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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1906
Page
7
A Christmas day presentation of Along the Kennebec a rural Maine drama in the style of Way Down East and The Old Homestead. It is billed as a complete scenic production with a splendid band that acts as an orchestra during performances at the Elks Opera House.
A meeting of about 150 members of the new Bluefield Graham business men’s club will be held at the opera house around January 10. The club plans to bring outside capital and industrial enterprises to the district and will pursue broad public spirited aims for 1907. Further announcements are expected.
The notice urges shoppers to buy gifts within the remaining two shopping days before Christmas to ensure fuller holiday joy. It predicts crowded stores this afternoon and advises going this morning to ease clerk workload and improve the experience.
The piece urges readers to avoid Saturday rush, shop early, and compare ads to secure gifts. Merchants advertise to attract customers, promising the best market offers. Don’t delay. act now this morning before items sell out. Read the ads to know where to go.
Black Patti and the Troubadours bring a large vaudeville program to the Elks Opera House tonight. The act features new material including A Royal Coon and the Kraton hoop rolling act with Sis siretta Jones in Planquette’s The Chimes of Normandy. Chas E. Waples offers upholstery and decorating services on Princeton Avenue.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers will host two distinguished speakers at the hall Sunday at 4 p m. All B L E members and their families are invited to attend. J W Simpson F A 12 21 31.
December 22 marks Plymouth's 1620 founding and 1807 embargo on American ships. Births include Higginson in 1823 and Alverstone in 1842. 1846 Doniphan defeats Mexican forces at Braceli with 1,000 Missouri volunteers. Abd el-Keer surrenders to France in 1847. Edouard de Reszke, opera singer, born in 1853.
Baron Alverstone born December 22 1842 to celebrate his 64th birthday notes his long legal career. He served as Lord Chief Justice since 1900 and earned fame as a leading English judge. He studied at King’s College Charterhouse Trinity College Cambridge allied as Queen’s Counsel in 1878. He was attorney general in Salisbury’s 1st government and left no direct heir.
If you can buy a dollar's worth for eighty cents it is one fifth of your money saved. The Carter Furniture Company is promoting this discount to attract customers and reduce the cost of furnishing homes.
Notice to taxpayers announces yearly taxes due with a penalty added after January 1 1906. It directs payment at offices Nos 1 and 2 in the Telephone Building Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia and warns that unpaid taxes will be collected according to law after the deadline.
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