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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1920
Page
4
Publication statement from the Daily Telegraph Printing Co of Bluefield West Virginia noting print schedule, office locations, mail remittance address and Associated Press rights for news dispatch republication.
Rates listed for mail subscriptions in West Virginia and distant zones with annual and quarterly options. Includes prices for one and two year prepaid periods, territory ranges up to 600 miles, and city carrier terms with annual and quarterly payments. Single copies and daily Sunday issues noted.
The quotes urges flexible thinking and changing viewpoints to gain clearer understanding, contrasting with rigid stance on a fixed pedestal. It emphasizes growth through adaptive perspective.
The piece argues President Wilson acts as an individual not empowered to mediate the Armenian mandate. It notes Republicans reject the mandate, European powers’ suspicion, and warns of ethnic tensions in Turkey. It also questions Wilson’s diplomatic posture and potential consequences. It ends with a curio about a Wyoming ranchman seeking a bride and film distance.
Resentment toward the administration grows in the middle west as farm price declines trigger stress and readjustment. The Federal Reserve Board and other agencies are said to have room to assist farmers, with numerous western suggestions emerging.
Recap of fatal shootings and deaths: Adam Bailey and Dr. Thomasson shot at Panther by James H W Chambers. Thomas and John Graham killed in the mines of the Southwest Improvement Company Pocahontas. J M Wonsker dies from lumber fall near Hinton. Catlettsburg suspect John Gibson captured after torture death of his three year old stepdaughter. Also ten years ago a colored domestic Chra Reynolds burned in a house fire at 829 Princeton Avenue. McDowell county criminal court adjourned with sixty seven convictions. seventeen to penitentiary. Railroad official L H Pettepiece widens Bowyer street.
The piece outlines ten relief measures with emphasis on placing a tariff on Canadian wheat to curb flood of imports. It notes the 1913 Democratic tariff revisions widened the free list, delaying full effects due to wartime conditions. Currently, prospects for relief are dim as any tariff bill would likely be vetoed by President Wilson, and Republicans lack enough votes to override.
An old advertisement touts Gowan’s Baby Salve as a cooling soothing external application gentle on tender skin. It claims immediate breathing ease and rapid congestion relief by breaking up congestion in blood vessels using an animal patent base.
Advertisement touts Gowan's original penetrating salve for colds and spasmodic croup in babies. External application claimed to relief breathing, with no stomach upset, and not stain clothing. Also notes broad home uses and price 30¢ to $1.20. Mentions British government increasing women factory inspectors.
An editorial notes if Will Hays can speed mail as quickly as he won votes for Harding and Coolidge, his first presidential act should be to appoint him Postmaster General. The comment appears in the Gloversville Leader-Republican.
Editorial urges selecting only the essence of immigrant entrants and quickly offering paths to citizenship for those who adopt the republics principles, stressing full opportunity to become loyal citizens.
Quote from the Chicago Daily News notes that success in politics demands wisdom modesty far sighted sympathy and a broad grasp of affairs and suggests affiliation with the Republican party or at least being part of it.
A collection of humorous notices and quips from various papers. Topics include poultry yields, petrol reserves lasting generations, John D. Rockefeller, Cal Coolidge shoe rumors, two Dubli n warnings, Los Angeles tent appeals for the houseless, and Oxford University female student registrations.
Miriam Ann Kirby, weighing over 500 pounds, required eight bearers for her funeral in Hull. The coffin was the cemetery’s largest ever interred. A New York physician claims many ailments in women stem from excessive automobile riding and lack of exercise.
A string of light jokes and wry remarks sketched from everyday life. The dialogue features Jud Tunkins on happiness and self starters, a Sunday School ant tale with a grim punchline, a marital dispute over a black eye, a hosiery department joke, and a shop clerk responding to a color request with blunt humor.
John Bongs reportedly hired a ball and hosted a feast that drew public interest. He allegedly consumed 27 feet of pork sausage five pounds of raw beef steak three hogs eyes in shells four dried herrings and one gallon of home brew, as spectators watched.
In Mercer County four trustees of Bluefield Lodge 269 and the Elks association seek court permission to sell part of the Elks Opera House property fronting Federal Street. The petition, filed November 26 1920 in the 4th Circuit Court, targets the parcel described in Deed Book 92 page 81 including building and land around the Elks Opera House.
The document outlines a property line with bearings and distances around the Elks Building on Raleigh Street and Federal Street, totaling about 5739.2 square feet. It notes court involvement for a sale petition and a December 6, 1920 hearing date with H. D. Karnits as Clerk.
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