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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1926
Page
6
Payment rates listed for various regions and periods within West Virginia and nearby areas. The notice specifies durations of one year and three months with quarterly breakdowns and mentions a payment radius of 150 miles. The document is dated Saturday June 2 1926 and appears as a public financial notice.
A brief religious and moral note contrasts owing debts with divine forgiveness. It cites Romans on love fulfilling the law and jokes about owing $10 to Smith, asserting divine forgiveness does not settle human debts.
A Princeton reader writes Judge George W. McClintic urging harsher penalties for violators and criticizing leniency. The piece notes ongoing debate in Bluefield over eighteenth amendment enforcement and portrays a divided public, with moderates praising enforcement efforts while extremists remain in the minority.
Bruce Barton argues for studying anti American sentiment to shape laws. He notes Americas wealth and high living standards fuel envy and resentment abroad. Barton cites prewar prosperity as shaping mass opinion and linking individual attitudes to national mood.
We Were Doing Miss Isabel Davenport was named principal of Conco Lane. The home of Charles A. Honaker, formerly of Bluefield, was destroyed the Nor Ten Years Ago Today Nor TEN YEARS AGO TODAY The Tip Top Mineral Springs were opened for the season under the event of S. S. Davis. Corbett Haun, of Welch, was married to Miss Clara Holbrook, of Pearlsburg. Arthur Evans, a young boy of Princeton, was killed when struck by an automobile.
The author notes that despite vast American aid and benevolence to governments abroad, envy and resentment persist internationally. Rich nations’ aid can breed hostility, illustrating humanity’s tendency to resist aid from a prosperous country.
The piece surveys portraits of Jess Sweetser and A F Simpson linking their faces to nations and war memory. It notes Rev. Tertius Van Dyke leaving city ministry for rural preaching and recounts a Memphis soldier in the Foreign Legion captured after battles with a leopard killed in India. It ends with a Pittsburg coal man’s wife seeking divorce amid campaign costs.
Washington experts say Democratic gains look likely in the 1928 elections as farm trouble prohibition and the world court policy bite the Republican party. The Senate balance shifted after Brookhart’s seat was won by Steck, leaving 55 Republicans and 40 Democrats, with several states still uncertain. Analysts expect Democrats to capitalize on discontent and potentially win the upper chamber.
A poem fragment contemplates life after death with questions about immortal armies and the fate of those who strived in earthly life. It argues energy survives posthumously but cannot be begun anew, praising a soul that remains strong and continues its inner battles toward eternal life.
Bertha K. Landes, newly elected mayor of Seattle, wins broad editorial support for a start toward clean city government. Papers praise her experience, warn the city must cooperate, and note expectations that she will be judged on results, not rhetoric.
Editor notes the first in a four part series by Dr. Hugh S. Cum ming Surgeon General U S Public Health Service aims to awaken interest in public health. The piece argues lay readers lack of grasp of fundamental health principles persists despite progress in prevention and healing. It urges learning essentials of disease prevention through reasonable effort.
In City Hall Park a 500 person crowd watches a fledgling sparrow struggle to fly while its mother cries. A quick boy climbs through the throng to return the baby to its nest, illustrating New York’s knack for helplessness in minor emergencies.
Editorial notes Arthur Curtiss James as the dominant force in Western railroads through holdings in Western Pacific and related interests inherited from D Willis James. It portrays a long established financial influence extending beyond present publicity and cites family ties to Phelps Dodge and Hill Morgan systems.
Baton Rouge reports optimistic findings from the University of Louisiana on beet trials. Dr. Coates predicts sucrose content and purity exceed expectations if yields reach 16 tons per acre and 200 pounds of sugar per ton. The work could transform the cane region and boost state agriculture.
New Yorkers may drink anything in the way of booze but they raise a row when some one puts water in milk. A couple of Mappers are charged with stealing an automobile. Still if a policeman does not drink how is he to recognize evidence in blind tiger cases. Worry will make people thin except when they worry about being fat.
Mrs. Jack Lorberter of 704 Dellwood Place writes from St. Paul praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says it helped her fear and weakness at home and cites a reader letter as proof. Her husband notes the improvement, calling it like heaven.
Mrs. W. E. Stewart of Henry River N C says Cardui helped her recover from severe weakness and weight loss. She describes fainting spells and back pain before taking Cardui, then notes renewed strength and improved ability to work. She urges other women to try the medicine.
A fragmented article notes social life and reputation hinge on home and family. It contrasts being popular in crowds with the deeper value of a stable home, wife, and children, urging careful self-presentation and loyalty to personal foundations. It mentions humor, aging, and guidance, then adds a jumbled courtroom vignette about a wife breaking an umbrella on her husband’s head and a judge’s reaction.
In New York, students used Grant’s Tomb as a handball court while a movie actor was robbed in Los Angeles for $300. A bee stung an auto driver in Paris II, causing a serious wreck. A warning against risky dives and strange swimming holes follows.
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