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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1929
Page
6
A biblical quotation from St. Mark 11 26 emphasizes forgiveness as a prerequisite for divine forgiveness. The verse warns that without forgiveness, the Father in heaven will not forgive trespasses.
A Jersey City woman sues for 100000 over a lost lover who broke an engagement to wed another. The piece notes breach of promise awards vary greatly, depending on the defendant’s finances, and discusses social shifts affecting such suits and the role of Cupid in love outcomes.
Article notes airplanes built in England, perhaps for racing or testing military designs, could reach extraordinary speeds near 400 miles per hour. It warns of extreme air pressure and heat, likening risks to meteor entry and stressing need for materials able to withstand higher air entropy. It also mentions a pilot’s glove torn by wind and a motion picture star vowing to quit films.
Frank D. Black and Miss Emma Mae Wills of Switchback wed at Bristol. Ellis McFarland and Miss May Snell of Tip Top married. The Masons laid the cornerstone of the First Christian church at Princeton. A six foot pine snake was killed on Scott street. The Norfolk and Western railway shopmen strike ended. Ritz summoned to Huntington by mother’s illness.
Poet Bert Cooksley reflects on memories of past springs and summers versus present beauty. The piece laments lost journeys yet celebrates perennial Aprils and Junes, with nature described as vibrant and endlessly youthful. The tone matches a New York Times literary voice.
Sir Esme Howard, the British ambassador in Washington, moves toward a dry embassy by ordering staff to stop replenishing liquor stocks. If the current liquor is consumed before he leaves office in February, the action could influence successors and other diplomats. Reactions vary from praise of enforcement to potential aid for repeal, with some seeing courtesy toward U S prohibition efforts and public support for the eighteenth amendment.
Washington column highlights how the tariff bill raises duties on dextrine and dextrose in baby foods, gelatine, glass bottles, crochet needles, milk, shingles, sugar, surgical instruments, vegetables, malted milk, cotton cloth, pencils, crayons, and matches. It warns higher prices will strain families and even raise risk of abandoned babies.
The avocado or alligator pear, California avocado, varies 5 ounces to two pounds, with yellow green to purple skin. It is rich in fats and minerals, has low carbs, and carries fat soluble vitamin A and vitamin B. Miss Lulu Graves notes its palatability and dietary value with varied serving ideas.
Retired heavyweight champion Gene Tunney shifts from ring to writer. He needs only a pencil or typewriter to start, while noting fame and language craft may be as potent as punches. His nonfighter earnings will depend on editors and publishers.
Reporters chase elusive figures while the public enjoys the chase. Proposed tariff schedules provoke Italian ire, but the matter is not seen as cause for excitement. Traffic schedules annoy some, as they always will, somewhere.
The article states Al Capone is perfectly happy in a Pennsylvania jail and that no one can put him off his routine while behind bars.
In June New York, Pat Cain thrives amid theatrical failure. Cain owns Cain's warehouse where failed and some viable shows end their runs. He is a famed last-nighter, beloved by critics for tips and his name's association with flops.
A quirky fragment compares a girl's figure on beaches to a lawsuit and jokes about cows improving milk output by 15 percent. It notes Nebraska teachers driving wheat trucks and mocks conventions as a method to dry up a city, ending with a travel warning to tourists.
In August 1921 Mabel Willebrandt of Los Angeles was named assistant attorney general under Harding. She rose amid prohibition battles and Hoover campaign clashes, facing near appointments to the federal bench before resigning with June 1921 as her effective departure.
A 1929 roundup argues that daring foolishness can outshine sober virtue. It cites Lindbergh as proof a bold gamble wins national adoration, notes lottery fantasies mislead, and critiques census politics and postwar British pacifism, urging risk to reach true success.
The column critiques Democratic Senate obstruction tying to radicals in the Northwest and warns against party reform along business lines. It also notes unions among Congregationalists and Lutherans, and highlights mine safety rock dusting as shown by the Glen Rogers incident in West Virginia. An Irishman donated blood to a Chinese man in New York, a comment on social friction.
Proposes quarterly tax payments to local governments similar to federal practice. Calls for mine safety enforcement and miner education to protect lives and property. Endorses barriers on roads to prevent accidents and a gasoline tax to fund levies, eliminating personal property taxes. Seeks more factories, new north side street, development association for southern counties, municipal flat field, and reliable water supply.
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