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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1928
Page
6
OCR fragmentary text mentions areas in Virginia and West Virginia and includes garbled phrases and numbers. The readable portion suggests a local or regional notice or brief but contains no clear event or person to identify.
A reflective line proclaims that virtuous minds find joy in performing good acts even when others offer no thanks or reward. It contrasts heavenly approval with earthly ingratitude.
The piece notes General Umber and Italian Arctic explorer Nobile in a perilous polar quest. It reflects on modern rescue hopes via radio and airpower, the likely loss of life, and the possible return of part of the crew with memoirs. It also laments the fate of Roland Amundeen and the mythic lure of Arctic exploration.
George Remus, the bootleg king, is released from the Lima asylum and plans to return to Cincinnati to work for repealing the eighteenth amendment. The trial was hailed as Ohio’s most flagrant miscarriage of justice as prosecutors argued for sanity to secure a conviction. Remus blames the dry law for his career and future legal battles.
Col Norman Mack, a New York national committeeman and former chairman, denounces losing profits from the sale of Minor while claiming he spoke for himself not Governor Smith. He laments losses from prohibition and touts post prohibition prosperity as evidence of improved social conditions and higher living standards.
We recall events from twenty years ago including Mrs M 8 Johnson’s death and Mr and Mrs W 8 Becker traveling to Hot Springs Arkansas for weeks. Mrs J A Bruce attended Morgan town commencement where her son Barnest graduated.
The article portrays Remus as a Chicago lawyer for criminals who led a powerful gang after disbarment. It claims he freed killers and bombers, blamed Prohibition for his crimes, and positions him as a reformer yet a public liability if he challenges the eighteenth amendment. The piece notes a public verdict condemning him.
The piece analyzes Ballyhoo as a flexible tool in sports publicity. It highlights how hype inflates challengers like Thomas Heeney while diminishing champion Gene Tunney, shaping fan interest and box office with selective portrayal and narrative manipulation.
The poem describes four roses each symbolizing a character: a red vagrant gypsy queen with a tambourine, a pink rose maiden with a wig and sword playing a harpsichord, a yellow rose geisha girl from Japan dancing with a fan, and a white rose princess from Cathay awaiting coronation. The piece is attributed to Mary S Hawling in the New York Times.
Newspapers hail Secretary Hoover as the standout Republican candidate with broad support from many editors. Critics warn of farm voters and regional divides, while supporters tout his experience, public service and readiness to lead. A wide range of papers applaud his nomination and doubtless face a close campaign ahead.
At the Nancy international medical congress eighteen nations debated state intervention in disease reporting. The American system requires declaring contagious tuberculosis, while France and many Latin countries shield doctors from such disclosures. Opinions differed on notifying social diseases, with Latin nations fearing public stigma would drive patients away from treatment. Penalties for exposing others vary, but enforcement is rare. Experts favored education over strict notification laws.
The Chattanooga Times labels Hoover as a Coolidge conservative and Curtis as McNary Haugen ally, predicting difficulty in reaching common ground. The Lansing State Journal contrasts the party’s new standard bearers, inviting readers to judge a team split between old and new political approaches.
Health Service column notes common beliefs about teeth and travel luck, the evil eye, and bearded myths. It cites Leo Kanner’s compilation of credulity, mentions infants born with teeth, and highlights how unfamiliar facts clash with folklore in Palestine and Arabian proverbs.
Newspaper comment on public affairs politics and progress in the Mountain State discusses conditions in West Virginia, focusing on public life industry development and social advancement. Editors weigh industrial progress and state priorities shaping life in the Mountain State.
Dr Russell H Paden will move his family to Charleston to become director of the department of child hygiene for the West Virginia health department. He led the Parkersburg school medical clinic and served as president of the Parkersburg Academy of Medicine and a community health advocate. Charleston gains a respected civic leader.
The passage surveys beliefs about teeth in various societies noting infants born with teeth being killed in some African tribes and contempt in Hungary. It cites European lore on tooth order predicting fate, reports on possible extra sets of teeth, and references to postmortem tooth growth with scientific explanations offered.
Vacation days bring town square concerts and worries for the family cat. Walter French leads a 30 piece band while political chatter hints at Al Smith's nomination and Heflin's influence. The piece ends with satirical observations on towns, editors, and postwar reparations.
Rev Henry H Tweedy of Yale urged Lake Erie College for Women graduates to pursue the impossible in both material and spiritual realms. He warned that future warfare could threaten civilization and urged changing human nature to prevent wars, noting the farmer’s uneven prosperity and a large $200 000 shipment of combine harvesters to Nebraska dealers.
A compilation of humorous quips and brief observations from various papers. Topics range from airline flights and strikes to language, crime, and road materials, with wry takes on enterprises and public policy. The tone mirrors a quick-aired press roundup.
Last Night's Mail notes Democratic women hold large delegates and alternates at the Houston convention, with Emily Newell Blair shaping anti Reed action. The piece contrasts Democratic and Republican female delegates, mentions notable women including Mrs Blair, Mrs Kall, Mrs Kern, Mrs Wilson, and others, and previews platform influence and wet dry debates.
The plan calls for quarterly tax payments aligned with federal rules, mine safety regulations to protect workers and property, barriers on dangerous road curves, and a gasoline tax to replace personal property taxes. It envisions more factories in Bluefield, street intersections near Casawa and College avenues, Sunday elections, uniformed deputies, and a city water system.
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