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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1920
Page
6
The Daily Telegraph Printing Co lists subscription prices for mail and city carrier delivery. Rates cover West Virginia zones and extended regions with varying terms and advance payments. Details include one year seven dollars and ninety cents by mail, and monthly options for six months or three months, plus single copies.
The piece laments thieves wasting stolen wealth from a Burlington treasure car and argues there is no schooling for spenders. It notes nations, schools, and home instruction neglect money management while urging better financial literacy. It also mentions immigration restriction debates and rising public interest in national needs.
About 1,500 Boy Scouts visited the Theodore Roosevelt grave at Oyster Bay for the first Roosevelt Memorial Pilgrimage. The event will be annual with “picked men” speaker scouts from Oyster Bay New Jersey and Connecticut in attendance as Carter Beard, national scout commissioner, laid a wreath.
Poetic meditation on a cloudless sky and the search for truth beyond knowledge. The speaker calls for daily growth through faith, wonder, and awe before the vast blue, recognizing mystery as a guiding force in wisdom.
Theodore E. Burnett praised Theodor Roosevelt as a model of Americanism. He lauded Roosevelt's life and character and urged listeners to embrace his teachings, calling him the greatest Boy Scout in public life.
A returning traveller reports Emma Goldman, the anarchist deported to Russia, dislikes Soviet life and is eager to return to America. She allegedly agreed to aid revolution data collection but finds the job unsatisfactory and asks to be sent home. The traveler suspects propaganda and poverty lure.
A compilation from various papers notes Japan’s stance toward war, Kansas Spur mill activity, and a Kansas City preacher appointed as special policeman. It comments on Thanksgiving gratitude and the watchdog role of a shepherd as a crook catcher.
The Weekly Review investigates the claims that Washington banker C. D. Vanderlip secured a 400000 square mile concession from the Soviet government to exploit eastern Siberia. The piece recalls past similar intrigues and parallels with earlier Alaska gold fever, noting uncertainties and the absence of tangible finds.
Historic notes recall William S Baxter and Miss Lacle Chrisman wedding at Martinsburg West Virginia. A safe robbery netted 115 dollars at Brural Rail station. Free city mail delivery delayed. Beaver Pond Teachers Institute listed participants. Ten years ago Bill Lee found dead on a Wyoming county railroad track amid fraud charges in McDowell county election. Fire hit H B Kitts home on Higginbotham avenue. Parish couples Annie Killey and James O Keefe wed in Vivian. McKinley Club banquet in Welch. Keys buys Roanoke property moving family. Yu kon Pocahontas coal motorman Wm McKinley killed when bridge collapsed.
The New York Tribune notes a roving prospector Washington D. Vanderlip who collected Eskimo photos for magazine stories. It questions possible eastern Siberian treasures and Lenin’s leverage, predicting Bolshevist groups will spin the tale to claim vast U.S. gains if Lenin is recognized.
Dr Blair's Dream of Cucumber is promoted as a refined complexion preparation. It claims soothing effects, clears and smooths skin, reduces windburn redness, helps with chapped skin, and advertises lasting wear with daily use. Available in 50c and 1.00 sizes in white and flesh colors.
Dr. Charles J. Smith announces that the General Education Board in New York City has pledged 165 000 toward Roanoke College’s 500 000 endowment campaign. The gift depends on raising the full amount. A trustees meeting will be held during Christmas holidays to finalize plans.
A speaker recounts a simple chain of communication where the boss assigns a task to the cashier, who passes it to the bookkeeper, then to the clerk, and finally to the speaker who completes it because there was no one else to tell.
The Lincoln dean endorsed a bill requiring health certificates before marriage. He argued modern immorality stems from religious decline, weakening home discipline, luxury growth, and loss of life simplicity.
A collage of witty lines and social q uips from New York and New Jersey papers features political banter on Democrats, a handsome young doctor facing galling prospects, and a humorous joke about a physician explaining patient complaints in medical terms to a wealthy client.
In London the three youths faced court for street football. They played a game described as kicking a stone, and the magistrate ruled the stone could be a football. Each boy was fined 62 cents.
Oakland Cal Lewis Adam Vincent has won the prize from the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the best essay on fire prevention.
Brazil has remodeled its mining laws to invite exploitation of its scarcely explored metal deposits, aiming to unlock what is believed to be extensive mineral resources.
Hostess Houses run by the American Red Cross and the YWCA at Bony Fere-en-Tardenois and Belleau Woods will close this winter due to few visitors. The Romagne Argonne house will stay open, with plans to reopen in spring if needed. Hundreds of travelers have received meals and rest facilities near the graves.
A London steeplejack painting a tall chimney at Pluckley Brickworks in Kent is accompanied by his wife who has sensationally climbed to the top of the shaft with him. She is equally adept as he is and shares the ascent and skill.
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