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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1920
Page
2
Advertisements describe daily fresh Rock Bass Trout Flounders and oysters at THE MARKET along with fruits and vegetables. Other notices promote engraving services, typewriter supplies, coal, legal transfers, shorts on shoes, and community events including church calls and a library reading program.
Local merchants report brisk buying as Christmas approaches with shops dressed for the season. Busy aisles, window displays, and gift selections indicate solid early holiday shopping in Bluefield.
Bluefield merchants report heavy Christmas stock and show windows brightened in festive style. Local trade is strong with wages up and shoppers urged to buy early, promising plenty of gifts for households and children.
The Pulaski area reports multiple plant curtailments. Pulaski Workers of the General Chemical Company cut output by fifty percent and accepted wage concessions. Dora Furnace at Max Meadows closed indefinitely. Pulaski Iron Furnace mothballed awaiting demand. Bertha Mineral Co at Austinville suspended operations. Norfolk and Western reduced staff in the region.
Huntington coal man C Morfit is in the city on business. William E Albright departed for Emory Virginia to enroll at Emory and Henry College. Miss Maude Ireson of Williamson visits her brothers R W and C M Ireson on Highland Avenue. Mrs George N Spieden of Niagara Falls New York is here due to daughter Lillian’s appendicitis and operation at Bluefield Sanitarium. Mrs Spieden formerly lived in this city.
A restored portion of Merneptah’s palace from ancient Memphis near the Nile mouth will join the University of Pennsylvania Museum as a permanent display. Dr Clarence Fisher, famed archaeologist, returns after six years in the field with the find.
A simple compact radio system designed as permanent equipment for lifeboats is described in Popular Mechanics. The wireless unit is kept in a water tight stern box and grounded to the boat, with the operator wearing a helmet with telephone receivers to reduce extraneous noise and boost sensitivity.
Two bridal veils from Limerick Ireland fetched 700 dollars each in San Francisco. The three yard by three yard Limerick Irish lace pieces were procured from Ireland for the high fashion display.
An advertisement touts Hyomel as a simple remedy for coughs and colds with no stomach dosing and a nose and mouth inhalation method. It offers a money back guarantee and claims availability at all druggists.
The article reports 1700 Red Cross memberships collected, eight hundred short of the Bluefield target. It notes 64 memberships from colored citizens, urges higher enrollment, and calls for community support with a final appeal to donate through chairman George F. Phillips.
The Colonial theatre opens advance sale for Lightnin tomorrow amid high demand. Tickets restricted to fifteen per person and not held without payment as the box office anticipates a heavy rush for the famed play and its producer John Golden plans.
Swanson Osborne a fifteen year old boy suffered severe injuries when his coat sleeve caught in a main shaft belt at a sawmill near Snider's store on the Princeton Bluefield road. He was taken to Mountain View Hospital and was listed in critical but holding condition under Dr. E W Horton.
A guide urges all able people to learn First Aid. It cites practical use on farms factories streets offices and homes. A young wife cut her wrist badly with a can opener but her mother used the First Aid kit and instruction to prevent blood poisoning before the doctor arrived.
A leading Paris furrier will supply a sable coat made from 120 to 150 choice skins valued at $50,000. The coat signals higher fur prices this year and reflects strong demand from a prominent customer.
The American Farm Bureau Federation plans a national policy session at Indianapolis December 6 to 8 with President J R Howard and fifty leading agricultural thinkers to outline guiding principles for legislation, economics, and education. The group aims to address tariff, excess profits tax repeal, bank credit access, and broader farm and trade policies as business and farming interests monitor the convention. Policewomen from England assist in Sinn Fein raid search in Ireland.
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