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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1902
Page
2
The Daily Telegraph notes slow progress after the Lincoln Hotel fatality, urging action from the city council. It endorses paving Princeton avenue and Bland street with vitrified brick or cobbles to improve streets seen by residents and visitors, reflecting broader dissatisfaction with municipal work.
Thomas B. Reed loomed large in two decades of politics as a vigorous Speaker who transformed House procedure He led the fight against minority dilatory tactics and forced the Reed rules a change that made passage possible despite opposition He left power poor but his legacy of leadership endures as a rare combination of force and achievement.
Danville Register argues that newspapers are worthy community institutions. It condemns businesses and preachers who withhold support or praise, noting critics fail to fund or contribute yet demand favorable notices. The piece stresses newspapers sustain civic life and warn against neglecting journalism.
An advertisement claims deafness can only be cured by constitutional remedies and offers a hundred dollar reward for any catarrh related deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes testimonials from South Africa stores and various remedies, cigars, and local goods.
The verse laments labor and capital with a miner theme. It mocks J. P. Morgan and Markle as figures in finance and industry. The poem describes miners trapped in a hole and investors reacting as stockholders suffer losses.
J. F. Hughes, a Du Pont Georgia county treasurer candidate, was told he could not live six months due to a lung condition. After trying Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption he recovered, defying predictions. The ad claims the remedy is guaranteed for throat and lung trouble, with price 50c to 1.00 and a free trial bottle.
Items include flour brand middlings and hay with options like Country Buckwheat Flour at 2% per pound and Country Sorghum extracted honey at 15¢ per pound Sauerkraut 5¢ per pound and Country Apple Butter 12 ½ ¢ per pound.
A notice promotes a book by B M Wooley of Atlanta Georgia addressing opium habits and related diseases. It also urges use of Foley's Kidney Cure to restore kidney health, citing summer irregularities from drinking or overheating and listing a local dealer G H Wade.
R A Gray of Oakville Indiana describes a decade of kidney disease and immobility. After exhausting medical care he finds relief with Foleys Kidney Cue and urges others to consider it through his druggist G H Wade.
A vintage ad claims dyspepsia and liver troubles cause nausea dizziness headaches and bowel disorders. It promotes Dr King s New Liver Pills as gentle and guaranteed to cure, priced 25 cents at all drug stores. An order is solicited for Sterne's fruit cake from Prince ton ave and Bland st.
If you have kidney or bladder trouble and do not use Foley's Kidney Cure you will have only yourself to blame for results. It positively cures all forms of kidney and bladder diseases. For sale by G. H. Wade druggist.
Henderson Grimett of this place was partially paralyzed and lost use of an arm and side. After two bottles of Chamberlain's Pain Balm he is nearly cured per Geo R McDonald of Man. Logan county W Va. The liniment is praised for rheumatism sprains and bruises and other cures are claimed. Sold by H N White. Tid Bit Oysters served at Pearson's Restaurant.
The Baldwin column previews a Telegraph article from December 3 detailing affordable dwellings business houses and lots in Bluefield. It frames the piece as a reader-friendly guide to homes and profitable investments, promising fresh listings once the author finalizes his own catalog.
A letter from F J Kimball president of First National Bank outlines Norfolk and Western Railway plans for extensive Bluefield improvements costing over 500000. Projects include yard extensions track rearrangement new over head bridges paving streets and building housing for officials to attract merchants and shippers. The letter urges city officials to align street paving with rail upgrades for a healthier attractive distributing point.
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