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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1909
Page
3
The game uses two card packs with one heap face down and players holding cards face up in rows. Each turn reveals a prophecy or trait and matches it to a drawn card, with memory rounds to recall all items. The player who remembers the most after all cards are matched wins.
Letters on ship bows and a series of numerals along the stem help the master gauge draft. The numbers rise from the keel, read from water level to indicate how many feet the bottom is below the surface.
A Chicago News warning compares boys who run from strikes to handling guns and venomous snakes. It stresses that careless or ignorant use causes fatalities, noting some think unloaded guns are safe while a loaded one may be hidden.
A compact list of maxims urges timely work self-reliance frugality and moderation. It counsels doing today what can be done now avoiding debt resisting unnecessary purchases and valuing restraint over indulgence. It also notes pride hunger and cold as costs of excess and promotes cheerful willingness over trouble.
A historical trick describes holding a ball in each hand and stretching outward to claim you can land both balls in either hand on command. If doubters arise, lay one ball on a table, turn and lift it with the other hand’s ball, showing both balls end up in a single hand without using both.
A series of light hearted brain teasers and jokes about common sayings and everyday objects. The piece plays on puns involving tea, patients, neckties, shadows and cider with a playful tone.
Nora spreads clothes on the grass to whiten them believing sunshine will make her pale like Snow White. She runs and plays in the daylit yard hoping to be lily white by night, but finds herself worse off rather than improved.
The note urges careful choice among flavoring extracts as the market overflows with substitutes. It promotes SAUER'S as the pure, leading brand in the United States, available in 10 and 2 dram sizes.
Warden Matthews prepares a Christmas menu for about twelve hundred inmates with choice meats vegetables and desserts. Prisoners will perform in the chapel Christmas Eve, with some convicts who are actors and musicians taking part. Invitations will be issued and many inmates will attend the entertainment. Prison factories will be closed all day Christmas.
The article advises resourceful holiday gifting from pantry supplies for rural families. It suggests December planning, baking a family fruit cake plus three smaller ones, aging puddings for city friends, and packing treats for boarding school or college friends in careful wrappings to travel safely, citing Delineator.
Recipe guidance from Harper's Bazaar on preparing mince pie two weeks ahead. Combines boiled beef, apples, cider, currants, raisins, citrus rinds, suet, spices, and candied peel with optional peach juice or syrup to enhance richness.
For a lady's writing desk, craft dainty blotters from three or four leaves of blotting paper fitted to a thin leather cover. Add a border burned in Greek or dutched patterns, and bind with a ribbon bow. Include a penwiper in the shape of a small mask with chamois inner leaves and leather covers, tied with baby ribbon. Decorative burned work, borders, and a pseudo title complete the cover.
Instructions describe crafting a nail buffer as a pretty inexpensive Christmas gift. Materials include a pasteboard mailing tube, sheet wadding, chamois skin, and No 3 ribbon. Cut tube to six inches, wrap with wadding and pinked chamois, extend ends, then tie ribbon around each end.
The article explains using a warm cloth over a hot water bag to steam a cloth for rapid relief from earache toothache or neuralgia improving on dry heat. It also lists a Thanksgiving Nut Cake recipe with ingredients and quantities for sugar butter flour milk raisins citron peels and hickory nut meats and spices.
The Richmond Times Dispatch denounces Judge Williams as he faces extradition from Wytheville to McDowell County. The piece argues he must return for trial or risk being forced by state and federal processes, noting the wheels of justice have started and will not stop. It highlights the delicate balance between impartial justice and political perception in Virginia and West Virginia.
The U S Geological Survey adopts a pocket field edition of geologic folios in six by nine inch format with folded maps and a Manila bound pocket. Five folios are ready for distribution in South Dakota Texas New Jersey and North Dakota priced at 25 cents each with extra areal maps available for 5 cents. Pineules offered as kidney remedy by The Goodykoontz Drug.
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