportunities, with patent records cited as evidence for invention-driven fortune.
The Southern Newspaper Publishers Association adopted a code of ethics at a meeting in Asheville North Carolina. The code states the first duty of a newspaper is to print the news honestly and fairly and outlines standards for decency honesty and respect for others.
The piece questions whether a happy ending in film is truly happy and whether dramatic destruction and martyrdom can ever serve a satisfying conclusion, suggesting that audiences demand a moral reform beyond spectacle.
A columnist argues that using slang like dumb as a transfer from German dumm risks losing nuance. They urge balancing imported words such as stumm to express mute and dumb states, warning against impoverishing everyday speech.
Hybrids named huarizo and pacovìnico result from interbreeding llama alpaca and alpaca vicuno at the Puno Peru experimental farm under Colonel R J Stordy. French Academy revives Niepce Daguerre engine using coal and resin fuel amid gasoline fears. Aniline dyes touted by Dr W Churchman as antiseptics may treat infections without harming human tissue.
In a confidential note to foreign missions in Washington Secretary Kellogg questions surplus alcohol at embassies and legations. He implies some officials may traffic in banished spirits, noting diplomats’ immunity and the risk of diplomatic incidents if authorities act.
An essay reflects on a century of technological progress from railroads to radio and touching on education, free thought, and shifting political boundaries. It argues against rigid, geography based governance and calls for adaptive institutions to fit new freedoms and global realities.
Lincoln G. Andrews, new assistant secretary in charge of prohibition enforcement, reportedly fed Secretary Kellogg a tip. The leak, while unlikely Mary Kellogg desired news, is described as unquestionably true.
Dr H 8 Cumming outlines protective measures for hay fever sufferers. Advice covers relocating during pollen peaks, limiting strenuous activity, sealing rooms, amber glasses for eyes, and early desensitization injections. Emphasizes starting treatment about three months before symptoms begin for best results.
A collection of humorous exchanges across everyday life. A shoe salesman jokes about wear, a father and son mishear each other on grades, a liver seller and liver pills gag, a church hymn joke, a telephonist nap during service, a banker’s frayed notes at a wedding, and a hopeful couple offering money for the minister’s dinner.
Cairo Egypt experts describe wall drawings in the Rekhmara tomb near Thebes showing artisans boiling glue splitting wood into thin sheets and veneering finer woods onto coarser stock as ancient carpentry techniques.
A collection of brief quotes lampooning immigrants and social topics. The New York Herald Tribune notes anti-Chinese sentiment, the Minneapolis Journal mentions a traveler and a golfer clearing a Pullman car, and Marshalltown Messenger hints at the shadow of the gibbet versus a changing era.
A man was arrested for s) in a Chicago theater while the same show was seen elsewhere. Nine men failed to land a fish off New Jersey coast where booze is thrown overboard. A movie actor and his wife are said to be close friends according to latest press notes.
An advertisement touts Dr. Leonhardt's internal treatment for piles claiming to remove the cause. Goodykoontz Drug Co. and all druggists sell HEM-ROID with a guarantee of effectiveness or money back. Consumers urged to try the remedy today.
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