Poem Excerpt Emphasizes Fear, Strength, Endurance
A poetic fragment cites Longfellow urging fearlessness and resilience in hardship. The lines praise bearing suffering with strength and the sublime purpose found in perseverance.
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1919
Page
4
A poetic fragment cites Longfellow urging fearlessness and resilience in hardship. The lines praise bearing suffering with strength and the sublime purpose found in perseverance.
An editorial discusses early air travel across the Atlantic noting the NC-4’s 26 hour 46 minute flight from Trepassy Bay to its journey end and estimates possible future schedules. It cautions about freight passenger limits, safety, weather, and the need for government escort vessels before wide use. It also praises returning veterans and anticipates a sunny summer ahead.
The Daily Telegraph urges readers to vote straight Republican, praising the current administration's record of economic management and modern improvements. It notes civic duty to participate, while touching on Ruth Law's transatlantic aviation ambitions and Rhine region republican talks as broader world events.
Lieut. Jack Leonard of Chicago, at home on furlough due to his wife's illness, confirmed a five day extension after Lieut. Hine said a telegram confirming the extension had been sent. The cost of the telegram to the extension was $72.
A lone British airman over Bulgar lines was strafed by machine-gun bullets as an Albatross attacked from above. He fell from 6000 feet to 2000 feet after the strike, a bullet piercing his neck but missing the spine. He regained control and found the enemy bird had vanished.
A seven foot sea cobra interrupted a golf match at Nangaladon India between Maj Wr Hams of the Rangoon battalion military police and Lt Col Obbard commissioner of Pegu. The snake bit the trousers but spared the skin and was killed with a mashie.
Italians scored highest in average physique at the first military draft in the country with an average of 87 percent compared with the American average. Diet favors bread toncaroni cheese greens and olive oil with little meat and practically no sweets per People’s Home Journal.
A vintage ad promotes mixing two lemons with three ounces of orchard white to create a quarter pint freckle and tan lotion. It claims daily use on face neck arms and hands removes freckles blemishes and leaves clear soft rosy skin. The product is described as harmless and non irritating.
Washington, June 2. The Supreme Court granted temporary injunctions restraining West Virginia from enforcing a law that caps the amount of natural gas transported to neighboring states. The orders stay in effect until the constitutional validity of the West Virginia statute is finally determined, following motions by Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Ivy Gray tires of her department store life and flees to Palm Beach posing as Jeannette DeVere. She meets Richard Vandercup who is actually chauffeur Jack Harrison in disguise. Both bluff about identities, then reveal true names and fall for each other.
Danville Virginia hunter Russell J. Coles reports at Cape Lookout a new shark processing plant for food leather and oil. He describes tasting multiple sharks including man-eater and monkfish noting pink flesh with black dorsal strip and discusses potential market including New York prices and tannery use of shark leather.
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