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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1925
Page
13
Classified items list various rental offerings in Bluefield West Virginia. Furnished house and rooms on Bluefield Avenue and nearby streets, garages on Wayne Street, seven and eight room houses with water heat, and monthly rents. Contact numbers 1011 NE and 1198 View Street referenced. Ads mention pets allowed options and property conditions.
Classified note for a general office man with twelve years of experience seeks a position. Name Andrene Teegrash appears with location hints.
Classified fragment lists for sale by owner residential plot fifty by one hundred eighty, multiple wanted positions including auto mechanic, seller wages, and commissions. Includes addresses like Wing Street and 1911 Wing Street with phone contact and prices such as 5400. The page also contains a five room house notice in south B Rat area and other scattered notes.
Classified sale notes include timber and lumber items from Beylor Lumber Co. and used kitchen cabinet and refrigerator offers. Various goods mention truckloads, binding materials, and a 35 dollar bargain on a refrigerator. Contact details for sales inquiries appear with payment terms.
Reward posted for missing items including motor number details and two new Michelin tires. Report notes oversize A4, one penser new Oliver Cord oas, rubber pedals and steering lock stolen. Post indicates detectives and state location in Virginia with August date.
Notice to contractors will be received by Mercer County in Princeton for a road construction project. Bids due 0:00 A.M. on the 26th. 42500 cubic yards excavation and 18 inch concrete work. Bidder must meet Mercer County standards and include 5 percent bid deposit.
In Mercer County West Virginia the circuit court hears a petition for the use of a Grace Methodist Episcopal church property at the corner of Hoge and Fear streets Bluefield. Trustees of the church seek sale of the real estate and interested parties are ordered to appear August to resist or defend and protect their interests in the sale. Clerk H D Karnes signs the order at the Mercer County Court on the dated August.
Classified listing offering a Ford in good condition with phone contact and box number 160 headowell W.Va. plus other items including a hand painting service and a home furnishing ad. The text is fragmented but indicates multiple vendors and contact details.
A quirky folktale fragment describes a group including Will O the Wisp and Jamp the fairyman searching for buttons. Eleven buttons have already been found and the Fairy Queen may wonder where the rest are.
Nancy and Mister Will Juggle Jump discuss keeping Puff’s coat closed with eleven pearl buttons. Puff plans to buy sneezeless pepper so sneezes won’t undo the buttons. Will the Wisp, Juggle Jump, and Puff Shrink to pigmy size as night watchman Dixie Land departs.
The Twins travel to the Fairy Queen's palace by Green Wizard's order and reach at five. Puff is blamed for not cooking. the Fairy Queen mocks their missing button that turns up in soup. Puff refuses sneezeless pepper, and the Twins face another cycle of adventures.
Seed price rundown from Toledo on August 18 lists wheat ash at 1.68 and 169 units, Clover-Cash at 17.06 for October and 15.60 for December, plus 14.75 for December. Alsike December at 213.60. Timothy cash at 3.75 with September 4.06 and October 3.90.
The 1925 Dodge touring car with license 121-98 Virginia and serial A 871-713, seized as an instrument of illicit liquor, is offered for public auction by Sheriff G H Crumpecker. The sale is at the Mercer County front courthouse on August 29 at 7:30 p.m., at Princeton garage for inspection, cash bidder awarded by the Sheriff.
Notice states Bluefield Concrete Company dissolved by mutual consent on August 17, 1925. Signatories include W. W. McVary N. BE Melton and C. M. Stafford. Box 83 care Telegraph. Lower floor furnished house for the winter offered by a prospective renter.
Schedule lists daytime and evening radio features across stations including Altoona Buffalo and more. Programs include amateur orchestra performances, Book of Knowledge segments, and a concert by Murray Whiteman with piano works. Times reflect Eastern and Central Daylight Time.
Stubbs the African ring tailed monkey belonging to Ralph Kunst of Grafton West Virginia died after a copperhead snake crawled into its cage During a fight the monkey was pinned at the top of the cage by the snake and a two foot sword used in the incident was noted in the report
The Day in Washington reports the Shipping Board sold eight additional ships. An agreement was reached on settlement of the Belgian debt. Debates over abandoning the MacMillan Arctic flight and enforcement plans by the prohibition staff are noted. Hoover proposed counter moves against foreign monopolies in American necessities.
Fire alarm signals dispatched from Central Station to numerous streets in Stone and surrounding areas including Northside Southside City Hall and University districts. Fire units responded and logged signals from 26 locations with phones listed for reporting centers.
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