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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1916
Page
4
The Daily Telegraph Printing Co publishes daily editions from Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia with advertising rates available on application. Remittances and communications go to Box 328 Bluefield WV 24701.
A 1916 clipping presents reflections on faith and unfaith with lines from Lowell and Tennyson. It notes nature’s humor in clouds and contrasts inward grief with outward pity, reflecting era sentiments.
Britain mourns Lord Kitchener as a fearless leader who took risks to advance the war effort. His decision to travel to Russia boosted recruitment and helped form the great volunteer army, while critics offered only rhetoric and empty plans. The article notes posthumous changes and mentions other scattered items from unrelated papers.
Benztown Bard writes in the Paltimore Sun that personal sorrows lessen when he considers the troubles of others. He notes how darkest moments pass as empathy shifts perspective and lighter feelings return.
Disagreement surrounds the result of the recent naval engagement with prior dispute over plans and expectations. Analysts and officials debate who gained advantage and what the battle signaled for future operations.
A Washington dispatch reports President Wilson approving a Mexican agreement amid ongoing diplomacy. The note humorously adds that the only Mexican agreement known is the “agreement to disagree.”
The report notes a potential split in the Progressive party is a minor consideration. Brandeis remains on the bench and government functions continue as normal.
The court of appeals of Missouri held pedestrians have the same street rights as autos, a principle the writer sees as long overdue. The piece notes careless drivers often threaten pedestrians at busy Bluefield intersections near the passenger depot and on Raleigh and Higginbotham streets.
A newspaper excerpt argues pedestrians must stay cautious while drivers with gasoline engines speed across street crossings. It contends that reckless drivers should not claim street supremacy and should yield to safety concerns.
A Geographic Society correspondent describes a brutal campaign against Tela city. The attacker says he breached strong walls, slew three thousand fighters, captured riches and captives, burned inhabitants, mutilated soldiers, and erected pyramids of living and dead. He claims city destruction and annihilation.
A court story from a Russian journal recounts two men in Poland suing over ownership of an umbrella left in a restaurant. The judge, unable to resolve the dispute, used the umbrella in his street walk, later replacing it and finally fining both litigants for frivolous legal action, leaving them nonsuited.
The article reports on the uncovering of Ninevah ruins across the Tigris near Mosul, with Yale professor Albert T. Cary describing how deciphered records reveal ancient Israel as a minor power and explain ancient religion, science, and life. It notes clay tablets, shipping tags, and a "congressional library" of texts, including a lover’s message from Gimil Marduk.
A Civic League vision of a sanitary, beautiful city with equal comforts for rich and poor and public virtue. Also Makluyt’s claim of the north pole as a nation’s blessed light, and a humorous note on a joke involving a wife advertisement and a witty reply about a cart before an ass.
A saturated solution of celluloid in bam oil yields a durable lacquer for brass surfaces. The mixture combines polymer with solvent to form a protective coating.
In Kernstown a stingy elder refuses neighbors cowcumbers unless they work the garden, prompting Solomon Graves to steal six cucumbers. A mistaken warrant, spelling debates, and a village feud ensue, ending with Graves never being arrested. An aside notes Babylonian use of asphalt revived by a Greek physician in 1712.
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