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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1919
Page
4
Editorial rooms at the Daily Telegraph state that No 6 is the night contact while No 14 is closed for business. Readers are advised to call No 6 at night to leave messages for the newspaper.
The Mexican insurrectos have long favored border operations with Jaurez Chihuahua and border towns repeatedly contested. New revolutionary Fillipe Angeles is said to lead a large force near the border as imports of munitions become easier. Mexicans seek to draw U S attention and force decisive action from Washington.
The article notes a $36 658 076 05 dividend to Liberty Bond holders and promotes converting interest to War Savings and Thrift Stamps at 4 25 percent. It also mentions treaty printing costs, Tex Rickard’s upcoming project profits, and a push for war-related charity, with aside remarks on a feeble-minded home bill and Vanderbilt law honors.
A Brooklyn physician sues for 28000 claiming services rendered to a woman who died. He suggests higher damages were avoided since her estate would not permit a larger claim.
A New York hotel firm plans a 3 million dollar hotel expansion. mixed notes on finance and press. The piece mentions Vanderlip's claim of doing useful work after leading the National Bank and wryly questions door slams.
A farmer recounts a Thievehunnish tree from Prussia that stole barbed wire, tools, a pail, a calf and more. The tree grew rapidly, absorbed fence ends, and hid a trove of stolen items inside its trunk until a hired ax finally felled it. The tale mirrors odd items columns cited by newspapers.
Mrs. P. Frazier of East St. Louis Missouri writes that Chamberlain's Tablets are unequaled for indigestion and biliousness. She notes she has used them and many friends praise their effectiveness.
A home recipe claims two lemons squeezed into three ounces of orchard white make a quarter pint freckle and tan lotion. The mixture is said to smooth freckles and blemishes for a clear rosy skin tone at low cost and without irritation.
In Kirksville a famed lawyer Colonel Dean argued amid a jail corridor scene that a penitentiary life might benefit two young defendants. He described prison life to influence their pleas, leading them to admit guilt for a chance at healthful reform.
A bold man in a busy city street offers to cross blindfolded for $100. A skinny passerby guides him across and back safely, while onlookers hiss at being duped, as the Indianapolis News notes.
The article notes constipation as the most common bodily ailment due to ignoring nature's call. It advises establishing a daily bowel habit, proper diet and exercise, and ample water. If needed, Chamberlain's Tablets are described as mild and gentle.
A saying in finance or culture asserts a kiss on the lips can be as valuable as 5 million on paper, highlighting perceived romantic or symbolic value over monetary.
In a raid by local and federal agents near Pinnacle Creek and Mora, Floyd Taylor and L H Roberts were arrested on moonshine charges. Officers destroyed 150 gallons of raisin mash and a stove still, while a copper worm was found in Taylor’s home. Marriage licenses were issued locally for four couples.
Mrs Talliaferro and Mr G Talliaferro have relocated from Princeton to Whitethorn Virginia. Mrs Talliaferro, now settled, previously visited her parents Mr and Mrs Pine most Sundays in the city while planning the move. Virginia railroad engineer Mr Villia ferro is noted in the transfer context.
Magistrate J A Pine held a young man from Athens under a 5900 bond to await grand jury action on charges connected to the delinquency of two Camp Creek girls placed at the Bluefield home for girls. Another trial in the college town is set for next Friday. Warrants are out for three others in the same case.
W. V. Peck, manager of the Mercer county poor farm and local resident, has been rapidly declining in health for weeks due to tuberculosis. His son Henry, long in Montana, wired to start returning home yesterday as Peck’s condition worsened.
An eight year old boy, son of Charles Andrews who runs a boarding house at a Ritter Lumber Co plant on the Virginian railroad near Herndon, was admitted to Memorial Hospital with a broken arm after falling on a steel rail while walking.
A testimonial from Mrs. W. QO Boho of 348 Oak Street Athens Georgia extols Dreco as unmatched for catarrh of the head nose and throat and related pains. She describes relief from mucus vertigo and throat sores after use and notes Dreco is prepared from herbal extracts. The ad claims bluefield distribution and availability at druggists.
The 1918 honey crop is placed at about 250 million pounds by the department of agriculture. Nectar from flowers must be worked and evaporated by bees, requiring movement of up to 150000 tons of material to produce this yield, exclusive of hive consumption. White clover and two leguminous plants alfalfa and sweet clover are major nectar sources, with cotton, basswood, tulip tree, buckwheat, goldenrod and mountain laurel producing recognizable honeys.
At Weimar on June 16 the Socialist congress voted against a soviet constitution for Germany receiving only one affirmative ballot. The body also adopted a resolution to withhold pensions for former royal family members. In St Germain a fourteen member Austrian delegation from Vienna joined the peace mission led by Herr Muller-Martini and others.
Hammerschlag heads a financial commission along with several ministerial counsellors and secretaries in the ongoing governance reshuffle and oversight initiative.
Sealed bids for bituminous macadam paving with concrete curbs and gutters on streets in Bluefield close at noon June 20, 119. Streets include Price from Binefield to Rogers, Franklin from Lee to Jackson, and others. A $500 certified check accompanies each bid, bids filed with the City Recorder marked Bid on street paving, council may reject any bid.
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