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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1908
Page
5
The piece surveys varied vacations from beach stays to farm life and city leisure, noting how some stay home in Bluefield to rest, work the garden, or enjoy trolley rides. It playfully contrasts abroad travel with simple home comforts, concluding a Bluefield summer offers rest, happiness, and savings.
Ritchie County Agricultural and Fair Association schedules its twenty second annual fair at Pennsboro August eighteenth to twenty first making it the first in West Virginia this year. The event will feature livestock poultry farm products and a premier racing program with increased purses to attract top speed horses entries close August twelfth races include 2:30 pace 300 2:30 trot 300 2:19 page 100 2:17 trot 100 free for all pace or trot 400 and more racing events across four days with substantial prizes.
Frank A. Pierce unveils an automatic electric device to prevent train collisions and sideswipes. It stops a sixty mile per hour train within its length and integrates with the block signal system to keep lengths of track exclusive. Also mentions Dr King’s New Discovery cough remedy available from druggists in 50 cent and 1 dollar sizes with a free vial offer.
An ad invites enrollment at Normal and ae College Bluefield West Virginia for an all round office training program covering shorthand bookkeeping mathematics literature and related subjects. The musical department offers vocal piano organ cornet flute clarinet and other band instruments.
Springfield hosts the thirty sixth annual National Association of Amateur Oarsmen regatta on the Connecticut river with entrants from Philadelphia Brooklyn Troy Worcester New York Toronto Halifax and as far as St Paul. The single sculls championship draws Harry J. Sienhert Frank B. Geer Durando Millen and rivals as favorites while Alex Warnock faces Robert H Young in a bid for the title. Spectators fill boat houses and river banks as finals loom tomorrow.
Admiral George Dewey unveiled the memorial at the Portsmouth navy yard where Admiral Farragut died. Dewey led a ceremony with Farragut’s flagship Hartford also present, recalling the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Mr A A Kelton of Harrisville New York praises Dr King’s New Life Pills as the exact remedy. The pills relieve without discomfort and target constipation biliousness and malaria. Available for 25 cents at all drug stores. Subscribe for the Daily Telegraph.
Twenty five officers from the Presidio begin a ninety mile stamina test ordered by the war department. Under Colonel Marion Maus they head 30 miles to Palo Alto on day one, stay overnight, then 15 miles toward San Jose before returning to Palo Alto for night two. On day three they ride back to the Presidio.
A bronze tablet was unveiled to honor Admiral Farragut in Portsmouth New Hampshire with distinguished naval officers state officials and other guests present at the ceremony The tablet was installed on the commandant's building or site as the centerpiece of the observance
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