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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1927
Page
4
A daily devotional note for Monday Morning June 6 1927 proclaims Behold I give you power to tread on serpents and over all the power of the enemy with promise of protection. The brief meditation reflects a religious theme amid a dated newspaper page.
Dr Frederick L Hoffman reports 1926 homicide data from 119 cities and 28 cities since 1900, with a national rate dipping to 10.1 per 100000 from 10.4 in 1925. The south remains worst, led by Jacksonville and Birmingham, while cities like St Louis Chicago Philadelphia and New York show declines.
A 1927 feature urges growth through milk, cream and butter, vitamin A, egg, fruits and vegetables, and proper feeding. It warns against inadequate nutrition and highlights the role of clean, high-grade dairy products and overall diet for tall, healthy children.
The Atlantic has been crossed again by Cham Berlin and Levine, a feat not as dramatic as Lindbergh but a significant boost to American aviation prestige. The essay credits not only pilots but the skilled manufacturing that produced reliable, high speed motors, marking progress toward successful commercial aviation.
A mob stormed a Tampa jail to seize a confessed murderer but gunfire tear gas and chemicals forced its disbanding. Several wounded and two killed, yet the prisoner remained free and Florida officials are praised for defending law and order. The piece also critiques the so-called best minds backing Coolidge and hints at Harding era scandals.
The Boston Herald asserts Coolidge will not seek a third term in 1932, predicting his nomination and election in 1928 but noting a refusal to run again in 1932. It argues his restraint fits traditions, while contrasting with Doheny’s jail avoidance and the United States receiving $11.9 million in cash and Liberty bonds from Elk Hills oil sale.
A local editorial laments a shortage of trained leaders for the Boy Scouts amid a nationwide 620,000 youth membership. It urges men to commit time to training and volunteering, arguing the movement’s benefits to future citizens outweigh the personal scheduling burden.
The editor laments the flood of poems sent to daily papers noting most are dreadful and unsalvageable. It urges writers to learn meter rhyme and rhythm and reminds that common rhymes like mine with time and room with soon do not work.
A heated critique contrasts President Coolidge’s demand for no criticism of the state department with the alleged slavish bias of Hearst papers Curtis publications and the New York Herald Tribune. The piece praises independent papers that challenge state department bungling in Mexico and Nicaragua.
The United States has sent 2300 marines and sailors to Nicaragua to safeguard lives and property. Census figures from 1920 show 57 Americans there, including 150 marines, giving each American four bodyguards. American property in Nicaragua is valued around 170000, seen as an example of strong protection. A Chicago citizen would find Nicaragua safest due to protection being the only asset Americans lack.
In Moscow the Kremlin remains a fortified hub home to top government and Communist Party officials. Restoration work uncovers wall paintings and hidden frescoes while imperial relics, tombs of Ivan the Terrible’s son, and artifacts from Peter the Great are displayed. In Cairo, French opera fans flock to the Cairo Opera House to hear Martha Tere tare perform, with performances of Pas aut la Houche drawing applause.
A brisk sketch of a New York morning around the docks and Times Square. The piece recounts a waterfront hotel breakfast, photographers chasing sea departure mood, and beachhead crowds as a liner sails, with vivid notes on public bustle and city life. It shifts to a moral essay on mother daughters relations and youth, arguing parents forget their own youth and urging empathy and shared experience. Dorothy Dix.
Dorothy Dix discusses how parents tried to curb youth with modest fashion and homebound limits while youth crave thrills. She recalls past dances and moonlit rides, noting parents forget their own youth and how understanding between generations could avert heartaches.
Berlin measures to curb the heavy toll on students abolish written final exams in junior high schools. Periods of several days per subject will substitute, as authorities seek to appease thousands of parents blaming exams for distress.
A flood engulfs the Evangeline region in Louisiana, driving Acadian families from their homes. The narrative weaves geography from the Atchafalaya to Bayou Teche with Longfellow’s Evangeline in a landscape of shifting waters and displaced Cajun communities.
London report notes Queen Mary speaks on the telephone with clear distinct enunciation. She often calls the Prince of Wales at St James Palace or Prince Mary at country or city home, while the king uses the phone rarely for relatives or close friends.
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