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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1902
Page
3
A store presents a fine assortment of jewelry to please discriminating customers. The notice emphasizes service to customers and stock quality as the reason to choose their wares for special occasions.
An eloquent farewell service featured a quartette performing One Eternal Thought while the audience joined in the Doxology. The lodge of sorrow adjourned after a solemn, heartfelt gathering.
Circuit Court judge Robert C. Jackson reversed the Maiden Spring Magisterial district board of registrars in Tazewell county for denying Deputy US Marshal George Marvison registration. Harrison had claimed Buchanan county residency but demonstrated intent to reside in Tazewell. the court ruled residence is a matter of intention and ordered registration.
In New York the Navarre Hotel woke 200 guests after robbers fired on the hotel. A siege followed with gunfire and a pursuit. William Jones, 19, a Black man, was captured in the cellar after a fierce confrontation and confessed to gang activity at a neighboring hotel in the past month.
New York held a large dinner in Mamaroneck to celebrate the new home of the Union Hook and Ladder company with prominent locals including John H Hege man Jr and several millionaires in attendance. Dinner guests wore red shirts while the event highlighted the volunteer firemen.
Thieves broke into the Graham Supply Company wholesale house early yesterday, forcing interior doors and blasting open a safe with improvised charges. They carried away about two thousand dollars plus a missing steel vault containing cash and stock certificates. Private papers and some stock goods were stolen. investigators found a chisel, brake shoe, key and pinch bars among the tools left behind. Local residents recall hearing an explosion. the mail carrier found the scene around 6 o'clock.
Benjamin W. Gist of Falls City, Nebraska, inherited 40000 from an uncle and gave away large sums in gold to strangers including children and the elderly. He declared he would spend it all in days, resisted loans, and eventually a guardian was appointed as relatives sought recovery. He returned to the farm, reportedly sane though wealth spent.
J F Hughes of Du Pont held Ga county treasurer post faced dire predictions of short life due to a lingering lung ailment. After using Dr King s New Discovery for consumption he recovered, defying expectations. druggists advertise 50 cents to 1.00 prices and a free trial bottle.
Made for experts Tid Bit cigars offer items suited for horses cows and mules with options including flour broad middlings and hay. Also available are country buckwheat flour in 25 pound lots country sorghum extracted honey at 15 cents per pound sauerkraut 5 cents per pound and country apple butter around 12 to 6 cents per pound.
To inform every man and woman in the United States about opium and whiskey diseases a free book is offered by B M Wooley of Atlanta Georgia mail qox 887. Baldwin's column mentions President Kimball's letter. Foley's Kidney Cure is recommended for summer irregularities and kidney health with G H Wade selling it.
R A Gray of Oakville Indiana recounts a decade confined to his bed with kidney disease. He sought top medical care but found relief only after Foley's Kidney Cure, which he calls a Godsend, and the testimony is prepared for pharmacist G H Wade.
The Civic Federation began its annual meeting at the board of trade room with Senator Hanna presiding. The sessions run to Wednesday and will tackle employer worker questions including shorter working days and industrial arbitration and conciliation.
In Raleigh North Carolina an artist works on a monument to replace the small grave statue of Ensign Worth Bagley at Oakwood Cemetery. Aiming for a Capitol Square statue, the Bagley fund has reached 5000 dollars and the city is hoped to provide the base. Quick orders offered by Pearson's Restaurant and Sterne's bakery on Prince ton avenue and Bland street.
If you have kidney or bladder trouble and do not use Foley's Kidney Cure, you will have only yourself to blame for results, as it positively cures all forms of kidney and bladder diseases. For sale by G. H. Wade druggist Yell for Fitz You cigars.
Reports from New York London and Washington note President Mitchell attending a Civic Federation meeting and a strike stance. Diplomatic moves include Britain's Venezuela ultimatum and typhoid confinement of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Yerkes comments on the London Tube and Morgan disputes loom. Local ad for decorative cakes ends the brief.
An N. and W. order for 6.95 made out to Harry Vlark is reported lost. A reward will be given if the missing check is returned to the office. Also noting daily fresh cakes at Sterne's 18 Princeton Ave and 25 Bland St and shoes at 2.50 at Block's Princeton Ave.
Henderson Grimett of Logan county West Virginia was said to recover from partial paralysis after using two bottles of Chamberlain's Pain Balm as advised by a physician and recommended by his wife. The notice claims several cures for partial paralysis and promotes the liniment as a remedy for rheumatism sprains and bruises sold by H N White.
Mothers fear winter as children fear colds and croup. The ad claims One Minute Cough Cure liquifies mucus and soothes inflammation to prevent fatal outcomes before a doctor arrives. It cites testimonials from Ita and Jao L. Crockett and mentions Fitz You cigars.
Fragmentary OCR text references promotions and medical claims with unclear names and places. It mentions a person named John Van DyeS Alm and a physician figure Rev. dno. The garbled lines discuss cures, disease, and debility with dated phrases, but no coherent event or outcome is evident.
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