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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1909
Page
6
An ad-like text promotes a digestive product that claims to ease stomach tiredness after heavy eating. It emphasizes quick relief and comfort without long use, urging readers to let the product aid digestion for a period of rest.
Yesterday morning Squire Godbey heard the evidence against Henry Thompson alias Joseph Jackson alias A H Fuller who is charged with forging checks. He admitted two forgeries and that he cashed one for $24. Bound over for the grand jury. His wife wrote to the police chief about their plight and children. He had many checks on arrest, believed all are forgeries.
The United States Coal and Coke Company plans Christmas Eve pay for all employees, with meticulous individual roll calculations and special investigations to ensure no one misses the holiday cheer. The company also distributes fruit and candy to workers and others at the store, regardless of status.
A short piece notes that weeks remain to craft Christmas gifts from round wooden pantry bores. It highlights a artist turning ordinary wheels into decorated pieces with pyrographic and paintwork. The box lid uses Antwerp blue with lampblack borders, showcasing refined surface treatment.
A hand finished wooden box with fruit motifs and shellac coating is shown as a versatile gift item for fruit storage and display. Also featured are a birch bark mounted verse map and a curling iron holder made from scrap paper with tissue wiper included.
A small dress collar protector is described using Dresden ribbon five or six inches wide. It requires a yard and a half of ribbon, a thin interlining, and white china silk facing. Edge folding and back tucking shape the protector, which can be made in black or navy with white lining.
The Chesapeake and Ohio plans to build a line from the Kentucky side into Buchanan County Virginia through Wise County to the Virginia Iron Coal and Coke property at Toms Creek. The route would access lands of Clarence Watson and others to serve two railroads. Construction timing is not stated but expected soon. The line would unlock a premier coke field with high quality coal though with excess carbon content.
Kimball prepares for a municipal election with a clergyman among three commissioners. Rev H H Yost joins F M Stewart and W T Morrison to supervise early voting, count ballots, and prevent irregularities. Debate over mayoral choice fuels local interest before next month’s vote.
The Republicans of Keystone report their convention produced two tickets with the same nominees: C. C. Hale for Mayor, W. E. Stewart for Recorder, and councilmen including Dr. G. T. Epling, So Hyman, A. J. Rosenthal, A. L. Calhoun, and Dr. G. N. Marshall.
Advertises a treatment claiming to restore kidney and bladder function after backache. Presents dramatic shifts in health after initial doses and promotes a harmless cure for backache and urinary issues.
The ad claims Pape's Diuretic cleanses kidneys and urinary organs, easing backache headaches nervousness rheumatism and nocturnal urination. It touts a fifty cent treatment from Pape Thompson and Pape of Cincinnati as the only medicine offering thorough prompt cure and urges buying from any drug store.
W J Atkins, working alone at Banner Springs Tennessee during a midnight shift, caught a severe cold that affected his lungs. After trying many remedies he used Dr King s New Discovery and reports returning to work at full strength after one bottle. The ad promotes relief for severe colds coughs and lung ailments with bottles priced 50 cents and 1 00 and a free trial guarantee.
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