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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1922
Page
7
The bulletin outlines subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, postage zones, and payment terms. It lists period costs for 1922, including yearly and multi month plans, with mention of Virginia and West Virginia delivery areas and a note on publication dates and offices.
A historical quote collection contrasts labor that kills with labor that feeds. It cites Revelation 2 10 and John Ruskin urging noble leadership in productive work and humane treatment of captains of labor.
Gen Perehing urges a great army to make a great nation while Admiral Sims favors a powerful navy. Harding would expand newspapers, editors claim this saves the country. Farmers seek stable republic via better agriculture, labor calls for safer industry, capital protection of investments. All are partly right and partly wrong.
The article recalls W F Thiehoff starting as a section-hand on the Burlington railroad east of the Missouri about 40 years ago. It highlights long hours, low pay, and the path of hard work and ambition that led him to become general manager of a major system segment. It underscores the belief that diligent effort and superior work open advancement, sometimes aided by outside influence, but mainly earned by personal achievement.
A broad movement spreads across Detroit Cleveland Omaha and Los Angeles courts urging strict enforcement of traffic laws. Judges in leading cities crack down on drivers who endanger lives with negligent or reckless operation of motor vehicles, aiming to reduce fatal incidents.
Ten years ago today Oak French gave a lecture at Bland Street Methodist church titled Men Among Men. Norfolk and Western President Kimball announced a half million dollar rail improvements in Bluefield. Pocahontas Collieries supply house at Pocahontas destroyed by fire. Mrs. Lee Burtless died at Princeton. George Karloa of Busy Bee Restaurant left for Greece to fight Turks. Pinoak post office, Mercer county, ordered discontinued.
A judge vows to end dangerous speeding with longer sentences. In Los Angeles 63 speeders were jailed in one day, sentences from two to 30 days. The editorial argues courts should apply drastic measures to protect the public and deter motorists from violations.
A collage of brief notes from newspapers remarks on prohibition price of liquor Kipling illness boxing and a Frisco invention. Humorous quips touch on the king and pigwoman in the fall Milla case and other assorted curiosities.
A fragmentary poem voice invites adventurers to the frozen North while the speaker remains unmoved by the call. Imagery of icelandic oceans and Borealis shifts to personal comfort as the speaker plans to stay home in a steam heated flat.
A Nashville Banner editorial surveys dethroned monarchs including George of Greece, Wilhelm II, Constantine, Mohammed VI, Victor Emmanuel III, Alfonso XIII, Manuel II, and George V. It contrasts their exile, wealth, and comforts with the burdens of kingship, noting shifting power and safety fears.
The piece mixes anecdotes and quotes from John Huhs in Illinois who moved to Germany with $600 converted to marks, Tony Kuletski’s motorcycle crash in Indiana, and claims by James F. Bishop on fingerprinting as a universal ID. It notes Ruppert’s brewery expansion and Volstead Act expectations, plus auto-suggestion via Coue for business prosperity and a December 16 deadline for veterans’ vocational training applications.
A Philadelphia Inquirer viewpoint notes that country schools once heralded as virtuous are now often in poor condition. Failing heating and ventilation, leaky roofs, and dilapidation drive calls for consolidation and transportation to larger buildings, aided by motor cars, though some areas still rely on small rural schools.
A short, quirky collection of jokes and observations on Christmas, politics, travel, and daily life. The piece riffs on potato prices, fashion, trains, toys, and human nature with a humorous, satirical tone. The passage touches on famous figures, kindness to animals, and philosophical musings about balance and happiness.
The piece argues that rival groups form to counteract others, citing the Loyal Order of Americans versus the Ku Klux Klan. It suggests a perpetual balance where new organizations rise to oppose predecessors, reflecting a cyclical view of political power and social order.
A compact reading of Paul’s letter warning Christians to stand fast in truth, beware a coming departure, and the rise of lawless signs before the day of the Lord. It urges steadfastness, prayer, and holding to gospel traditions amid deception.
Berlin reports a second sweeping straw vote showing 91.8 percent of Osnabrueck electors favor absolute prohibition. Prohibitionists cite economic pressures and a government note to reparations officials as aiding their cause. Local protests in Greater Berlin over schoolteacher dismissals spark mass meetings and calls to protect education.
A string of rural jokes and anecdotes from Pat and Rastus to a city visitor plays on laundry man mischief and cow milking with comic twist. Local lines mix humor about a donkey coat prank and a tale of a drunk pig leading officers to a still near Johnson City Tennessee.
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