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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1925
Page
6
The notice outlines postage and carrier payment rates across West Virginia and surrounding areas, detailing first and second class rates, one year and four year terms, and territory within a 160 mile radius. It mentions the City Carrier-Payable and outlines timing around the October 1925 period.
A terse aphorism echoes moral counsel on wealth and virtue with biblical phrasing and a paraphrase by Sir J Denham. It contrasts riches with wisdom and duty, urging wealth to serve virtue rather than dominate.
The Parent-Teacher Association outlines a yearlong program for Bluefield focusing on safety food health and disease prevention. Each month promotes an activity such as home safety playground and street danger, eye ear nose throat teeth and feet care, and speedy response to wounds and germs.
Reports show unprecedented building activity with the twenty five leading cities surpassing two billion dollars in new structures. Florida cities total over twenty five million in nine months while West Virginia’s five cities reach nearly eleven and a half million. September reduces state total to 761,067 dollars.
In a campaign to curb speeding a New York clergy man must preach on speed. A California man is ordered to write an article titled The Sin of Speeding. A Detroit judge sentences speed offenders to hospitals and morgues to view cripples.
Edward McKernow of the Associated Press writes in Marshers Magazine denying claims that Church Big Business or Government sway the press. He asserts no religious prejudice or dishonest gain exposure and says he has not felt government pressure in his journalistic career.
A fragmented item notes Missan married to 5 F Kinder and family traveling through Bluefield on route to ri to settle. It mentions Cephas Poindexter, identified as a murdered deputy taker of Wade and Gnade of C. W. Wade. Ten years ago in Franklin county B. W. Charleston died at his Pearteburg home. A government building contract was let at Norton. A Miami Florida case imagines a driver jailed ten weeks for reckless driving.
The piece argues the Republicans hold an advantageous position as economic conditions improve. It asserts abundant circulation at nearly 96 billion dollars, explains how easy money fuels growth, and credits the Coolidge administration for prosperity. It notes Democrats face little chance to change the status quo.
A collection of quick quotes from various papers including remarks on pessimists, the Sphinx, merchant marine needs, and other quips. It notes classroom enthusiasm, punctuality, crosswords, and magazine announcements with playful snippets and attributed lines.
A lyric meditation frames a skull fashioned as a goblet for wine. It praises revelry beyond the grave, urging the living to drink, rhyme, and shine after death, contrasting earthly decay with the spark of the drink of gods.
Selected opinions emphasize a duty to expose socialist and communist arguments with factual counterpoints. The piece cites widespread American freedoms and utilities as proof of the superior American system and warns that neglect could empower agitators. It urges citizens to broadcast the advantages of the current government to safeguard constitutional liberties.
An old Arabian proverb is discussed: the ignorant who do not know they are ignorant should be shunned, the ignorant who know they are ignorant should be taught, and the wise who know they know should be followed.
An 1871 parade tale notes Adolph Koppel arriving as a meser boy and rising to president of Central Savings Bank of New York, a bank with assets of 162 million dollars. The piece frames this as a native born versus immigrant success story amid broader American subsidies debates.
A columnist argues for subsidized aviation aid via indirect measures such as Weather Hope stations along main airways to broadcast conditions for aviators. The piece cites Ohio’s Shenandoah disaster, urges prompt action to reduce aviation deaths, and questions immigration wage differentials as a broader economic context.
Last Night's Mail argues Congress shows strong educational roots. It cites seventy four of ninety six senators with college experience and 290 of 433 representatives with college attendance, noting many graduates and several with notable careers in law, teaching, medicine, journalism, and letters.
A humorous column notes the writer's view of honesty imagination and social pretensions. It suggests people are unhappy seeking approval and that generosity and money influence friendship dynamics.
An aging article discusses a traffic expert with corporate funding and the broader impact of urban planning on American cities. It then critiques immigration policy arguing for language tests and selective admission of English speakers to ease assimilation. It notes four assimilability classes based on race and language.
Massachusetts state official Dr. Arthur W. Gilbert reports that lightning fatalities average 3.8 per year in the state, a rate of about one in 1,013,770, with city dwellers at lower risk than rural residents due to conductors and buildings drawing off charge. He notes proper lightning rods can safeguard farms to city levels. A separate exhibit at the U S Museum in Washington displays 4,000 mineral specimens collected over 18 years by Dr. Frank L. Heas.
Dr Hugh S Cumming urges citizens to protect public health by preventing the spread of contagious diseases. The piece notes how everyday contact in shops, barberies, homes, milk supply, and public transport can propagate diseases like typhoid, diphtheria, and scarlet fever. It warns against letting sick individuals travel or work and calls for communal precautions.
An assortment of humorous snippets and vignettes. A one way trip joke exchanges with a flivver, a doctor’s slow practice, a ship captain with a broken rudder, and a variety of cartoonish episodes featuring a circus swallower, a sermon in a church, and a tailor made pun about a dead mother.
A local piece celebrates the American Legion hosting a big Halloween event for the public and members, praising the Legion as a schoolmaster of Americanism and patriotism. It contrasts Bluefield men, one cautious and pessimistic, the other trusting yet generous, noting varied paths to success.
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