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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1925
Page
6
The item reads as a fragmented advertising and notices page from a paper listing rates and contact details. It mentions Associated Press usage and club notices, with references to fees for non news items such as meetings and tributes, plus address details for the Daily Telegraph print office.
A fragmented notice lists subscription rates with figures for West Virginia and surrounding areas. The text references different tones and a percentage, plus a line about freight and carrier pay, all tied to a Friday publish date in July 1925.
A short reflective note invokes fearlessness and peace, urging believers to worship without sight and to endure in quiet devotion. The excerpt quotes Fenelon and centers on inner strength and silent worship in faith.
The Daily Telegraph may suggest a new board of directors. A candidate for city attorney is sought to defend the city's interests amid suits against Betty and the water company. Public Service Commission rate increases loom after the election. Views on Bluefield area residents and public service concerns are noted.
The current immigration law phases transform into a contested issue for the next Congress. Business groups seek more cheap labor while reformers push for tighter restrictions. Officials anticipate a cautious approach with ongoing debate and no final settlement.
A 1927 discussion on immigration policy spans proposals to expand labor intake amid shortages and keep exclusion of Asians, while arguing for or against quotas based on 1890 and 1924 acts. It notes current limits, proposed elastic provisions, and calls for Americanization efforts.
A fragment from Don Marquis presents a mythic scene where a Priestess of the Light raises a godlike dawn. The poem depicts starlit foes fading as a bright chorus erupts, the Sun arriving with a brazen clang, and love restoring wholeness at daybreak.
The editorial notes booming Florida real estate profits cited by Forbes but warns many overstate gains. It recalls a misreported $60,000 windfall that was actually $6,000 three years earlier, stressing that success requires experience, planning, and steady yields. It urges exploring profitable West Virginia opportunities while acknowledging risks in any market.
In a Parkerburg newspaper brief a statistician’s feats are described as feasible. If one person ate a meal at every hotel in the United States it would take 24 years, half that time if limited to better class houses, 36 nights to sleep at each, and 60 years to visit all restaurants, lunchrooms, and cafeterias. The piece ends noting the question “What of it?” remains the statistician’s concern, not ours.
Paris reports tests to see if small hydrogen balloons attached to climbers can ease ascent and prevent injuries in falls. The concept aims to provide lift and safety while traversing dangerous mountain chasms.
A Paraguayan finding reports a plant yielding a glucosid called ka a bee that is about times sweeter than sugar and does not ferment. The substance sweetens foods with no sugar’s harms and is dried leaves or soaked in water to make a sweet liquor. The plant is in the Composite family, related to sunflowers and daisies, with licoricelike sweetness.
Last Night's Mail reflects on federal tax cuts and growing local taxes. It projects possible 25 percent cuts to income taxes for the wealthy, gradual future reductions, and a shift in taxation, with luxury taxes fading and higher state and local levies persisting. The piece notes debt concerns and ongoing government efforts to trim expenses, while cautioning about regional tax growth and public finances.
President Griffith of the National Electric Light Association says the US will need about a billion dollars yearly for ten years to expand the light and power industry. The piece argues that regardless of ownership, capital must be raised with profits, taxes, and risks accounted for, urging truth in public discussions and responsible regulation.
The piece notes deep rifts within the Democratic party and questions if reunion is possible while predicting fallout from future coal strikes. It also praises a Washington club push reviving baseball’s popularity and hints at a World Series without New York games if Pittsburgh wins the NL flag.
Sweater Thomas J Walsh freely predicting higher courts will reverse Judge Kennedy in Teapot Dome and decide for the government. He links Elk Hills to a similar outcome and notes both cases await review, urging restraint on comment until rulings are issued.
A telephone operator dozed in a London church and woke to hear the preacher cue Hymn 428. She exclaimed the line was busy causing a small commotion as the congregation prepared to sing.
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