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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1916
Page
4
Fragments indicate a directive to address communications and send remittances to DAILY TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. in Bluefield West Virginia. No clear event or person named.
A compact meditation citing Dryden and Daniel Webster on living with conscience and duty. The lines contrast present action with distant rewards and emphasize integrity before God and man as an enduring inheritance.
A Vatican Observatory project aims to complete a comprehensive survey of the heavens listing over 56 000 stars. The work will aid future astronomers by providing a reference to compare with their time’s photographs to estimate stellar distances. The article reflects relief that scientists handle this vast celestial task.
The piece reports ongoing discussions of a compromise between Republican gubernatorial candidates. Each side blames the other's friends for proposing it while denying any intent to pursue it. Ex governors Atkinson White and Judge Mason are named in circulating mentions, though the author dismisses the idea.
The Democratic press favors recounts to prolong party divisions and help their chances in the election, while Republican papers discourage court appeals. The piece notes renewed hope from the Chicago convention and urges unity and official returns to settle the matter.
A Chicago teacher argues dancing should be simplified as it demands too much mental effort, noting many dancers revel in ease. Mr. Bryan says he could perform prohibition better by declining the Prohibition party nomination and accuses him of lacking devotion to Democracy.
Justice Hughes and President Wilson are depicted as eager golf enthusiasts. The piece imagines a high profile scene featuring two leading figures in a friendly match, highlighting their interest in the sport and public appeal.
Advertising copy from Bluefield touts Adlerika as a remedy for appendicitis prevention and bowel relief. It claims a spoonful clears constipation and gas, with immediate action and benefits for upper and lower bowel, endorsed by a local druggist.
The verse laments England and its war effort. It notes Man of blood and steel, ship of hope without a keel, Mingland disconsolate, the Loom of Fate. It praises strength and cleanliness, loyalty to king and green, and ends with the dead at sea under fate’s gaze.
The Moissevain wedding sees Miss Marguerite Whitehead wed William F. Tabor with Rev D T Miles officiating. The couple plans a home in Boissevain after June 15 and a No 16 departure for eastern visits. Also reports escape from injury after a car plunge near Huntington with several passengers unharmed. Dr M J Alexander elected mayor, with councilmembers chosen on People’s ticket. balance of power shifts to the mayor if a split occurs. Other items note a scaffold fall injuring Join Macom Sturday at 72, visits from J W Albright of Rugby, and Richard Peery’s study progress at Washington and Lee University.
Northfork notes report many car owners complain of drivers on county roads lacking lights and horns on curves. County officers are urged to curb such behavior to prevent injuries. Robber Captured in Richmond. Baldwin-Felts detectives recover suspect in Powhatan office robbery and plan to bring him to West Virginia. Brings Son From Hospital. Mrs. A D Rice of Worth travels to Welch to bring home a son from a hospital treatment for water on the knee. Capeburn, ex Peerless Coal employee, joins Gar age and Auto Supply Co. as machinist.
Ben Kaufman has accepted a position in the engineering corps of the Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company at Switchback. Watermelon season is on with merchants receiving good quality fruit almost daily.
A. A. Blevins a saw mill man of Algoma has just come back after a two weeks visit to friends in Indiana Ex Mayor Hale of Keystone was in town yesterday for business matters
A colored porter in Rochester, New York, struggled to control a traveling case containing a gyroscope that rose from his grip and behaved as if bewitched. Owner Montraville Wood explained the device’s spinning mechanism and potential uses in navigation, noting the gyroscope weighed 28 pounds, was 24 inches across, and ran at 3000 rpm.
Public auction to sell for cash and credit six to twelve months notes the property in Bluefield Mercer county West Virginia lot 12 section 820 Fair View addition described by metes and bounds. Trustee Luwpery G Bowling states sale is to satisfy delinquent trust deed payments with costs taxes and commissions.
To whom it may concern a notice declares that G W Fizber will not be responsible for any debts made by Ella M Fizer the signatory date May 23 1916 in the notice text appears as a legal disclaimer of liability for her debts.
A flurry of short notes records Mr and Mrs C A Austin leaving yesterday for Cincinnati, Frank T Witten visiting from Tazewell, and Mrs J W Shirey hospitalized for an operation. Other items mention Hampden Sidney student Herward Mellhany returning home, Dr A C Tedford traveling to Parkersburg for a state osteopathic convention, and numerous locals visiting relatives or underway to events in Roanoke, Blackburg, or Philadelphia area.
Milton Mallory, a Black man from Appalachia Virginia, was taken to Richmond to die in the electric chair on July 7 after being sentenced by Judge Skeen for brutally assaulting four children aged five to nine. Authorities escorted Mallory from Wise County to Richmond, keeping him chained and guarded as crowds gathered at the depot.
A Paris dentist has devised a technique using ultra violet rays to whiten and sterilize teeth. The method aims to improve cosmetic whitening while reducing bacterial presence, representing a novel application of UV technology in dental care.
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