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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1913
Page
4
A reflective piece questions competing scientific and cultural guidance on sleep. It cites a Viennese physician claiming most people sleep too much, Edison on sleep as a habit, and aging notions about eight or nine hours. It also mixes humorous anecdotes about goats and ads, ending with remarks on housework and summer mornings.
A solicitor for newspaper subscriptions recalls that many harsh critics are infrequent buyers of home papers. They borrow from friends or read in hotels and barber shops rather than subscribe.
The piece argues newspapers enable private and public enterprise by spreading information and fostering discussion. It urges loyal public support through subscriptions, comparing non-supporters to diners who skip the contribution box after a feast. It emphasizes newspapers' role in education, commerce, and gospel outreach.
The piece compiles editorial remarks on the Webb law and Bartholdt’s stance, noting Congressional pressure and constitutional concerns over prohibition era measures. It adds figures on 1912 ore production with Dakota bank charges and regional mine outputs across Stevens, Republic, and Chewolah districts.
Voice of the People argues that a new road from Cove Creek through East River mountain to Graham faces delay due to an injunction in West Graham. It praises road manager CC A Wagner county supervisor Charles Hale and the district road board for backing the project to reach Mt Airie Ceres Burkes Garden and Clear Fork, aiming a direct line to Graham depot Walls Mill and Pocahontis and opposing diversion to Pisgah church.
The 1912 value of gold, silver, copper and lead mined in Washington reached 1,120,214 dollars, up from 1911 and 1910. Copper and silver gains, led by Stevens county, boosted totals while gold stayed near prior figures and lead fell by 721,197 pounds as shipments slowed from Republic.
An article discusses judge decisions voiding ordinances or statutes, urging press argument over ad hominem attacks. It cites California alien land laws, U S treaties with Japan, and the supremacy of the Constitution, while praising newspapers that aid court reforms and cautioning against biased editorialising.
Judge McPherson urged better liberty for jurors and criticized detective followings. He warned against public editorial bias shaping court holding and noted other abuses in the United States courts.
Official figures show agricultural products formed 48% of US exports in 1910 rising to 84% in 1880 due to a surge in manufactured goods exports. Agricultural exports grew from 694 million in 1880 to about 1.2 billion in 1918, while manufactures jumped over 800% from 122 million in 1880 to about 1.2 billion in the current year. Cotton remains the leading agricultural export, meats and dairy hit records earlier, and fruit and tobacco also show peaks, with notable declines in live animals by 1918.
Henry Mather long served Castner Curran Bullitt as a key Pocahontas coal executive. He helped prove Pocahontas coal could substitute for anthracite, led first sales west of the Ohio, directed coke and furnace sales, and retired from Castner Curran Bullitt on April 1 1918 after a career spanning rail, mining, and distribution.
Secretary T Boykin of the Bluefield chamber of commerce received an invitation to attend a Bristol board of trade banquet on Saturday evening June 21. The gathering commemorates Bristol's opening of its great white way and highlights the new lighting system shining on main streets downtown and cross streets with brilliant illumination.
Frederick Bosmand Raines, born August 6, 1871 in Big Tick Virginia, started in public school then moved through coal mine roles to general manager. He left mines in 1904 for coal sales in Cincinnati and became assistant manager of Castner Curran Bullitt’s Cincinnati office on February 1, 1909, later promoted to manager on April 26, 1918.
A Baltimore American quote ponders marriage as companionship. The exchange questions if two are company until they unite, highlighting reflections on partnership and union.
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