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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1908
Page
3
Walter McCall suffered a severe hand injury while operating a mixer at Virginia Confectionery Company. He received medical care from Drs Witten and Frazier, and is expected to retain his fingers. The rest of the item notes local social events and various residents' movements around Graham.
About eight o'clock five prisoners crawled through a hole in the jail wall and fled up Tank Hill. L A Brown rushed to city hall to alert the chief of police, who with a sergeant stopped further escape. One man remains at large as authorities investigate the breach and suspect George Parks aided the plan.
Negro attempted to drag Parks by the ankles as he escaped while two white inmates Miller and Williams pursued. Brown, with a sixty day sentence, charged the scene and alarms were raised by Bowles who also escaped. Police rounded boats and sent Wade to Pearsburg to locate Parks as punishment for others. Cerrkett hinted at early liberty for Brown for whistleblowing.
A mysterious letter received by Edna Stilley, signed a citizen in sorrow, claims John L. Pittman an auditor for Pennsylvania Lines was fatally struck on a south side street and taken to the writer's home for care. Detectives found Pittman’s wife and children visiting in Virginia.
An early morning explosion of a balloon envelope owned by Captain Lovelace of the New York Aero Club killed two people and injured six during ascent preparations. Miss Hall, secretary to Lovelace, was burned to ashes, while Lovelace escaped with minor injuries except for burned clothing.
Silver City resident CC Harden endorses Electric Bitters, praising its effects on stomach, liver, kidney troubles, weakness, backache, and malaria. He asserts the medicine is best of all and recommends it with a guarantee.Subscribe for the Daily Telegraph.
A stream of residents and guests are listed in Bluefield last night and today. Names include J B Fishburn Roanoke. Everett Leftwich Williamson. Mrs George Wolfe Berwind. Chas Aell Roanoke. J T Johnson Falls Mills. Judge Heflin Hinton. Kell Welch. Rev O B Neyroz Maybeury. Miss Janie Drinkard. Miss Nettie Zink ill at Rogers street. J Davis Sword's Creek. D M Easley recovering. Miss Annie Waddell and Mrs J F Martin visiting Grayson Springs. Capt A J Tynes Tazewell visiting son Conrad Tynes. Jas R Schick Roanoke. Mrs D W Lynch Tazewell. others travel through Tazewell Mountain Lake and Bluefield venues. Notables include Capt D H Barger Hiawatha and Moomaw Smokeless Coal manager. Ruth Pendleton Tazewell. George Moss Burke's Garden. G M Barger Iron Lithia Springs. Mrs F L Schoen and Emily from Cramwell. Wade Peery Tazewell. doctors Slusher and Thompson at Princeton for Horton case. J O Clendenin Philadelphia with P J Long recovering. Capt W H Newberry Widermouth Piedmont Colliery. Mrs D E Glick Lillie Clifford Reed Clifford Carbondale Ill.. Mrs A G Burnham and children to Lynchburg. Joseph Seay bidding in Radford Petersburg Norfolk. Rev J B Ward Abingdon. Rev J W Rader. Bishop’s Chapel conference and revival at Rocky Gap.
A West of England belief holds that squeezing a mole to death and applying its blood to warts will remove them. Proponents claim moles and worms lack feelings, making such acts not cruelty, while a judge quotes a local saying about telling someone yes.
London satirical note warns that weekly corberence on humor would often be blank as wit wanes. It cites a feeble imitation of the saving sense of humor and a quip from a Judge about hereditary talent after a juggler joke.
A fragment from Louisville Courier Journal features dialogue between a speaker and Tired Tiffins. The exchange touches on perception and change with an ironic tone reflecting local speech and period narration.
The advertisement touts Kodol as effective for stomach disorders and urges use for complete relief. It notes the product is sold by all druggists and is placed alongside a local ham shop promotion at Dudley & Frazier's in Graham, Virginia.
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