West Virginia Not a Moonshine State Bedeviled by Prolific Distilling
The 1906 internal revenue report shows West Virginia paid 1.23 million dollars to the U S Treasury in taxes and operated 683 saloons with eight stills. It lists 147 tobacco factories and heavy tobacco use for smoking, with 1 214 176 pounds of smoking tobacco produced, plus 1 734 saloons in operation, and 1 123 oleomargarine dealers.
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Commissioner of Internal Revenue
West Virginia
United States Treasury
Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue Laws
Georgia
New York
Pennsylvania
Virginia
United States
Earnings and Expenses of Norfolk and Western for October
The Roanoke comptroller's statement shows Norfolk and Western operation 1875 miles. Total earnings 2,552,352.46 dollars from passenger mail express freight. total expenses 1,590,288.55 dollars. net earnings 962,114.11 dollars. surplus 592,240.77 dollars after fixed charges and taxes. 62 percent expense to gross earnings.
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Norfolk and Western Railroad
Comptroller’s
Roanoke
Notable Visitors and Residents Shuffle Through Area
A stream of visitors and returning residents pass through the city, including Nx-Gay A B White and relatives. Governors and politicians appear in casual remarks while locals travel to Roanoke Dallas and Williamson. Several residents return home from Bluefield and Richlands as courts and businesses resume activity.
Sunday World Magazine Impresses With Broad Scope
The Sunday World Magazine in New York is praised as a weekly publication offering wide scope. It blends literary content news coverage and pictorials with exceptional typographical quality.
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Sunday World
New York
Back pain and kidney trouble warned by a Bluefield woman
A Bluefield resident details years of back pain and kidney symptoms improved after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She describes sleepless nights, headaches, and discolored urine, then credits Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo as the US agent and Carter Furniture Co. as a furniture seller linked in the ad.
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C. M. Kaylor
Tidewater
The
Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Co
Mr. Kaylor
Bluefield
Moore
Allen Street
G. C. Mooxy
Dean
John L. Crockett
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
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Lelia Hagood
Sylvia
Tenn
Cardus
Ad Y Department
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattasnooga, Tenn, Jis
AAA Bard
Bluefield Inn
Myron Marsh
Ohio
Hanan
Ubhen
Oid Henry
Rooney S
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Treautl Prat
Terhes Ender
Pete Tre Nent Se
Rey
Thomas E. Peery, M. D
W. Va
N. & W. Railway
Gertrude D. Watts
Bland Street
Norfolk and Western
Best
METRO
Bluefield Book and Stationery Company
Mt. Vernon Efleur
A.B. White
G. C. McCary
Pocahontas
Marie Thorn
James Scott
Goodwill
Laura Walker
Sue Hancock
C. O. Eakin
Gladys Watson
Felman
E. Bond
Princeton Avenue
J. W. St. Clair
JL. W. St. Clair
Giles Street
L. J. Holland
Dallas, N. C
Mr. Holland
Julia Coutts Holland
Ruth Turner Lofland
Charlottesville, Va
B. A. Marks
Ella Barrett
Richlands
M. F. Loftus
Trenton
Whitewood
Chap Williams
Williamson
City
W. J. Borden
Tazewell
W. HH. Whitworth
Charlies Rohrer
R. H. May
Ben Evans
Midway
Dayton
Rebecca Crawford
Rock
T. L. Vass
L. Lessers
Gramwell
Maudy Faton
Oakvale
Norman Meadows
R. E Shirey
Red Sulphur Springs
Mr. Dilger
Emily Schoen
Shields
Bramwell
Honing Institute
Will Ester
Karl Schoen
J. R. Camp
Wil Hamson
S. N. Sterne
Morris Rosenberg
Robert Anderson
Western Electric Co
Nellie Hogan
Floyd, Va
A. B
H. Thompson
This
Marvin Bogle
United States Army
Philippines
Bells
Grayson County
Texas
W. P. Williams
Falls Mills
Will Shannon
Herome
Tazewell County
C. A. Bane
Blanche Gibson
Parker and
Alice Reese
Davis Mills, Ya
FE. Bond
Daisy Meador
L. C. Cole
Graham
Giles County, Va
Theodore Dilger
Welch
Dilger
R. J. Reynolds TopBacco Company
Winston-Salem
N. C
R. J. Reynolds Topacco CO
Winston-Salem, N.C
Carter Furniture Co
Mt. Verpon
Holmboe & Lafferty
W. H. Cunningham
Pittman
Bluefield Normal and Business Institute
Tyler Street
Bluefield, W. Va
Correé
Ailont A Nar Co
Bluefield Brewing Company
Motescorr
Follansbee
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