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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1911
Page
4
An advertisement invites readers to subscribe to the Daily Telegraph for 25 cents to receive service during a two week period. It promises staying in touch with home and directs readers to send money with their address.
A movement promoting gardening for children gains ground, urging use of back yards and corner lots to provide proper opportunities. It argues adults crave springtime nature and that childhood experiences in fields and gardens shape humane growth, urging ongoing effort and practice.
The Wheeling Intelligencer recounts a speech event at Philippi marking the war’s fiftieth anniversary. Senator Watson was advertised to speak but did not, while Col. John T. McGraw received a thunderous ovation after being summoned last minute. The piece notes West Virginians’ view of John T. McGraw versus Watson and comments on reciprocity talks, delays in equity courts, locusts, and farm labor wages.
The week’s coal production reached 74 256 tons. The Crozer Coal and Coke Company marked the first use of electric haulage in the field, inaugurating a new era of mine operation.
The fragment hints at a humorous or conversation tone about expectations of treats. It references prunes as a possible food offering and suggests reluctance or irony about receiving them. No clear people or organizations are identified in the readable text.
Governor Wilson comments on party and country while a million gather at Rome for the monument dedication. He jokes about driving away mosquitoes in his state and hints at the nomination, noting the crowning of King George could misfire if misdirected toward Jack Johnson.
Adolphus Busch of St Louis is decorated by the German emperor for services in promoting Germanic culture in America. The San Francisco Chronicle treats cheermaking as a fine art and notes the honor reflects cultural exchange and celebration.
The long West Virginia two-cent fare dispute, started in Kanawha circuit court in 1967 and won by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, faced appeals from the attorney general to the state Supreme Court of Appeals, which reversed, then the railroad took the case to the U S Supreme Court which has adjourned for its summer recess.
The case cannot be taken up until next October when the court reconvenes. Travelers on the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Norfolk and Western must pay three cents a mile as they have since the law’s passage. Rebate coupons exist, but if West Virginia wins, only a small fraction will be returned to the public. Four years have passed with no end in sight and over a million people affected.
In Our Dumb Animals the article compares animal grooming habits from fur seals to elephants. It notes cats brush with their mouths and tongues while washing, horses rely on handlers, cows and mice groom with hind actions, and elephants bathe with their trunks then dust themselves for fly protection.
The tale reports Princes Louis Lucien Bonaparte and Pierre in Corsica as youths pursuing a peasant girl. They duel over her with cards, Lucien wins, marries her, and provides a comfortable income until her death around spring 1801 per Princess Murat’s Memoirs.
A French researcher concludes light, not oxygen, governs how strongly flowers emit odors. Perfume strength rises with water pressure in plant cells and sunlight, which reduces this pressure. Watering boosts turgescence and fragrance, and at night aromas fill the air around blooming beds.
Scientific American reports a discussion at the Zoological Society of London on egg shapes. Spherical eggs include owl and tortoise, elliptical like grebe and cormorant, with most hen eggs ovoid and blunt at one end. Yolk spheres persist regardless of shell form due to surrounding white fluid pressure.
The congregation at a small country church held a donation party to supplement the pastor's salary. They presented him a dress coat and his wife a bonnet. On the next Sunday the choir struck up a voluntary causing the clergy and his wife embarrassment as they entered in bright array.
A dialogue contrasts youth and readiness for marriage. One character argues age matters less than earnings, noting the father had a higher salary when he married. The piece reflects social attitudes in the Chicago Record-Herald era.
In a fragment from the American Review, Randolph H. McKim recalls how Confederate troops showed strong individuality and self command. He cites a night attack at Petersburg where a private halted Major General Gordon's column saying a truce with the Union lasts until 1 a.m., and Gordon deferred to the soldier's authority.
Pongee silk is undyed silk from silkworms fed on scrub oak leaves mainly, produced largely in Shantung and adjacent parts of north China. Real pongee cloth uses this uncolored silk and varies in quality by lot, making consistent weight and finish difficult for garment standardization. The New York Sun notes matching and uniform supply challenges for fashion houses.
A western Ontario bishop, notorious for his abstraction, travels north from London and forgets his destination. The conductor suggests telegraphing for instructions. From Exeter, the wife confirms the stop, and the bishop comments that such little difficulties always resolve satisfactorily.
A Berlin correspondent describes the Deutsches Geschlechterbuch which records middle class and working class bloodlines free of noble heritage. The editor notes nobles often mix blood, while many business families maintain purity, using the project to foster proper pride and reduce envy of the aristocracy.
The annual diocesan conference of the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia is in session at St Matthews P E church in Wheeling and will continue through Sunday evening.
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