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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1925
Page
16
A bulging list of gift ideas for him and her from Princeton merchants includes jewelry leather goods pens desk lamps and travel bags. Advertisers urge shoppers to explore exact items from United Cigar Stores Hawley’s Department Store Kinney’s and Waters Company while noting a bond redemption for Princeton Power bonds dated December 1 1925 at Central Trust Company in Charleston West Virginia.
Classified section lists gifts and home goods for Christmas including aluminum items, Frigidaire ice boxes, electric heating pads, pine desks, and glass china. Advertises Warlick Furniture Co Raleigh street and Warlick Piano Rooms for musical instruments, cameras, and hand painted china offerings. Contains prices and product descriptions across multiple stores and gift ideas.
The page lists a mix of items from toys and gifts to automobiles and dolls at Phillip Kleiman stores on Raleigh Street and nearby shops. It mentions Christmas club savings, novelty instruments, frames, greeting cards, and a loss notice for stock certificates of the Commercial Bank of Bluefield with administrator details.
Trustee Harry Murts will sell at public auction in Bluefield West Virginia the real estate described as Mercer County parcel numbers 12 and 13 in Section 45, located along Nicholas and Calhoun Streets, to satisfy a $900 debt secured by a 1919 trust deed to John M Wirgman. Sale set for December 15 1925 at 11 00 A M at the Coal and Coke Building front door. Cash required to cover the balance of debt plus interest.
Public auction to be held December 11 1925 at 16:00 at The Peery Building Federal Street Mercer County West Virginia. The property 14 Section on College Avenue owned by Mike S Stupalsky and Beulah I Stupalsky with multiple notes payable to Bluefield Produce and Vision Company and others secured by a deed of trust recorded in Mercer County. Default on payment prompts sale by trustees A M Scales and J R Laird.
Multiple rental notices show furnished and unfurnished rooms and small houses for rent. Locations include Redfront Street, Ramsey Street, Tyler Street, Giles Street, Bluefeld Avenue, and Telegraph area, with amenities such as hot water heat, car service, and near-town access. Contact details include phone numbers and box listings for inquiries and applications.
Lost property notice from Barnett Mrumfield Garage. Item is a Keeex coach car and a safety road light. Reward offered for return. Contact 4. C. Callaway.
Nearing property in Weert Graham corner for, allegedly new store dwelling overhead and dwelling rear, earns shop and four or five garages, rents per month. Entire present for $10,500, one third down, balance terms. Phone 693, or write box 29%, Bluefield, Va.
Trustee Lowery G Howling, clerk, announces a public auction of real estate in Bluefield Mercer County West Virginia on January 2, 1926. The sale follows a deed of trust dated April 24 1925 by William W Fristoe and E H Phillips to secure notes as recorded in Mercer County. Cash in hand at sale time.
An advertisement describes a large basement home in Virginia offered for sale at less than actual cost. It highlights a library, dining room, kitchen, pantry, second floor with four closets and two baths, finished attic, hardwood floors, private driveway, and a four-stall rear garage. The notice notes suitability for boarding and lodging due to location and invites inquiries via Box S14, Bluefield, Virginia.
Anich dwelling with hot water heat eight rooms and basement large yard with native shrubbery garden lawn front. Owners seek quick sale at a satisfactory price contact Linens 693 or P O Box 295 Bluefield. For rent a five room house on South Mercer Street corner lot not water heated newly decorated. Bee Max Matz Hotel Matz.
The accounts of heirs and executors are before me for settlement as of December 2. Quinto Francesa estate lists M Restex as executor with remaining duties overseen by ER G. Scott, Commissioner of Accounts.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention a war or event with unclear names and a reference to Hager's orchestra. The readable words hint at a Dutch or Flemish style piece or report, but specifics are obscured and no coherent event or individuals can be confirmed.
A scrambled crossword item list shows horizontal and vertical clues with partial phrases. Entries include phrases like To repulse, Perched, Aurora, Silkworm, Married, To dine, To employ, Eyes in birds, snakes and fish terms, and various broken word fragments suggesting an old puzzle with cut words and partial definitions.
Mister Blue Cap and the Twins are drawn into a coastal world as they enter a whaler ship via a magic frame. They meet a friendly sailor who ferries them to the vessel while the village and nets glow with sea air and shore leave as the crew stays ashore.
Local and long distance moving by Twin City Transfer Co claims to haul it cheaper opposite the post office. Rooms at 145 Stewart St furnished or unfurnished, clean and cheap, call 604.
A passage notes that some small French towns have mayor signatures marked with a cross as they cannot write. It also claims many villages struggle to staff local government due to low pay. An aside states fifty two percent of plate glass production goes to motor vehicles.
Fire alarm signals traced to several stations including Southside Princeton Avenue Bluefield and College avenues. Dispatcher notes fire stations at Reese Allen Power Pulaski Park Bland and North South Jefferson Penn-Mar reported minor faults with lines at Union and Forest streets.
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