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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1921
Page
4
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The piece notes bankers like M B Wellern backing ads for banks while recounting a history of bank promotion from early journalism days. It discusses public trust, cautious publicity, and how advertising evolved through financial and political climates, including remarks on modern views and notable quotes.
A compact, wry clipping humorously questions self image after shaving and contrasts with a quip on ethics and shoddy woolen goods. It blends quotes from Sioux City Journal St Louis Times and Boston Herald on vanity and quality.
Mrs. Matthew Mann of Fort Spring visits her son Edwin Mann president of the First National Bank. The Christian Church seeks bids for stonework on a new addition. Revs. Bogers and Bernard celebrate mass at the Sacred Heart. A large parade promotes Smoke John Harper Cigars in Bhuvefield.
The era offers new chances as past opportunities shift from land to enterprise. Bold youths who adapt can rise from modest beginnings to leadership roles, as illustrated by a treasury clerk who became a banker and a disabled man who built wealth. The era calls for energy to seize available chances in commerce, industry, and skilled trades.
A Philadelphia Bulletin editorial lauds Colonel Washington A Roebling resuming leadership of the Roebling company at age eighty four. It emphasizes continued vigor in business, compares him to younger figures like Edison, and urges younger men to study his enterprise oriented example for progress.
The Baptist General Association commits 250 000 dollars to Bluefield College with the condition the school becomes a one million dollar institution. The gift leaves about 550 000 needed as ground is planned to be broken for building within 30 to 40 days, and the project aims for completion within two years as the chamber and associations rally support.
Asheville reporters note spruce pine from southern mountains can yield newsprint cheaper than northern wood. E. W. Barrett of the Birmingham Age Herald unveils a copy printed from spruce pine from Yellow Creek near Warrior River Alabama, ground and finished in Niagara Falls New York.
The funeral of Tipton Carter, who died at Miners' Hospital in Welch, was largely attended in Bluefield yesterday afternoon. The body was moved by passenger train to Walnut Grove cemetery where the Bluefield Elks conducted services. Rev. Mr. Pierce of Welch led the family service at the late home, with many friends and Elks members present.
Washington report says Walter F. Dillingham leading a Hawaiian legislative delegation told the house immigration committee the islands risk control by Japanese unless the agricultural labor shortage is relieved. He urged the secretary of labor lift immigration restrictions on alien workers for specified periods.
The naval selection board recommended five temporary rear admirals for permanent grade plus lists of forty-three new captains and seventy-four new commanders. The top name is Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol who leads American naval forces in the eastern Mediterranean and serves as American high commissioner at Constantinople.
Washington June 21 quotas of immigrants not exhausted during the month will be cancelled and not carried over into the next fiscal year. Most nations including Europe are expected to exhaust quotas by month end except Norway, Sweden and a few others.
The executive committee awarded the federation's convention to Atlanta Georgia for November 22 to 24 inviting members and marking a major gathering of farmers from Atlanta and Chicago region delegates to attend the national event hosted by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Local American Legion members were disappointed to learn Rev. Billy Sunday cannot deliver the patriotic address for Norton’s Fourth of July celebration. Sunday cited his evangelistic campaign in Norton and Wise county as the reason he must stay to aid the campaign, prompting the town to adjust its elaborate patriotic program.
The Athens legation advised the State Department that naturalized American citizens in Greece may gain a citizenship opportunity before conscription. The ruling follows protests over Greeks who became U S citizens being drafted on return to Greece.
Washington June 21 the deadlock over the naval appropriation bill ends as Congress agrees to a near ninety million cap on the senate added ninety eight million total and affords the house a direct vote on the Borah disarmament amendment.
The International Commercial Congress in Mexico City adopted a resolution favoring the abolition of passports between Mexico and other countries. The discussion of the measure occupied the entire morning session.
London reports that King Peter of Serbia died three or four days ago. The Serbian delegation and the British foreign office deny any knowledge of King Peters death and provide no confirmation.
President Harding sent Edward M Morgan's nomination for New York postmaster to the Senate but it reached after adjournment so no action occurred. Morgan rose from letter carrier to general superintendent of city delivery 1889 to 1897 and served as postmaster 1907 to 1917.
Brief battle scene reports naval aviators achieving a rapid victory after an attack. Col Culver survives a plunge when his craft sinks and returns to the fuselage with aid from nearby seaplane crew. Vice Admiral Jones leads the battleship line as the damaged U-boat shows a rusting, defeated silhouette at Scapa Flow.
Britain signaled intent to renew an arbitration alliance with Japan after the Bryan peace treaty in December 1514, asserting the Bryan pact as equivalent to the Anglo Japanese arbitration treaty and urging that America be excluded from fees.
Des Moines reports more than five thousand delegates and visitors fill the city for the fourteenth annual Northern Baptist conference opening tomorrow. Attendees arrive from India China and other Asian nations as well as South and Central American regions.
Nate E Kendall governor of Iowa and H H Barton mayor of Des Moines spoke to extend a welcome to European and African visitors. Ernest L Tustin president of the Northern Baptist conference will respond on behalf of the guests.
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