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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1935
Page
6
Local notices and subscriptions details for the Bluefield West Virginia paper. Includes postal rates, delivery zones, and a Bible verse, with no clear news event or main story.
The piece denounces boondoggling as wasteful public expenditure under the New Deal and cites a Republican pamphlet titled Roosevelt the Waster. It lists specific allocations from $1,300 to literary advisers in Stockton to $81,611 for a Skull Valley road, arguing many projects lacked clear value and urging focus on essential infrastructure like highway 52 and a crosstown bridge.
The article notes Italy may attack League members if sanctions are imposed and Japan advances in North China, challenging the nine power treaty. France warns Italy against attacking British ships in the Mediterranean, hinting at a broader conflict. It portrays fascist aggression as a test of the League’s resolve and the fate of European stability.
The North China railway, British owned, has fallen into Japanese hands after collateral to secure a Chinese loan. Britain protests to Tokyo citing the nine power treaty and seeks US support. London weighs fleet moves to Singapore amid Italy tensions and warns Washington to mind its own business.
The Daily Telegraph argues highway deaths rival war tolls and urges public opinion to push for careful driving. It notes 51,500 Americans died in 18 months of peace and 1,000,000 injured in traffic, claiming traffic death tolls exceed wars fought by the United States. It laments waste and questions teaching youths to danger on roads.
Bluefield presents daily Telegraph with local national and world news plus merchant announcements and Santa Claus season notes. Thousands will receive the issue and a goodwill tour extends to Grundy for the coal development. Bluefield invites all to attend the big Santa Claus parade next Monday.
A physician in Billerica Massachusetts died last week after practicing medicine for thirty seven years without sending a bill or dunning patients, never issuing receipts, and not keeping records of fees. The obituary notes he will be missed and that we shall never see his like again.
Harry Hopkins criticizes Governor Alf Landon centering on Kansas balanced budget plans. The exchange frames a fiscal dispute as a test of political resolve and budgetary discipline.
A western man who swapped his wife for a cow urges patience until Secretary Hull secures the Canadian treaty, suggesting a chance for a better bargain.
A verse reflecting on rising costs since Townsend era. The speaker laments shrinking money, higher prices for basics, and lost wealth while recalling younger days. The piece roots in Detroit readers, concluding with the line When you and I were stung.
J Ludy elected counsel for Bluefield camp of Modern Woodmen of America. Co H Ritter of Bluefeld and Alma J Akers of Pulaski county Virginia wed at Grace Methodist church parsonage.
Dr L H Clark of Kyle was installed grand scribe of the Royal Arch Masons of West Virginia during a special Northfork conclave. Seventeen hundred coke ovens were being fired at Gary as the city considered adopting a city manager form of government at Graham.
Howard Matthews of Wheeling gave the annual memorial address at the Bluefield lodge of Elks in the Colonial theater. Judge J Frank Maynard narrowly escaped fatal injuries after a collision between his automobile and a street car on Bland street. L A Osborne was elected president of the Welch Kiwanis club.
The piece argues American naval design trends favor larger ships with heavy 16 inch guns and high speed, noting Washington and London treaty limits pushed weight savings. It suggests the United States could push for keeping battleship and gun size limits, leveraging its economic capacity to rebuild a powerful fleet and influence conference outcomes.
Katharine Dayton and George Kaufman lampoon a real life First Lady in a veiled Broadway satire. Ben Hecht and Charlie MacArthur deny the piece but discuss its inspiration. The column notes Parisian and American fashion, the Ten Best Dressed Men, and the Waldorf Astoria Men’s Bar with its secretive charm and clubby rituals.
Yale president Angell predicts endowments could fund football and other college sports. The piece imagines memorial gifts shaping a Duxbury Memorial Gridiron and naming portals after donors, from Luther P. Duxbury to Wellington Z Moore and Amos R Queenel, with a Cheering Section and a Hot Dog Foundation.
A college catalogue notes endowments from Peter H. Hooper for post season upkeep of goal posts, Hillary Goggins funds to improve turf and line work, and Everett Wooselpett to finance band uniforms and cheerleader equipment. The text mixes commentary and satire on campus life and local affairs.
City and coalfield offer two piece bath sets and towel sets in all colors. Regular 1.27 items on sale for 97 cents each. St. Louis railroad president weds his manicurist in a noted modern rail executive headline.
Zodiac guidance for December 6 focuses on timing, money caution, and social ease. It highlights risks from counterfeit banknotes and theft, urges prudent behavior in finances, and notes potential career paths like teaching, writing, or real estate. Prominent names include Edward H. Sothern and Jane G. Swisshelm.
The Tabor Motor Sales firm, active in used cars for a year, has acquired the Hupmobile agency here. Offices and showroom at 532 Bluefield Avenue near the Bob Litz garage, with the used car department on Raleigh Street. They have leased Pure Oil Station No. 3 on Bluefield Avenue and plan more stations. They seek a charter as Tabor Motor Sales, Inc., with D. W. Tabor Jr. as president and others as officers.
Treasury figures show Americans drank over 1.35 billion gallons of beer, 65.5 million gallons of liquor, and 25 million gallons of wine in the year ending June 30, 1935, with total estimated public cost about 2.57 billion dollars. Dry advocates argue prohibition cost and social harm were lower under repeal, while wets contend bootleg costs and consumption remain high.
The reviewer praises Darwin L. Teilhet s The Ticking Terror Murders featuring Baron von Kaz as a lively clever detective tale. George Harmon Coxe s Murder With Pictures is also lauded for its engaging photographer detective and ingenious baffling plot. Both books are deemed well worth reading.
Bruce Catton’s column offers witty cultural sketches noting a Nazi wedding quip about marrying into a groom’s forefathers and the counterpoint that a groom often inherits many of a bride’s relatives. The fragment hints at an Antarctic explorer missing months with an excuse of a “night of” indulgence.
Washington reports a heated clash between President Roosevelt and bankers over the federal debt ceiling. Treasury finacing profits favor bankers while Morgenthau is praised for soup-like gains. Talks of a truce and nearer ties between Morgenthau and bankers surface as neutrality and new banking policy loom.
The Mercer county retail merchants group meets Monday at 7 30 PM at the West Virginian hotel to plan and further county unit activities. Non member merchants in Mercer county are urged to attend.
J. W. Haynes long operated a Stewart street rooming house and died yesterday in Hot Springs Arkansas. He left Bluefield six months ago and likely went to Hot Springs, with police told to locate relatives. Haynes had two brothers Charles and Robert living in Wilkesboro North Carolina. His funeral biscuits were baked and sold for funeral distributions in Halifax England.
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