Bluefield Daily Telegraph Advertising and Subscription Rates 1931
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph lists advertising rate policies and subscription prices for 1931. It explains that notices lacking general news value must be paid for, and provides mail and city carrier rates, zones, and distance considerations. The notice also credits The Associated Press for news dispatches and includes publication details and contact information.
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Baily Telegraph
B . Ee
Associated Press
Kate Newport
Manoa City
Chicago
San Neisco
Atlanta
Daily Telegraph Printing CO
Bluefield
W. Va
Postoffice
Jeremiah’s warning and Beecher on aspiration
A reflective biblical verse from Jeremiah speaks of inaction amid wrongdoing as people diverge from truth. Beecher reframes repentance as aspiration, urging inner resolve and hopeful striving in a moral course.
Go To Work Hustle More
In tough times the speaker urges grit and discipline. He praises psychological resilience teaching children that fear is manageable and calls for persistent effort, increased energy, and determination to outperform past achievement despite hardship.
Editorial on safe driving bill by Senator Davis
The Wheeling Intelligencer column dismissed the proposed federal safe driving bill by Senator Jim Davis of Pennsylvania. It argued that government cannot legislate judgment and care, noting accidents persist even with brainy drivers and penalties only deter reckless behavior.
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Wheeling Intelligencer
Jim Davis
Pennsylvania
Machinery a foe to man by Edwin Arleigh Brown
Calif ornia sociologist and author Edwin Arleigh Brown argues machinery harms humanity and should be removed. He condemns labor saving devices as threats to jobs while praising human control of invention but fails to offer viable solutions beyond eradicating machines.
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Edwin Arleigh Brown
California
Pan
Education and Deportment Says Wickersham on Crime Cause
George W. Wickersham urged Syracuse graduates that education must be the right kind to curb crime, but warned that education alone cannot shape conduct. He noted many high status violators are educated and wealthy, stressing character as the deeper requirement. The piece also notes confetti makers, Tex Guinan’s return to Broadway, a motorist suit over a wreck, and Bishop Cannon suing Representative Tinkham for libel.
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George W. Wickersham
United States
National Commission On Law Observance and Enforcement
Syracuse University
Wickersham
Bishop Cannon
Representative Tinkham
Massachusetts
When We Were Doing Twenty Years Ago Today
Edwin French was injured when struck by an automobile as he alighted from a street car. Ann Herzbrum of Welch married Isadore Katzen of Keystone. Mrs. Ann BE Mark, mother of B A Mark, former Bluefield resident, died in Roanoke. Ten years ago today Lewis Wirt, 20, drowned at the Norfolk and Western dam in Fails Mills. Mrs. A M Sample, sister of Rev S W Moore, died in Fort Pierce Vila. Audrey Pearl Rimmer and J W Grimes married in Bluefield.
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Edwin French
Ann Herzbrum
Welch
Isadore Katzen
Keystone
Ann BE. Mark
B. A. Mark
Bluefield
Roanoke
Lewis Wirt
Norfolk and Western
Fails Mills
A. M. Sample
S. W. Moore
Fort Pierce
Vila
Audrey Pearl Rimmer
J. W. Grimes
HumanityWill Master the Machine and Regulate Society
The text argues civilization will not confess incompetence but will find a way to control machine power. It claims humanity will always invent to master machines rather than abandon progress, and society will enact laws to preserve happiness and opportunity despite automation.
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Mr. Brown
Chicago’s New Scotland Yard Named Police Department Unit
Chicago establishes a Scotland Yard style unit within its police force. The piece notes uncertainty whether murders and executions will align similarly to London, suggesting close parallels but not confirming outcomes.
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Chicago
Scotland Yard
London
I Will Be My Loveliest to Woo You Back
The speaker declares that if the other tires of them first, they will not sit at home grieving. They will appear seductively, wearing gold or blue earrings, perfume behind the ear, and invite whispers to win back their love with a bold, alluring display.
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Laura Lee, Inc. Medical Dept
Minneapolis
Minn
Safety driving bill urged by Senator Davis of Pennsylvania
Senator Davis plans to introduce a bill in the next Congress to fund a broad safety education campaign for motorists. The measure faces economy doubts, but supporters insist the nation needs more driver education as 1929 auto losses reached about 850.6 million dollars with rising death and injury figures.
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Enator Davis
Pennsylvania
Wheeling Intelligencer
Medal Renting in Hollywood Becomes Quietly Profitable Trade
Hollywood readers learn that A. W. Hazelton rents military medals to studios for 1.25 to 75 dollars weekly, with high end pieces like the Victoria Cross and Croix de Guerre commanding large deposits. The practice is limited by a law prohibiting commercial traffic in medals, though many ex-officers supply pieces for film use.
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Hollywood
A. W. Hazelton
Hazelton
Fragmented OCR: Harpoon, medals, travel, and jokes
The text mixes odd lines about throwing harpoons, medals needing war department permission, decoration return, travel benefits, a mortician's business, a Minnesota columnist railing at gag laws, and a claim of $480 million in gold. It reads as a garbled, miscellaneous clipping with no clear single event or coherent narrative.
Dana Suess Emerges From Tin Pan Alley As New Young Star
Dana Suess, an 18 year old from Louisiana, rises as a top new find in Tin Pan Alley with hits like Whistling in the Dark and Ho Hum gaining radio and dance play. Her rapid ascent follows years of piano prodigy work in Shreveport, with mother managing her early career.
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New York
Tin Pan Alley
Louisiana
Dana Suess
Manhattan
Shreveport
Way Points
Justice Roberts surprise naturalization vote shocks observers
The text reports Justice Roberts surprising observers by concurring with the majority in the MacIntosh Bland naturalization case, while not sharing the same views as Holmes Brandeis and Stone. It questions if officials should be questioned about oath interpretations and ponders whether a Quaker like Herbert Hoover could become president.
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Holmes
Brandeis
Stone
Hughes
Roberts
Sutherland
Dr. MacIntosh
Miss Bland
Congress
Herbert Hoover
Tariff Fight Looms As Congress Prepares Battle Over Hawley Smoot Act
Last night’s dispatch predicts a noisy tariff confrontation in the next session of Congress. Democrats and Progressive Republicans will clash with Republicans over rates, with the Hawley Smoot Act at the center. Leaders claim current duties are adequate, while backers warn against weakening protection. Key figures include Senators Costigan and Hull, and Congressman Lewis, all set to spearhead the debate.
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Ashington
Congress
Republican National Committee
Senate
Jim Watson
Europe
America
Connery
Massachusetts
Southwest
Norris
Nebraska
Costigan
Colorado
Hull
Tennessee
David J. Lewis
Maryland
Lewis
Tariff Commission
Living long runs in families say researchers
Dr Morris Fishbein reports that Johns Hopkins studies of 100000 Baltimore area genealogies show children with parents who lived past 60 have longer life expectancy. Sons of fathers who died at 80 or older show greater longevity than sons whose fathers died younger, supporting Holmes advice to choose long lived ancestors.
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Raymond Pear
Professor Pear
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Department of Biology
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Day News Briefs: Police, Vatican notes and more
AP dispatches report a New York police sergeant shot dead with a detective and patrolman wounded in robberies. Other briefs cover a Vatican conciliatory note to protests, murder charges against Oklahoma sheriff’s deputies, 800 miners idle seeking union terms, a Dayton homicide, a British submarine presumed lost, a Manchurian governor dead, and various West Virginia legal and educational items.
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New York
Rome
Vatican
Ardmore
Okla
Steubenville
Dayton
London
Poseidon
Nanking
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Valparaiso
Ind
Virgil Kirkland
Arlene Draves
West Virginia and Paris Mayors Attend Commencement and Tours
West Virginia University graduates 560 students at the 64th commencement in Morgantown. In Paris, 65 Bethany students join America's touring mayors who meet President Gaston Doumergue at the Elysee Palace. The officials plan to tour Tours and France’s Chateaux region, with Doumergue praising Franco American friendship.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
Bethany
Paris
America
Gaston Doumergue
Elysee Palace
Tours
France
Chacateaux
Townley forms new organization in Northwest
St Paul dispatch notes A Townley led effort to create a new nonpartisan grouping with ex supporters from the 1918 Nonpartisan League. He promotes a five year moratorium on interest payments as quick relief for depression, arguing monopoly and centralization threaten democracy. He urges ballots over bullets to avoid bloodshed.
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St. Paul, Minn
Townley
Nonpartisan League In
Northwest
North Dakota
Congress
State Board fixes utility property valuations headline
State board updates utility property valuations with wide changes across multiple sectors. Major rises include West Virginia Water Service at 3.24 million and Huntington Water at 2.25 million, with other water and telecom firms adjusted. New interstate bus lines entries add 12 thousand each. several freight lines and industrials show varying increases and decreases across the extensive list.
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Bethany College
Moundsville
West Virginia Christian Endeavor Union
Martinsburg
Allen N. Noll
Berkeley County
Charleston
State Board of Public Works
Huntington
Edgar Blankenship
H. Clay Worth
Common Pleas
Ira M. Dodd
Philippi
Broaddus College
Athens Telephone Company
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Bluefield Telephone Company
West Virginia Water Service Company
Huntington Water Company
Beckley Water Company
Jaeger Water Works
Mullens Water Works
Oak Hill Water Company
Water and Electric Company
Kimball Light and Water
West Virginia Utilities Company
Interstate Bus Lines
Capital Greyhound Lines
Cannnonball Transit
Cannonball Transportation Company
Greyhound Lines, Inc
Interstate Motor Transportation Company
Interstate Transit Company
L. and A. Bus Line
Pocahontas Transportation Company
White Star Lines
Angle Star Lines, Inc
Preston County Bus and Garage Company, Inc
Intrastate Bue Lines
Athens-Princeton Transportation Company
Blue Ridge Transportation Company
West Virginia
Blue and Grany Transit Company
Logan Transit Company
Logan - Williamson Bus Company
Murphy Bus Company
Beckley- Hinton
Seneca Trail Lines
West Virginia Transportation Company
Railway Express Agency, Inc
Express Company
Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corporation
du Pont de Nemours and Company
Fruit Growers Express Company
New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company
Pittsburgh By- Products Coke Company
Peoples Gas By- Products Corporation
Pullman Company
Union Tank Car Company
Kenova selects officials in municipal election
Huntington West Virginia June 9 E Way was elected mayor of Kenova for his fourth consecutive two year term defeating Democrat J K Payne 932 to 831 All other Independent Party candidates were elected John Shelton beat Democrat A L Moore for police judge Council members elected were Andy New Jr D C Staton Sherrill Elder and Grady Mareyum
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Kenova
Huntington
W. Va
E. Way
Way
J. K. Payne
John Shelton
A. L. Moore
Andy New, Jr
D. C. Staton
Sherrill Elder
Grady Mareyum
Trial delayed in murder case of Hazel Bradshaw
San Diego, June 9. Moss E. Garrison’s appearance on the witness stand at his preliminary hearing for the murder of his 22-year-old former sweetheart Hazel Bradshaw was postponed by a noon adjournment. A. Fairchild, Garrison’s attorney, said the defendant was the sole remaining defense witness.
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San Diego
Cal
Moss E. Garrison
Hazel Bradshaw
A. Fairchild
Garrison
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Mad
Tex Guinan
Broadway
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Gall T. Dudgeon
McDowell County
Dudgeon
Republican Party
Welch Daily News
Parkersburg
Clarksburg
Screen Life IN
Hubbard Keavy
Lilly Damita
John Gilbert
Ruth Weston
War Department
Angler
Minnesota
Lydia Roberts
Brooklyn
Fanchon and
Marco
Lou Holtz
Margaret Sullavan
Jimmy Cagney
Sylvia Sydney
Gilbert Swan
Spring Madness
King Beatuces Syndicate
Bill
Justice Roberts
By Kirke Simpson
Washington
Ustice
Owen Roberts
Supreme Court
Capitol
Gans
Daily Health Service
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the American Medical Association
the Health Magazine
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Elysee
Towley
Nonpartisan League
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