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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1925
Page
8
Page text shows postal rates and notices from the Associated Press with advertising and pricing. It notes Daily and Sunday copies priced five cents, singles, and subscriptions for weekly and annual terms. The fragment appears from a Thursday issue dated June 18 1925.
A compact quotation reflects on how people receive fate and challenge, contrasting active hope with passive misery. It suggests that what is feared as evil may transform into a form of good through steadfast resolve and moral reflection.
The Treasury seeks new ways to ease paper currency demand after failing to restore the silver dollar. Proposals include a longer wearing single $1 note, promoting $20 bills, and increasing use of the $2 note despite public resistance. Gas stations and high circulation wear contribute to faster bill deterioration.
Survivors of respected Chicago figures urge friends and relatives to omit flowers as gunmen are buried with lavish floral pieces. One gang leader’s funeral featured a riot of flowers costing around 50 000 dollars and another gangster’s funeral could push florists’ bills to 60 000. The underworld’s taste for display at death alarms florists, who fear the vogue may persist despite the ugliness it masks.
Ed Hall a Norfolk and Western flagman was killed in a Pepper wreck. Ken Canterbury was arrested in Ashland for shooting Attorney Christian of Wyoming county. Miss Mary Cash and Chas. H. Witten wed at Bramwell. Ten years ago Cc Boykin of Bluefield resigned to take a New York post. Eric Burgess died and three others injured on Athens road. The Virginia West Virginia debt case reached the supreme court. Flowers and tributes accompany a gangster’s funeral, provoking debate on decency.
Poem fragment recalling questions about waiting love across space and years. Lines weigh love as voyage and harbor amid distant places. It references departures and returns, wrecks or delays, in a July Harper's context.
A string of provocative remarks touches on governance stance against a July Fourth demonstration, a Chicago juror's memory of the Shepherd case, debates on music and youth crime, and a trio of comic or ironic exchanges involving a storekeeper, a Jew at a butcher, and a distressed patient seeking medical help.
A national coal industry report notes renewed optimism in bituminous coal selling offices amid West Virginia struggles from freight differentials. While anthracite wage talks threaten to hurt coal prices, natural gas rate rises and shifts to coal use may boost demand.
A motorist traversing the countryside discovers a quaint village where an ivy-clad church visually dominates the scene, second only to the church’s prominence. A large surrounding feature anchors the picturesque approach of the village.
A jumble of brief items reports Tom Sims and a coast guard joke, Nome Alaska rescue of a woman carried on ice, a New Orleans man’s plot, and notes on movies, flowers, a tanning factory fire in Orleans New York. It mentions a Kentucky horse race bet, a mustard theft in Waco Texas, Friday superstition about smoking, and the restless baseball fan.
A witty exchange between a vegetarian wife and her husband humorously debates meat and digestion. The wife jokes about lunch with mother as the husband refuses, citing digestion not what it used to be. The dialogue features light wordplay and a banana skin mishap.
Officials of the Anti Cigaret Alliance grill Secretary of Agriculture William M Jardine for backing tobacco growers. A magazine writer laments cities copying New York and argues for preserving local traditions in New Orleans Salt Lake City Atlanta and Dallas.
Captain James V. Martin, holder of a world efficiency record, predicts that within twenty years commercial aviation will transform travel and logistics. He argues transportation will be the foremost driver of earthly progress, noting the era will bring swift, economical travel and distribution as hills valleys rivers and mountains are overcome.
A historical meditation on how mothers once relied on home remedies and home gardens while doctors were scarce. It notes the rise of drugstores and supermarkets, questions whether dependence has grown too strong, and urges mothers to keep a clearly labeled poison cabinet and to know simple remedies for minor injuries.
Martin and ARTIN discuss whether planes will dominate transport and warfare. They compare cost, speed, and fuel use of ships versus air fleets, noting ships burn fuel and pay crews while planes may erase battleships’ advantages. The captains foresee planes shaping future wars and logistics.
Opponents of the Nickel Plate merger won a rehearing by the interstate commerce commission on the 1923 order allowing O P and M J Van Sweringen and associates to direct Chesapeake and Ohio Hocking Valley and Nickel Plate. The George Cole Scott committee argued the interlocking directorship was a stockholders fraud and sought reopening as testimony from coal operators cited improved traffic under consolidation.
A League of Nations committee suggests a thirteen month calendar with four weeks per month, an extra New Year day, plus a leap day in leap years, and a new month Sol between June and July. The change faces inertia and requires popular democratic consent rather than imperial decree.
Five navy captains were promoted to rear admiral while Senator La Follette’s condition drew concern. A navy court martial acquitted a nurse of liquor offenses. A Ku Klux Klan permit was approved for a parade on Pennsylvania Avenue. Admiral Robison was named commander of the US fleet as the Interstate Commerce Commission resumes hearings on the Nickle Plate merger.
Washington reports Miss Katherine C. Glancy a navy nurse was acquitted by a court martial of bringing liquor into the United States on transport. The action followed the related acquittal of Miss Ruth M. Anderson on the same charge.
An ad styled snippet touts a quick action remedy for gas and bloating claiming fast relief and evacuation of old waste. It lists The White Pharmacy Central Pharmacy Princeton Rice Drug Co as selling locations.
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