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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1927
Page
6
The notice outlines subscription options for a WV publication, detailing rates for 12 month, 6 month, and 3 month periods, with territory coverage within 150 miles and extended ranges. It specifies payment in advance by mail or carrier and notes regional applicability and postage-based pricing.
Brief reflective note cites Romans six and Kingsley on divine influence shaping ties among people. Emphasizes affection between one person and another, describing bonds as both fraternal and spiritual.
The State Hygienic Laboratory reports hookworm appears in West Virginia. The piece notes symptoms include listlessness and ravenous appetite, even eating plaster and sand, and questions the diagnosis, comparing it to a belief that whiskey is medicine.
Anne Fowler of Bluefield served as tayor in the West via Molen oe Crockett died at her Liberty Hill home in Tazewell county. Charlie Fry, a traveling salesman, was murdered near Keystone. Ten years ago today Mrs J H Meadows died in a local hospital. Experts failed to locate Roy McClung's body in the New River at Fayetteville. The city council planned condemnation to widen Adams street now College avenue.
The article argues that a man attempting to reach the moon would die instantly from the lack of atmosphere and would be unable to return. It notes no breathable air on the moon and that the world would assume he perished elsewhere, such as at sea or in a wilderness.
The United States posted a May trade balance of 48 million dollars with imports at 346 million. For 1926, exports were 256 million and imports 520.919 million, signaling improved foreign trade. Car loadings for the week ending June 4 dropped to 911,298 due to Memorial Day, but are not viewed as discouraging. Weather normality is seen as key to broader gains.
Above the essay critiques clubs and societies as a social trend in American life. It notes meetings distract from home life and domestic duties, compares the movement to past lodge crazes, and warns that public speaking can become addictive like alcohol without a remedy.
A column notes Max Valier's theory of a rocket powered moon voyage is scientifically unsupported and deemed impossible. It discusses aeronautical limits and the impossibility of escaping Earth's atmosphere to reach the moon.
A rural verse paints a summer pasture with lean cattle and a bay colt. The field calls for work as the plow team wears down and men must harvest. Only tired, idle men linger in sunward spots awaiting an easier end.
In two American Motorist articles, West Virginia is praised as a scenic playground and symbolic “Switzerland of America.” A map-anchored piece highlights 801 miles of state roads with 649 paved and 122 improved, noting connections from Cleveland to Charleston and gateways into Pennsylvania Maryland Ohio and Virginia. Historical sites like Fort Henry and Nancy Hanks Lincoln’s birthplace are mentioned along with a Rivers-and-mountains journey through the state.
A collage of quips from papers noting golf’s popularity and jokes about embassies. It mentions a 10 percent fall in homicide rates last year, then highlights Judd and Ruth’s exhibition this year.
A playful column mocks Soviet razor bans and U S politics. It jokes about a wife with eight husbands crediting cooking, warns of a looming tidal wave, and notes the G O P avoiding third term talk while proposing a nonstop presidential record.
Aviation records grow as pilots push altitude and distance while barographs prove authenticity. Secretariat sealers like Carl F. Schory of the National Aeronautic Association certify the charts for flights including Lindbergh and Champlin. The instrument records altitude changes and flight duration, with seals preventing tampering and postflight calibrations by the Bureau of Standards.
The will of Payne Whitney reveals gifts to friend Finley Peter Dunne and two others totaling half a million dollars each, alongside millions to colleges and charities. Newspapers praise his charitable scope, flexibility for trustees, and loyal support to horsemen and institutions, noting wealth from his own efforts and family inheritances.
A New York snapshot describes chimneysweeps at season’s end and lamp lit streets in MacDougall Alley Washington Square Patchen Place and the East Side kerosene glare. It notes Broadway cafes with rules for waitresses and fines for smoking in tall buildings while a fireworks firm offers custom battle scenes and bootleggers reference pre war stuff and a sly jab at the Chinese revolution.
Proposals call for quarterly tax payments to city county and state, mine safety enforcement and operator training, barriers on roads to protect motorists, gasoline tax levies replacing personal property taxes, more Bluefield factories, a new passenger station with ample parking, traffic relief from the railroad, a north side street linking East End bridge Midway and College avenue, an advancement association for southern West Virginia counties, Sunday elections on sacred self government, and uniformed deputy sheriffs and constables.
Dr. Morris Fishbein reviews diverse views on seasickness inclining to non ocean contexts. He notes lack of proven cures and lists motion types triggering nausea across humans and animals, with regular attack intervals and excess saliva.
Opinion piece contrasts American understanding of Europe with tense events in Albania, Yugoslavia, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, and the Soviet Union. It notes assassinations, executions, and diplomatic strains while critiquing American focus on taxes and movies. It also satirizes Lindbergh breakfast praise and women’s role in politics.
Boldgreff posits seasickness stems from periodic stomach and intestinal activity caused by irritation from digestive juices. Stomach and intestinal disorders raise seasickness risk, and saliva or water in the small intestine can trigger attacks. The cycle is stronger in youths and animals, more evident in women, and fluctuates with body cooling, fear, or pain.
A brief reader quote from the Williamsport Sun reads a wish for a law that makes grass grow more slowly, reflecting local sentiment or editorial tone.
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