Local prices and sales listed in Bluefield era ads
Multiple sale notices and shop announcements from Bluefield area papers dated 1920s include shirt sales at Easley Perkins and Co and Curtis-Seal Co, engraved Xmas cards at Princeton Avenue, furniture and jewelry offerings, coal and dining deals, with notices of a December 1920 automobile accessories sale and various shop hostesses. Also listings for Christmas cards, special Tuesday sales, and local business promotions.
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Princeton Avenue
Bluefield Typewriter Exchange, Inc
Fred J. Mayer
Biuefield Avenue
Bluefield
W. Va
J. W. Moore
Freeman
Central Labor Union to Nominate Officers in 1921
Bluefield community items note the Central Labor Union will nominate officers for 1921 at Tuesday night meeting in Red Men's Hall with representatives of affiliated crafts expected. A large cameo breast pin is lost near 5 Cent Store and 47 Rogers street. return to 47 Rogers street for reward. Christian Endeavor at First Christian Church promotes Progressive Living and aims for stronger society ahead of state convention. Swanson Osborne recovers after a mill accident. arm torn, hospitalized. Weekend shopping boosts local trade ahead of holiday rush. co operative sale day planned. Williamston strike coverage by W A Warren of the New York Times noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Labor Union
Red Men's Hall
Rogers Street
Christian Endeavor
First Christian Church
Lloyd Black
Bluefield
Huntington
Wheeling
Grafton
Charleston
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Swanson Osborne
Young Osborne
Mountain View Hospital
Osborne
Williamson observer writer to leave field today
Feature writer for the New York Evening Post in Williamson plans departure today. H D Jacobs of United Press in New York also plans to leave Williamson soon unless major news delays him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Evening Post
Williamson
H. D. Jacobs
New York
United Press
Death Claims Mrs Ruth Hunter Wife of Frank J Hunter
A large circle of friends learns of the death of Mrs Ruth Gipple Hunter wife of Frank J Hunter. She died yesterday morning at 11 45 after a few weeks illness of typhoid fever. The couple wed six weeks earlier on October 21 in Winchester Kentucky. They had just settled in Bluefield and began their married life.
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Mis
Ruth Gipple Hunter
Frank J. Hunter
Winchester
Leading U S Doctor Offers Nerve and Chronic Disease Treatment
Licensed in several states and countries this physician is described as a top stomach and nerve specialist. He treats chronic diseases of the blood liver stomach intestines skin nerves heart spleen kidneys or bladder and offers nonoperative care for many conditions. He claims to be a "Bloodless Surgeon" and invites urine samples for analysis advising married women to attend with husbands and minors with parents.
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America
Mrs Hunter dies after typhoid fever in Bluefield
Mrs. Hunter contracted typhoid fever and died yesterday morning leaving a sorrowful husband and family. Dr F M Gipple and Mrs Pardee arrived to be with her. sisters Viola and Gladys Gipple are in Buffalo. She was born in Williamsville New York and moved to Buffalo before coming to Bluefield two years ago. She worked in the Edison department of the Goodykoontz Drury Co and was a beloved soprano at Bland Street Church. Funeral at 3:30 pm at Bland Street Methodist with burial in Walnut Grove cemetery. pallbearers and flower bearers named.
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Hunter
F. M. Gipple
No. 4
Pardee
Viola
Gladys Gipple
Buffalo
N. Y
Bland Street Methodist Church
S&s W. Moore
Presbyterian Church
T. 8. Hamilton
Bland Street
Armistead
H. A. Goodykoontz
C. H. Goodykoontz
W. Brooks
O. J. Morgan
J. L. Burkes
P. J. Alexander
Douglas Mattox
M. C. McNeil
John Land
J. H. Thornton
C. B. Wilson
Dr. G. Thornhill
J. H. Franklin
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Coalfield
Chas. M. Stieff
Lynchburg
L. Box
South Bluefield
Bath
Logan Street
Stone Securities Co
Easley, Perkins & Co
Cincinnati Post
Lewis Street
KE. G. Davidson
Curtis-Seal Co
Taylor
Main
Oakhurst Avenue
Lake Street
Woman's Bible Class
Divefield Insurance Office
Isadore Cohen Co's
Isadore Cohen Company, Jewelers
W. Wa
New Martinsville
D. H. Carr
Bluefield Typewriter Exchange
Lassen
C.C. Sarver
Adams Street
Bailey, Perkins & Co
Raven and Thacker
C. A. Mitchell Coal Co
Snells Department Store
Graham Daily News
F. O. B. Tazewell
J. G. Boston
Tazewell
Biluefield Furniture Co
Altamont
Home of Home
Bluefield Furniture Co
Higgins
George T. Crews
J. S. Hall & Co
Fritz Kreisler
Emma Adams
Clay Street
M. W. of A
Warlick
Theodore Dilger
East End
Bluefield Avenue
Goodykoontz Drug Co
Royal Steam
W.R. Worthington
Gluefield
W.va
Babe Ruth
Stieff
Chas
M. Stieff
Kyle
Lyncha
Honaker
Haynes Brand
A. B.C
Majestic
Frederick L. Black
Harold Black
Summers Street
Bluefield, W. Va
Wrather
Virginia
Easley
Bluefield Normal and Business College
W. H. Cunningham
W. A. Warren
New York Times
W. D. Lane
Curtis - Seal
Harding
Martin J. Garry
Robert A. Sheffey
D. H. Harrison
J. W. Buchanan
H. A. Lucas
A. L. Rhoades
Louis MecGrill
Pocahontas
Wm. K. Peery
Bedford
Elks National Home
Binefield Lodge of
Elka
of Confederacy
Egular
United Daughters of the Confederacy
The
Elks Club
EB. L. Garrett
Kimball
Appalachian Trading Co
Dillon
Carter
Akers
Ben Phillips
Peck Street
Phillips
Elks
Harry G. Mays
John F. Land
Busy Bee
John Secpinich
Biltmore
t@ Busy Bee
Mr. Secopinich
Belmont
Wallages
Claridge
Alex Kell
North Midway
8. C. Douglass
Albemarle Street
W. J. Sperry
Welch
Bedford County
Mr. Sperry
Bluefield Music Teachers’ Association
Frank Brown
Norfolk and Western
Exeter Street
Roanoke
G. E. G. Munsey
Trigg
J. H. Lewey
Pulaski
Robert FE. Landers
Chas. B. Haley
Dorothy McCall
G. M. McCall
58 Third Street
Georgia Ratliff
Last River Avenue
Thomas E. Peery
J. Frank Maynard
Warren G. Harding
Hugh Jenks
Producers Coal Company
Cincinnati
Jenks
R. C. Berry
Enterprise
F. G. Phillips
Box
Enterprise Foundry and Machine Works
Bristol-Va
Tenn
DR. Bancroft
Ofice
Altamont Hotel
NEW Royal
Commercial
Aneenne
Hawley Building
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