Local notices and public ads from the Daily Telegraph
Notices for meetings special sessions entertainments and fundraising events. Classifieds include cards of thanks and lodge activities. Public notices cover church sales fairs and similar community notices with mailing address information.
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Pane Sete Birixo Co
Associated Press
Ertising
Furr
Om York
Mane
Cry
Ene
Cvust
Uranaynt
Printing Co Biver
God and Luther Quote in a Faithful Verse
A devotional note references Psalm 46:1 and Martin Luther urging God as refuge and strength. The message frames divine protection during trouble, echoing a timeless hymn and scripture.
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God
Industrial diversification urged to boost coalfield prosperity
The coalfields run full time with large payrolls and strong output while building trades lag. Locals push for new industries and by product plants, noting Richmond’s coke plant harms regional tonnage. Bluefield and N and W gains from closer transport potential. Encouragement of diversified enterprises seen as key to growth.
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Richmond
Kanawha
New River
Virginia
Blue Field
DANGERS OF WEALTH WARNED BY Rev Edward C Russel
The New York rector of St. Ann's Episcopal church argues wealth brings luxury, arrogance, and decay. He cites ancient empires like Nineveh Tyre and Babylon and warns modern materialists risk similar fates if spiritual focus is lost. He urges a return to spiritual values amid economic progress.
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Edward Charlie Russel
St. Ann's Episcopal Church
New York
America
Ninevah
Tyre
Babylon
We Were Doing What We Were Doing Twenty Years Ago Today
Logan county court hears murder trial of Jacob Woody and four sons for Coon Conley death. Taylor Vincent declares Senate bid. Norfolk and Western dam on Bluestone River at Bilnestone Junction noted.
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Jacob Woody
Logan County
Coon Conley
Taylor Vincent
United States Senate
Norfolk and Western
Bluestone River
Bilnestone Junction
A. Pankey
Ernest Kitts
Bluefield-Princeton
Hattie Lee Hetherington
W. W. Whitt
Bluefield
Wealth and Citizenship as Pillars of National Durability
The essay argues wealth alone does not threaten a nation. enduring strength rests on good management and a healthy citizenry. It emphasizes that spiritual and moral fibre, discipline, and responsible citizenship determine whether riches support or endanger a state's longevity.
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Russell
Dust in My Hands by John Hall Wheelock
The poem reflects on mortality and divinity as the speaker cups dust in hands, noting the creation of the heavens, the body, and love. It contemplates consciousness, passion, terror, and the inevitability of death, framing dust as a fragment of God kept between two wakes. John Hall Wheelock is named.
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God
John Hall Wheelock
State road work urged to speed up and fix maintenance
A growing call urges the State Road Commission to accelerate progress as yearly mileage completed barely surpasses worn road miles. Complaints in Mercer and McDowell allege maintenance is neglected, costing thousands yearly, while counties perform well and seek stronger state action.
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State Road Commission
Mercer
McDowell
Cleverness and a Cashier Absconds in a Joking Exchange
A hotel proprietor jokes with a detective about an absconding cashier. The ledger owner laments rent payments while a husband loses status from Tower Watchman to wine-cellar work. The exchange features a tall, cash-short suspect with a seven-thousand-dollar gap.
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Suavely
Far West Migration Sparks Debate in Washington Editorial
A Washington dispatch in this issue analyzes a western migration toward Florida and Texas, urging renewed reclamation and irrigation programs. It highlights tensions with federal policy, notes shifting population trends, and lauds James B. Duke for shaping southern industry and education.
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Washington
Evening Ledger
Philadelphia
Far West
Texas
Florida
Middle West
South
West
United States
Far Wesr
Work
Test of wireless control may settle aviation doubts
Last Night's Mail discusses Admiral Sims on peace time aviation limits and the need for live-fire testing for planes as weapons. It notes private foreign loans and government influence, arguing banks could block sales if the administration opposes such securities.
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Charles P. Stewart Ashington
William 8. Sims
President
Washington
Treasury
J. P. Morgan & Co
Cabinet Members Should Go Before Congress
Chester H. Rowell argues that the secretary of the treasury should address Congress in person to present tax reduction plans. He cites Governor Frank O. Lowden's urging that taxation requires public scrutiny and that government efficiency depends on honest budget reform and fiscal leadership.
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Enna Mellon
House
Ways and Means
Committee
Congress
America
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Lowden
University of Chicago
Hitrots
Lunatic fringe in science warned by Jordan on underworld theory
Dr David Starr Jordan warns scientists against the underworld of science where astrology supposedly blends with anthropology to create twelve generic human types. He urges researchers to follow established leaders and view such fringe ideas as psychological curiosities rather than scientific truth.
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Humanity
J. J. Thomson
Faraday
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford University
Jordan
Telegraph Ticklers: Love Gift, Refusal, and a Five-Year Sentence
Los Angeles man left $10,000 to a girl who refused to marry him. Her kindness was never forgotten. A Seattle man jailed five years for raising checks, reflecting a string of age old headlines in a column of tidbits.
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Los Angeles
Seattle
Walk More Ride Less Says Dr Cumming
Dr Cumming urges walking over vehicle use to preserve leg function and health. He notes walking is mild but beneficial for exercise, mood, and circulation, with guidance on timing, shoes, and gradual buildup.
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DR. Cumming
Short Cuts From Exchanges
Explorers claim the Mongolian wild ass runs forty five miles per hour while the American breed can travel much faster. Restaurants rarely serve wines of rare vintage yet many still offer that kind of eggs. Earthquakes threaten New Hampshire as its granite rocks are assumed to endure the tremors.
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Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch
Los Angeles Times
End Pile Misery and Torture Forever
A Buffalo chemist introduces Hamadala a treatment that promises to banish Pilea painlessly and permanently. The method claims to attack the cause, not the formation, with success in long standing cases. Priced at $1 refundable if not satisfied through Goodykoons Drug Co or any druggist.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Goodykoon', Drug Co
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