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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1913
Page
4
The piece argues against extraditing Porter Charlton to Italy, warning the United States should not yield to non reciprocal practices. It cites past cases and asserts every innocent deserves a trial and every guilty should face justice, urging U.S. ethics not to imitate Italy.
President Wilson will trigger a nationwide Flag Day observance in public schools with a synchronized singing of The Star Spangled Banner and a flag salute. Today marks the sixth anniversary of the flag’s adoption, with governors and mayors promoting displays and citizen participation across states. Bluefield and Graham report new automobile licensing provisions affecting non residents.
A Cleveland councilman proposes organizing a municipal stock company to fund and produce standard plays under home rule in the new charter. He suggests ticket prices from ten to thirty five cents and wonders how municipal actors would be selected, by appointment or popular vote.
A Pittsburg Dispatch note questions municipal politics in Cleveland. It ponders a ballot with a leading lady or a mayoral pick of a leading man from party workers, asks who will fund the show and who selects standard plays, and compares candidates like Shakespeare Shaw Cohan Kremer Forbes as a municipal stock company spectacle.
A compilation of light satire and humorous observations from multiple newspapers. The items mock vehicle sense, aging phrases, Kodak trust, high prices and odd breakfast costs, plus a wry note on Greek glory statements. Notable quips from Dallas News Harper's Weekly Chattanooga News Memphis Commercial Appeal Cleveland Plain Dealer Houston Post.
On July 26 1912 the West Virginia crisis deepened as Governor Glasscock testified about mine guards and the martial law period. He described threats to his life, troop deployments, and lack of evidence from grand juries while miners and operators reported a reign of terror. Witnesses recalled guards blocking roads and violent incidents during the Kanawha Valley unrest.
The association will jam no races on Mondays or Tuesdays and stretch the SS duration across the better days of racing.
A Cleveland Leader discussion explains why the term tornado remains common in the United States while meteorologists prefer cyclone. It notes tornadoes strike narrow land strips with speeds around 200 mph whirl, whereas true cyclones span wide sea and shore areas with different motion and scope.
Cincinnati Ohio June 13 Latonia Derby opens tomorrow afternoon as part of a promising spring meeting at the Latonia Jockey Club. A top class field is assembled with many horses that shone in Lexington and Louisville, and more than a dozen stakes races are planned for the meet.
A forgery inmate devised a clever cipher using torn strips wrapped around an octagonal pencil. The paper pieces, when reassembled around the pencil, revealed a readable sentence, stunning guards until a deputy noticed the method and demonstrated the key to decoding.
The Mineral Springs Jockey Club plans a fifteen day meeting at Porter county track starting tomorrow and ending Saturday July 4th. The event aims to coincide with a holiday crowd while complying with the law restricting meetings to fifteen days.
In Tazewell Virginia last night a retail merchants association was formed by county merchants and business men. H G Peery of Tazewell Supply Company was elected president with Dr John E Jackson as vice president and Albert M Hlack as secretary. The group plans regular meetings and aims to curb the abused credit system in the county.
A narrating observer recalls a winter 1911 12 voyage past the Panama Canal as a dramatic moment unfolds. He watches an American engineer and a mixed heritage girl drawn together while a rival lurks with dangerous intent, and he intervenes to avert a potential knife attack before the steamer sails.
An exploration of a hypothetical composite American and a composite New Yorker drawn from the 1900 era census in New York City. It notes a mix of seventeen nationalities and varying shares of Russian Italian German Irish Austrian and other bloodlines. The piece argues the American type evolves with migration patterns.
Notice states that on about June 30 1918 an application will be filed with pardon attorney E G Pierson in Charleston West Virginia for the pardon of Hiram Riley convicted of murder in the first degree at the January 1903 term of Mercer County's criminal court and sentenced to life imprisonment in the West Virginia Penitentiary.
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