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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1937
Page
6
The excerpt contrasts sacred use of churches with commercial activity, citing Luke and a quote about cathedrals. It also includes reflections praising grand church architecture and mountain scenery. Historical lines emphasize reverence in worship and human achievement in sacred architecture.
The text argues for redistribution of wealth favoring women, cites that women own a majority of U S wealth, and contrasts with Japan where strict limits on women's hours and low wages foster cheaper goods. It asserts redistribution would aid the non rich and explains unemployment tied to tariff effects.
A historical review notes 58 000 laws since the nation’s start with only seventy seven ruled unconstitutional by courts. It contrasts presidential vetoes and congressional overreach, arguing for a tribunal to decide legality of congressional enactments amid debate over presidential power and Congress’s correctness.
The piece notes Col. E. M. House claims Roosevelt will not seek a third term, echoing debates over his 1940 intentions. It argues public figures should provide concrete statements to prove their knowledge and stresses that the public remains uncertain about Roosevelt's plans three years ahead.
The piece analyzes how Col. House’s remarks may be irrelevant or material and how Roosevelt’s 1940 intentions remain unclear. It suggests Roosevelt will keep counsel, avoid revealing plans, and may seek renomination if he seeks a third term.
The piece argues the national and government debts threaten taxpayers as debt burdens workers and families. It notes an eight hundred million dollar annual interest bill and that only seven percent of funds come from personal income taxes, with most revenue from concealed taxes hidden in everyday costs.
The article warns that bicycles in street traffic are a dangerous practice. It cites rising incidents of children darting into auto traffic and argues parents and drivers alike become jittery and anxious. It urges swift regulation to prevent a likely terrible accident.
The piece argues that Americans should not back any side in the Spanish Civil War. It labels communism fascism nazism and sovietism as alien to free government and asserts real Americans will withhold support for these ideologies. It accepts nations choosing their own path but rejects external backing for these movements.
Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia, has fled a French court suit against Prime Minister Mussolini over shares in Ethiopia's one track railway. The defense is expected to respond with an Italian equivalent of the American push to delay or avoid payment.
In Spokane Washington intoxicated riders seized a locomotive and sped in reverse for three miles without causing an accident as other trains were due on the line. The incident labeled as drunken driving de luxe illustrates risky railway behavior amid service schedules.
The text notes that kidnaping remains despite federal laws and agents. It emphasizes that any reduction is valuable, treating the decline as a gain to be treasured.
The presentation of the title Earl of Stanley Baldwin marks a political gesture by King George VI to honor the former prime minister. The text notes Baldwin remains ahead in favor, while the Earl of Bewdley holds a stronger position against the monarch.
Flowers sent by friends and admirers to Jean Harlow’s bier were stripped by souvenir hunters. Morbid behavior is rapidly becoming a national trait.
The poem envisions a circular ocean and a ship trapped in a wheel like loop. The speaker longs for linear movement toward a distant shore as engines roar to break the ring and reach land. May Lewis frames hunger for movement with cosmic imagery and stark sea discipline.
Forty years ago Morris Rosenberg moved to a new Bluefield location on Princeton avenue while Rev. W. W. Smith opened a tent revival. The county court declined liquor licenses in the county on June 8.
James Preston notes the new wage hour bill sparked closer scrutiny by lawmakers. He explains how House and Senate interstate commerce panels hesitated to review it and instead sent it to labor committee chairs, amid debates on constitutional fit and political dynamics.
Joint hearings showed none questioned the claim that prices would not rise with higher wages and shorter hours. Proponents argued workers’ morale would improve, boosting output despite a one hour day and equal pay.
The article notes persistent tax law loopholes amid five years of last minute bills. Lawmakers alternate between adding and removing corporate income taxes, leaving gaps unchanged by frequent legislation and reflecting ongoing inequities.
The piece satirically warned that U S control of doctors could delay care and empower commissions. It mocked Washington strategies, questioned the impact on patients and doctors, and referenced figures like Senator J Ham Lewis and Jim Farley amid a broader critique of New Deal policy.
The Rockettes invitations to Paris Exposition. George Jean Nathan cooking book with Van Dine. Mike Romanoff autobiography. Eugene Fodor travel book. French hotel lore. Georges Carpentier at Cannes. German topics about Hitler dates. Universal Aunts agency in London. Manhattan Arithmologist fad. Marx Brothers film gag with Groucho.
A June 17 birthday guidance piece notes favorable hours 9 11 am 2 4 pm and 8 10 pm with danger 7 9 am 6 8 pm and 10 pm to midnight. It highlights creative work wealth potential social activity and a happy marriage, plus notes strong career paths for men born on this day. It lists notable births like H Babock Wells Upshur Humphreys Wesley Frohman.
An English woman alleges a US actor bore a striking likeness to a Don from her circle. She references a firm named Siines and Cooings. Flyers promoting world stunt tours are faulted by air officials for unsafe takeoffs, with one leg at a time cited as a mistake.
The fragment references Amelia Earhart and a misread weather note while noting praise for slick control. It hints at a wartime or political backdrop with Mussolini and a provocative, disjointed line about a "Five Hundred Pound Book." The text remains fragmentary and local tone remains.
George Burns explains in a letter to Hubbard Keavy that comedy is a constant balancing act. He notes Gracie Allen often steals scenes, gags are rarely spontaneous, and careful timing wins laughs in films and radio. Burns prefers the office to home writing, quipping about gag writers and family life.
The grand jury of the United States district court, discharged by Judge George W. McClintic, found forty true bills. Multiple defendants faced sentences ranging from two to four years in Chillicothe and Atlanta. Notable cases include embezzlement of $904 in postal funds and interstate theft involving Grover Kissenger and others.
A Harvard historian analyzes postwar reconciliation after the Civil War, noting the surprising speed of healing despite initial bitterness. Buck argues a fair study shows gradual, decisive progress rather than lingering division and explains how both regions moved toward restoration.
Several hundred prints were accepted for a five day public exhibition by the Bluefield Pictorial Society. George M. Palmer of Palmer Studios led a lecture titled What Makes a Good Picture. The amateur show runs five days in windows along Thornton Company on Federal Street with judges Palmer Lewis Edmonson and Kleiman.
Performances at the Colonial theater will be halted Friday June 18 for the installation of air conditioning equipment. All materials are assembled and workmen will rush the project to reopen on June 25. A vaudeville act by Emerson's Mountaineers will accompany the show.
In Perry New York the Congregational church repairs its furnace with tin snips after a disturbance from below interrupts services. Rev Charleton E Opdyke repaired the heater and the organ was drowned out by the noise. A neighborhood terrier emerged from the opening with a dead woodchuck in its teeth.
The North embraced harmony and the South followed Lee’s lead toward peaceful settlement. Novelists helped heal divides by reframing the war for many readers. By the 1880s writers like Page and Cable reshaped Southern memory while veterans honored foes at battlefield dedications, easing bitterness by century’s end.
An ad proclaims a remedy named White Ribbon that supposedly stops drinking by adding to coffee tea or milk. It notes the product is for sale at Goodykoon Drug Company and targets a woman described as a drunkard.
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