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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1916
Page
2
The Bluefield Telephone Company will issue a new directory December 1 1916. Those needing telephone installations or relocations before then must sign contracts and moving slips by that date. For details call 334 or contact general manager W P Hawley.
J. A. Philpot of Williamson, a Pocahontas division engineer and cousin of Assistant Superintendent J. C. Ayers, was fatally injured when struck by a string of cars in the Williamson yard while walking on the eastbound track. He died at 7 after being struck at 5, aged about forty, survived by wife and three children. He had lived in Bluefield and worked from Williamson over Tug River for the past decade. He leaves three brothers in Virginia and Canada. Funeral plans incomplete.
The Isador Cohen Jewelry Company held an annual show on Princeton avenue drawing hundreds. The display featured high grade jewels and more than 25000 dollars worth of pieces, many purchased from Hayden W Wheeler & Co. of New York. Visitors received a small ladies diary as a souvenir.
A narrator meets a striking young woman at Chocabassett Inn and discovers she has mistaken his room for hers. After a series of misunderstandings over money and trust, he withholds the true reason for his skepticism, delaying confession for six months while pursuing her affections.
Edward F Diehl of the state banking department continued examining the books of Union Bank and Trust Company with no new developments reported. Carter, president of the closed bank, met with state officials in Charleston planning to reach an agreement to reopen the local institution this week. The bank is said to be solvent, needing only departmental assurances.
Miss Catherine Stopkins of River Virginia guests Miss Anna Weimer Adams street Miss Elizabeth McCutcheon and Miss Bessie Taylor Matoaka guests of Mrs O F Chapman Logan street Mrs J Wiley returned from Chattanooga Tenn after ten days visit Miss Virginia Ogden of Muskogee Oklahoma student at Hollins College guest of Mrs O Stahlman Summers street H W Shields land agent Pocahontas Coal and Land Company leaves for Philadelphia for business Miss Allie Jenks daughter of M and Mrs W J Jenks Summers street home for Thanksgiving L B Hill principal Concord Normal Athens spent Thanksgiving in Musfeld Harry Martin of Roanoke returning
Miss Gladys Snyder and Harry J Kreger wed with only immediate family present at the Snyder home on Highland avenue. Rev W M Morrett officiated. The couple will honeymoon in Washington and other eastern cities and make their home in Dublin Virginia where Kreger works for the Norfolk and Western Railway.
A Daily Telegraph want ad hints at profitable placements with promising returns for readers seeking revenue through classified opportunities. The notice underscores quick results and broad exposure for advertisers.
The Clarksburg Telegram released a large special edition titled Central West Virginia Industrial Prosperity Number of seventy two pages. It highlights Clarksburg as the capital within the regional industrial community, detailing natural gas, coal, oil, pottery, glass, mining, and numerous factories. It praises the edition as a major achievement and valuable data for the state.
The advertisement markets Vick's Vap-O-Rob Salve as a home remedy for bronchitis asthma catarrh and head colds. It claims relief without internal medicines by applying to chest throat and spine and inhaling vapors to loosen nasal and chest congestion and relax nervous tension.
An inventor patents a policeman's club that releases a noxious gas when a button is pressed. The device aims to overpower refractory prisoners and offers an advertising incentive in the paper.
Ramsey Street school leads Thanksgiving donations to the Salvation Army with four wagon loads of groceries and cash valued at 150 to 175 dollars. Pupils from Ramsey Street and other schools contributed food, fruit, cereals, soap, and cash, aiding general charity work in the city.
Cartoonist Alton Packard, famed for humorous and serious drawings, will sing When You Get What You Want You Don t Want It and present landscapes on the First Baptist church lyceum program in Bluefield. He has 25 years in the field and drew acclaim on the Redpath Chautauqua circuit in 1915 in cities like Youngstown Wheeling Cincinnati and Springfield. More than 13 000 workers are employed in Arizona mines.
The write up promotes a cafe as offering swell cooked foods and fine eating without high prices, inviting readers to judge the quality and value of the dining experience.
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