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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1908
Page
4
A call to support home merchants in Bluefield highlights their role in city life and charity. The piece urges buying locally to sustain prosperity, with notes on holiday stock, discount pricing, and beautified stores plus a teaser about the steel sector briefing and Port au Prince cabinet changes.
Report from Washington says the naval committee will not pursue building four battleships. The note suggests further deliberation and possible changes to ship construction priorities.
A contemplative meditation on the fleeting nature of fame and the disposal of legacy. The piece muses on the degradation of once revered figures and the sobering contrast between enduring influence and mortal impermanence.
The piece notes that memorial resolutions and pomp at funerals offer little lasting tribute. Edwin Booth's personal effects were auctioned in New York by order of his daughter Edwina Booth Grossmann, a gesture viewed as shocking. The column branding includes satirical asides on public memory, plumbing, Christmas gifts, and tariff effects.
The suggestion aims to restrict imitations, which could affect the sale of six cent cigars by limiting competing counterfeit items and protecting genuine brands. Details on enforcement or scope remain undetermined.
The garrote is described as a device that unsettles even the nervous. A condemned man sits on a raised chair with iron bands on the limbs. A neck band swings in place, tightens from a crank, crushing the medulla oblongata.
An old Detroit Free Press remedy advises using one pound of ragweed leaves boiled to a quart, strained, then divided into three portions. Over three days take twelve doses each day at hourly intervals, adjusting the amount daily.
A mystery note from the New York Press notes that sea bass caught off Seabright requires as much salt in seasoning as a black bass from Lake Erie. The line questions why salt is necessary for fish from saltier waters and hints at general seasoning practices.
A fragment notes a jest about a man named Singleton joining a group of benedicts and a widow’s marriage, with a quip on life secrets. The source blends humorous lines from Chicago News and Hearth and Home. The tone is satirical and detached.
Readers are informed that Hall's Catarrh Cure is claimed as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. The ad states a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure and urges sending for testimonials from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. Sold by all druggists at 75 cents with Hall's Family Pills for constipation also advertised.
An old newspaper line invites readers to call phone 182 for electrical needs. The brief reads like a classified or advertising notice from a past issue, with no other context or details available.
The copy extols William Tell Flour as absolutely clean with six grain cleanings. It notes a fully automatic process that preserves richness and delicacy from Buckeye State production. Bags and barrels are machine filled and sealed, delivering first bread quality. Request it from your grocer.
A London Bellman anecdote recalls Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, newly elected MP for Stirling burghs, derided by a fellow Scot for his humor as “un-Scot tish.” The critic sighs that he “can joke wi’out deeficulty.”
Matinee for ladies and children at the Elks Opera House features My Dixie Girl. Admission 26 cents for ladies and 15 cents for children, with a bargain matinee on Saturday afternoon.
Dr W J Smith of Sanders Alabama praises Chamberlains Cough Remedy for pneumonia and lung treatment. He states it has consistently controlled the trouble in his practice and recommends it highly for coughs and colds. Sold by West End Drug Co Past End Pharmacy Bluefield Pharmacy.
Paso Ointment promises cure for piles including itching bleeding and protruding types within six to fourteen days or a full refund. The claim is pitched with a money back guarantee and a 60 cent price.
A 19th century call touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and Monzan Pile Remedy as cures for cold related ailments and piles. It urges consumers to act now to avoid serious disease and lists West End Drug Co and Goodykoontz Drug Co as sellers.
The claim that Sauer's Flavoring Extract signifies purity is asserted, noting a standard maintained for over two decades. The text emphasizes SAUER'S name as a mark of quality and purity in flavor extracts.
Mrs M McRaney of Prentiss Mississippi describes three months of bed rest for kidney and bladder trouble and failed relief from two doctors. After two bottles of Foley's Kidney Remedy she recovered and urges other women to try it. Sold by all druggists.
The note claims ISauer's Lemon Entract 6 is not terpeneless but pure. It notes high manufacturing cost yet the consumer price remains about 10 ana 2h cents.
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