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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1927
Page
6
Southwest Virginia Incorporated highlights its nine counties with favorable climate farming resources cheap power and abundant raw materials. The region offers good roads and touring routes as a Daily Telegraph special edition features descriptive material and historical photos to be distributed in early July along the motorcade route.
West Virginia faces growing demand for road expansion and widening. Key projects include Oakvale road, Wyoming road, Bluefield to Matoaka, Bluefield to Princeton, Beckley to Flat Top, and completion of Route 4 from Weston to Gauley Bridge. Regional chambers urge timely completion of the missing 90 miles through this state.
We recall an eight year old son of farmer R. L Folk near Prince George’s County. Concord College restored its senior course after board action. Finney Virginia suffered three dwellings and a schoolhouse washed away. Ten years ago today the Mercer County Red Cross drive aimed to raise 20000 dollars. John Lamamea, Bluefield resident, gained naturalization. Clive Fortner left Central Pharmacy to enlist in the U S Navy.
The plan revises Route 4 to connect Gauley Bridge and Beckwith, omits Charleston, and requires bridging the Kanawha River. It would enable a Beckley to Wheeling or Pittsburgh drive, spur Raleigh to Flat Top upgrades, and start work Weston to Gauley Bridge this year, pleasing trade groups and residents.
The piece argues that Christianity is challenged not by Eastern peoples but by Western civilization itself. It cites Dr. G. Wallace Petty on Eastern leaders viewing Christianity as lip service, noting Western nations fail to live by Christian ideals. It urges more missionary work at home to provide concrete examples for non Christian peoples.
A poem by James Russell Lowell celebrates a true fatherland as worldwide. It envisions a homeland defined by freedom, human dignity, and solidarity rather than borders, urging shared human striving and mutual aid across all lands.
The Charleston and Wheeling papers urge restraint on political meddling in Pune University and call for codification of law as common sense. They highlight water safety education signs in West Virginia urging public cooperation to prevent disease from impure water.
Pitot Chamberlin arrived in Germany and recalled the taste of German cheer. The piece notes many a drive in the park ends with a park in the drive and states eighty percent of a prison band were paroled before their terms ended, suggesting a paradoxical view of penitentiary peace.
The plan calls for quarterly tax payments to local and state governments, stricter mine safety, safer roads with barriers, a gasoline tax replacing personal property taxes, more factories for the Bluefield area, a new passenger station and traffic relief, new street connections, regional development groups, Sunday elections, and uniformed deputy sheriffs and constables.
Report notes Rev Dr Jason Noble Pierce preached that character shows in speech at the First Congregational Church held in a movie theatre. Observes audience behavior of Lindbergh appearance with the Coolidges, lobby posters, and crowd movement during the service.
A Fort Worth Record Telegram remark on publicity and ideas contrasts with Arkansas Democrat on press influence. The Detroit Free Press notes a traffic tower’s brief life and removal for a new system. The Terre Haute Star mentions Captain Lindbergh receiving letters of introduction.
Newspapers hail Chamberlin and Levine for proving air travel's practicality with a New York to Germany flight amid praise for Wright engine and aviation progress. Critics note improved reliability, risk, and international impact alongside Lindbergh’s feats.
Gilbert Swan paints Manhattan's Nassau Street as a palimpsest of legends and modern commerce recounting Mary Rogers, Poe, Irving, Bennett and others. He contrasts old tales with today’s steel canyon crowds, Lindbergh imagery, Broadway temptations, and subways shaping a restless city.
Stanford psychologists study 300 eminent men and women to weigh heredity against surroundings in childhood. They note that successful youths often have superior parental background and early advantages, but emphasize that genius arises from a specific mix of inherited traits and opportunity, not solely one factor.
The Fort Worth Record Telegram notes President Coolidge and Black Hills forest policy as a model for sustainable timber, recalls Cleveland’s forest creation, and highlights danger and heroism of nitroglycerin well shooters. It questions future energy and farm relief, praising conservation and the arduous work of oil field crews.
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