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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1921
Page
4
Advertising text outlines mail paid in advance options for West Virginia telegram service with zones and rates. It lists six and seven month plans, per zone distances, and carrier payment terms. Pricing includes three months and yearly options, plus weekly and single-visit rates.
Theorists study how the new immigration law will affect newcomers and whether future citizenship will rise in quality. ManyEuropeans return to the United States seeking better opportunities, making America their chosen home. Joseph H. Gaines named associate counsel of the shipping board with praise from senators. Public call for war profiteers’ publicity is debated. Admiral Sims and Secretary Denby are cited regarding naval matters.
The editorial note laments frequent federal appointments of Ohio editors, warning that continued shifts may leave Ohio newspapers without capable leaders. It contrasts yesterday’s gradual learning with today’s rapid turnover and forgetfulness.
Peter Prince killed two members of a mob that tried to lynch him with a knife at Jaeger. John Ramage left Sha mokin to join Cather Iron Works. Sam Stone, a Wise and eastern Kentucky desperado, died by revenue officers at Stonega. The planned July 1 free delivery was postponed ten years ago today. Higginbotham avenue renamed Federal street by city board. Clarve Bolt died in a Indiana powder explosion. The Carolina Clinchfield Ohio railroad was leased by Chesapeake and Ohio and Seaboard Air Line. The Lilly building second floor on Raleigh street leased for the local armory.
Arthur Brisbane argues newspapers publish the Stillman case and prize fight news to satisfy a public craving. He says the motive is advertising and reader desire, not moral warning or public service, since anything the people want to read becomes news.
A husband plans a secret trip and tells his wife to enjoy herself. She suspects a ruse, tests his sincerity, and uses wit to keep him at home. The exchange ends with the husband pretending to be practical while hiding a deeper motive.
A reflective poem contemplates how others will judge the speaker after death. It asserts faults of temper and blunder, yet hopes for fairness and kindness shown to the weak and innocent. The speaker seeks a record counted clear by the Lord for gentle words to children and the burdened.
A review of the Census Bureau’s Mortality Statistics for 1919 reveals the year's deaths in the U S registration area. It details disease causes with ages colors and urban rural residence to show the toll across the population and regions.
The water shortage in Bluefield grows acute as the water company seeks higher profits and rate increases while resisting new investments. Citizens urge action, noting stagnation and declining prospects, and propose city purchase of the water works to secure a reliable supply and public growth.
The excerpt argues 21 famine deaths occurred in 1919, claiming one death per four million and challenging census figures. It notes skepticism about underreporting and references the phrase Anaemia as a test of honesty, citing the New York Herald.
The Springfield Union comments that the world needs a new Bible per H G Wells while noting Wells himself would deserve a new world since the present one developed without his input or consent, deeming it poor treatment from his modest view.
A compilation of brief quoted items from various papers. The notes touch on sunburned bathing girls, Colombia as the gem of the ocean, liquor thefts at a Muncie jail, and prohibition’s effects. Other snippets reference Havana riots, Africa alcohol customs, a Belfast escape tale, and a decline in U S April deaths since 1920.
Editorial notes thrift reshaping life as auto races center on fuel economy rather than speed. A New York tax case against Henry C Frick estate hinges on a cow kept in Pittsburg, challenging inheritance tax reach. Henry L Doherty builds a ten story residence atop 21 State street overlooking Battery Park and harbor.
A collection of humorous exchanges features a sea captain introducing a friend Barker from the Canary Islands to his aunt, a gas office joke about cubic feet, commuters trading quips about early trains, a doctor diagnosing functional trouble, and a reporter grateful for facts while signoff hints at names spelled with two bs.
Raph EF Hasty a 28 year old assembler of Flora Rush 25 at 531 Austin street Toledo Blade mentions. Bill Gardeman a Newhall large merchant spent the week here with Mrs Stevens Chicago Produce News references.
The American Forestry Magazine notes Japan's forests are among the nation's most valuable resources. Its narrow north south geography creates forest zones from subtropical to cold temperate within its boundaries.
The Melville Comedians canceled the remainder of their engagement in Bluefield due to lack of a central tent location and small crowds. They will depart for Welch and then move to Covington, Virginia, noting no fault with the act’s quality.
Troopers led by Iain Brockus move east of Williamson to the Matewan scene after a shooting. Two men reportedly arrested near the Lynn tent colony. details on Private MacMillion and assailants unclear. Bowles wounded two weeks earlier. his condition improving. Bermuda onion seed origins and a spike in French exports to the U.S. noted.
Welch notes celebrate a house party for Eleanor Baxter of Jonesboro Tennessee and Dorothy Switzer of Salem Virginia hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Lytton. Dr. C. F. Hicks departs Welch Hospital after seventeen years. Keystone Orchestra to attend a prize fight in Jersey City. Bathing at Baileyville draws crowds as heat waves linger.
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