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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1901
Page
2
The Bluefield Daily and Weekly Telegraph editions are listed at the Bluefield West Virginia post office as second class mail matter.
A broad survey of public life in the era notes that sympathy for the Boers stirs Filipino jealousy and archists face limits in Cleveland. It mentions a Georgia rail line revisiting a deadly car incident, a London School Board initiative for crippled children with ambulances and midday meals, and coronation ceremony seating sparing a lineage figure who cannot carve.
A district editor laments the tangled ties between politics preaching and business in a tale where a man discovers a newspaper costs money to run. He visits merchants and recalls a preacher and a politician who once puffed the press but no longer need it, illustrating hard economic realities.
A young man enters the newspaper business and meets many locals who seek a puff for their shops. The clothier is praised for honesty and bargain stock, the grocer for top goods and low prices, while the shoe dealer is introduced as well.
The advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease and is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer one hundred dollars to any cured case and urge sending testimonials with address F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Pills mentioned as best.
Fiat Top Grocery Co Pioneer Wholesale Grocers Bluefield West Virginia announces securing 150 gross of top quality toilet soap at low prices. They offer res tail merchants an assorted gross of soap at manufacturers prices with bill to prove it. Samples available for holiday trade.
Mrs H Newsom of Decatur Alabama credits Electric Bitters with curing years of indigestion bloating and dyspepsia. She says she gained 85 pounds and can eat normally after using the medicine. The tonic is advertised as a guaranteed cure for digestion loss appetite stomach liver and kidney troubles priced at 50 cents.
An old pharmacy ad promotes Fitz-You Nerve and Bone Oil with claims to cure rheumatism cuts sores burns and bruises. A large bottle is offered for 25 cents at White's Pharmacy.
Winchester Indiana resident M. M. Austin lauds Dr. King s New Life Pills for curing his wife s illness when physicians failed. The pills are advertised to cure stomach and liver troubles, constipation, and headaches, priced at 25 cents at drug stores.
Local ad urges readers to stock coal before bad weather. R. E. Shirey & Co offer Pocahontas Smokeless coal with White’s Drug Store handling phone orders and receipts. Also includes a testimonial about Foley’s Honey and Tar for a cough and a No Cure, No Pay claim for Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets.
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