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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1923
Page
8
The notice outlines advertising rates and eligibility for content in the Daily Telegraph Printing Co. publication. It lists pricing by zone and frequency, locations served, and submission instructions. It identifies Bluefeld West Virginia as the posting location and notes subscription options and printing office details.
A short, incomplete quotation references Job chapter five verses six and seven about affliction and trouble and adds a fragment about friendship and prosperous days attributed to Euripides, with no clear article context.
The Daily Telegraph highlights sixteen pages of home improvement notices from Bluefield merchants. A National Better Homes Week event runs Monday with an industrial expo and a house beautiful built and furnished by local shops. Ladies’ committees will showcase the Biodel home and its furnishings each day, with a large exposition tent nearby for displays and programs.
The statement advocates voter support for issuing bonds while reducing the property tax from 89 to 75 cents by 1927 28. It notes a prior promise to cut taxes fulfilled last August from 1.00 to 0.89 and cites Bluefield’s $23 million valuation with a $24 300 saving. It details city revenue 281 197 and allocations for operation maintenance interest sinking fund and fire services.
Dialogue excerpt shows a family scene with Archie and Grace discussing a church wedding location and a pieplant gift. The tone hints at domestic humor and a potential romantic mischief. Characters Grace and Glayds interact as pieplant ventures into the conversation.
We Were Doing TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY notes the marriage of Floyd Black and Miss Patti Landon of Pocahontas in Petersburg, Virginia, with Dr C M Scott named president of the board of health after Dr J H Are. The Bluefield Inn closed for repairs.
A playful poem contrasts weather's certainty with human mood. It notes that despite planning outdoor days and weather’s unpredictability, one may grumble or stay cheerful. The speaker asserts personal opinion and freedom to feel about climate while weather remains beyond control.
A fiscal appeal warns that rejecting bonds will force slow sewer and pavement work only in small bits, risking loss of a new city hall, widened streets, and parks. It argues current salaries are fair, city costs are below national per capita averages, and the bond measure promises 25 years of benefits for health safety and expansion.
Commentators predict no public will to block the constructive program despite proposed handicaps by radicals. The agitation against road projects in the next congress is expected to die for lack of popular support.
Marshall Field and Company reports orders from about 40 000 retail merchants nationwide at least fifty percent above last year. The surge implies purchasing power has grown by at least half since 1922, despite critics urging political change and challenging the constitution and the laws enabling prosperity.
The piece argues Europe’s growing military power and debt neglect coincide with aggressive spending on war preparations. It warns that American aid to Europe hinges on a changed national spirit and repudiates heavy foreign intervention.
The Chicago gathering to spur sentiment against railroads draws little response. Citizens balk at road policies while acknowledging transportation needs. Railroads claim large investments this year including $1.1 billion in improvements and Norfolk and Western pledges $35 million for equipment and betterments.
Within twenty four hours two bales of cotton moved from Augusta Georgia to New Bedford Massachusetts by air and made into Masonic aprons for a Mystic Shrine convention in Washington The Wamsutta Mills produced them The piece extols municipal expansion bonds and urges support for progress and bonded city growth in Fields Bluefield.
Viscount Grey warns of an impending air supremacy contest in Europe. He cites France with 1,260 planes in service and Britain with 371, noting projected totals of 2,180 for France and 575 for Britain by 1925 if current construction continues. Eyvi-
A collage of quips from several papers, noting street safety, travel crowds, and social satire. Jokes touch on jaywalking, bartenders abroad, courting advice, lost pocketbooks, speed cops, engagement quirks, and comic inventions.
From the north comes word the season is three weeks late and the Opiloway predict a hot summer and late winter. Rail freight, insulin cures, diabetes treatment, and cost of living in China are discussed with broader economic and health implications for readers.
At a convention the New York State Medical Society heard its president Dr. Arthur W. Booth condemn tax on pain relievers and stimulants to save lives. He argued restrictions target a minority of unscrupulous doctors abused rights, likening them to general laws.
Col Ruxton of Peking reports an American stenographer can live lavishly in China with two or three servants on his income. He notes unskilled labor earns only nickels a day despite China's vast population. Ruxton says American brains are highly paid there, contrasting with perceived East West intellectual myths.
A confused passenger fumbles through pockets claiming a lost ticket while the conductor retorts that the passenger couldn’t lose one a yard long. The passenger replies he could and asserts the joke about not knowing him after a remark about losing a bass drum.
Editorial and letters urge workers to value their jobs and earnings, arguing that honesty and diligence sustain livelihood and family welfare. The piece notes pride in employment, warns against quarrelling with wages, and calls progress a shared objective for all laborers.
A West Virginia University student and a young woman married impulsively during a car trip and later seek a divorce. They claim the marriage was a jest, but the court refuses to treat matrimony as a mere joke and considers its sacred nature in the proceeding.
A reflective column compares mosquitoes to human folly, noting repeated risky behavior and the lure of danger across generations. It argues that people ignore past disasters and cling to bravado, trusting youth’s supposed wisdom while renewals of war and risk loom.
The Higley jury, unable to reach a verdict, heard the 130 Field Artillery band play near the jury room during a long session. After the first number, another ballot was taken and every juror voted for acquittal. A juror attributed the music as calming prior convictions. Moral: hire the Hiawathat band.
A collection of light quips and satirical asides about money, marriage, heat, travel, and fashion. Jokes reference Dempsey, a Kentucky judge, a Detroiter returning from a honeymoon, and a June bride, with playful riffs on weariness of wealth and single life.
A collection of short comic exchanges and quips shows clever remarks and misfirings at social events. Humorous lines touch on marriage motives, medical vanity, family dinners, and polite tipping, with a mix of witty wordplay and social observations.
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