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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1925
Page
7
A partially readable newspaper fragment yields an incomplete report with limited legible facts and unclear sourcing. The readable portions show scattered names and terms without a clear event or outcome.
Rates listed for different zones and regions within West Virginia. Prices include six month and one year options with varying coverage areas. Text appears garbled but references zones, mileage radii, and application for additional territory.
A quotation excerpt contrasts earthly need with spiritual concerns. It juxtaposes Jesus teaching on bread and life with a biblical call to seek first the kingdom, followed by a secular admonition about making provisions for this life as if it would never end.
The municipal board's last meeting marked a transition as a new eight-member team and mayor prepare to take office Saturday. Retiring leaders Cheyney, Troutman, Kirk, Lilly and Mayor Thomas leave a record of progress with a city manager under whom Bluefield grew into a modern, well governed city. The report highlights vast street, sewer, and park developments, a sinking fund for bonds, a strong purchasing and legal department, and a businesslike administration that attracted investment while preserving property values. The piece also contrasts past artistic production with modern commercialization, warning that money drives today’s arts and entertainment.
The Daily Telegraph lauds Bluefield’s progress and the outgoing board while endorsing a progressive, public spirited new slate. It urges citizens to trust the four year term amid diverse local ideas and to support efficient governance for Bluefield’s future.
From rushing presses hurried to tell a day's tale the pictured story on the cliff the record of the hieroglyph the bard's recital to the tribe the writing of the watching scribe. The palmer's narrative relayed of strange adventures on the last crusade. The whisper that runs through the throng the burden of the ballad singer's song. The gypsy's tale the road edge fire beside. The warrior's victories the chieftain's pride. I am the echo of the battle's din. The wand’rer's stories in the village inn. I am the message come from distant clime the nightwatch tidings the cathedral chime. The long news letter to the country squire that tells of court's intrigue and king's desire. The measured rhetoric from senate halls. The chatter of the busy market stalls. I am the merchant's guide the wits applause the voice of people's or party's cause. I am the winged tongue that rapid flies Ephemera who ever lives and dies I am the picture of the race's strife. The mirror of the pageantry of life. From spinning presses whirled tell a day's tale to an eager world. John A Hefferman.
The piece notes Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr gifts to education and contrasts with a Tennessee science controversy. It discusses West Virginia legal appointments, favoring Judge McClintic for the Circuit Bench and debating D J Strother versus James French Strother for the District Bench, urging a formal bar resolution to influence senate action.
Dispatches report Mercer County Bar Association resolutions endorsing Judge George W. McClintic to replace Judge W on the Circuit Court of Appeals and D J F Strother of McDowell to succeed McClintic as judge of the Southern district of West Virginia. The move aims to influence Washington administrators advising President Coolidge on the Circuit Court appointment.
The report claims a proposal to merge West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon with Morris Harvey College in Charleston will be considered by trustees. Central and northern West Virginia residents oppose the plan while not opposing consolidation of the Methodist Episcopal branches, but protest the scheme itself.
The note warns that headache remedies often harm the nervous system and cause organic lesions and death. It lists causes of headaches from bad air to fatigue and hunger, and suggests remedies such as laxatives, fruits, vegetables, olive oil, rest, and addressing underlying stress rather than relying on medicines.
Charles P. Stewart reports that the Scopes monkey trial sparks world reaction with foreign officials sending confidential reports to analyze American psychology. Europe mocks Uncle Sam while state department officials warn that international prestige is not at stake, and Mexico’s El Universal credits Secretary Kellogg for quelling revolutionary plots by showing respect to U.S. interests.
Dr Walter Noddack of the University of Berlin and assistants claim to have found two missing elements named masurium and rhenium through X-ray analysis of platinum ores. They suggest only three vacancies remain and discuss Moseley's atomic number concept as justification.
Clarksburg Telegram argues against moving Wesleyan College from Philippi to Charleston. It notes economic losses and the college’s strong local support, comparing to a prior Broaddus College proposal. It urges Charleston to build its own institutions rather than transfer existing ones.
A columnist riffs on Judge Williams of Knoxville who kicks a youth after a mother says a small fine won’t deter drinking. He muses on whether such schemes belong in courts and ponders youth’s capacity for deep feeling and future regrets.
A fragment shows dialogue about a trial marriage and suit selection. Henry asks about longevity, and a line about centenarians appears. The text blends curious lines and incomplete exchanges in a casual conversation.
The piece argues honor programs exempt top students from teaching, viewing teaching as punishment-driven policing rather than knowledge transfer. It contrasts Western scientific rationality with Eastern mysticism, questioning whether Occidental readers truly adopt rational inquiry or cling to familiar, familiar life, and ends by probing if neighbors share Occidental manners yet retain Oriental minds.
A collection of quips and jokes from rural life and domestic scenes. Observations range from hired men and horses to marriage and aging with punchlines about prudence, pride, and everyday folly. The tone mirrors a lighthearted, period-voice local column.
A fragmentary column recalls light gossip and quips about dating manners and romantic misadventures. It riffs on eating habits, hugging, necking, and auto romance, noting humorous perceptions of men and women and hints at a fading honeymoon.
Malmoe Sweden July 28 A daily aerial passenger service begun between Malmoe and Copenhagen Berlin Amsterdam Paris and London. Last year's Stockholm Helsingfors route has resumed for mail passenger and light freight while a hydroplane makes the Stockholm Danzig run every second day.
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