Woman as She Is in Real Charity Effort
A feature highlights true charity as the real measure of worth. It argues quality and practical effort prove character better than rhetoric, praising women who embody thoughtful, steady work.
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1908
Page
6
A feature highlights true charity as the real measure of worth. It argues quality and practical effort prove character better than rhetoric, praising women who embody thoughtful, steady work.
A critic argues genuine charity helps women become self supporting through practical work rather than patronizing aid. She urges funding a charity run by a capable businesswoman to train middle aged or untrained women, with emphasis on personal responsibility and work. The piece ends noting that true quality in material and person endures beyond trends.
A diligent young woman in a large office starts as a typist with no shorthand skills. She keeps her typewriter in strict condition, checks spellings, and writes impeccable letters. Her skill and persistence win promotion to the private secretary to the senior partner, then she learns shorthand and rises to a high salary.
A young writer, praised by friends as future national greatness, prints a book hoping friends will buy autographed copies. They wait for them to arrive, but the books sell as junk and he loses his friends.
The Auxvasse Review reflects on happiness as owning forty acres in the hills with a wife seven children five coon dogs a sorrel team of mules a good shotgun forty seven miles from a railroad and a stream stocked with fish.
A quip compares misfortunes to bitters in medicine. It suggests adversity initially harms but over time strengthens the gut and improves the disposition. The saying frames hardship as a corrosive yet constructive force in character.
Quote snippet contrasts a boyhood prediction with later success and notes the haughty suffer from rash conclusions with a mix of lines from Chicago News and Le Sage.
A brief note lists silk sugar butter items from Sublette and Barnes with a date of February 23, 1931.
Community event promotes wellness with Dr Kings New Life Pills claiming to regulate stomach liver and bowels. The ad invites everyone to attend open house and visit local drug stores for the product.
The Norfolk and Western Railway announces divided daily routes from Roanoke and Bluefield via Shenandoah division to New York Philadelphia and beyond with Pullman sleepers parlor and cafe cars and multiple departure times including 8 15 a m 9 45 a m 2 55 p m 9 58 p m 8 20 p m and 8 55 a m Also departures to Kenova Welch Tazewell Clinch Valley with detailed train services and agent contact W B Bevill G P A Roanoke Virginia
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