Welcoming Presbytery Guests To Bluefield
The Telegraph extends a cordial welcome to Montgomery Presbytery delegates gathering in Bluefield. It praises local hospitality and liberal support of church work, urges visits to Bluefield College plans, West Virginia Hotel, and city hall, and emphasizes lasting impressions for future returns.
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Bluefield
Montgomery
Black Diamond Empire
Telegraph
Montgomery Presbytery
Presbytery
Bluefield College
West Virginian
New City Hall
Yonkers Man Arrested Over Incessant Whistling
William Riley of Yonkers New York had Frank Fara a fellow townsman arrested for incessant whistling in public. The complainant set forth that Fara's constant whistling disrupted street life and caused distress.
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William Riley
Yonkers
N. Y
Frank Fara
Fara
Keystone synagogue dedication and bank absorption noted
Twenty years ago today B'nai Israel in Keystone dedicated its new synagogue while Citizens Bank merged into First National Bank of Bluefield. Flora Tuggle and George Wilson wed at the bride’s parents’ home. Ten years ago today local residents W B Motley and daughters Thelma and Blanche Corvin flew to Atlantic City. Arthur Calhoun died in Welch from traumatic burns after a gasoline explosion. E S Pedigo store staff held a picnic at Burke’s Garden.
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B'nai Israel Congregation
Keystone
Citizens Bank
First National Bank of
Bluefield
Flora Tuggle
George Wilson
W. B. Motley
Thelma
Blanche Corvin
Atlantic City
Arthur Calhoun
Welch
E. S. Pedigo
Burke's Garden
The Whistling Case Draws Moral and Legal Debate
An elderly attorney and war veteran sues a news dealer over constant whistling in public. The court discusses rights versus nuisance, noting past deadly outcomes from incessant whistling. The piece urges limits on disruptive behavior and cites stricter anti weapon laws as a model.
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Warbling
Fara
Judece
A Wreath Through Time From Youth To Widowhood
A poem traces a woman's changing adornments from roses and summer blooms to a widow's somber cap. It recalls a fleeting meeting, then a second encounter with an implied lover, ending with her sorrowful, solitary tears and a wreath of remembrance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jet
Advertising and crime shape modern news and policy trends
A column comparing advertising's rise to modern commerce with the public role of newspapers, praising bold promotion while noting Chicago crime reforms, and outlining firearm and license restrictions for residents, aliens, and dealers.
West Virginia Tightens Anti Weapon Law Effective 1936
The 1936 West Virginia legislature enacted a stricter anti weapon statute going into effect that outlaws carrying a pistol or dangerous weapon without a state license. Exemptions include sheriffs deputies tax collectors constables city police jailers game wardens and state police. Licenses may be issued by circuit courts and appointment as deputy sheriff alone does not grant carrying authority unless tied to tax collection duties.
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West Virginia
Circuit Courts
Short Cuts From Exchanges
A collage of quick quips from various papers on topics from swimming the channel to weather, radio origins, income tax, stock calls, buffalo distributions, flare skirts, burglary vs reporting, late-work husbands, and Ontario tour reactions.
Germs and their tiny world revealed by a surgeon general
Dr. Hugh 8. Cummings explains that germs are tiny seeds of life, counting millions on a pinhead and describing their sizes, varieties, and how filters may or may not stop them. He notes germ groups like bacteria and cocci and how scientists identify hundreds of kinds and their habitats.
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Fairmont Times
Hugh 8. Cummings
United States Public Health Service
Germ work and the life of a bacteriologist
A narrator describes how a bacteriologist studies disease germs by capturing them from patients, growing them in cultures, and using staining to identify them. The piece notes risks, the need for precise conditions, and that careful nerve and steadiness are essential in the lab. It mentions future topics on science martyrs and ends with a note on gold production rankings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puta
Pinchot as a 1928 GOP presidential hopeful discussed
In a Sept. 22 column Charles P. Stewart weighs Gifford Pinchot as a potential Republican candidate for president in 1928. The piece notes Coolidge popularity, Republican conservatism, and Pinchot’s need to win a Senate seat to credibly pursue the White House, with Mellon as a potential ally or obstacle.
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Charles P. Stewart Abhington
Gifford Pichot
Northwestern
Minnesota
White House
Pennsylvania
George Wharton Pepper
Unitef States Senate
Pinchot
Senate
Andrew W. Mellon
Progress in Turkey and U.S. Airmail Advances
A commission advises abolishing polygamy and legalizing civil marriages as Turkey shifts toward a republic. The press gains freedom and inheritance by will is allowed. The Post Office pushes nationwide airmail despite earlier congressional opposition, while Colonel Billy Mitchell resists bureaucratic blockage.
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Argora Assembly
Young Turk Movement
Post Office Department
Congress
Billy Mitchell
Washington
Telegraph Ticklers and Winter Pockets in Streets and Courts
A collage of brief items notes winter pockets in clothing, a St Louis pick assault claim, Chicago music needs, jailings in Boston, Coolidge visiting Omaha, and assorted quips about royalty, storms in Chile, pedestrians versus autos, weight, wealth fears, a Philadelphia tree accident, Seattle jailbreaks, and speculative politics in New York.
Constitution Week debate on progress and limits of the founding text
The piece argues Constitution Week should promote the Constitution as a living institution and progress, not an emotional cult. It warns against using the text to block reform and urges an independent board to investigate aviation matters to reveal the truth.
Moon Motion Puzzle Remains After 250 Years
The article notes the long standing challenge in predicting lunar positions despite 250 years of study at Greenwich Observatory. After accounting for known perturbing factors, astronomers still cannot forecast the moon's future location with precision, always slightly ahead or behind.
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Greenwich Observatory
England
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