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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1929
Page
6
Brief compendium of biblical proverb on sloth leading to poverty and a humorous line from Cowper about a watch desiring both hands. The tone reflects old devotional and literary quotation style.
Frederick W. Peabody of Ashburnham Massachusetts denounces U S war debt policy in London calling Uncle Sam an Unc le Shylock and arguing that debts owed by Allied nations belong to the American people not the government He cites public subscriptions and asserts the obligation is between the federal government and the individual lenders. The item notes President Coolidge sprained his left wrist during a fishing trip and will continue writing for magazines.
Dr Charles Fleischer of New York argues American industry drives a deep culture emerging from intense industrialism. He urges the nation is a colorful spiritual force, founded on frontier romance, growth, and enterprise, shaping a lasting culture as cities expand and wealth rises.
Twenty years ago Sagamore mines named James Hetterman as superintendent. Granville Bailey, a Confederate veteran, left for Memphis to attend a reunion. Mrs. Julia Witten of Tazewell died in Frederick Oklahoma. The federal government turned telephone and telegraph lines over to owners. C. G. McGuire died at Kim Miss Margaret Fanning married John P. Morgan.
A religious litany by T. Davis listing desires for deliverance from treason, vanity, hatred, unbelief, and intolerance. It condemns judgmental zeal, biased duty, and blind misperception while pleading for divine mercy and guidance. The piece ends naming T. Davis as author.
In editorials echoed by Governors and Senators, the Wheeling Intelligencer stresses restoring respect for law and cultivating clean, honest character among youth entering work and public life. It warns of bootleggers and racketeers, urges youth to embody Polonius ideal, and links character to national progress and safety.
Dr Morris Fishbein notes cancer often begins as a tiny, visible spot or even before it shows. He stresses preventing irritation and removing precancerous lesions like moles and ulcers. He links lip and tongue cancers to tobacco use and dental neglect, urging mouth cleanliness and dental correction to lower risk. He also comments on rising female smoking and its potential impact on mouth cancer rates.
Gilbert Swan reports from New York on a humid June night as elevated trains, street noises, and a cacophony of radio and phonograph sounds transform dwellings into intimate stages. Residents adapt to disarray, neighbors quarrel softly, and foggy air amplifies every clamor from curbs to fire escapes.
A scattershot digest notes reparations debates and farm relief efforts, beauty contests, aviators seeking endurance records, and a focus on a baby’s rash. A Massachusetts professor urges graduates to marry well and act genteel, while Vesuvius erupts and Mussolini faces the mountain.
Washington digest notes Senator Jim Watson of Indiana, veteran six term House veteran and three straight Senate elections, as key to Senate cooperation with President Hoover. The piece highlights Watson’s long record of party regularity, possible use of private White House lines, and expected alignment with Hoover on agenda until Hoover’s renomination.
Interstate Commerce Commission observers note a nationwide revival of rail passenger competition. Great Northern and others cut times, rival trains eliminate extra fares, and Northwest routes win through service of about 61.25 hours eastbound and 63 hours westbound between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest.
Municipal goals include quarterly tax payments to city county and state pose, mine safety enforcement and miner education, barriers on roads, and motorist protection. Proposals call for gasoline levies, factory growth for Bluefield, new north side street links, a southern Wet Virginia development association, and a city water project.
Clarksburg Trust company shuts its doors. Dr J W Hartigan former Weston state hospital head says he was ousted for refusing to name a clerk as directed by a control board. Heaberlin sues Ott in quo warranto to challenge his appointment. Board of public works requires county clerks to reveal actual district property value to qualify for state school aid. Jim Roach held in connection with a killing on election day. Relatives of Theodore Carr seek commutation of a murder sentence. Three delegates chosen to attend American chamber of agriculture meeting in Washington.
A humorous Tidbits item describes a wedding scene with a reluctant groom and a confident bride. The bridegroom jokes he is being taken, while the parson asks the standard vows in a playful local tone.
A North Carolina druggist offers a five ingredient remedy labeled R C that claims to relieve many headaches and neuralgic pains in three minutes. Marketed as harmless and purchasable at drug stores, the preparation is guaranteed by its maker.
The essay critiques Prof. Robert E. Rogers MIT warning graduates to embrace snobbery and bluff as paths to success while contrasting it with alternative values. It also urges safety before summer swimming, urging parents to teach caution and rules to reduce drowning fatalities among youths.
Briefs report a naval aviator establishing a new world seaplane record in Washington. Other items note Babe Ruth's serious illness, a slain hotel cigar counter clerk in Detroit, a politician killed in South Bend, a deadly Texas tornado, a divorce for Agnes Snodgrass, a Brooklyn zoologist's death in Indo China, and Secretary Davis refusing to confirm or deny resignation plans to head a radio tube merger.
Mrs David Brock of 1102 West Main St recalls years of pain insomnia and near exhaustion with back limb and headache trouble. After taking Cardus she reports rapid improvement and full recovery, claiming thousands of other women with similar ills also benefited and urging readers to get a bottle today.
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