Bluefield Daily Paper Listing 1893 Publication Details
The Baily Telegraph in Bluefield publishes daily and Sunday editions, standard subscription rates, and Associated Press affiliation. It lists address at 412 Bland Street and notes circulation auditing, with West Virginia mail rates and advertising representation.
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Ore Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
Associated Press
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Tne
Faith and promissory notes as spiritual finance
A devotional noting Hebrews 11:27 on faith and endurance. It compares divine assurance to a checkbook, where faith presents promissory notes at the throne and is settled. The text emphasizes reliance on God rather than earthly power and frames trust as practical finance for believers.
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Egypt
Yod
Faith
T. L. Cuyler
U.S. Girard Case Spurs Debate Over Foreign Jurisdiction
The House Foreign Affairs Committee opens June 13 an inquiry into Cpl. William S. Girard a U.S. Army Flint shooter who killed a Japanese woman and faces trial in Japan. The panel weighs H J Res 16 urging canceling or renegotiating status-of-forces agreements with allies.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee
U.S. Army
William S. Girard
Senate Armed Services Subcommittee
Girard
Federal District Court
Washington
U.S
G.l.’S
State Defense Department
Defense and
State Departments
Japan
United States
Senate
John W. Bricker
Ohio
William E. Jenner
Ind
House
Congress
Frank T. Bow
Westward Ho Move for Dodgers and Giants Discussed
Conjecture swirls over whether New York and Brooklyn teams will stay in Flatbush or relocate to San Francisco and Los Angeles. A near free stadium could lure a West Coast shift, with a continental expansion aimed at reviving national interest in the majors.
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New York
Brooklyn
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Dodgers
West Coast
Flatbush
Overseas postings spark debate on American prestige and staffing
Congress weighs the impact of Formosan riots and 10 000 Americans abroad on populations under 10 million. Critics say offices abroad are overstaffed and costly, while remedies range from cutting liveable perks to raising local standards and limiting extravagance. The piece warns of cultural alienation and long term reputational harm amid the cold war.
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Washington
Congress
United States
White House
Japan
Philippines
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
U. S
South America
Hollywood Screen Scandals and Casting Snippets
Name checks and plot tweaks from Hollywood gossip feature Charles Boyer may play the uncle in a film based on Sagan’s novel while 18 year old Carere is speculated for love scenes. John Kerr eyed for Lieutenant Cable in South Pacific film. Maurice Chevalier and Zsa Zsa Gabor noted for scenes cut or altered.
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Hollywood
Charles Boyer
Carere
Jacques Bergerac
John Kerr
Lieutenant Cable
James Dean
Giant
CBS
Zsa
Zsa Gabor
Ava Gardner
Walter Chiari
Mexico
Ava
Peter Viertel
Downey concert highlights Coca Cola banquet in Bluefield
Morton Downey gave a high profile performance at the Coca Cola banquet in the Auditorium last Tuesday night. His tenor voice and familiar songs stirred memories as locals noted the event honored Otis Bivens, Coca Cola’s Bluefield president, in a representative turn out. Also celebrated was the installation of officers of the Bluefield Princeton B'nai B'rith at the Matz hotel with Eli Weinberg installed as president.
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Morton Downey
Downey
Morton
Bluefield
Otis Bivens
Coca Cola
Bluefield-Princeton B'nari B'rith
Matz
Eli Weinberg
Eli
Daily Mail and Gazette contend for Sunday publication
A deal hangs on which paper will run the Sunday issue as the Daily Mail and the Gazette fight to secure the edition. Recent Norfolk and Western retirements list engineers, repairmen, and conductors from Bluefield and nearby towns, reflecting a busy roster of workers. Sophia Loren is quoted joking about appetite and fame, linking pop culture to the era's chatter.
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Charleston Daily Mail
the Gazette
Daily Mail
The
Radiation fears fade as Libby Calmly Explains Fallout
Dr Libby, longtime AEC member, reassures residents that atomic test fallout adds only a tiny fraction to natural radiation already absorbed from our bodies, surroundings, and cosmic rays. He cites home protection choices and contrasts bricks with frame houses.
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Washington
Sree
Willard P. Eta
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Libby
Built in radiation in homes and its dangers
Dr Libby explains milliroentgen as a unit of absorbed energy and cites Swedish findings that a wooden house yields 8 to 90 milliroentgens annually while brick and lightweight concrete homes exceed 140 to 200 milliroentgens. He notes cosmic and uranium radiation from granite and sea water’s wash, and mentions ongoing study of brick radiation. He advocates disarmament but supports continued atomic testing in response to Soviet tests.
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Libby
Sweden
Laurentian
Canada
Palm Springs
Big Showbiz and Sports Shifts Ripple Through U S Culture
A wide ranging chat catalogs rumored relocations from Notre Dame football to Montpelier and Yale football to San Mateo, plus theater moves from Lindy’s to Mexico City and Broadway shuffles. It mentions baseball gossip, movie plots like Face in a Crowd and Gunfight at the O K Corral, and notes on Hollywood hype versus reality with a sobering line about a South Pole film fee.
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Notre Dame
Montpelier
Vermont
Yale
San Mateo
California
West Point
New Orleans
Elmer Twitchell
Lake Erie
New York
Mississippi
Elmer
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Denver
Colorado
Lindy’s
Mexico City
Lambs Club
Honolulu
Father Duffy
Times Square
St. Louis
Harriman
Coney Island
Miami Beach
Brooklyn
Los Angeles
New York Giants
San Francisco
Madison Square Garden
Chicago
Belmont Park
Las Vegas
Bay Meadows
Bronx
Transportation
Dodgers
K. Corral
Wyatt Earp
Dec Holliday
Tombstone
Hollywood
Odd Musings Rioters and Riddles in a Curious Column
A collage of snappy observations on history sports and society. The piece muses on baseball origins England congress life inaction pensions and gender roles with wry humor and cross references to modern life. It weaves jokes about golf hiccups and archeological hints into a playful social glance.
Origins and rise of baseball from 1840s roots to professional era
The article traces baseball from its English roots and early New York Knickerbocker rules to the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings going professional. It covers the diamond's birth in Hoboken, the 1858 entrance fee, club ownership shifts, and the 1876 National League and 1900 American League founding, noting stadium sizes and late 20th century fan interest. It mentions figures like Cartwright, Doubleday, Spaulding, and icons Babe Ruth and Christy Mathewson as context.
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Hoboken
New Jersey
Alexander Cartwright
New York
Knickerbocker Baseball Club
Knickerbockers
A. G. Spaulding
New England
United States
Fashion Race Track
Long Island
Cincinnati Red Stockings
National Association of Baseball Players
National League of Professional Baseball Clubs
National Ee
Ban
National League
Yankes
Giants
Dodgers
Christy Mathewson
Babe Ruth
Past and present notes from regional items and speeches
The clipped items recall General Pershing in London forty years ago and local roads resurfacing in Lee Street. Mentions of Prof Owen in West Virginia, Wasan Milwaukee visits, and a Bluefield Post sponsor for a July celebration. Clem D Johnson to address a Roanoke Executives club dinner. The Mountaineer Boys State opened at Jacksons Mills. Discussion on soil bank delays and need for fair testing of agricultural programs.
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Clem D. Johnson
Roanoke
Executives Club
Mountaineer Boys
Jackson's Mills
Norfolk Daily News
Agricultures Department
Congress
Budget cut endangers meat inspection and higher prices
The House trimmed 150 meat inspectors from the Meat Inspection Service, slowing lines at 1,241 plants in 499 cities and risking higher beef lamb and pork costs for housewives. Benson sought 192 new inspectors with a budget of 18 million dollars for 1958. The delay could raise production costs and trigger plant shutdowns already seen in 18 cities.
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Washington
Benson
Meat Inspection Service
House of Representati
Addiitioral
A. R. Miller
Senate
Miller
Los Angeles
Salt Lake City
Sioux City
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Kansas City
Grand Forks
N. C
Mount Pleasant
Texas
Fort Worth
Cedar Rapids
New York City
Houston
Chicago
Milwaukee
Newark
N. J
Seattle
Nashville
Danville
Jim Hagerty
Murray Snyder
John Moss
Calif
ABC
Moss
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Sigma Delta Chi
Eisenhower
Hagerty
Snyder
ABC Washington
John Secondari
C. K. McClatchy
Clare Hoffman
Mich
Ike
Phe
Congress
House
GOP
Bill Knowland
California
Knowland
Eastland
Judiciary Committee
Joe Martin
Hungary
Dick Neuberger
Oregon
Hyde Park
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herman Kahn
Moscow
South America
Britain
British Guiana
Cheddi Jagan
Jagan
People’s Progressive Party
Stalin
America
Lilac Time Poem by Gladys Luscombe Ayres
Poem lines celebrate lilac blooms in vivid tones. The speaker notes purple and light blossoms with rare perfume. The piece ends by crediting Gladys Luscombe Ayres in Hawkeye Lyrica.
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Gladys Luscombe Ayres
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Baily
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G.j.’S
G.I
N.A.T.O
Iceland
West Germany
Formosa
Ray Tucker
England
Russia
Sheilah Graham
Alexander Korda
Korda
Wild Life In
Norfolk and Western
Lorenzo W. Perdue
William I. Coleman
W. McClellan
William F. Birklebach, Jr
Jaeger
William H. Caldwell
Ira T. Adams
Thomas W. Baker
Conaway
Eugene C. Harmer
Derrick Carman
Norton
Edgar G. Painter
Emory G. Burnett
Sophia Loren
Hetti
Sophia
F. C. Othman
H. J. Phillips
Grover Whalen
Avies
Joe Stevens
John McGraw
Manhattan Island
South Pole
Senator Soaper
Glew
Scotland
Capitol
Nemo
Nasser
Geo. Sokolsky
Abner Doubleday
Doubleday
Daily Telegraph
General Pershing
London
Lee Street
East End
Prof
Co. Owen
Burch, W. Va
Chase Shape
Wasan
Visit
Bluefield Post
American Lege
Drew Pearson
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