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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1917
Page
4
Incomplete text shows a request to address all communications and make remittances to DAILY, with a box number in Bluefield. Other details are unreadable.
The musing lines hail the blue field with silver stars and pledge loyal sentiment. A vivid tribute to liberty, inheritance, and allegiance expresses enduring devotion to the emblem and its symbolic promise to the world.
A reflective motto stating that denying justice yields to the armed, while willing giving doubles kindness, attributed to Lucan and Cyrus with classical tone.
An order in council bans men aged eighteen to forty five from leaving Canada to enforce compulsory service. Canada with a population over seven million could field near one million more troops, joining roughly 300,000+ volunteers already serving in France.
The article notes San Marino as a tiny independent state encircled by Italy with about 10 000 inhabitants and 23 square miles. Its armed forces are minimal a dozen carbineers and a few customs examiners. one artillery piece is never fired.
The department of agriculture warns cold storage shifts misalign supply and demand. Poultry and egg stocks surge with high prices despite large holdings. Butter stores exceed six million pounds as speculators expect higher next winter prices. A German socialist reports a revolution planned for September 27. Seattle restaurants weigh serving whale meat as a novelty.
A fragment of verse recalls a village encounter and a wandering, hopeful chase. The text shifts to a Indianapolis News analysis of food price manipulation by middlemen, citing spoiled potatoes near Seatonville and Chicago shipments, plus indictments of onion monoplists and DOJ probes. The piece ends with a short literary notice from Martha Haskell Clarke in The Lookout.
Mrs Elsin J Van Der Lande of Paterson New Jersey reports severe back and side pains irregular cycles nervousness and fatigue improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier. She urges other women to try the products and seek confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
Coverage notes a New Orleans context with references to Governor Ferguson debating university size and political perception. The Dallas News is cited as a cross-reference, suggesting regional commentary on how smaller colleges influence a politician’s image.
Advert says hot weather worsens corns and callouses and claims Bradley's Corn Remover will stop aches. A few drops shrink and dry the corn in days allowing removal by hand with no tricks. Ends by urging readers to try a small bottle. 6-8-12.
The excerpt blends editorials and quips about taxes for Russia, a well-healed army from Red Cross enlistments, and warnings of arguments with Mr. Hoover. It notes nationwide eating habits and forecasts firm action at American fronts, reflecting early 20th century press voices.
A resolution from the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates declares alcohol has no therapeutic value and should be banned in medicinal products. The article urges readers to avoid patent medicines high in alcohol and promote natural iron tonics like Acid Iron Mineral as safer alternatives.
Washington June 19 Regulations require all officers and men aboard American merchant ships plying between the United States and the war zone to be insured by owners for 1500 to 5000 dollars against death maiming or capture. The rules take effect for ships leaving the United States June 26 and foreign ports July 10. John J Crowley of Hartford is named to head the new seamen s division of the war risk insurance bureau as assistant to Director De Laney. Owners voyaging through the war zone must insure or face assessments and a 1000 dollar fine. Insurance for coastwise trade to other regions is optional, not mandatory.
Herbert Hoover asks 200000 church pastors across Catholic Protestant and Jewish faiths to lead food conservation during wartime. He calls ministers to preach on July 1 Food Saving Day urging reduced waste and generous production to feed allies and the world.
T J Bartrug of Moundsville has been named chief engineer of highways for Lincoln County. The county has issued 900000 dollars in bonds for road improvements mainly of class A type connecting Hamlin with Huntington and Clarksburg. Bartrug will maintain offices in Huntington. Wisconsin Kenosha hosts 51st G A R encampment welcoming veterans from the Civil War era this week.
Large and enthusiastic attendance marks the opening of the annual Louisiana state society of Christian Endeavorers in New Orleans. The First Presbyterian church hosts the three day session with speakers Rev. R. E. Smith Nashville Karl Leimann Birmingham and Wyatt A. Taylor Columbia S C among others.
In Rome on July 19 signs of possible peace appear amid ongoing warfare. The Vatican issues an order to all missionary societies to prepare for a resumption of work in their respective fields as the war presses on.
Reports from Copenhagen via London say all valuable grain crops in Germany are burning up due to a prolonged drought. The heat wave mirrors 1915, with Berlin recording the hottest June 17 in seventy years of weather bureau history.
An excerpt from New York Railways Employees' Magazine features a conductor noting such passengers often borrow or repay carfare. He claims an average of about one dollar a year and recalls only one fare returned in twenty four years, with the sole repayment from a woman.
A quip describes a writer sending a tragedy to a reader in Louisville. The humor centers on paying return postage, with the line comparing a manuscript to a recurring missive. The anecdote reflects local newspaper wit about literary submissions.
A brief exchange in a Detroit Free Press item features a playful flirtation where she rejects flattery and he retorts that she cannot be perceived as more beautiful than she is.
A reflective line from Walter Scott condemning weakness and indecision as sources of exquisite misery. The sentence questions how minds may lead themselves into distress through hesitant choice.
A Chinese use describes lining tea chests with a metalfoil made of 25 lead components and 18 tin parts. The fragment outlines material composition for decorative or protective purposes.
A National Geographic war bulletin describes the Tsarskoye Selo area near Petrograd, noting the old railway opened in 1838 from Petrograd to the village. It details the Great Imperial Palace and its renowned rooms, Catherine I through Elizabeth, plus Nicholas II's modest residence, gardens, and the village streets with barracks and churches.
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