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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1907
Page
7
Local retailers list suit markdowns with prices from $13.60 to $25.00 and sale prices from $12.50 to $21.00. Men’s shoes show reductions from $5.00 to $4.00 and $4.50 to $3.75.
London readers ponder the fate of vast yearly diamond production valued in the millions. The piece argues diamonds rarely wear out, are kept scarce by controlled supply, and that stolen stones largely re-enter the market quickly, circulating back into commerce via thieves and the open market.
An advertisement offers a $100 reward for any case Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It describes the remedy as a constitutional internal treatment that reaches the blood and mucous surfaces to eradicate catarrh and strengthen the body. It urges readers to request testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo and notes availability from all druggists, plus Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A vintage style advertisement urges readers to try Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for renewed strength and vigor. It markets tea or tablets at 35 cents and lists Mill Creek Coal and Coke Co along with West End Drug Co W J Peters and Freeman as distributors.
The Washington Star notes coal history from Jesuit Father Hennepin's 1679 Illinois river find to early mining in Virginia in the 18th century. It cites 1749 as a first mining date, Virginia output in 1822, Ohio's early discovery in 1755, Pennsylvania anthracite beginning about 1700, and Lehigh region shipments from 1820 with Carbondale earlier in 1814, estimating pre-1820 production at 2,500 to 3,000 tons.
A reflection on truancy citing school interest, parental control, and three causes. It argues a narrow curriculum, ineffective teachers, and weak or indifferent parents as factors behind students skipping school.
A teacher guides a class of girls through a practice in storytelling. One shy pupil finally recounts a family ride, describing a fast horse and buggy encounter that ends with a crash and people being thrown from the vehicle.
In the Columbus Dispatch account a speaker’s remark about “those people” triggers a roomful of laughter as attendees acknowledge who the accident victims were. The exchange underscores tension and a tense atmosphere surrounding the incident.
The teacher asks Jamie to divide one pie among seven people and Jamie answers one sixth. Jamie explains his mother would decline pie, leaving him with one sixth. The exchange appears in Youth's Companion.
A Dorset inn named the Ass Head gained fame after a George III lunch during Weymouth visits. The innkeeper replaced the sign with a king portrait, sparking rival changes and a crafty reply. The Weymouth coachmen overlooked the sign swap, stopping at the rival site, prompting the original inn to add the caption This is the original Ass.
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