Local stores advertise Christmas sales and car services
Advertisements claim discounts at Vey Perkins & Co including ties, underwear, shirts and dresses with all stock at or below cost through January 1. Other listings promote flowers, pianos, reed baskets, car painting, meat market specials, and services from local shops in Bluefield area. Community notices report sports wins, a fatal accident, church youth meeting, and upcoming weddings and marriages.
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Graham
Local events announce concert and basketball season opener
The community invites all to the American Legion Dug-Out for the Diver or Welsh Concert Co tomorrow night. The Bluefield Bluefield Independents vs American Legion game opens the high school basketball season Wednesday at 8 15 p m with 25 cent admission. Also a Presbyterian Woman's Auxiliary meeting is set for Wednesday at 3 PM and Rev Sells will preach at Grassy Branch Schoolhouse this afternoon at 3.
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American Legion
Diver Or Welch Concert Co
Bluefield Independents
High School
Woman's Auxiliary of
The
Presbyterian Church
Welsh Concert Co
Diveror Welsh Concert Co
B. T. Sells
Third Charge
Bluefield
Grassy Branch
Bloodless Surgeon Promises Cure for Chronic Ailments
An advertisement touts a physician licensed across multiple states and countries as a leading stomach and nerve specialist. It claims to treat chronic diseases of blood, liver, kidneys, and more without operations, offering urine analysis and promising possible cures even after other doctors failed.
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America
PERSONAL NOTES FROM RADFORD AREA VISITORS
Mrs. W Hi Keister of Past Rad ford hosted visitors here last week. Miss Thelma Martin welcomed guest Miss Edythe Foster from Best Radford. Miss Nancy Harrison of Pocahontas visited her aunt. Mrs. L Belcher leaves for Baltimore to enter John Hopkins for treatment. Mrs. Sam Liebman of North Fork recuperates after an operation at Minefield Sanitarium. Mrs. W H Sperow returns from attend ing N S Stroman's funeral. Mrs. Stroman accompanies her home. Mrs. C B R Godsey of Marshall street plans a Roanoke visit and a trip to Winston Salem to see her husband with Norfolk and Western ties.
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W Hi Keister
W.H. Sperow
Union Street
N. S. Stroman
Union
Monroe
County
Stroman
C. BR. Godsey
Marshall Street
Roanoke
Bluefield
C. R Godsey
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company
Winston-Salem
N. C
Five Revolvers Recovered in Bluefield Theft Case
Five of twenty six stolen revolvers were recovered by Bluefield city police after the robbery at Bluefield Hardware. Two men, William Ward and Ben Phillips, were held for the grand jury. both confessed to involvement in the sale of guns. Additional revolvers were found with George Johnson, Henry Foster, Ely Brooch, and pawned at Southern and Central Loan Offices.
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Bluefield Hardware Company
Bluefield Avenue
William Ward
Phillips
Dillon
Ward
Chief Dillon
George Johnson
Henry Foster
Ely Brooch
Southern Loan Office
Central Loan Office
P. H. Dicks
Ulysses Ramsey
Phillipa
Architects named for Bluefield College buildings plan
Architects Alex B. Mahood of this city and R. H. Hunt of Chattanooga Tenn were appointed associate architects to prepare plans for Bluefield College buildings after a board meeting. Work to start at once with spring construction anticipated to begin. Plans aim to make Bluefield College a million dollar institution.
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Alex B. Mahood
R. H. Hunt
Chattanooga
A E Gregory Dies in New York City
A E Gregory, long time Bluefield Bluefielder, died yesterday in New York City. The telegram to Appalachian Power Company offices gave no death details and shocked friends. Gregory had lived away from Bluefield for years and was then in New York with a former resident of Bluefield.
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A. E. Gregory
Canadian-born engineer served in World War I with Cann engineers
The text notes Mr. Gregory a Canadian born engineer in the consulting firm partners with the Cann engineers. He served four years during World War I as an officer. He left Bluefield for Canada when England entered the war. His mother lives in Toronto, Canada.
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Field
Gregory
Cann Engineers
Reng
Bluefield
England
Canada
Toronto
Enrico Caruso Suffers Vocal Burst at Brooklyn Opera
New York December 11 Enrico Caruso, renowned tenor, burst a blood vessel in his throat while singing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The performance halted during the first act of Lonizetti's L Elisir. Official word says the accident is not serious.
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New York
Enrico Caruso
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Lonizetti
Tenor Caruso illness halts performance after throat hemorrhage
A physician advised the tenor to stop after blood appeared in his throat during Ty Amore. The manager offered to let him finish if the audience wished, but the crowd declined. Report notes similar hemorrhages to those seen at a Metropolitan Opera performance last week.
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TyAmore
Mr. Caruso
Metropolitan Opera House
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Coalfield
Marcon
Atlantic
Poldhu
Cornwall
St. John's
Newfoundland
United States
Gilbert
Eastern Star
Bluefield Chapter 66 Order Eastern Star
Mire Jobn F. Land
Alexander Cut Flower & Plant Company
White Grocery Co
W. C. Thompson
Goldberger
Alexander Cut Flower & Plant Co
Fallon, Florist
A. Williams
W. Va
Richmond
Just
George T. Crews
Sol Liebman
Welch
Hyman
Music Shop
Blend Street
White's
Plaski St
John Scopinich
Hotel Biltmore
New York City
Busy Bee
Easley, Perkins & Co
Parisienne Baskets
Henry Rodgin Co
East End
Abshire & Sumpter
E Economy Shoe Repair Co
W. Lewis
Mer
Matonka
Beaver High School
Matonka High School
Beavers
Matoaka Boys
J. R. Dillon
Keystone
Norfolk and Western
Welch Hospital
Eckman Yard
Christian Endeavor
Endeavor Society of the
First Christian Church
R. W. Watts
Matoaka
Watts
Mt. Regis Sanitarium
Matoka
Alonzo McCue
Baltimore
Laure Ellen Clarkson
W. B. Clarkson
San Antonio
Stieff Player
Chas. M. Stieff
D. K.le
Lynchburg, VA
Altamont
Frederick L. Black
Harold Black
Summers Street
Bluefield, W. Va
West Virginia
Virginia
Him
Hart Schaffmer & Marx
Onaker
Royal Cafe
Commercial Hotel
Binefield
Bland Street
W. T. Forlesong
M. EB. Church
South
Beckley
Bland Street Church
Stewart French
Emory and Henry College
Presbyterian Women's Auxiliary
George Eliot
Texas
Ministers’ Association
Altamont Hotel
J. W. Waters CO
Jewelers 102 Law and Commerce Building
Caruso
New Feendiand
el Roi Tans
Girards
Manuels
American Empire
Davis Club House
Hampton Court
Muriel
la Rosa Espanola
Peyton Randolph
High Life
Lew Wallace
Crotty’s
Huyler's
Liggett’s
Nunnally’s
Guth’s
Martha Washington
Goodykoontz Drug Company
Princeton Avenue Avenue
Rexall
Wade’s Pharmacy
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