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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1925
Page
19
A reflective column urges residents to reembrace conservation of native walnut trees, noting past waste of valuable stock for fence rails and firewood. It highlights the long maturation of walnuts, potential future wealth, and the need for prudent land use, linking nature’s bow in the sky to moral renewal.
A Southern West Virginia speaker extols the region’s natural beauty and urges cleaner highways to attract visitors. They contrast pristine Ohio Indiana and Illinois roads with the dirty coal camps between Hinefield and Huntington, calling for action to end filth along state routes before a second visit is guaranteed.
Typographic haste in paper production leads to many errors. The rapid method with 10,000 type pieces and seven wrong positions per letter yields vast misplacements and millions of possible transpositions. Even the line To be or not to be risks 2,759,022 errors from letter exchanges.
A literary pitch suggests packing printed works by Shakespeare Confucius Carlyle Mirabeau Emerson Boccaccio Montaigne Nietzsche Tolstoy Spencer Thoreau Whitman Homer, with Savonarola and Disraeli among others, claiming classic writings outweigh lighter modern fiction for travelers and campers.
A brief tease notes that the most pertinent appraisal of motor etiquette has emerged, inviting readers to turn to page ten for the full discussion. The line hints at a published critique or opinion on driving behavior and road manners.
Washington May 2 The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended proposed coal rate reductions on shipments from West Virginia Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee mines along upper Mississippi River crossings to Kansas Missouri and Nebraska. The suspension lasts until August 1 and affects Louisville and Nashville Chesapeake and Ohio and Norfolk and Western schedules aimed at meeting cuts on other routes between Eastern producing territory and listed destination points.
New York May 2 Democracy rules the world and will continue to do so through the middle of Chacn cey M Depew told hosts at his ninety first birthday dinner at the Montauk Club Brooklyn The club president William H English praised Depews long life and celebrated friendships as a sign that republics are not ungrateful Depew spoke on The World at 91 tracing world progress since the Montauk club dinners and naming presidents from Harrison to Coolidge noting policies of thrift and debt reduction as essential to economic success
Edward J. McKeever was buried in Holy Cross cemetery after a funeral at St. Augustine's Church Brooklyn. Prominent baseball figures attended including John A. Heydler and Charles A. Stoneham. Dodgers and Giants paused for a minute of silence at the Polo Grounds as McKeever, who died of pneumonia after attending Mr. Ebbets' funeral, was remembered.
In Charleston West Virginia May 24 194- T I Morgan of Huntington was elected president of the West Virginia chiropractic association at the annual meeting. J W Monroe of Wheeling is vice president and E B Pugh of Huntington secretary and treasurer. Executive committee members are D H Lamont Wheeling and George Borgett Parkersburg. Four names were chosen to be sent to Governor Gore for the state examining board with two to be named. Renewals and policies for the chiropractic bill discussed. Seventy five members attended.
Norfolk stockholders deferred action on the Virginian Railway lease, to be taken up only at a special session. Two board changes: George W. Davison appointed to succeed Cr. W. Huntington, and George H. Church to replace W. H. Truesdale. Directors plan meetings in New York to name a successor to Mr. Antington and arrange a stockholders meeting on a 999 year lease with a guaranteed 6 percent return.
Chicago May 2 The first annual National Baby Congress opens with over 765 physicians examining more than 1000 infants and older children. The event run by the American Medical Association Illinois Medical Society and Chicago Medical Society aims to highlight health over beauty with a $600 prize and silver loving cup for the healthiest infant.
Washington May 2 Secretary Work, following President Coolidge policy, vaccinated himself for smallpox as a precaution. Arrangements had been made for a medical officer to vaccinate him, but the physician was out. The secretary, a former physician and former president of the AMA, took the procedure into his own hands.
Albert A. Boyden former managing editor of McClures Magazine and the American Magazine died tonight in New York from pernicious anemia. He had been ill since World War I after serving in France with the M C A. He was known for humanitarian work and once American commissioner to the Red Cross in Holland. Born in Sheffield, Wisconsin fifty years ago.
Washington May 4 The location within a residence of the real home agitated leading legal minds at today’s American Law Institute session The question arose while considering minute points of law in disputes about a home located on a state line The contention is whether the householders bedroom home is by some cited as the place home and whether the average man is more at home asleep than awake The query was raised by Professor Joseph H Beale of Harvard Law School during discussion of safeguards and boundaries in property law
President-elect Von Hindenburg dismissed as pure fabrication a quoted remark claiming his aim is to lead a German army into France. A torchlight procession in Hanover is planned to honor him as farewell to the city before his Berlin inauguration.
Sandusky Ohio May 2 Nine of a sixteen man crew aboard the Kelley Island Sand Sucker were drowned when the vessel rolled over in Lake Erie off Point Pelee between 1 and 2 o clock today Seven others who survived were picked up by the Canadian steamer Foasier and landed at Point Pelee life saving station The dead include Captain William Stackford Frederick Holder of Oak Harbor chief engineer Paul Everett of Oak Harbor Oxcer Dill deckhand Everett Martin Roland Wills Olly Kriss first mate William Myers Tom My address unknown Captain Stackford's home is Sandusky
A Washington radio debate weighed peace by armed might versus peace by cooperation. Retired admirals and generals argued over disarmament, with Admiral Rodgers warning against heedless preparation and Major General Bliss urging proportional armaments to deter aggression.
A year long world voyage will serve as a floating campus for 450 college youths selected nationwide. The 18,000 ton ship will visit 50 foreign ports across five continents, offering college courses aligned to degree work with emphasis on foreign affairs, languages, and government. Dean James K E Lough of NYU will direct the project with cooperating universities.
New York May 2 Pola Negri motion picture actress arrived on the Berengaria and was detained by customs on failing to declare three jewelry pieces valued at 300000 francs and for attempting to smuggle sixteen bottles of liquor. She was allowed to stay in a hotel suite and will appear Monday at the customs house to explain.
Miss Elizabeth Berglund an American and Miss Ingeborg Nystal a Swedish missionary were captured by bandits in Juchow, Honan province, about 200 miles north of here. They had been seized in a November raid, escaped, and were returned to their posts. The American consul wired Honan officials demanding immediate action for their release. The captives represent the Augustana Synod missionary society of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
St Joseph pilots Captain H E Honeywell and W T Van Orman in the two remaining entries as the national elimination balloon race from St Joseph, Missouri, advances. Referee disqualified Honeywell’s and Thaden’s teams for starting delays, while Major Maurice Smith’s pilot balloon led distance but was not a contestant.
Huntington W V May 2 4 percent coal loadings on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway rose by more than 12 cars in the April 26 weekend comparison. Total weekly loadings reached 18 051 6 with a daily average of 3 009 cars. Field totals include New River 3 865 5 Kanawha 2 694 Coal River 1 530 Logan 7 083 3 Kentucky 2 013 8 Long Fork 578 2 Millers Creek 314 8 and A C and L 2 The coke and Kentucky coke totals were 74 8 and 154 8 respectively for the period.
Indianapolis May 2 entries closed at midnight May 1 for the annual 500 mile race to be held May 30 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Four dozen cars entered, five from Saveign design, making the largest field since 1919.
The Princeton Court convicted Cleveland Boyd of murder in the first degree for the 1918 killing of Saylie Cook at Springton, the second trial and second time a verdict of guilty for Boyd. Defense witnesses testified Payne Boyd, not Cleveland, was the killer, with alibis and a North Carolina birth cited, and noted the prisoner’s neck scar and wartime records were reviewed.
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