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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1922
Page
6
A compact reflection links the Psalm 119:116 plea to live with faith against capture by worldly happiness. Samuel Johnson notes that opulence brings happiness yet warns excess requires expiation. The excerpt contrasts spiritual endurance with worldly desires.
The piece argues Republican congressmen should not fear employing Democrats and stresses the president's aim for economical, efficient government. It critiques party workers who trade loyalty for blocs and urges a congressional majority to back the president's program.
A major eastern life保险 company plans to invest $100 million in a housing project as an investment vehicle for its clients funds. The move aims at profitable use of patrons money through a build as an investment program.
Re elected Concord State Normal School principal Rev A S Thorn. Prof W B Lacy from Tazewell College visiting en route home from eastern trip. Mr and Mrs Thomas Wells of Castoria Ohio guests of M B Postlethwaite.
The piece notes apartment rents may rise to nine dollars per room totaling about forty five dollars monthly per family. It argues current rates reflect earlier returns and that insurance-backed investors may steady the market, with potential rich earnings offset by expected safety.
Miss Mary Caroline Holmes of Binghamton has been awarded the Croix de Guerre by General Gouraud for relief work in the Near East. She endured a sixty day Turkish siege at Urfa and later supervised Armenian orphans’ transfer to Beirut under French protection.
A collage of reflections on luck and chance in life from Camille Flammarion to ordinary workers. It notes how unexpected events shape careers, cites a deaf woman using radio receivers, jokes about gambling, market quotes, and the optimistic view that production and commerce boom despite uncertainty.
The poem recalls a daily moment when children return home to Mother after a day’s work. It honors a mother’s pure sacrifice and the tender reunion as Memory’s tents accompany her heart’s journey back. The speaker questions whether this hour belongs to the children or to the mother herself.
A reception features sharp one liners and social jabs as guests tease a man of letters who can only talk sense. The scene includes a waiter quip about real chops, a radio fan hearing only soup gurgle, and a mix of investors, poets, and an editor denoting a lighthearted town humor piece.
A collage of quips notes vaudeville tours halted, quirky sayings, oddball headlines and social jabs. Nonsense bits touch on actors, profits, dogs, trains, cooking, a Florida aviator, a Boston man’s mirror suicide, seismographs, and a looming September memoirs.
An editorial passage notes Daniel Garton of Friendship turning 100 while tending chickens and splitting firewood, and Dr Stephen Smith who will be a centenarian next February after a 72 year practice begun in 1950. It contrasts aging public service with enduring work and mentions common domestic fire risks in hotels.
James T. Osborne of Portland says hotels install women smoking rooms to suit new feminine demand and to curb fires from cigarette ends. He cites a Western hotel with twelve fires in a month linked to careless disposal and notes proprietors now seclude smokers in lounges with non inflammable carpets.
A collection of brief quotes from various papers. Topics range from child sleep dangers and spanked myths to marriages in spirit, aircraft helix comparisons, Prohibition appeals, Mars proximity claims, Edison conjectures, unemployment, university graduations, and hospital wards in heaven cited by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Readings from Luke recount the baptism and ministry of John the Baptist and the baptism of Jesus. It lists the anointing voice from heaven and begins the lineage from Adam to Jesus, noting Herod and Pontius Pilate. The text blends prophecy, repentance, and genealogical descent.
Dr R H Bishop explains why popular tests fail to identify edible fungi and outlines eight warning features of poisonous mushrooms. He notes irritant and narcotic poisons, warns to avoid decaying or immature buttons, and lists base cup, ring, warts, milky latex, gill patterns, color changes, and slimy caps as danger signs.
Representative Wells Goodykoontz of the Fifth district traveled from Indianapolis to Washington after addressing the National Credit Men's Association in annual convention. He brought home a painful yet welcome companion described as one of Job's comforters, last in a series endured in recent months.
Word of the day defines reprisal as a retaliatory act short of war. It notes origins from French reprendre and Latin reprehendere and offers an example about foreign ships and intoxicants provoking reprisals against American shipping.
Real estate transfers filed yesterday in the county court clerk's office include M. Durham and Belle Durham to Home Realty Company for lots 41 and 42 in section 204 Bluefield for $1. W. BE. Webb to Home Realty Company for the west part of lot 2 in section 881 Bluefield for $1. R. W. Honaker and wife to C. E. Cromer for lot 2 in section 2 Alaple Acres for $7,000. J. C. Crockett and wife to W. G. Dunkap for lot 17 in Bee addition Princeton for $50. A. J. Morris and others to James Saul for a small tract in Pinnacle region for $20. Malformed final entry for Mrs Virgie Howard and husband to James Saul for a small tract at Pinnacle Ridge with unspecified consideration.
Kentucky crude production increased in May by 62918 barrels from April to a total of 789224 barrels, per the Kentucky Oil Men's Association report released in Lexington.
Mrs. Jean Campbell was granted a divorce after testifying that her husband forced her to act as Servant to another woman he took into their home. The testimony described coercion and domestic strife within the Edinburgh marriage.
No girl or woman is pretty if her eyes are red strained or have dark rings. Lavoptik eye wash with camphor hydrastis witchhazel promises quick brightening results after a week. Regular use keeps eyes healthy sparkling and vivacious. Free aluminum eye cup with purchase. The White Pharmacy and Central Pharmacy. Telegraph Went Ads bring results.
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