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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
5
Graham daily news reports a meeting called by Councilman Jim Galloway in the mayor’s office to continue organizing a town fire company. A Monday adjournment leads to tonight’s aim to complete the group with council participation and discuss equipment readiness. W I Short is mentioned as a potential fire chief candidate.
J. B. Graham of the Dry Fork mill reports improving lumber markets over the past week and predicts further solid gains. He notes his Graham Lumber Co. shipments moving to Graham for market relay and marks him as a longtime regional pioneer.
Kathleen Parkin, a California girl aged fifteen, has crafted a wireless device used to send and receive messages. Mica is commercially produced in eight states, with North Carolina leading the industry.
Eight witnesses in New York identify Charles H Wax as Oliver Osborne, the elusive swain in Miss Rae Tanzer’s breach of promise suit against attorney James W Osborne. The case spurred perjury and extortion charges, while Wax’s admission of courtship contrasts with federal plans to reopen the suit against Osborne. Audience included several former admirers who offered sympathy to Wax.
Washington reports a Belgian government note translated and released to Secretary Lansing denouncing deportations to Germany for forced labor. The document accuses Germany of enticing Belgians with higher wages to become voluntary workers and calls the deportations a white slave trade and dishonor to the occupier.
Paris reports a quiet night on the French front with no new combats. Adjutant Dorme reportedly downed his seventeenth aeroplane on December 4, its wreckage about 600 yards from Monson Chaussee. Sergeant Viollet allegedly brought down his seventh aircraft the same day, tumbling 700 yards east of Beugny.
Petrograd reports on December 6 that Russian forces captured a height west of Jablonitza after attacking Austro German trenches in the wooded Carpathians. They held briefly before German artillery shelling drove them from the position. Elsewhere on the front only scouting actions were noted.
Claiming to stop dandruff and falling hair, Parisian Sage, promoted by a Paris specialist, is touted to destroy the dandruff germ and prevent further hair loss. Three days of use allegedly yields visible improvement and thicker, lustrous hair sold by White Pharmacy Central Pharmacy and other druggists.
A historical ad describes Dr F M Edwards Olive Tablets as a 17 year treatment for liver and bowel health. It claims pale complexion, dull eyes, pimples and coated tongue improve with nightly use and positions the product as a substitute for calomel, priced 10 or 25 cents per box. Thousands reportedly use them.
The report notes efforts to recruit for the army amid high wages and labor shortages. While enlistments rose in mid 1916, targets remain unmet. Authorized vs actual strengths show modest gains, with gaps in both regulars and National Guard.
State Tax Commissioner orders incoming sheriffs to receive fixed salaries starting January 1 1917 with deputies and staff funded by county appropriations. Sheriffs retain only actual expenses for keeping prisoners up to fifty cents per day per inmate. Jailors, if appointed, become deputies and are paid from the aggregated deputy budget.
On December 6 Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock and Cramps offered to build four battle cruisers at cost plus ten percent profit. Union Iron Works and Fore River Shipbuilding proposed cost plus fifteen percent. No flat bids were accepted.
Berlin dispatch says Russian forces renewed attacks in the Carpathians north of Tartar pass and on the Ludova with no successes. A strong push in the Trotus valley reached German second lines, and a Russian support point north of the Oistuz pass was captured.
A wireless from the Buenos Aires reports the Pio IX sank off Las Palmas during a storm. Thirty nine crewmen are missing and seventeen were saved.
Claims to break a severe cold in hours with a dose every two hours for three doses. Describes rapid relief from nasal congestion discharge headache fever throat soreness sneezing and body aches. Priced at 25 cents and advertised as easy to take and effective.
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