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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1916
Page
4
A compact collection of lines about youth lasting forever and dawn after night. It pairs Richter on the soul with Cary on dawn and Beecher on using one’s whole self through education.
Dennis A. McCarthy argues in the Galveston News for more affordable playgrounds and youth spaces. He condemns excessive urban growth for jails and stores and urges giving boys safe play areas to prevent future crime and harm.
A collage of quotes from papers like the Washington Star and Detroit Free Press notes sarcasm on pacifism and preparedness parades. It mentions a whiskey ring and Billy Sunday, plus comments on naval rank and U S tourism. Levi P Morton’s long life is referenced.
The Louisville Courier-Journal notes the United States offers a first rate rest cure aiding longevity and overall health.
Washington National Geographic bulletin says the Isonzo river is wholly within Austrian territory, not a boundary line, running seventy five miles from the Carnic and Julian Alps toward the Gulf of Trieste. The note describes Goritz as the principal city and links ancient Isontius battles to current war geography.
Washington reports Department of Agriculture forecasts a winter wheat crop of 469 million bushels and spring wheat at 246 million, down from last year due to insects in Kansas and Oklahoma and a late wet spring. Oats are forecast about 300 million bushels lower, with damage from green bug in the south and central regions.
Paris reports heavy fighting around Fort Vaux near Verdun. The war office says French troops still hold outskirts and trenches to the fort sides, but the fort itself is abandoned after seven days of bombardment. German attacks on adjacent positions have been unsuccessful. West of the Meuse, intermittent shelling continued.
The Institutopesca departed for Elephant Island tonight to aid the Shackleton expedition. It will stop at Port Stanley, Falklands, to pick up Lieutenant Shackleton and then proceed to Elephant Island, where the main 22 member group remains after Shackleton and five companions began their aid search.
A National Geographic Society bulletin from Washington warns that a nearly forgotten dye industry is being revived as Germany’s wartime cutoffs disrupt supply. The piece notes renewed interest in madder root, indigo, cochineal, logwood, and oak from U S forests, but emphasizes coal tar dyes remain dominant. It recounts Perkin’s 1856 discovery of aniline dyes, German plant growth near Essen, and the wartime shift boosting coal tar byproducts for dyes, explosives, perfumes, and pharmaceuticals. It details U S imports of 15 million dollars in aniline dyes and the impact on 2,000,000 workers as some factories cut hours. price spikes for patent blues and other dyes are cited. Since 1893 U S production has met only about twenty percent of domestic dye needs.
London reports from Rome via Central News that the Austrians evacuated Traitsk, a Volhynian fortress, with several brigades captured. The Austrian lines are said to have broken in Volhynia and forces withdrawn about twenty miles in the Lutsk sector.
A New York grand jury probe opened over a rear end crash of two elevated trains killing one and injuring fifteen. Edward Grove, the lower man on duty at the scene, was arrested on a homicide charge as investigators focus on the southbound first car where all the injured passengers were located.
A wreck involving an express train bound downtown injures motorman Frank K. Kerrison who dies in hospital. The blaze from the wreck produced smoke hindering rescue as flames spread briefly. Injured were carried via ladders to ambulances from nearby hospitals.
General Gavira, Carranza commander in northern Chihuahua, stated in Juarez that recent anti American riots in Chihuahua city were entirely an affair of the citizens and that government authorities do not countenance them. He added the U S troops on Mexican soil irritate the people and asked why protests have not occurred sooner.
The convention adopts seating decisions for 989 delegates, excluding two from the District of Columbia and admitting two each from the Philippines, Alaska, and Hawaii. Harding is presented as permanent chairman amid a long cheering demonstration. Rules are adopted with houselike provisions, and the platform attacks the Democratic administration while pledging strong national defense, tariff reform, and broader fiscal and labor measures.
An advert promises freckles can be removed using ethine double strength. Apply nightly and morning, with money back guarantee if it fails. One ounce often suffices, claiming even dark freckles fade while lighter ones disappear.
Clint Bailey offers forty lots on the car line and Augusta Street near a new school and Country Club, formerly a baseball park, not sold for a century. Buy direct from owner to save real estate commissions. Also selling land cheap by the acre in south Bluefield.
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