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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1902
Page
4
A Wisconsin congressman Jenkins bill to bar from the mails newspapers showing suicide is criticized as overreach. The piece argues excluding such images could expand censorship beyond morality and would punishing readers who seek vice. It notes stock gambling stories and a Siamese Monday bylaw idea as additional oddities.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure claiming to cure deafness caused by catarrh and invites cases to send for circulars from Toledo. A second notice seeks a colored woman cook for general housework at Thacker West Virginia with good wages and address D. L. F.
Mrs Lavan Emons of Walkerville Ontario reports five years of ovarian trouble ending after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She claims the remedy stopped discharge, weakness, and faintness, avoiding surgery and restoring health, urging others to try it.
O. R. Larson at Bay Villa days River Cape Colony runs a general store serving farmers within a thirty mile radius. He notes fourteen cures in twelve months with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and claims value when a doctor's advice is scarce. For sale by H. N. White.
Rail ads list arrival and departure times for the Norfolk and Western system. It highlights trains from Bluefield to Radford Roanoke Lynchburg Norfolk and connections via Shenandoah Valley routes with Pullman sleepers to New York Philadelphia Columbus and Cincinnati. It notes daily departures to Tazewell Norton Welch Pocahontas and other intermediate stations and invites inquiries to N and W Ry agents.
Baldwin presents a column teaser noting new real estate bargains in Bluefield. He references a Dairy Vieruceam article from December 3rd and plans to share homes and safe profitable investments with readers.
A letter from J Kimball, president of the First National Bank of Bluefield, outlines large investments by the Norfolk and Western Railway Company. The plan envisions over 500000 dollars in spending on yard extensions, track rearrangement, and general facility enlargement including overhead bridges, a retaining wall along Princeton Avenue, and paving between car delivery tracks. The letter urges city officials to align street paving, curbing, and sidewalks with the railway upgrades to boost Bluefield’s growth and health.
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