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Newspaper

Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Location

Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Apr 23, 1908

Page

5

Kimball German Club dances to close local school

A farewell ball at the Peerless Pavilion in Kimball marked the end of a months long dancing school run by Miss Kate Perkins. The Keystone orchestra provided music and midnight refreshments followed. Local attendees included Miss Perkins and several Bluefield residents.

Kimball Kimball German Club Kate Perkins Keystone Orchestra Bluefield Katzenberger Maud Miller Miss Early Fred Switzer French Easley Charles Hume Philip Killey

Local Notables and Visitors Pass Through City

Ernest Arters is seriously ill and several residents travel in and out of the city. J Powell Royall of Tazewell and J H Franklin head to distant business sites. Charles Gibson sails to Portland Ore and others visit Roanoke Cleveland Tenn Blacksburg W P I and Old Point Comfort College.

J. Powell Royall Tazewell William Harris Bluefield Jaeger Old Point Comfort College

County Vote The Stake In Georgia Baseball Game

Cuthbert Ga April 22 Randolph county likely to back Governor Hoke Smith in the June primary after a baseball contest shows all players on one side backing Smith and the other Brown. The Smith team won 16 to 8 and Brown supporters say they will honor the result and back Smith.

Brown Smith

Cortelyou Addresses Auburn Business Men on Public Service

George B. Cortelyou secretary of the Treasury spoke at the Auburn Business Men's Association annual dinner in Music Hall addressing Some aspects of Public Service. He was warmly welcomed by 175 members and guests with Ex-Mayor Clarence Aiken presiding and introducing him.

Auburn N. Y Auburn Business Men's Association Music Hall George B. Cortelyou the Treasury Clarence Aiken Cortelyou

Living stone Roe Jr. sentenced for vagrancy in Pittsburg

Livingstone Roe Jr. of Morristown New Jersey and a director of Standard Oil was fined ten dollars or jailed ten days in police court. He may avoid punishment if promised family help arrives. Once he served as London agent for the Standard Oil Co earning twenty five thousand annually.

Pittsburg Livingstone Roe, Jr Livingstone Roe Jr Morristown N. J Standard Oil Co Roe London

North Carolina to be commissioned as new armored cruiser

The North Carolina, a 14 000 ton armored cruiser built at Newport News Virginia, will be accepted on April 27 and placed in commission. It will be commanded immediately by Captain W A Marshall.

The Christian Church Gilliam and Ford Princeton Avenue Washington North Carolina W. A. Marshall Newport News

Keys and logic in a bank safe deposit tale

A narrator describes vault rituals at a bank highlighting quirks of customers. A new renter jokes that losing one key should not bar access, then proposes placing one key on his ring and locking the other inside the box. The anecdote ends by questioning supposed male logical superiority.

Silent Sign Exchange Reveals Domestic Banter

A comic dialogue shows two deaf mutes trading jabs about a wife and midnight outings. One teases the other for staying out late, while the second recalls turning out the light as the situation grew monotonous.

Why don't we see men like the novelists describe

A Louisville Courier Journal edition captures a dialogue about representation. The questions probe why literature and illustration fail to reflect certain gender ideals, suggesting a disconnect between imagined male heroes and real men, and between drawn and living female figures.

Louisville Courier-Journal

Coal and feather queries spark classroom humor from old items

A classroom exchange asks where coal and feathers come from, answered with playful lines about coal beds and feather beds. The clipping also advertises Bluefield pressing, Sublette Barnes, and DeWitt’s remedies with promotional notes and customer testimonials.

Freddie Jimmy

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S. Aaron Virginia Logan Onan Miller Supply Company W. L. Draper Studebaker Geiser Vulcanite Bluefield Snplement & Machinery Co Intermont Electric Co Bluefield Implement * Machinery CO Oe Biel Jrytale Bluefield Brewing CO Bluefield, West Virginia Halsey Bailey Valsey Bailey James Chambers Welch James French Strother R. H. Bailey Nomiati'n Bailey F. A. Francisco Bland Street Charea O'Leary Raleigh Street Netz Bland = Street Church Joe W. M. Brumfield Greenville, 5. C Brumfield James Eastham Ernest Arters Charles Gibson Portland Ore J. H. Franklin iXimbal J. W. Chapman George Byrne Charleston R. C. Fleshman Spout Springs, Va A. Harman South Bland Street R. C. McClaughertys Cleveland, Tenn T. S. ShuMebarger Cove Creek L. J. Fox F. L. Ball Samuel W. Williams Roanoke R. Y. Luther Bast Vivian A. H. Mann Minnie Mann W. 8. Becker Mattie Becker Blacksburg Frank M. Moss Burkes Garden C. K. Borden W. J. Borden Christiansburg H. G. Hamner McDowell County Wytheville, Virginia Wytheville, Va Hoke Smith Windsor Hotel Hotel Dennis Atlantic City, N. J Ocean Walter J. Buzby A. Pearson Bluefield Pressing Co Jenks & Land Phone 228 Cincinnati Tailoring Co Sublette & Barnes Lakes DeWitt BE. C. DeWitt & Co Chicago Georgia N. Cornes Roding Wll Drugginte New York Savannah Atlanta New Orleans Koyancih Nazareth W. P. Hawley Merchandise CO Princeton Avenues A. KR. L Kelley & Moyers Building S. M. Smith Insurange Agency Pire L. G. Toney Edward Cooper L Res H. ©. Donaldson Levy S. M. Smith S. M. Smith Insurance Agency Kelly & Moyer ED G W. VA Daily Telegraph
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