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A local paper reprints AP dispatches and related notices for republication. The notice notes credit is retained for AP material and includes the paper’s own local tone.
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1923
Page
6
A local paper reprints AP dispatches and related notices for republication. The notice notes credit is retained for AP material and includes the paper’s own local tone.
Rates list by mail zones for West Virginia and other regions with terms for 1 year 6 months 3 months and 1 month payments. City carrier options available with various terms. Sale includes single copies daily and Sunday.
A garbled passage mentions labor, mortality, and destiny with references to law and figures like Mazzini. The text blends biblical phrasing with philosophical terms and names without clear cohesive context or event.
Secretary Weeks ranks the U S regular army forty sixth in size and preparedness among nations. The World Almanac lists twenty three countries with larger standing armies. He notes large debts and unfriendly nations among those armed forces and warns the smallest showing is bad enough.
A jumble of aphorisms and quips reflects old time newspaper humor. The snippets poke at youth, fashion, travel, crime, love, health, politics, and society with playful sarcasm and regional flavor.
The piece denounces Governor Al Smith and New York state leaders for pushing a repeal bill and pulling focus from the eighteenth amendment and Volstead Act enforcement. It compares their publicity stunt to a loud, riskless display and notes other presidential candidates avoid such front-page self-promotion.
Jef Evans charged with murder in Buchanan county was removed to Tazewell jail as a mob formed to lynch him. Eight expert cattle were killed in Tazewell county when lightning struck a tree sheltering them. Miss Hattie Yost of Graham and L. W. Jenkins of Norton wed at Graham.
The piece criticizes how prominent figures like McAdoo Underwood Hi Johnson Borah and Henry Ford are given equal space while dodging fundamental issues. It suggests the white print paper market would suffer a famine if coverage favors personalities over core topics.
A reflective verse by Berton Braley on stubborn persistence and finishing what one starts. The speaker admits not being valiant butResume continues to pursue a task to see its outcome and the final result.
The Baltimore Evening Sun dispatch argues against federal overreach under Harding and the Eighteenth Amendment. It defends states rights, calls New York’s actions high handed, and warns against lawlessness from centralization while invoking religious moral standards and political figures to affirm loyalty to the Constitution.
A collection of humorous snippets shows a student misread in a hygiene class, a thief named Spark claiming electrician status, jokes about Adam and Eve, Yale locks, stage fright, and a wealthy judge lecturing inmates. The tone mirrors a light newswire humor column with quick witticisms and punchlines.
A roundup of light quips from various papers. The items joke about Mexico telephones radishes hareless Turkey and aviation safety with a mix of playful headlines and wry observations.
Ex Senator Nathan B. Scott, touring Europe, criticizes European news as propaganda and questions why telegrams stress a Greece Turkey crisis that he sees as unlikely. He argues Greece and Turkey must settle differences and notes American wartime funding saved European governments, while England would likely let Britain go if asked.
Advertises Adlerika blends with buckthorn bark and glycerine to relieve gas fast. Claims quick relief from stomach and bowel pressure and improved sleep. Mentions White Pharmacy and Central Pharmacy as sellers.
A pen-picture by Artist Satterfield explores love's role in life and marriage. It muses on choosing a lifelong partner, the idea of fate and soul halves, and cautions about moon madness, noting Socrates and Xanthippe as quirks in the tale.
Six years after the first doughboys, one American soldier remains on the Rhine per Lt. P J Davis an army detective. The piece ponders pensions to Civil War veterans, fingerprints, the Roosevelt building in New York housing 272 families, Esperanto’s rise, and whiskey stock in bonded warehouses ending with a Telegraph Want Ad note.
Listings describe six to eight room bungalows and brick homes across Poplar Street Third Street Hale Addition Giles Street Raleigh Terrace Reese Street Washington Preston Union Memorial Woodland avenues. Prices range from 4 500 to 11 500 on terms with immediate possession on several and hot water heat or fireplaces noted.
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