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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1920
Page
6
The notice outlines Associated Press republication rights and local news content. It lists subscription rates by mail and city carrier, detailing zone-based pricing, six month, three month, and one month terms, with single copies priced at ten cents. The date is Thursday December 23, 1920.
The article argues against a general embargo on agricultural imports citing potential harm to world trade and future export opportunities. It calls for careful tariff adjustments, reciprocity, and the reintroduction of maximum and minimum regulations. It notes Europe’s debt and suggests accepting some goods as payment or re‑exporting them under direction. Taft’s past complaints about tariff revision are referenced.
The piece notes a drop in interest in spiritualism among both British and American readers after the war. Fewer seances, fewer books, and smaller lecture audiences reflect a shift toward practical affairs and calmer reasoning. It argues superstition lasts longer but cannot withstand logical scrutiny.
The tent colonies in Mingo county are described as boosting sympathy for the stick miners cause. The article notes the movement’s clever leaders and argues that if men and women move families into tents during the war, public attention and sympathy will be directed toward their plight.
A garbled text fragment presents disjointed phrases about Greek and Constantine, oil for democracy, Santa Claus as a friend, and an urgent call. The lines read like a distressed internal monologue with scattered imagery and incomplete sentences.
A special session of the Wayne county court apportioned railroad valuation among districts, listing Norfolk and Western total at 750 474.50. Mrs. Harry J. Rees died after a several day illness in the city. Train No 3 breached schedule for 1900. Westminster Society held an entertainment with a cantata The Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe.
The passage argues a husband must prioritize family over fanatic causes and warns against sacrifice for a union over native land when threatened. It describes a sordid coal field clash in Mingo, where coal operators prosper and miners seek share, influenced by a professional organizer urging nonunion action.
Emergency measures will relocate about 500 disabled World War I veterans from Tucson to a temporary hospital set up in an amusement park. The American Legion, War Risk Insurance Bureau, and Public Health Service will coordinate carpenters, nurses, and physicians to staff the facility, with state and federal support and swift shelter arrangements for those already in Tucson.
The poem portrays Christmas as renewing the world and uplifting the poor and lonely. It speaks of the Christ Child’s message of divine kinship and open doors of hope, with imagery of snow, angels, and humble feet treading holy ground as Christmas trumpets ring.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a tourist praises a sunset while a guest ribbingly asserts a misattributed claim. Mr Meekton and Mrs Henpeck join in with a joke about their son’s engagement and a postscript urging him to stay single.
The country and went to Tuscon on their own initiative. The legion is continuing its campaign for hospital facilities for all disabled veterans, Mr. Bolles says.
The Interstate Commerce Commission grants permanent consolidation of the Adams American Wells Fargo and Company and Southern express properties into the American Railway Express Company. The commission believes a single consolidated firm will serve the public with equal rates across all lines.
Miss Mathilde Malkin aged 82 at the Presbyterian Home is naturalized as a United States citizen. She came from England in 1854 and waited to see women gain the ballot before seeking citizenship.
Slav peoples observe two festive periods around Christmas and New Year known as the Great Christmas and the Little Christmas reflecting regional customs and timing of celebrations across diverse Slav regions.
The New York Tribune urges shoppers to embrace Yuletide bargains, noting lower marine prices and adjusted stock losses from wartime purchases. It argues prudent spending will boost commerce, reopen ferries, and spur production, calling this the merriest Christmas since 1913 and urging readers to participate.
In Paris and Lugo Italy a new futurist opera titled Airman Dro features a motorcycle engine fitted to a cycle backstage. The engine replicates the drone of an aircraft propeller, adding an industrial tone to the orchestral score of the production.
Train timetable lists departures from Norfolk Western to Roanoke and connections to Lynchburg Philadelphia New York Cincinnati Columbus and Norton. Speeds include 7 45 am 9 30 am 1 50 pm 6 pm and 11 05 am with dining and sleeping cars and through service to Columbus and Cincinnati. For details contact W B Revill or W C Saunders passenger traffic agents.
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