Bluefield Firm Featured in National Trade Journal on Cranberry Furnace Demise
Bluefield based Platnick Brothers wreckers and scrap dealers receive space in Daily Metal Trader for dismantling the Cranberry Furnace at Johnson City Tennessee. The article notes 1935 as epochal in merchant pig iron with only two low phos furnaces remaining in the U S and discusses ore shortages and shifting foundry practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranberry Furnace
Johnson City
Platnick Brothers
Daily
Metal Trade
Tenn
Bluefield
Oaas
Cene Daily Metal Ade
Cleveland
Ohio
United States
Standish, N. Y
Chateaugay
Lake Superior
General Steel
Stewart Iron Company
Mahoning
Shenango
Pennsylvania
Michi
Brown-borned Iron Company
Kungstown
Republic Tron and Steel Company
Office installs record system at Associated Hospitals
Associated Hospitals Inc has installed the Cardex filing system at its Bland Street headquarters. The expansive cabinets hold 3,490 member cards with names, addresses, filing numbers, dependents, membership date, and due dates. The system promises easier data retrieval and supports planned expansion and larger membership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Hospitals, Inc
Eureka Hardware Company
Bland Street
Associated Hospitale
W. A. McCue
Associated Hospitals
A Hospitals
Furnace Practice Noted As Odd Startup Requirement
A remark highlights unusual startup needs for a furnace process mentioning low-phostron ore and coke as prerequisites. The comment implies the practice is peculiar and requires specific materials before operation can commence.
Flour distribution to aid Bluefield relief Thursday
Distribution of flour for Bluefield relief clients will be made Thursday at the Mercer Coal Company 8 BE Via commodity supervisor announced yesterday. The distribution will be the last before Christmas and will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Relief
Mercer Coal Company
Packard 120 November Deliveries Top History by 52 Percent
Packard reports November deliveries of 5 235 for the One Twenty line show a 52 percent rise from the prior best November 3 443 in 1925. Total cars shipped to date reach 39 875 with 6 521 shipments in November and 46 377 produced by December 1. Bluefield Auto Body displays the new Packards at 809 Bluefield Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Packard
Packard Motor Car Company
M. M. Gilman
Gilman
Monte Vista Cemetery Promotes Accessibility and Beauty
Ray Graham, manager of Monte Vista park, argues that value lies in what a burial plot offers beyond price. The site near Bluefield and Princeton provides easy access, beauty, perpetual care, and modern improvements with protective restrictions for lot owners in a peaceful, well maintained setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Graham
Monte Vista Park
Monte Vista
United States
Bluefield
Princeton
Bluefield Floral Company Showcases Holiday Flowers
Bluefield Floral Company displays a Christmas collection at its Federal street greenhouse with poinsettias azaleas and other cut flowers. Manager Clifford M Brown notes ready to assemble holiday arrangements and cemetery wreaths while offering greeting cards novelties place cards glassware pottery and Venetian items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Floral Company
Clifford M Brown
Federal Street
Bluefield Floral
Vicitine Bluefield Flora
Monte Vista Cemetery Promotes Perpetual Care and Low Plots
The Monte Vista cemetery advertises perpetual care and keeps plots affordable with adult single graves from fifteen dollars and family plots from one hundred twenty dollars. The renual fund nears fifty thousand dollars, signaling strong community support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monte Vista
Celebration Square Dance Promises Old Time Fiddle Night
After the Christmas tree fund drive, the municipal auditorium hosts a premier square dance for New Year. Expect classics taught by generations, with fiddles and banjos in a nostalgic evening that draws hundreds to the event.
San Quentin Prison Education Rise and Year End Cheer
The text notes a growing count of prisoners in San Quentin taking educational courses from twenty years ago to 2930, alongside a total prison population of 6000. It also mentions a New Year’s Eve celebration at the municipal auditorium with a festive call to swing and promenade. December 31 is cited as the date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Quentin
Bluefield Business College Enrolls Almost 300 Students
Bluefield West Virginia business college reports an enrollment near 300, a record high. Secretarial and stenography programs lead, with Bluefield residents comprising about twenty percent of students and Princeton rising to second in the mix. Graduates quickly find work, with 60 to 75 percent secured through the school or by graduates' own efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Princeton
Wits
West Virginia Business College
W. Va
Ing
Binefield
Cae
Greenacre Heads Only Watch Shop in Bluefield
George Greenacre runs the town’s sole exclusive watch shop on Federal Street Bluefield. He repairs watches and clocks of all makes, drawing a growing client list. Showcases feature clocks watches and accessories including chains charms and wrist bands. Elgin and Alvin watches target the Christmas trade in pocket or wrist sizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Greenacre
Bluefield
Federal Street
Mr. Greenacre
Booklets on car accidents offered at Bluefield Auto Club
Misa Pearle Brammer, secretary, said Monday that booklets containing the graphic article Better Off Dead are available for free distribution at the Bluefield Automobile Club in the West Virginian hotel lobby. The piece by J. C. Furnas, And Sudden Death, drew nationwide attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Automobile Club
West Virginian
Misa Pearle A. Brammer
J. C. Furnas
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Community Savings and Loan, Company
Bluefield Real Estate
Elks Bldg
Bland
Raleigh
Franklin
Isadore Cohen
Special Agent
SUN Life Assurance CO. OF Canada
Bluefield, W. VA
Peery
Motor Service
RED Star Cabs
Plainick
Brothers
Roanoke ST
Milk Service, Inc
Leland H. Carter
Bluefield Avenue
Office
Associated Hospitals Inc
New York
American Iron & Steel Institute
Raleigh St
Federal
Sea Foods
Mercer Funeral Home
Montcalm
Matoaka
A. Z. Peters
Bland St
Bluefield Gas
Cartwright
Cadillac — LA Salle Sales and Service
Little French Beauty School
C. & C. Bldg
Nunnally
Bluefield Business College
Clifford M. Brown
Greenacre
Elgin
Alvin
Ray Matz School OF Dancing
Masonic Temple
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Eugene H., Farley
First National Bank
Easley-Wilson CO
Realtors Real Estate Peery
Wilson
Mohawk
Bluefield Produce & Provision Co
Wurlitzer
Ranner Grunow
Radios
Accordians
Warlick Piano Rooms
D. T. Lowman
Mgr
Raleigh Street
Moore
Moore's
Clark Hardware & Furniture CO
Georgia Lumber Company
Federal ST
J. B. Belcher
East Wayne Street
Packard, Nash and LaFayette Sales and Service
Bluefield Auto Body Co
Bluefield Ave
Mercer Coal Company Inc
Mercer Coal Co. Inc
Hoge Street
Goodykoontz Drug Stores
Bluefield Pharmacy
East End
Princeton Ave
Goody's Drug Store
Fairview Pharmacy
Bland & South St
B.D. Turner
Treas
Mer
Bluefield Mercantile Agency, Inc
Bailey Building
Citizens
Insurance Brokers
Northfork-Clark
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