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Edward Appleton of Ashland Kentucky is in the city and W F Brumble has returned from Roanoke.
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1900
Page
4
Edward Appleton of Ashland Kentucky is in the city and W F Brumble has returned from Roanoke.
A Bluefield column mixes civic admonition with social notes from Charleston, Pocahontas, Keystone and other towns. It calls for enforcement of law, cautions about race tensions in railroad work, and condemns a Thanksgiving shooting while urging justice and orderly government. It praises reading the Gold Medal Spring Wheat Flour ad and lists visiting residents and travelers.
Telegraphic dispatches report John Gibson of Cattlesburg captured four miles from Rush Kentucky after torturing his three year old stepdaughter to death by burning with a red hot poker. Guards say he will not be surrendered until reward money is turned over and he is kept in a coal mine.
A newly discovered press claims to perfectly replicate Astec's Persian Beauty and will be given free to readers of the Philadelphia Sunday Press next Sunday December. The note urges readers to order in advance due to limited supply and mentions sample art and dealer distribution. Also mentions De Witt's Little Early Risers as a liver pill product by H.N. Whit.
A traveling man found a pearl in an oyster stew at the N. and W. lunch counter. A local jeweler offered $25. He declined and sold the pearl to a New York jeweler for $50. The story praises the counter for value in every purchase.
Thomas and John Graham two young men aged about 20 and 23 were killed in the mines of the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company at Pocahontas. Their home was White House Kentucky and their bodies were shipped there on the 8 o’clock train last night.
The column promotes Hood's Sar Saparilla to purify blood, a new two horse wagon for sale at $85 by W. D. Croy, and Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver tablets with 25 cent price at H. N. White's drug store. It also touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure claiming it digests all foods to aid digestion, from H. N. White.
Tax notice to call and pay taxes on time to avoid costs. W A Brown signs the notice. Putnam Fadeless Dye is advertised with simple boiling dyeing instructions. Sold by Flatlop Grocery Co.
J. M. Honaker, 30, was crushed by a heavy lumber pile at Sandstone, west of Hinton. One leg was severed and the other broken in three places, with additional injuries. he died within hours.
A short, fragmented line mentions a Blue Finot and first class saloons offering draught and bottled beer, hinting at a casual drinking scene or local stroll about. The text is sparse with no clear event or person.
Annie K Springer of 1125 Howard St Philadelphia credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with curing a long backing cough. She reports it freed her chest and allowed restful sleep after other remedies failed. Trial bottles offered free at drug stores with a 50 cent to dollar price per bottle.
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