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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1927
Page
6
The new Congress opens amid diverse public questions and broad policy clashes. President Coolidge’s message is praised as able and constructive, outlining a program with flood control, farm relief, and other key issues likely to energize voters for upcoming elections.
An English publicist C. H. Bretherton in the North American Review argues America is a tyranny not a democracy and predicts a fight to replace an unworkable system. He contrasts Britain’s monarchy with democracy and notes many restrictive U S laws while acknowledging sweeping majorities in elections.
Mary Garden argues jazz is a machine age distortion defined as a dog chasing a tin can. She predicts jazz’s subsidence as audiences favor masterworks and vocal and orchestral programs on radio.
A man named Tacket was arrested in Pikeville Kentucky and held for Tazewell county authorities charged with furnishing the law which allowed 11 prisoners to escape. The Bland Street Methodist church paving campaign ended successfully. Funerals for 60 miners killed in a Mondéugah West Virginia explosion were held.
An elderly narrator, age ninety, sits watching the sinking sun over the harbor. He recalls schooldays, lovers, fishermen, and merchants, and notes how life holds joy and bitterness. He reflects on aging, memory, and the steady passage of time as the scene fades.
A Wheeling Intelligencer excerpt urges WV to favor consuming its coal domestically by building mills and factories, boosting state power and industry. It argues coal reserves are vast and future tech will rely on WV coal, urging policies to reduce export of value. It also notes mixed reaction to pacifist Rev Kirby Page at the University YWCA event.
The piece notes a sudden emptiness in Wall Street as a week of frantic activity ends. It contrasts the vanished clatter of typewriters with a coming rush of crowds and discusses changing roles of chorus girls and dancing schools in New York, plus brief commentary on professors and student thinking.
Ashington dispatch argues Senator William E Borah may back Herbert Hoover for the Republican nomination finding few viable rivals. It notes Norris unlikely and Borah could seek a future secretary of state role if Hoover wins and Smith is Democratic nominee.
A compilation of quirky quotes from multiple papers mentioning political terms, draft programs, and humorous commentary on presidential terms. Notable lines reference Indiana politics, Coolidge, and a casting of public opinion on labor and obesity remedies.
Editorial writers across major papers mock the companionate marriage idea noting it replaces home responsibilities with a public spectacle. They warn of divorce risks, economic duties, and a hollow alliance as society debates this trend and its impact on family life.
This early 20th century article notes the scale of mental defect care in the United States. It cites 335000 patients in hospitals as of 1924, with annual costs around 75 million dollars and per capita earning losses about 240 million, comparing care costs to higher education. It introduces heredity, alcohol, syphilis, and social factors as causes.
Fragmentary notes mention a theme of bigamy and divorce with social judgement. It hints at bootleggers prospering and references to judgmental attitudes toward marriage and law during a period of moral concern.
A column contrasts the idea of abolishing war with practical politics and duty. It cites Benjamin Franklin, pacifism, and wartime choices, then praises an Arkansas City high school flapper who saves a drowning boy using improvised first aid. It notes 1918 murder statistics in England and Wales alongside crime risk comparisons and critiques two state bank guaranty systems as overbanked failures.
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