17 Feb 1911
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1911
Page
1
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Fragments from a 1911 Bluefield Daily Telegraph issue discuss muckrakers bought by “the interests,” free speech suppression, and the ship subsidy debate. References include Senator Watson, the Greenbrier Independent, the Monroe Watchman, and calls for investigations. Mentions William Thaw MH and a Kentucky man smocking cigarettes.
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A fragment discusses Crippen's will and a plan to leave his estate to a relative of his wife, hinting at a real claim in the succession. The text notes a substantive line of succession tied to the wife’s kin, suggesting potential legal challenge.
The piece notes Indiana plans a split session where lawmakers would meet forty five days to introduce bills then recess sixty days before returning to advance those bills. It predicts other states will be outdone and jokes about a bold, provocative scheme gaining attention.
In St. Louis a minister argues religion is an inheritance and notes many are left out of the will. The remark suggests a broader claim on spiritual legacy and inclusion.
Notes from Mrs. Piozzi recount the Italian poet Metastasio who spent 55 years in Vienna with the Martines family without learning German. He avoided death topics, never aided the poor, kept a fixed church seat, dined at home, ate biscuits with lemonade, wore the same wig, and refused to dine elsewhere. He was to meet the pope on his deathbed, delirious with rumors of the interview.
This old advertisement parades William Tell Flour by the barrel as a safe price hedge. It touts fine grain, clean flour from Ansted & Burk Company's mills, and promises lighter bread and pastries while urging readers to ask their dealer for the product.
A hotel lobby chatter ranges from a detective agency link to disappearances in Pittsburgh with blondes and blue eyes, to a New Hampshire bill on two party line eavesdropping penalties. Other topics touch cold waves, Carnegie wealth, social ambition, and a St Louis court moment, ending with a plug for want ads.
The London Saturday Review notes that Siam’s late king abolished the rule forcing inferiors to kneel before superiors. A 1874 royal audience marked the first record of rising to stand, ending prostration at audiences though street interactions still show deference by bowing.
An old medicinal advertisement touts a single day cure for colds using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It claims efficacy if taken as directed and features a price of 25 cents with Grove’s signature on each bottle.
The piece portrays Joaquin Miller as a solitary, self reliant poet who shuns city life and books, dwelling on fir trees in Oregon and living on Piedmont hills near Oakland. It notes his global travel yet preference for solitude and mentions praise from the London Athenaeum for his Columbus and his latest definitive edition.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered Norfolk and Western Railway and other railroads to pay Virginia Timber Company $240.44 in refunds for seven oak pile shipments from Elam, Virginia to South Boston, Massachusetts between May 8 and Aug 17, 1909. The commission found an overcharge of that amount and directed reimbursement.
New York reports the engagement of Jay Gould and Annie Douglas Graham. Public interest rises as Miss Graham, of high society, is largely unknown to the broad public and rumored to be last of a royal line once held.
The text outlines that Miss Graham, daughter of the late Douglas Graham, was born in New York and not in Hawaii. It notes her lineage through Miss Coney of Hawaii and her marriages to Mr. Graham and later Hubert Vos. Educated in Paris, she traveled Europe and Hawaii, meeting Jay Gould soon after returning from travel.
Farm listed for rent for 1911 year includes main eight room house with outbuildings spring orchard meadow and pasture plus two additional four room houses with gardens and pasture. On February 21 sale of three hay stacks two horses harness wagon farming tools chairs bedstead range tables and various fruit berries and an organ with lamps.
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