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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
2
An eccentric hotel proprietor recalls a grocer’s advice to seem busy to attract customers. A rich judge's wife visits the establishment, leaves soon, and the grocer remarks she had a long order but is sent next door for faster service.
Kenyon Cox in Atlantic lauds Augustus Saint Gaudens angels and caryatids as modern women crafted with invented personality. He praises the Adams memorial in Rock Creek Cemetery Washington for its hushed awe hooded figure of contemplative stillness and the mystery surrounding its meaning.
In sea fishing at Biarritz France anglers use rods over forty feet long balanced on a lighthouse railing with a wood rest. A line of rod length with three or four hooks and a light sinker is employed while reels are rarely used per Vicomte Hleuri de France.
Advertisement touts Dr King s New Life Pills as reliable purifiers to relieve headache biliousness jaundice and related stagnation. Claims the pills clean the system without grinding or griping and are sold at all drug stores for 2d.
Holy Week schedule at Christ Church includes Thursday and Good Friday services and Easter events with a baptismal service and music by the choir. The town reports Norfolk and Western freight growth, local business activity at Bland Street Methodist and Bland Street trading, a civil service exam, and several minor accidents and community notices.
A mass convention of Republican voters in Mercer County is set for May 16 1908 at 11 00 AM in Bluefield to select 24 delegates to Charleston West Virginia for the State Nominating Convention and to nominate county officers and Executive Committee members, with district vote weights based on Roosevelt 1904 results. Bramwell W Va April 4 1908.
A young woman visited a prominent doctor and described a sinking feeling. The doctor gave a bottle with directions and, as she prepared to leave, quipped to take the cork if the medicine fails. The note ends with local ads for East End Pharmacy and Schunplachers stock feed.
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