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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1917
Page
4
A 1077 June 21 entry recalls flag symbolism and blessings for liberty. It quotes Metastasia and George MacDonald prayers and Seneca exhortations urging righteous living and daily bread as the day unfolds with reverence and national sentiment.
A Chicago Tribune correspondent from Stockholm notes a Russian thirst for reading with pamphlets and new papers expanding since a car coup. Moscow and Petrograd lead, with Maxim Gorky launching New Life. Education rush grows as adults seek reading skills while signs urge teachers, signaling hopeful lessons for a peasant nation.
An article urges the nationwide registration of women from July 1 to 15 to join the food administration, stressing personal control of food, waste elimination, and backyard production as patriotic duties amid wartime shortages. It notes the role of housewives in conserving supplies and aiding national food security.
The Chicago Tribune argues that nurses seek officers commissions due to a flawed view of military status. It contends that all privates going into battle are morally superior to civilians and many noncombatant officers, urging focus on capable combatant leadership rather than broad officer titles.
The speaker proclaims Ameno ca Resurgent as a call to arms for liberation. She rises from oppression, breaks prison walls, and inspires hope for harassed people. The poem celebrates freedom with images of light, iron and gold, and a westward light.
A Bluefield notice claims a dyspeptic wife with years of constipation found instant relief from bloating after a single spoonful of buckthorn bark glycerine and Adler-i-Ka. The ad asserts the product empties both intestines and prevents appendicitis with rapid action. Kansas corn and grain figures appear in the fragmentary closing line.
A collage of newspaper bits notes wartime attitudes from Jamestown defenses to rationing neutrals. It cites Meron Transcript and remarks on abdication, royal records, and secular common sense, with satirical quips about butter from beetles and vulgar grocery boasts.
A National Geographic bulletin notes Pereyaslav in Little Russia as one of Russia’s most historic spots. The city near Kiev traces its origins to Saint Vladimir and Tatar sacks, with links to Cossack history under Chmielnicki, and a modern role in grain and minor manufacturing along the Dnieper.
Washington reports sensational charges that Newport R I naval recruits at the Newport training station are exposed to open gambling houses, immoral resorts, and illegal liquor sales. Secretary Daniels appealed to Governor Beeckman after a preliminary complaint drew a Newport mayoral denial. The navy department and justice department opened separate investigations and Daniels renewed his complaint to the governor.
Cable report from Captain Pierce to Leyland line says the British steamer Hiele was sunk after leaving Boston for Manchester England with general cargo. No crew details given. Also Dutch steamer Memdiks sunk en route to Rotterdam with grain. crew safety not yet known.
John S. Godbey of Bluefield Mercer County West Virginia filed for full discharge from all debts under bankruptcy law. A hearing was ordered for July 16 1917 in Bluefield with notice to creditors and publication in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
An English captain recalls guiding a suspicious derelict found east of Rio. The bow was flooded, likely damaged by a German raider, but crew and a photograph of a pretty girl were recovered. The captor ship’s captain’s daughter later became his wife after a staged, romantic reveal tied to the portrait.
Constantine the former king of Greece arrived in Lugano Switzerland where Swiss officials and delegates met him at the frontier in a formal greeting during a June visit.
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