Advertising Rates and Subscriptions Details
Advertising rates finished on application for several cities. Notices with no general news value must be paid. Subscription rates listed by mail and zones with prices, including regional West Virginia rates. Saturday, June 9, 1923 edition.
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Foreign Tive BK. Kats Specivertising Age
New York
Kansas City
Chicago
San Francisco
Atlanta
Times of Churches
West Virginia
Quotations on Prudence and Trust from Scripture and Shakespeare
A reader's collection of brief proverbs and lines contrasts prudence with folly. It cites a biblical warning about foresight and a Shakespearean caution on oaths, trust, and steadfastness, framing lessons on cautious living.
Bluefield Votes on Bond Issue to Spur City Growth
The Bluefield community urges voters to approve an $850000 bond issue on June 9 to fund public improvements. Officials note this debt compares favorably to similar towns, with per capita indebtedness dropping from 37 to about 11 due to enhanced property values and growth.
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Bluefield
Roanoke
Huntington
Open shop policy eyed by Coal River Colliery directors
Warren S. Stone and directors of Coal River Colliery Company in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky advocate open shop wages at union scale. They state they pay prevailing rates regardless of union membership amid recent strike coverage.
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Warren S. Stone
Coal River Tolliery Company
West Virginia
Kentuck
Stone
Miners’ Union
Oal River Colliery Company
Brotherhoa F Locomotive Engineers
Ir. Stome
B. L. EF
B. L. ER
Twenty years ago and ten years ago today in Bluefield records
The item recalls Thomas L. Patterson death at Vivien and Bottom Creek Coal and Coke Co. Princeton storm and livestock losses. It notes Jim Robertson and Frank B. Easley as notable figures and the Bluefield Colored Institute and Knights Templars activities in earlier years.
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Thomas L. Patterson
Bottom Creek Coal and Coke Company
Vivien
Princeton
Still Johnson
Jim Robertson
Frank
Easley
Bluefield Knights
Brotherhood members mix with nonmembers on the N N W engines
A fragment notes that men operating engines on the N. and W. today include nonmembers of the brotherhood alongside members. It hints at overlapping groups within the workforce and suggests participation beyond the order’s rank.
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Order
Senator Smoot Sees Taxation as Nation's Main Issue
Utah Senator Smoot argues taxation will not decline in the United States and will dominate government policy for the next quarter century. He forecasts a rising annual tax bill possibly reaching 3 billion dollars for pensions and other costs, noting England's tax load as a stark contrast.
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Senator Smoot
Utah
United States
Smoot
Willard’s Return Dominates Ancient Foes in Poem
In a verse by Berton Braley, Willard rises above ancient rivals from dodo to Napoleon to reappear in the realm of boxing. The poem likens historic figures to legendary fighters, culminating in Jess Willard’s anticipated comeback and Dempsey’s idle throne.
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Ethuselah
Moses
Samson the Strong
Caesar
Napoleon
Jess Willard
Dempsey
Hulk
Jess
Willard
Berton Braley
Short Cuts From Exchanges
A compilation of pithy quotes and gossip items from various papers. The notes mix wit on law, morality, and social trends, with humorous asides about courtrooms, innocence, and odd ideas.
Gallagher and Shean rejoin New Amsterdam tour this summer
The veteran vaudeville duo Gallagher and Shean end their rift with Ziegfeld. They stay with the New Amsterdam revue in New York City this summer and tour next autumn. Their big hit song Absolutely-Positively made them famous, reflecting a broader trend in entertainment and public taste.
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Gallagher
Shean
Ziegfeld
New Amsterdam
New York City
Building costs and reforms urged by trades council
Editorial notes rising building costs in New York and large proposed projects. It cites charity and university plans, calls for curbing price conspiracies, wage misperceptions, wagon on the job, and restrictive shop rules, with quotes from New York World and St. Louis Times.
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New York
Hebrew Orphan Society
Columbia University
Building-Trades Council
Lockwood Committee
New York World
Jazz and church music clash over sacred songs in Kansas City
An editorial discusses Kansas City churches seeking to ban jazz from choirs and Sunday schools near the Kaw River. It argues for replacing jazz with classical composers like Bach Handel and Beethoven while praising good music and the effort needed to achieve reverent, aspirational hymns.
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Kansas City
Kaw
Disease and poverty linked by social work leader
Bailey B Burritt, general director of the condition of the poor, says disease and poverty are closely connected. At a national social work conference he notes a six month report found 5 613 health problems in 3 875 families, including tuberculosis in 539 families and cardiac issues in 163, with mental and rickets cases also listed. He argues addressing illness can lessen or eradicate poverty.
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Bailey B. Burritt
Mr. Burritt
National Conference of Social Work
Association
Ale Express
Fragmented humor filled column from Akron Beacon Journal
A string of quips and snark about love singleness and social mores. The piece parodies dating advice and gender norms with jokes about weather, pests, laundry, and Leap Year. Includes a mock dialogue about a woman lacking a decent dress.
Flying flivver could revolutionize air transport says Barbot
A French inventor Georges Barbot demonstrates a flying flivver claimed to cost 400 dollars per unit and deliver 60 miles per gallon in fuel. The model weighs 400 pounds with a twelve horsepower engine and a 40 foot wing span. He envisions air roads replacing ground transport and notes future tech may eliminate wings and rely on vertical takeoff and helicopter stability.
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Georges Barbot
Barbot
France
That Young Fellow Here This Afternoon and Other Fragments
A string of clipped dialogue items from a newspaper page includes a Boston Transcript quip about a double header and a Birmingham Age-Herald remark on a truthful man retreating to a compartment. The Newedd family humor references a live chicken in an ice box and a child’s cake and preserves bite, ending with a joke about thinking.
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Mises
Boston Transcript
Birmingham Age-Herald
Newedd
Brief remark on potions and a knowing joke
A dialogue fragment shows a character weighing a potion dose by anticipated illness. The aunt asks when knowledge will come and the response frames timing as the measure: if not sick in half an hour, pride. if sick, regret.
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England
Cheops
Hector
Croesus
Greenville Piedmont
Springfield News
Baltimore Sun
Syracuse Herald
Brindell
New York Tribune
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Grand Rapids Press
Detroit Free Press
Tulsa Triune
Mr. Gallagher
Eva Tanguay
Bert Williams
Great Lakes
Lake &Superior
Iron and Steel
North Atlantic
New England
South
New York Herald
Stanley
Drdes Reves
Cal Hokes
St. Louis Times
Cal. Hoke
Dempsey Gibbons
Amundsen
North Pole
Pest House
Akron Beacon Journal
J. W. Waters Co
the Reliable Jewelers
Federal St. Law and Commerce
Cincinnati
Appalachian
Cincinnati Chamber OF Commerce
National Armature & Electrical Works
Rae
Cea
J. S. Compton
W. VA
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