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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1911
Page
4
An advertisement invites readers to subscribe to the Daily Telegraph for 25 cents to receive two weeks of updates while on vacation. It urges sending payment and the address to start or renew the service.
A city counsel argues for issuing bonds of half a million dollars to fund good roads, claiming long term tax gains and future prosperity outweigh the cost. The writer cites Pocahontas coal field development as justification and praises John L. Sheppard of Williamson for a strong state board of control record.
An 88 year old man named George Maledon in Johnson City Tennessee has died after a life filled with executions. The piece argues the gallows is a blot on civilization yet remains law and hints at changing attitudes in some states. It also notes other varied moral and political quips about karma, gambling in the canal, a Juarez bomb attempt on Madero, Taft with King George, Steel trust information costs, a Minnesota cashiers theft, and an Annapolis flying school.
The Cathode Ray a free silver paper appeared in Bluefield but did not last long.
The text names a range of political actors and institutions, noting potential senatorial timber including Swanson, Glass, and H C Stuart, and references to Tennessee Coal and Iron investigations. It mentions a $2450 portrait of ex Secretary Day, Trinity Church assets, and the Supreme Court’s fall adjournment with a small portion of cases resolved.
The piece mocks international tensions with Russia and China while noting graduates gaining new quirks. It references a haircut as a metaphor for risk and mentions Diaz going to Spain to explain to King Alfonso the idea of standing pat.
In a family tale from the Revolutionary era, the Moffetts split between Tory and patriot lines. A visitor notes a portrait of Cuthbert and James Moffett that appears to shift between two faces, suggesting a supernatural duplex in certain lights.
Readers who miss Daily Telegraph delivery are asked to inform management by calling Telephone No 14 or later. The notice seeks timely complaints to fix service.
An ancient debate on the bone luz claims it as the inexplicably enduring nucleus of the body for resurrection. Diverse scholars assign it to the spine, skull base, or various vertebrae, with descriptions ranging from pea sized to chick pea like, citing Hebrew and Arab sources and the London Lancet.
The article surveys the widely held belief that the world lasts 6,000 years from creation, citing Luther's inscription and Foxe's Acts and Monuments. It notes lines of thought equating six days to six millennia and the seventh day as a millennium, with scriptures like Psalm 90 and 1 Peter 3:8 referenced.
A London Graphic description details roaming Chinese nomads living in felt tents along the empire’s western borders. They rarely visit towns, trade briefly, and favor conical low door frames. Tents provide summer comfort but face cold winters on the Asian plains.
Harper's Weekly recounts Blithers and Dobbleigh discussing a county treasurer Bilkes who vanished with $30,000. The dialogue frames the case as a public financial scandal and politics in pursuit by the district attorney’s office.
A notice invites readers to subscribe to the Daily Telegraph for four dollars per year, urging residents not to borrow neighbors' copies.
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