Bluefield Daily Telegraph Classified Billing Details
Bluefield Daily Telegraph information page lists establishment date 1893 and office at 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia. It notes second class matter status since December 15 1883 and Associated Press membership with publication rights and subscription rates by carrier 35 cents a week and mail 15 0 0 per year.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Associated Press
West Virginia
Sermon Excerpt Encourages Faith in Christ’s Healing Power
A religious quotation urges believers to bring the mysteries of Christ life death and resurrection to aid humble and common human needs. The text highlights ministering service and the idea of Christ as ransom for many.
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Christ
Phillips. Brooks
Nation Goes On War Footing In National Emergency
President Truman declares a national emergency and moves the country to a war footing. The administration will mobilize industry, draft manpower, raise taxes, and endure shortages to defend against Soviet aggression. The piece notes urgency, preparations, and the stakes for liberty amid cold war tensions.
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Truman
Soviet
Russia
Washington
Congress
Moscow
Politburo
Kremlin
Europe
America
Price-Control Orders Expected To Be Widespread
Price-control orders are seen spreading beyond autos as the Defense Production Act triggers ceilings on prices and wage stabilization across industries. Farm price limits are outlined with parity or the prior peak price as baselines, with special rules for milk tobacco and certain farm products.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Defense and Production Act
Defense Production
Kennedy Prediction Proved Accurate Says Kennedy in Charlottesville
Former ambassador Joseph Kennedy warned in Charlottesville that Russia would force the United States into a state of emergency this week without combat or casualties. He criticized the Truman administration’s foreign policy as “solidified communism,” weakening economic and hemispheric defense and labeling policy morally bankrupt. He aligned with views that Moscow still pulls the world’s strings.
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Joseph Kennedy
London
Charlottesville
Russia
Truman
Kennedy
Boston
Mass
Court of St. James
Franklin D. Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Mr. Truman
Mr. Acheson
United States
Hoover proposal signals two ocean frontiers in policy shift
Editorial notes Herbert Hoover’s radio address favors a two ocean frontier approach. He warns against overextending forces and calls for readiness beyond frontiers only with allied democratic nations fully committed to defense and joint action against aggression. The Morgantown Post comments on isolationist labeling and urges careful reading of his stance.
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MR. Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Atlantic
Pacific
Hoover
Britain
Japan
Formosa
Philippines
Two Oceans
Morgantown
W. Va
Christmas Gift of Sharing
Delphia Cline Freeman offers a poem about Christmas as a time of love and sharing. She reflects that material gifts matter little if not shared with others around a Christmas tree, and notes God sees who loves Him and when.
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Delphia Cline Freeman
Mysterious radar sighting spurs air alert over Maine
A group of 40 unidentified airplanes appeared on radar over Maine at 32,000 feet prompting quick fighter response from the Pentagon and White House. The craft vanished. only one Amera plane from Labrador was found. Experts suggest ionized clouds or geese as unlikely causes.
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Washington
Air Force
Maine
Pentagon
White House
North Pole
New York
Detroit
Amera
Labrador
Then and Now Christmas Wits and Turkey Tales
A humorous look at Christmas excesses and turkey fate. The piece recalls a Santa fired for sad eyes and the Turkey Exhibit Board gifting a gobbler to Turkey for a lifetime honeymoon. It riffs on holiday prep, shopping nerves, and cultural quips with playful mischief.
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Pittsburgh
Santa Claus
Turkey Exhibit Board
Turkey
United
Turkey Farm
No Kiddin We Wish You A Merry Xmas Holiday Musings
A humorous Christmas note laments the preholiday pace and fatigue. The author jokes about catching a cold or breaking a bone to slow the tempo, describes the yearly wear of the week before Christmas, and pokes fun at Christmas cards and get well cards while wishing readers a merry Christmas.
Hollywood Stars Loop in Tales of Stage and Screen
Sheilah Graham reports on Paul Douglas preparing to star as Davy Crockett in Sunrise In My Pocket in New York, Arlene Dahl and Lex Barker honeymooning in France after No Questions Asked, and Columbia courting Martha Vickers for Sunny Side of the Street. Edgy rumors circle Robert Taylor, Tyrone Power’s Buenos Aires project, Gary Cooper’s dressing room, and Marta Toren’s remarks about Bogart.
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Hollywood
Paul Douglas
New York
Paul
Davy Crockett
Edwin Justus Mayer
Arlene Dahl
Lex Barker
France
Arlene
Metro
Lex
Columbia
Martha Vickers
Jerome Courtland
Frankie Laine
Billy Daniels
Kay Starr
Bob Crosby
Robert Taylor
Barbara Stanwyck
Bob
Italy
Tyrone Power
Berkeley Square
London
Buenos Aires
Gary Cooper
Mr. Power
20Th Century-Fox
Gregory Peck
Wald and
Krasna
Greg
Bathsheba
Toots Shor
Marta
Errol Plynn
Jimmy Stewart
England
Harvey
Piccadilly
Sights and Sounds From Film Studios and Stage
Film studio life features Hopalong regalia and six shooters as Sights and Sounds tours. Gene Tierney shifts to a Connecticut home with Oleg Cassini and signs a four picture deal with 20th Century Fox at 125000 per. Hume Cronyn plans a holiday with Jessica Tandy and signs a one per year directing deal. The Don Juan in Hell company led by Laughton Boyer Hardwicke Moore heads coast to coast. Marlene Dietrich returns with Michael Wilding as both prepare for new projects.
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Gene Tierney
New York
Connecticut
Oleg Cassini
Gene
20Th Fox
Hume Cronyn
Jessica Tandy
Manhattan
Hume
Hell
Charles Laughton
Charles Boyer
Cedric Hardwicke
Agnes Moorehead
Marlene Dietrich
Michael Wilding
Marlene
Chuck
Fritz Lang
la Dietrich
Wilding
Greer Garson
An annual Christmastide feature at Yale
The poem by H. J. Phillips is reprinted each Yale season in response to requests. It begins with a playful parody of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" and recounts a weary narrator awake during a snowy, restless holiday night. A radio alarm and clatter from an airshaft interrupt the quiet, prompting the narrator to call out about Christmas Eve versus Fourth of July.
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Yale
Fenny ‘van Fallin
Nightly Visitor From Sleighs and Masquerade
A narrator describes a surreal meeting with a hokey sleigh and eight reindeer outside a door. The driver, a masked store employee, calls out the familiar reindeer names and flees toward the roof as a clumsy, comical scene unfolds above the house.
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Dasher
St Nick Visits a Tired Salesgirl in a Christmas Tale
A weary salesgirl laments St Nick entering her shop at 2 oclock without knocking. The jolly visitor carries a bag of goods and asserts he is only St Nick. She retorts that a Christmas sales position is no treat and warns the intruder to leave or call the cops.
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St. Nick
St Nick
A Good and Holy Christmas to All Your Household
Geo Sokolsky reflects on Christmas as a continuing miracle amid life’s challenges. He compares ancient Rome, its persecution, and the rise of Christianity, arguing that life endures beyond empires and that Santa and birth remain enduring signs of hope.
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Santa Claus
Fifty Years Ago in Welch and Bluefield
Daily Telegraph notes local and visiting residents including R E Wood N L McLeod John Elwood and Percival Johnson passing through Bluefield for Christmas. Obituaries record John Screener Rosa Huffman and Hal Kemp death and WHIS radio moving studios in Bluefield.
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R. E. Wood of
Welch
N. L. McLeod
Pounding Mil
John Elwood
Simmons
Percival Johnson
Eckman
Bluefield
Pittsburgh
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