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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1911
Page
5
A reflective piece on new graduates facing work life and the risk of poor impressions. It notes that employers assess readiness beyond degrees, citing polish, punctuality and demeanor as crucial. It mentions Taft at Yale and college rituals while hinting at broader career pressures.
The article notes President Taft favors extending the merit system to appointive posts up to the district attorney level and would prefer Congress remove appointing power from his hands. It also mentions Republican state committee reorganization, Bluefield hosting Epworth League in June, and Bluefield pushing to host district conventions. It ends with a call to adopt West Virginia’s Johnson pistol law to curb gun owners.
For sale a bright gasoline engine in near new condition from Vienna Ice Cream Co. Bluefield West Virginia. Also a modern brick plant capacity 9 000 000 bricks per year with Chambers machinery Standard Dry Kiln dryer 290 horsepower boilers 1126 horsepower Atlas engine 24 inch belt drive 130 double deck dryer cars kilns with side track 10 room dwelling stable 10 stalls equipment sheds 30 acres clay and works on Clinch Valley division N and W Railway Tip Top Virginia George Shafer Radford Brick Co. tf
Rev Isaac Wright conducts a two week revival at Pounding Mill with fifty conversions, twenty of which will be baptized today. Attendance from nearby areas is expected as part of the religious revival led by Wright amid widespread calls for constitutional treatment for catarrh.
A Daily Telegraph readers letter urges city officials to curb promiscuous loafing on two main Bluefield thoroughfares. The writer cites women’s embarrassment, potential mischief by youths, and suggests an unenforced ordinance against street leasing.
The West Virginia State Board of Control invites sealed bids by June 22 1911 to furnish all materials labor and erect three wards at Miners Hospital No 1 Welch McDowell county. Plans at Bluefield Telegraph Huntington Herald Dispatch Welch office and Charleston. Bid to include 200 dollar certified check and bond. board may reject all bids.
The article notes a looming Senate clash over tariff bills after the Canadian reciprocity decision. Chairman Penrose says about sixty senators support reciprocity and expect quick passage without amendment. The wool and free list bills await finance committee action and full hearings before Senate consideration.
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen will hold its annual memorial service this afternoon at 2 30 o clock at the Presbyterian church. Members meet at the hall at 2 o'clock and march to the church for the annual sermon by Rev. S W Moore. Afterward the procession goes to the cemetery to decorate departed members graves with a cordial invitation to all to attend.
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