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Bivereid W. Va
Proverbs and Tagore Quotes in Narrow Lane
A compact line pairing a Proverbs verse with a Tagore reflection about mercy, righteousness, life, and the vast universe opened by a single lane. The two quotations invite contemplation on moral duty and expansive perspective.
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Tagore
Beaver High Chief Demotion Sparks Public Debate
The Beaver and Bluefield school board reshuffle stirs concern over politics and leadership. C W Jackson, longtime Beaver principal, may be demoted amid calling for transparency and a return to independent local administration. Tom Egbert and Horace Bolen proposed as alternatives, highlighting need for trained local leadership and clear explanations to the public.
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Bluefield
Telegraph
C. W. Jackson
Beaver High School
Beaver
West Virginia
Dr. W. Jackson
Jackson
Princeton
Tom Egbert
Princeton High School
Egbert
Horace Bolen
Bluefeld
Call for Bluefield to form independent school district
A speaker urges Bluefield residents to demand better treatment from the county and push for independence. The city, alone in the state, houses the school offices out of town and pays most county taxes with little influence over Bluefield schools.
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Bluefield
Hughes to Retire as Chief Justice Hughes Ends Long Service July First
The retirement of Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes is announced for July 1 at age 79 with full pay. The article notes his vigorous career, public restraint on controversial issues, and suggests Robert H. Jackson as a likely successor, aligning with recent New Deal appointees.
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Charles E. Hughes
United States Supreme Court
Hughes
New Deal
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Congress
Washington
Robert H. Jackson
Jackson
Court
Bluefield to nominate ten men for city board on Tuesday
The article urges Bluefield citizens to vote on Tuesday to nominate ten men for the city board of directors and notes five will be elected on July 1 to four-year terms. It stresses the operation of the municipality is important and asks voters to choose the five most capable candidates. The call emphasizes the importance of voting.
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Bluefield
Labor's plight overseas under Nazi rule and democratic defense
State and National Editorial Comment notes the grim tragedy overseas and the stripping of social gains by Nazi overseers. It warns that French workers and Hitler's European captives endure brutal toil while democracy must defend labor rights and gains against dictatorship. Davenport, Iowa, Democrat.
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Davenport
Iowa
How They Come For the Primary Class in Numbers
Detroit News notes a sequence from thousand to million to billion and then cites Morgenthau after Dillon, using a numeric progression to illustrate escalating figures. The quip contrasts political figures with abstract counts, hinting at fiscal or administrative themes.
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Morgenthau
Detroit News
I Am Weary Of Being Bitter By Arthur Davison Ficke
A fragment of verse expressing weariness with bitterness and wisdom. The speaker longs to escape armor and masks and seek a place where islands sleep and sea-dawns rise. The poem elevates song as enduring, while knowledge and effort fade into idle memory.
Aluminum Shortages Highlight Need for Powers Bill
Washington reports June 8 that War Secretary Stimson urges an all powers bill to address aluminum and other materials shortages slowing aircraft production. Meanwhile a government advertising notice accuses his own army quartermaster of cornering aluminum with several contracts from May 31.
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Paul Mallon
Washington
Stimson
U S
Aluminum Products Co
Lake Tis
Aluminum
New Kensington
Government delays aluminum cookware crisis reveal
War department blames quartermaster corps for an aluminum shortage delay in plane production. By mid May OPM adviser Bratt told Congress. Bids and contracts moved fast from March 19 to April 22 with six weeks before announcement. An amendment allowed aluminum on hand or stock utensils. steel was rejected as too heavy. Skeptics doubt extensive stockpiles existed as the army presses ahead with shortages.
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Quartermaster Corps
OPM
W. L. Bratt
Congress
Quartermaster General
Plahes
Nationwide door-to-door aluminum drive may start in July
The report notes a planned nationwide door to door collection campaign beginning in July. It cites successful experiments in Richmond Virginia and Madison Wisconsin last week showing citizens willingly contributed aluminum for national defense, not for baseball use.
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Madison
Wis
British Vogue Reflects Calm War Life In London
Nation's Business notes how British Vogue portrays life under the blitz in London. Bomb damage, casualties, and travel disruption do not halt the magazine as editors and staff continue publishing, while ads show luxury goods and fashion endure.
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England
Nation's Business
London
Madam Perkins Apologizes On Defense Strikes Labor Racketeers Highlighted
Madam Perkins testifies before the House Military Committee attributing defense strikes to rapid employment expansion and workers seeking better conditions. She warns of labor racketeers who target projects for organization and fee collection amid wartime efforts. April to June social notes mention marriages.
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Madam Perkins
House Military Committee
Hitler
Charlotte Observer
Fats Defeat Jeans In Town Baseball Game
Forty years ago today the town baseball game between the fats and jeans was played with the fats prevailing. Captain R H McCullough returned from Cincinnati as part of the town’s events surrounding the match.
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R. H. McCullough
Cincinnati
Three events mark today in the old paper
Thirty years ago Edwin French was injured when struck by an auto. Miss Ann Herzbrum and Isadore Katzen were married. Mrs. Ann E. Mark, former Bluefielder, died at Roanoke.
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Ann Herzbrum
Isadore Katzen
Ann E. Mark
Drowning at Falls Mills Claims Lewis Wirt at Age Twenty
Twenty years ago today Lewis Wirt aged twenty drowned at Falls Mills in a fatal incident reported by his sister Mrs A M Bampie sister of Dr W Bampie authorities noted the tragedy and mourners gathered at the river site.
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Lewis Wirt
Falls Mills
A. M. Bampie
West Virginian Mrs Lowther Sentenced to Death in Ohio
Ten years ago today the West Virginian Mrs Julia Lowther was sentenced to death for murder in Ohio. Spangler Jr drowned in Wolfe ce.
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Julia Lowther
West
Tobacco Road closes after seven years run in historical verse
A reflective poem traces a lifetime from prewar prosperity to decline, recalling eras when Hitler, the Reich, and the Blitz loomed in memory. The speaker notes fame in earlier times with figures like Roosevelt and Huey Long, contrasting past wealth and boom periods with modern change and endurance fading.
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France
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Baer
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Jeeters
Stanley Baldwin
London
Willkie
Pigeons Arrested in Policy Game Slips Joke
A wry column notes New York police arrest a pigeon caught with policy game slips, lampooning the idea of crime and luck. The piece riffs on bets, dental candy, and the yarn trade to close with a light, bookish flourish.
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New York
Stop Hitler Now warns world of looming total conquest
Pierre van Paasen, once a pacifist author, now urges strong democracy defense in The Time Is Now. He predicts Hitler aims to subjugate the world by installments, warning against Asian and African bases and a coordinated push toward the American continent.
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Pierre van Paasen
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India
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Malay Peninsula
Hollywood Screen Life on Juvenile Stars and Robert Stack
Hollywood notes the trend of actors treated as juveniles and surveys Robert Stack at 22 facing typecasting. It chronicles Stack’s LA roots, family history, polo success, and shift to acting via Durbin’s First Love, with mentions of his dates and social circle.
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Deanna Durbin
Robert Preston
William Holden
Robert Taylor
Robert Cummings
Trene Dunne
Jean Arthur
Dorothy Lamour
Myrna Loy
Los Angeles
Pueblo
Betzi Stack
Paris
University of Southern California
George Thatcher
Durbin
Cobina Wright Jr
Ann Miller
Olivia DeHavilland
Annie
Chaos of wartime chatter and political barbs
Fragmentary remarks capture a wartime buzz with lines about parachute troops, Mussolini credentials, Roosevelt urging strength, and jabs at Hughes. The text mentions Billy Phelps and Yale honors in a garbled, opinionated collage of contemporary figures and events.
Nye and Riley Start Tour Without a Full House
Bill Nye the humorous man and James Whitcomb Riley the Hoosier poet began a joint lecture tour but soon found the crowds lacking. Backstage Riley whispered to the curtain that the house was empty, and Nye replied that they had never performed there before.
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Bill Nye
James Whitcomb Riley
Riley
Bill
Nye
Butcher Across Street Faces Tough Competition
The rival shop opens across from the existing butcher and presents stiff rivalry. He jokes that the real worry starts when the newcomer canning that offers tender cuts.
Canton Theater Marquee Heralds Vaudeville Troupe
A Canton theater marquee proclaims a vaudeville troupe with sensational praise. The fragment includes a quote about women being wiser than men, attributed to James Stephens, reflecting dated stage chatter and social quips.
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China
James Stephens
Staircase mishap as maid learns garden descent
A Montreal Star snippet recalls a housewife guiding her new maid upstairs then down to the garden. The maid slips on the landing, causing a loud bump as the mistress recovers saying the descent is too strenuous, a humorous exchange between them.
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Anne
Montreal Star
Remark on camp life extends life outlook quote
A Dixie Guide remark compares a year in camp to ten additional years of life. The speaker doubts seeking a longer life given current conditions. The comment blends stark sentiment with wry reflection on endurance and circumstance.
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Dixie Guide
Broadway Revival Spins Tales Of Skyscrapers And Gypsy Dancers
An interviewer notes Manhattan’s imagined sink into the ground and a math tale about the RCA building. Miles Engalls promotes hourlong Broadway vaudeville style shows creating jobs and money. Spanish twins Rosario and Antoine, dubbed Los Chavalilles, escape wars and seek New York life with 45 dance routines. Bea Wain wins a Midtown bowling tournament as her records play on.
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Rockefeller Center
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Antoine
Birthday Dinner Honors Walters Daughter In Tip Top
A delightful birthday dinner was held at the home of Mr and Mrs Walter Melvin in Tip Top Virginia last Sunday for their daughter's sixth birthday. About twenty guests attended the event with floral decorations matching the celebration mood.
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Tip Top
Walter Melvin
Personal News Rounds Up Residents and Relatives
Harold Harrison left last week for Masschulus where he has accepted a position. Miss Onnie Melvin of Bluefield visited relatives here last Sunday. Peggy Bundy of Witten's Valley stayed here with Mr and Mrs Bundy. Mr and S Marvin Johnson spent Sunday in Coeburn visiting friends. Mrs John Pyott visited Bluefield last Wednesday. Thelma Johnson of Bluefield is spending this week here with Mr and Mrs Marvin Johnson. Bertie Johnson received treatment at the Bluefield sanitarium on Wednesday after previous stays. Mrs Walter Mathena and Miss Virginia Melvin visited Bluefield on Wednesday. Dale Hart of Duo, W Va, spends this week here visiting relatives.
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Harold Harrison
Masschulus
Onnie Melvin
Bluefield
Peggy Bundy
Witten's Valley
Sam Bundy
S. Marvin Johnson
Coeburn
John Pyott
Thelma Johnson
Marvin Johnson
Bertie Johnson
Bluefield Sanitarium
Walter Mathena
Virginia Melvin
Dale Hart
Duo
W. Va
Mrs. Margaret Hall Rites Held After Long Illness
Raven Virginia mourns Mrs. Margaret Hall 41 wife of Rev. Arthur Hall who died Sunday evening after a lingering illness. She leaves two sons Harry at Emory and Henry and Malcolm at Richlands high. mother Mrs Judy Brooks. sisters Mrs Coon Toliver Glen Rogers and Mrs Jess Brunty Northfork. brothers Morris Glen Fork Thomas Glen Morris Jule Glen. Funeral held Tuesday at 10 A M at the Raven church with Rev H B Abshire and Rev L W Pierce. body sent to Glen Rogers for burial.
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Morris Brooks
Glen Fork
Thomas
Glen Morris
Jule
Glen
H. B. Abshire
L. W. Pierce
Tazewell
Glen Rogers
Zone meeting set for Tuesday at the Methodist church
Mrs R W Shreve of Honaker and Mrs Hershel Noble of Philadelphia visit relatives Monday and Tuesday. Misses Helen Short and Frances Mallory are home for summer. Miss Ruth White stayed with her sister Mrs John Ratliff on Oakwood last week.
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Methodist Church
R. W. Shreve
Honaker
Hershel Noble
Mountaineer Boys Camp Ends Sixth Session
The Mountaineer Boys state closed its sixth annual week long citizenship training program at Jackson’s Mill West Virginia with William Teel of Charleston named as the boy who contributed most to the success Posing in memory of a former legion commander and state assistant attorney general.
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