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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1906
Page
4
Local business leaders gather for a morning chamber event inviting networking and community collaboration. Attendees include chamber members and area entrepreneurs seeking partnerships and market insights.
Notice to advertisers states all copy changes must reach the office by 2 p m the day before the ad is to appear to ensure better display and more attractive advertisements during the holiday rush.
The president's message is praised as a strong state paper though space limits full printing. It highlights Roosevelt as both statesman and leader, urges readers to study its lessons, and notes efforts to grow Bluefield via boosted subscriptions and the Bluefield club. A Dr Parkhurst comment on marriage laws is also noted.
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is described as a social lodge with ceremonial honors for departed members. It emphasizes brotherhood, memory, and the aim to make life pleasant for members, noting the mix of humorous initiation and solemn departure rites.
A 1900s style editorial extols lasting friendships, memorializing the departed, and urges Bluefield to attract residents through good schools and housing. It links real estate activity to citizen prosperity, praises paving improvements, criticizes false prophets, and ends with a nudge to read the want ads.
The writer warns of crowded counter rushes and hazards in mid December shopping. They contrast the perilous, elbowing throngs with a safer alternative of shopping earlier while noting skirts torn in the struggle and the demand for safer, calmer shopping days.
Advertises Hollister's Rocky fountain Tea as the only medicine that penetrates every organ and remains there. Claims it is the best cae in the world with tea or tablets available in 35 outs. Listed retailers include Mill Creek Coal and Coke Co Soopers West End Drug and J Veters Freeman.
An advisory argues women should shop earlier to prevent crowding the last week before Christmas. It urges distributing shopping over the season to spare store workers burnout and customers irritation, and to be considerate to staff.
Mrs. Sarah J. Windom of Chicago and Mr. Goodykoontz tout Vinol as a superior cod liver oil tonic claiming it restores strength and appetite. The Bluefield note says Vinol contains concentrated cod liver elements with added iron and offers a money back if not beneficial. West End Drug Co states it is the sole Bluefield agent and available nationwide.
December 6 entries include Martin Van Buren born in 1782 and Mozart dying in 1791. Also noted are the execution of John Bishop and Thomas Williams in 1831 at the Old Bailey for murder related to a dissecting incident, a Cape Hatteras engagement in 1861, F Heinze born in 1869, and Delamater & Co. failing in Meadville in 1890.
Charles Edward Magoon born December five, eighteen sixty one in Minnesota rose from farm boy to University of Nebraska graduate. He served in the war department in 1899 aiding Cuba's reconstruction and later governed the Canal Zone while also acting as minister to Panama on the Canal Commission executive committee.
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