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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1908
Page
4
Address and contact details for the Daily Telegraph Printing Co of Bluefield West Virginia provide mailing addresses and box numbers for notices and remittances. The notice indicates no individuals are linked to the paper for mail correspondence and lists box 781.
The ticket lists Taft for President and Sherman for Vice President with candidates for Governor Secretary of State Auditor Treasurer Attorney General State Superintendent of Schools and other state and local offices. Names include C W Swisher W G Conley M P Shawkey A Hughes J S Durst E L Long and others across courts and county roles.
A compact survey of political chatter and local issues. The column comments on William Jennings Bryan style rhetoric, Castro’s leadership, weather, grain prices, Dutch policies, socialist red flags, and upcoming county finances hearings. It notes a county court draft listing deadline of September 7 and critiques the Wheeling News coverage of Judge Herndon’s red case. It closes with a pitch to subscribe to the Daily Telegraph.
United States Senator Nathan B. Scott argues that today’s young men have opportunities as good as their fathers. He notes better equipment, equal demand from employers for skilled labor, and that success comes to those who show industry honesty and a will to exceed rivals. He cites his own night school example and urges dedication beyond the clock.
Secretary A E Kenney outlines the new registration law to voters and press, detailing precinct registrar duties by September 1 and criteria for eligible voters. It notes potential methods of registering, inspection of registrar books, penalties for incorrect registration, and rules on voting after registration.
J B Williams announces five years of steady cleaning and altering service at 20 Higginbotham Avenue offering dyeing and trade in worn clothes such as hats and shoes at reasonable prices. Customer thanks noted, contact via phone 222.
Reduced price sale at Flat Top Book and Stationery Co and Bluefield Book and Stationery Co. ms stand marks new stock arrival while prices drop to clear inventory in 1931.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson argues pure sugar and sweets are essential after meat bread and butter, testing by removing pie or puddings. The piece links sweeter meals to less appetite for alcohol and notes German mayoral tenure and pensions, then shifts to West Africa culture commerce and a humorous London Navy anecdote.
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It promotes the product and related remedies from J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio and mentions other items for sale by local stores.
A New York dinner centerpiece by Gelett Burgess featured a three to four day handmade model of an old New England house with windows, curtains, lawn, trees, a hammock and clothesline. He then set the entire cardboard miniature on fire to ensure guests remembered the demolition over the memory of the evening.
A Baltimore American quotation on the high stakes of comma placement recounts a Missouri editor narrowly averting libel in a story about two young men and their companions. The editor apologized and later became punctuation expert. Steptoe's Kash-Wa yeast ad notes two price lines for Meischann’s yeast at Steptoe's.
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