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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1907
Page
4
A 1907 Bluefield Daily Telegraph collage of political musings notes Fairbanks' Jes platform as deep water, Taft and Foraker booms, and Christmas jokes amid cost of living worries. It critiques responses to national figures and hints at editorial opinions on gifts and public affairs.
An essay argues people grow desensitized to disasters like Monongah miners, earthquakes, rail wrecks, and massacres because constant sensational reports flood daily life. It asserts empathy persists but routines dull response as images prime the mind and routine use numbs the impulse to act. The piece critiques sensationalism and political rhetoric shaping public feeling.
A British king embarked from Plymouth aboard the steel warship Renown for a brief voyage to France but grew so seasick that he offered the ship to a port. The piece reflects on Spain's historic maritime power and the era's ebbing royal confidence.
Bluefield merchants offer the finest stocks of holiday goods in the city mercantile area with early shoppers rewarded by better selection. The piece urges prompt buying to avoid crowds and notes that this year’s holiday trade will be large. The Daily Telegraph advertising columns are promoted as the shopper guide.
The article explains that consumption is not always inherited and highlights causes such as defective digestion, imperfect nutrition, and accumulation of vorbid products in the lungs. It advocates improving nutrition and respiration, endorsing a cod liver preparation as a cure aid for Bluefield readers.
An advertisement touts Vinci as superior to traditional cod liver oil blends produced by a scientific extraction process. It claims benefits for pulmonary disease, strength, and recovery, with a money back offer from Bluefield retailers in West Virginia. It also promotes Buckien's Arnica Salve for sores and injuries with a testimonial from J. G. Jenkins.
Trains depart Roanoke and Bluefield with Pullman sleepers and cafe cars to New York Philadelphia Norfolk Lynchburg Richmond and Columbus. Westbound connections include Columbus Cincinnati and Tazewell with intermediate stops on Clinch Valley Pocahontas Renova Welch and Bramwell. W. B. Bevill G P A Roanoke Virginia announces tickets maps and more.
The Intermont Electric Company at 7 Tazewell Street Bluefield advertises lamps for sale with phone order service and promises customer satisfaction guaranteeing future purchases.
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