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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1925
Page
6
Post office notice outlines daily and subscription rates for all-planty mail in Virginia and West Virginia. Rates shown include one year in advance 6.50, three quarters 1.75, and special carrier charges. Territory coverage spans 150 miles radius.
A compact quotation row notes Byron’s line about truth and fiction with a cryptic tag rph. 125 and a remark on UTH being always strange. The fragment reads as a literary aside linking verse to a neighborly proverb.
The National Safety Council emphasizes prevention through psychology and domestic felicity. A safe day starts with breakfast and a cheerful goodbye, influencing alertness and risk awareness in daily traffic and broader life, suggesting happiness boosts responsibility and efficiency.
The Tampa Morning Tribune editorialized against new licensing rules that would require a costly certificate of title and extra paperwork. It argues the measure burdens taxpayers, creates a new state department, and offers little theft protection while failing to improve road safety. The piece cites existing taxes and roads underfunding, urging insurance-linked driver responsibility as a stronger preventive.
Advertising columns praise the financial institutions in Bluefield and Bramwell as sound, boosting business confidence. Coal production is at a peak with strong prospects for continued prosperity while real estate remains quiet yet pricing holds firm.
State convention of Christian Church of West Virginia in session here. Rev S S Weatherly killed by a train at Eggies. William Guy Meadows, formerly of cees, killed by electric current. R C Stearnes, Virginia state superintendent, visiting. R K Hawkins and Miss Hortense Graham married on Tazewell Street. Mrs W D Cassidy and her son narrowly escaped gas asphyxiation on Rogers Street.
The mercantile firms show stronger activity than earlier in the year and the current climate suggests real estate and building trades may rebound. The text notes improved transactions and hints at a broader revival, though it includes a stray fragment about motion picture actors and marriages.
A reflective poem contrasts living trees with unbending men and rocks. The speaker laments human doubt and ingratitude, noting God's presence in nature and calling humanity to awaken from spiritual slumber.
The Atlantic City beauty pageant director general Armand T Nichols provoked debate by saying American beauties are beautiful but dumb. Separate items note the French debt settlement acceptance as negotiated, praise for diplomacy, and a bold anti alcohol league nationwide drive to enforce Prohibition.
A Atwater Kent of Philadelphia uses thirty top opera singers and musicians for weekly radio concerts. The piece argues radio could become a Carnegie library of the future, with wireless serving more people in a night than libraries reach in a month, reflecting shifts in government finance and debt.
A compact musings column notes fall hints and clever quips on life love and everyday quirks. It jokes about washing machines and furnaces as signs of winter and ponders on relationships and character with light incisive humor.
A fragmented note discusses a parade and a temporary war debt settlement in which France would pay the United States 40 million dollars annually. The text includes miscellaneous reflections on work, marriage, and a restaurant job, with several garbled phrases.
Last Night's Mail reports Wisconsin results show Bob La Follette's large win, signaling a real fight for GOP control of the next Senate. Analysts note independents in Republicans could tilt majorities, and foresee shifts in Colorado Indiana Missouri New York and other states affecting administration strength.
The British Association for the Advancement of Science plans to invite scientists for next year without regard to nationality, reflecting science worldwide. The piece notes Einstein and Lorentz roots, US and Dutch contributions, Pasteur and Lister advances, Thomson and Millikan electron work, and Bohr theory, highlighting international collaboration.
Milton Bronner describes the Foreign Legion as diverse and disciplined in Africa. He profiles Parisian casino figure M. Kahn whose reported income from gambling is 12,000,000 francs annually, contrasting with Andre Citroen’s past casino fame. A London Press Club gathering features a quip about lighthearted American journalism.
The article argues New York dominates obscene material production and distribution while condemning the market as national. It warns that publishers and buyers alike bear guilt, urges repression of smut as a national issue echoing earlier moves against moving pictures.
French Hyre fourteen from Upshur county was elected president at an eastern states 4-H leaders conference in Springfield Massachusetts. The Huntington Advertiser notes his honor reflects well on West Virginia, proving local youths have opportunities, education, and training equal to national peers.
A reform idea proposes insurance companies refuse liability coverage for a term of years to promote safer driving. The concept aims to pressure drivers and reduce incidents by restricting policy availability for risky behavior.
A humorous exchange among doctors critics and dramatists at a daily luncheon reveals mutual appreciation as an individual trait. A professor notes the scene is a great place for personal regard while others humorously debate language and perception with playful dialects and quips.
Doctors and druggists now recommend Calotabs to break up a cold overnight or shorten grippe symptoms. The purified calomel tablet acts like both calomel and salts without nausea or stomach upset. One tablet at bedtime with water. next morning the cold is gone and appetite returns. family package with directions costs 35 cents at any drug store.
Surgeon General warns that modern food supply faces adulteration and contamination risks from preservatives short weights and decomposed foods. Federal and local rules protect canning packing milk meat fish eggs and vegetables. Home cleanliness and careful preparation remain essential to ensure safe meals and prevent disease.
An advertisement touts Bentone as a mild liver remedy that won’t gripe the system. It claims health is essential for everything and urges taking one bottle at $1.00, with refunds if expectations aren’t met, listing multiple Bluefield Princeton Matoaka Welch Pocahontas pharmacies.
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