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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1925
Page
3
Local auto mobile tax debate and charter rights
The Charlesian Gazette reports on a local dispute over an auto mobile tax in Bluefield. The city claimed a special license fee authority under its charter, while opponents argued state law limited such levies. Voters previously approved the charter provision, but a legislative bill sought to block the tax. the issue centers on whether the city may levy a local auto tax under its charter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlesian Gazette
Pally ‘Telegraph
Dinefield
Tazette Winklers
Cites
Ube Elty
Birefield
Mie Supreme Court
Alofield
Kes
Senate
Cies
Bluefeld
Pripceten
Mat Binehleld
Bluefield
Bluvfield
Legiventure
Unemployment Insurance Gains Support in Clothing Industry
Union workers praise a yearlong unemployment insurance plan as successful for stabilizing the clothing industry. Employers note higher morale and fewer disputes, with workers contributing 1.6 percent to a common fund. The program has generated substantial funds totaling 2,028,473 in principal and interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eamployex
Praisig
Tenmeelves
What We Were Doing Twenty Years Ago Today
A nostalgic look back at events dated twenty years ago including marriages in Graham and Tazewell county, a dynamited Montcalm restaurant, a murder in Kek Fork, and a busier slate of local incidents. Also notes unemployment benefits debate and insurance concepts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Win
T. Leffel
Mina Herdie iPerdue
Graham
L. A.stamey
Montcalm
Frank T. St. Clair
Horbella Crockett
Hon
James Gore
Norfolk and Western
Debotnie
Roberteen
Penysnburg
Columbus
Chatin
Kek Fork
Mingo County
Teenie
Starving for Beauty Through the Seasons by Clanibel Weeks Avery
A short reflective poem questions longing for beauty across spring, summer, fall, and winter. The speaker, named Clanibel Weeks Avery, muses on color, nature, and the need to rest eyes from a vivid world as each season reveals its own glow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clanibel
Avery
Unemployment Insurance Debate Prompts Community Responsibility
A fragmented editorial argues that insured homeowners help neighbors rebuild after fires and that drivers with auto insurance share the burden of injuries. It praises workers contributing to welfare during unemployment and advocates safeguarding unemployment insurance from abuses to strengthen industry-wide protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jong
Plight of the South sparks cross editorial debate
The West editorial prize went to Robert Lathe of the Charleston News and Courier for The Plight of the South. The New York World notes southern vigor and questions one party rule while urging a two party shift to energize leadership and policy. The piece argues the region faces a dangerous political moment with scant national program or leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Robert Lathe
Charleston
Arst
South
USA Section
Tra Pyerys
Isbor
Gobd
New York
Grace Falve
Hke
Lathan
Tne Fasue
Ny Rete
Famea
Eouth
Cleverness and misheard prices in a chatty scene
A Scotsman speaks with a grocer about eggs and prices while a car accident joke unfolds. A German Persen jokes about compensation, contrasting with a motorist who protests wealth, ending with a comic exchange over mistaken sums and a misremembered number.
Telegraphic Tidbits on Love and Life Verses
A collage of comic witticisms on love, marriage, health, and everyday life. Jokes touch on engagement rings, smoking germs, seasonal fishing hopes, travel, gardening, gossip, fashion, and quirky observations from towns big and small.
Fables on Health Fire Safety for Clothing Burns
The article advises how to handle clothing on fire by cooling with water before removal and smothering flames by rolling on the floor. It stresses teaching children to stop, drop, and roll and wrap in blankets, then cooling burned areas and applying improvised treatments such as baking soda, lard, oil, or molasses. It suggests making a paste with soda glycerin water and citric acid and mentions white lead paint as a remedy for burns.
Mencken on America and the lure of living here
In an interview, H. L. Mencken praises living in the United States while critiquing universal conformity and standardization. He argues America is the easiest country to make a living in, yet ruefully notes widespread moral suasion and proposed laws that could jail dissenters. The piece shifts to mention the American Legion planning a 1927 convention in Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles P. Stewart Ashington
H. J. Mencken
America
United States
Baltimore
American Mercury
Ife
Mencken
Texel
Aye
Fay
H. L. Mencken
Legion
Paris
Indianapolia
American Legion
Paria
Chief Buried in Bull Skin in Capetown Ba rrenda Rite
Chief Moef of the Ba rrenda tribe, who died at 30, was buried in the hide of a black bull killed for the rite. A chaotic scene follows with a radioed dispute and a quarrel between Simking and his young wife, reflecting domestic tension amid the funeral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capetown
Moef
Wan
Don’t Tie Gifts to Public Left to Obsolete Uses
A New York museum declined Betator W. A. Clark’s gift due to conditions requiring a separate building and perpetual separation of the collection. The piece argues gifts to the public should avoid rigid, outdated constraints that hinder education and charity, warning against perpetuating outgrown notions and the dangers of overbearing stipulations in wills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Art Museum
New York
Betator W. A. Clark
Babe Ruth Slips From Hospital Sealed In Silence
Babe Ruth, famed slugger, lies on a New York hospital bed with fans in mourning as reports shift from a week’s recovery to possible month idle after surgery. Public confusion grows over secrecy surrounding his condition and the seriousness of his illness. Meanwhile a separate claim by the Agriculture Department debunks the notion that the honey bee is busy, revealing she makes about 32 hive trips and collects less than a gram of nectar in a lifetime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Babe Ruth
SHORT CUTS From Exchanges
A compilation of humorous quips and one liners from various papers. Entries reference Shanghai woes a moustache clipped by a bullet and other zingers from the Baltimore Sun Jacksonville Times Union Anaconda Standard Providence Journal Reading Tribune Ohio State Journal Lowell Leader and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boris of
Bulgaria
The
Providence Journal
Bluefield News Briefs From Page Five Highlights
Bluefield Virginia notes a turn trip to Hinton in a new car and a visit with Zack Abstr. Ruth Summers, very ill two weeks, is worse but sits up yesterday. Mrs Malcome Priva of Charleston visits sister Mrs M C Hughes. Miya Sancius Dealon of Bluefield recovering after appendectomy Monday at Bluefield Sanitarium. Japs to South Seas via Tokyo claim emigration encouraged as several countries ban them. Baron K Den, ex-minister of communications, voices sympathy for a Bowhouse flower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hinton
Zack
Ruth Summers
Malcome Priva
Charleston
M. C. Hughes
Miya Sancius Dealon
Bluefeld
Bluefeld Squitarium
South Seas
Tokyo
South Sea
Islands
Baron K. den
Washington News Digest Signals 1994 Claims and Inquiries
The piece surveys various topics from national statistics to crime, birth rates, and aviation. It notes remarks by officials on criminal procedure defects and references opinions of the Smithsonian's Secretary and President Coolidge on urban traffic and consent decrees in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Oriel
An Institute
United States
Walcott
Smithsonian Institute
Langley
Orville Wright
Coolidge
Packer
Supreme Court
Ty Court
Supreme
May Day demonstrations quiet amid feeble unrest abroad
London on May 1 reports May Day shows a dwindling appetite for disorder among workers. Across Europe demonstrations pass with little strikes, festive displays noted in Britain, France, Vienna, and other capitals. In Britain the House of Commons rejected the Laborite move to ratify the Washington eight hour convention. A stray note mentions population growth from a single female pup per year, unrelated to the protests.
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London
Europe
Germany
Hindenburg
Bugland
Great Britain
Washington
France
Vienna
Budapest
Stockholm
Oslu
Copenhagen
Madrid
Rome
Moscow
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