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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1915
Page
4
A pasted montage quotes morning drive and Robert Louis Stevenson on business. The fragment urges seizing daily events and suggests perpetual neglect of many other things in pursuit of one’s chosen task.
City attorney urges public service commission to force the water company to supply pure water and extend mains to new sections while the company seeks rate increases and a potential $25,000 suit over alleged spring contamination. The paper calls for facts on wastewater disposal in the south Bluefield valley watershed and asks for clarity on potential public health risks.
A New York dispatch reports William T. Jerome and others prepare to expose Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's life. The public questions what the prosecution seeks and whether Harry Thaw will be tried again, while Terre Haute and Leavenworth officials react to press freedom and honesty in the case.
With about a billion bushels in production this year prices stay near one dollar per bushel due to a wartime demand coalition among England France Italy and their allies. The writer notes the price could be higher if multiple nations competed for wheat and warns against holding grain too long.
The piece questions whether the unemployed will take available harvest and mining jobs across states. It cites needs in Oklahoma for 15,000 harvest hands Kansas 85,000 workers Missouri zinc and lead mines 1,000 positions Connecticut berry pickers 1,000 and an ammo plant awaiting labor. It asks if the unemployed will seek work or merely complain.
A satirical essay questions Britain’s role in Europe asking who should fight for France and England while noting America’s use of local chorus members. It mentions Germany and Alaska tin mines as part of a broader critique of wartime opinions and resources.
Brief collage notes minutely cite various quotes and snippets from newspapers. Items reference political, social, and cultural remarks including Bryan, Kentucky Home song, jury in Thaw case, and Missouri wet referendum results.
A humorous Chicago News poem recounts a campus encounter where the narrator falls for an attractive student who impresses with knowledge of pollywogs Greek and Latin and even Sergen. A moonlit walk devolves into awkward tension as a bug crawls down her back, prompting a startled squawk.
A middle aged businessman questions a persistent job applicant, who has represented several failed firms. The young man admits past roles with Up to Date Limited Systems & Files and Newest In Ads. The merchant ridicules the applicant, who claims to offer useful experience from winding up companies.
Gilbert Stuart, famed for Washington portraits, design led to the term Gerrymander. In 1811 Massachusetts politics split districts to curb foes, Essex County maps inspired Stuart to sketch a salamander, later altered to Gerrymander. The image graced broadsides and shaped the term's reproachful use.
An old advertisement touts Sentanel Laxatives as a vegetable tablet remedy for constipation and biliousness. It urges readers to consult a physician for the formula and offers a free trial package via mail or druggist, with pricing noted for a 10-dose box.
London Tit-Bits recounts WWII tactics where submarines drop fake periscopes or pipe floats to mislead ships. Crews must flood the decoys with all guns, risking a real torpedo attack when the authentic submarine lurks nearby and strikes.
National Geographic Society outlines Tarnow as a frontier hub 48 miles west of Cracow where Russian invasion converged. The town sits on the Cracow Lemberg railway with routes to Jaroslau Przemysl and Lemberg, having a population of about 32 000, notable for agricultural tools flour glass and lumber industries and a Gothic cathedral.
A list of fire alarm inputs and locations including city hall sites Princeton Avenue Russell Street Bluefield Avenue multiple cross streets and intersections from Bluefield to Raleigh Stewart Giles Lee Pulaski Bland South Adams Street and others with entries noting Standard Oil Co Bird Avenue Midway Henry Greenbrier Upper Jones Street and a Militia Call indicating a phone alarm from Central Station.
Charles T. Hill explains in St Nicholas how New York firemen use high pressure water to flood fires. They deliver up to 30,000 gallons per minute at 300 psi, blasting through walls and smoke to reach the blaze and smother it before it reaches danger levels.
The national meeting of the Catholic Educators Association opened in St Paul Minnesota with Archbishop John Ireland welcoming about 500 bishops priests and sisters from across the United States to the gathering held June 28.
Delegates from Catholic universities colleges parochial and private schools gather for a four day convention focusing on religious education. The program centers on the view that religious elements are essential to education with principal sessions at the cathedral.
Montgomery June 28 two negro ex convicts John Salter and Robert Watkins confessed at the city jail to the killing of Mrs Lassiter a white housekeeper the shooting of Wiley House a planter and burning the plantation home in Evergreen Coneach county on the night of June 23 the bodies of the two victims were thrown into a creek where Mrs Lassiters was found partial details remain.
Hours later a man named Wiley House crawled from the Peek exhausted, while witnesses describe Rob as the notable figure in the crime. The incident involves claimants who say they secured seven pounds and fifty pence.
Eye witness at British army headquarters recounts a June air duel above Neuve Chappelle where a British aeroplane at 4,000 feet confronted a large German biplane with double engines and double propellers. Russia provides more fishermen than any other nation in wartime.
Get Rid of Your Rheumatism Now. This ad promotes Chamberlain's Liniment for external use to ease chronic and muscular rheumatism without internal treatment. Readily obtainable everywhere.
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