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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1921
Page
6
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate term related to Bluefield West Virginia post office and Second Class Malt Rooms. No coherent event or names provided.
A devotional snippet echoes Revelation 21 5 proclaiming divine dwelling among people and God’s promise to be their God. The message emphasizes comfort, unity, and the restoration of creation for believers.
The United States government seeks to retain scientists and skilled workers by offering higher salaries, arguing that many have left wartime roles for private careers to support their families. Congress often constrains pay, risking loss of valuable expertise as experts consider private employment.
A garbled fashion and public affairs snippet mentions skirts and buckles, page notes on e fashion, and a controversial attack on a young woman named Pegey Joyce. The text references the department of justice and war contractors in a skewed, domestic-news tone.
A flashback recalls events from twenty years ago including Miss Bila Long and Fayette L Woolwine marriage in Bristol, Editor Henry B Kitts injures, a suicide attempt, Judge Keller’s first case, and Appalachian Power Co acquiring local utilities. Also notes a minstrel show and a city water main discussion.
A mother forbids secular dress urging a two piece suit while the daughter pleads for a compromise. The dialogue mocks societal conventions and police scrutiny, ending with the daughter proposing a one piece outfit as a balanced choice.
The piece argues that all people are both bosses and bossed in different spheres. Political leaders bow to hidden interests while workers tyrannize at home. Doctors and nurses exert control, and even a beloved child can be the ultimate monarch, with the adult yielding to every rule of the youth.
The Prince of Hedjaz in Syria has been dethroned. Rumors name Harding choosing a Kentuckian for prohibition chief and perhaps mint duties. Burleson eyes a senate seat while orators toil in delivery. Optimism urged amid credit woes and home brew debates. Birds and politics mix in lighthearted items from several papers.
A dialogue filled humor shows two strangers boasting odd jobs starter of elevators and undertaker. A sleeping husband joke sparks marriages and a by election canvasser asks a three month old age. A crowd laughs at a shouting baby and a train announcer joke ends with Mr Newpop as father to a baby speaker.
Editorial notes theft losses last year reached about twenty million dollars, with insurers paying out twice premium income. Many companies threaten to drop theft coverage unless remediated. A conference under U S Shipping Board and House committees will consider the problem, with a push to form a New York Trade Protective Association and to increase ocean carrier accountability.
Miss Henscratch hosts a social at her home to raise money for a church bell. Girls aged 16 to 20 paid $2 each for kissing games, glass windows sold at 75 cents, and old maids tickets went two for 25 cents. Rumor says Sjosen spent $8.
The men of the M B Church congregation plan a Saturday afternoon frolic at Hackettstown New Jersey to tidy the churchyard. All are invited to attend this community event.
A Cedar Rapids Gazette want ad notes a found garter and stockings with an auto cushion discovered in a pasture on Oak Boulevard near Vernon Road by the Morgan farm, titled Puentes Aires. Telegraph want ads promise results.
A reflective piece questions Bolshevism's appeal as a new threat while recalling Chinese leaders at table talk. It cites Chinese ministers denying mass exposure to Soviet ideas, stresses past failures of Bolshevism in China and Europe, and notes a wary Western obsession with radical ideologies.
A humorous verse sequence from multiple papers depicts the torment of a writer tormented by typographic errors and the endless cycle of revisions. The poem traces the scribbler’s woes from proof sheets to editorial corrections to a grim punchline about paradise.
Poem excerpt by Strickland Gillilan in Farm Life extols facing daily dilemmas with courage. It frames life as a classroom of problems to solve and strengthens resolve to replace old ways with new.
Billy Sunday received a wonderful reception in Bluefield with a large crowd at the Tabernacle. He praised the city, urged repentance, preached on hope from 1 Peter 3 15, and offered altar calls with 150 people responding. He spoke of salvation, the Bible as the guide, and the dangers of fame money and power. Sunday and his party dined at the Metz Hotel then departed by private car amid cheering railroad workers.
In June notes from New York reflect fashion gains for chorus girls shifting to modeling amid big show budgets, plus a Greek officer’s arrest after a lengthy romance across wars. Articles cover English embroidery, New York telephony scale, and immigration officials barring a bald man entertainer.
Seamstresses equipped with pins needles and thread observed at Chicago beaches today to inspect bathing suits worn by women and enforce modest dress standards amid a marked display of feminine swimwear.
Authorities enforcing new bans on displaying legs and shoulders at beaches clamped down this year. Last year beachwear relied on wearer’s conscience, but hundreds of women appeared in similar outfits today, keeping the beach tailoress-censors busy as Telegraph Want Ads report results.
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