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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1911
Page
2
The decree of Pope Pius X dated July 2 1911 declares Catholics in countries with a feast of obligation may eat meat and have three full meals when the day falls on a Friday or a fast day. The Immaculate Conception feast on December a Friday is noted as exempt from fast and abstinence this year.
The article urges early preparation for Christmas shopping. Make a list of every recipient, set a spending amount, and check off purchases. Consider a week of themed shopping days and group buys on turkeys to save costs and avoid last minute rush.
Smithsonian official notes New Zealand hosts wingless species such as the kakapo weka and roa. Kakapo avoid predators, sleep with heads tucked, and brood every two years. Weka mate for life and share nesting duties while roa hunt earthworms at night using keen beak vibrations.
Eagles charter lost but plans exist to rescue it. Pratt men foresee a Princeton aerie before year end with about seventy five members. Interest grows in a new lodge at Mercer county seat, offering social advantages and potential home construction for the fraternity.
The year ends with robust real estate transfers and rising prices across Bluefield area markets. Notable sales include a fifty foot front on Princeton Avenue fetching 50 000, up from 28 000 years ago, plus investment purchases in outlying parcels. Building permits rise with Bluefield Gas and Power Co. among issuers as demand for new homes and potential brick structures grows. A new school or city hall may be discussed as crowding and growth continue.
The article notes only fourteen shopping days remain before Christmas. Stores display attractive lines but shopper urgency is low as merchants fail to push offerings. Encourages early purchases to spare overworked clerks and warns last day shopping falls on Saturday this year.
The piece lists unusual records such as the Duke of Atholl’s 23 titles, vanilla costing 12 a pound, a thousand ham sandwiches in 11 hours 25 minutes, Mecca lodging for 6,000 pilgrims, a steam heating system at $180,000 for 11,000 Vatican rooms, soprano Lucrezia Agu...di’s high C, and Charles T. Yerkes repaying creditors with 6 percent compound interest after regaining his fortune.
A caller confronted editor William Dean Howells of the Atlantic Monthly with a poem and a polite note asking for an explanation. Howells, calm and courteous, denies any insult and praises the poem as very good. He asserts few differences of opinion and softly remarks he has long regarded it as the best Tennyson poem ever written.
The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Flat Top National Bank will be held in the directors room Tuesday January 5 1912 at eleven oclock a m for electing directors for the ensuing year and other business as deemed necessary. 12-7-1 dm. E T Tyrze cashier
Tampa Florida letter from Mrs E C Corum praising Cardui as a tonic for women’s troubles. She says it strengthened nerves and muscles, lifted fatigue, and helped her after severe weakness. Cardui marketed as a 50 year time tested herbal remedy with advisory department contact.
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