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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1923
Page
5
Fragmentary lines cite a biblical verse about labor and rest, then a social maxim urging self-reliance. The text shows misspellings and typography typical of era printed excerpts, with attributions to Keeles and M. Dupin suggesting a miscellany or quotation page.
City boosters defend rising costs as necessary for health law enforcement fire safety and street upgrades. They note wage gains and price rises but argue a bond plan could cut the levy to 75 cents while improving services, citing a new fire apparatus and machine street cleaning saving money.
A column recalls events from twenty years ago including the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen picnic at Eggleston Springs, a fatal burial during excavations for the Atkinson building on Raleigh street, two political party tickets for a city school board race, and other local notes.
The piece argues Bluefield runs a cost efficient government, comparing per capita spending to other cities and urging residents to support a progressive program at the polls next Tuesday. It defends current operations as prudent and responsive to citizens’ demands for better services.
A humorous poem by Berton Braley contrasts the Doughboy’s heroism in war with neglect in peace. The speakers mock the social divide that honors soldiers in battle but ignores them after conflicts end. The dialogue satirizes booms and busts of national sentiment.
The Cleveland Catholic bishop Rev Joseph Schrembs warns the drug habit endangers social, intellectual, spiritual, and moral life and could ruin individuals and the nation. He cites teen starts and urges massive public action. The Daily Telegraph will publish Fred V Williams NEA articles on drug abuse. a Columbus shoemaker’s suicide linked to rising rent is noted.
Terrible news from Georgia notes 81 young men licensed to practice dentistry. Other items report a gas mask inventor losing 50000 in Omaha, trends on weather and censorship, and various humorous observations on politics, Prohibition, and daily life.
An assortment of light quips and dialogue sketches features a teacher, a wife with cake and life insurance, a husband wary of the cake, and a farmer’s rib about eggs and hunting. A studio crowd views art before the academy, a flirtatious remark about angels and women, and a senator’s luncheon on political oratory ends with a critic praising only sound.
A. C. Bedford warns Versailles failures hurt economies not politics. Europe sees a steel trust rise. Australia curtails government industry roles. Immigration raids target Chinese on Long Island. Debates on faith, evolution, and prayer spark controversy as Lt Maughan plans a cross continent flight at 152 mph.
A Washington Post editorial extols U S prosperity under President Harding. It credits Republican tariff action and rising domestic demand for wealth, factory employment, and spending. Democrats are urged to support current policies to sustain the boom and avoid destabilizing legislation.
The Philadelphia Record notes ancient Egypt could shape serpents but not reverse them, while Pittsburgh scientists show an artificial thunder storm. It questions using electricity to mimic nature to speed coal production, risking high coal prices and avoiding strikes.
The New Haven Journal-Courier commends George Dudley Seymour for appealing to President Harding to place Hale on a postage stamp and to honor Hale’s memory. Seymour restored Hale birthplace, supported Nathan Hale park, and inspired Bela Pratt’s statue at Yale before Connecticut Hall, urging continued guardianship of Hale’s legacy.
A collage of quips from papers across the country includes jokes about green and red shoes, weeded gardens, Henry Ford and currency, Poincare and Berlin offers, wealth and brains, better roads versus homes, Ford’s presidential hopes, Jackie Coogan and child labor, Dutch farmers seeking tax relief, and an iron worker’s wartime noise comparison.
In Marseilles M Frederic de Longier died by his own action, believing his fortune had vanished through speculation. His estate is valued at $20,000.
Rodger Dolan recalls an isolated backwoods doctor who charged just one dollar for examination and medicine. The physician, living in a fifteen-house community, tended to locals and outsiders alike, studying modern medicine while chopping wood and farming to meet needs. He treats endocrine cases, cancer with radium from a distant city, and values duty over wealth.
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