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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1909
Page
3
A dramatic advertisement touts Montague as a premier clairvoyant and spirit medium. It claims he can reveal past, present, and future, settle lovers quarrels, and attract the one you desire. Reduced rates apply this week at the New Martin Building, Bluefield or Mercer entrance.
In a Chattanooga letter to the Daily Telegraph a note says Rev Thomas Priddy and his family in the city are in affliction. His children Mary and Christine suffer pneumonia and are near death while Madge, the elder daughter, struggles and must stay in bed. Priddy says they have no clothes for four nights and request prayers from Bluefield friends for recovery.
The Pittsburg-Buffalo Company closed a major acquisition in Brackenville within the Fairmont district. The 2,446 acre Brackenville tract sold for 9,340 dollars total at 3 880 per acre, signaling rising coal values as last year’s asking price was 115 dollars per acre.
A National Monetary Commission report shows per capita banking resources by state as of April 28 1909 with West Virginia at the top of the southern list at 11266 dollars and Louisiana 9661. Texas Virginia Kentucky Florida and others follow in order. The article also includes an advertisement for DeWitts Little Early Risers and Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve sold by The White Pharmacy.
Ticket agent T. B. Drinkard recounted a traveler’s attempt to cheat fares by asking about a tunnel between Blues'one Junction and Bramwell. The man learned walking via the track would reach Bramwell by a shorter route, while staying on a train would bypass the tunnel, prompting a heated reaction.
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