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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1918
Page
2
The page blends a wartime atlas pitch with a Ferguson's Grocery sales blurb. An item notes a boy missing from 130 Williams Street and references an address in Bluefield Avenue for Dr. Steele. A book of poems by Mrs. Fr. T. Oliver is advertised alongside coal hauling services.
The item references U S N officer Harry L Green spon on active duty at a torpedo station in Newport News and a family note from Coaldale West Virginia with holiday greetings and service changes. It mentions a parish meeting, prayer requests, and temple announcements plus a local obituary tone.
A crowded personal notices section lists Miss Gladys Honaker visiting Twin Branch with Capt. GM, and many locals returning home for Christmas. Several students and workers from nearby towns and universities are mentioned visiting families in the city during the holidays.
Readers are urged to shop in the final two shopping days before Christmas with timely hints from local merchants. The ads promote nuts, jewelry, photos, holly wreaths, toys, dolls, novelties, Christmas specials, and various gift options from merchants on Bland Street Federal Street and Bluefield Avenue. Shops feature fresh nuts at the market, Christmas photos, holly wreaths, fine jewelry, and a full toy and novelties lineup.
Urgent citizens’ fundraising appeal in Bluefield aims to raise at least seven hundred dollars for Christmas baskets clothes shoes toys and candy for needy children. Funds now total 244 48 with further contributions listed from local donors and businesses. A new electric heater invention is described for bathtubs to adjust water temperature.
Engine assist for No. 2 failed to clear the mountain grade and struck No. 3 at Lurich causing heavy damage. Postal clerks K. Stanley Jeffries of Norfolk Virginia and G.R. Glenn of Prospect Virginia were badly hurt but stable. Jeffries suffered a severe head cut and bruises while Glenn endured a back injury and multiple bruises. Both men have long mail service records. In notices some Continental European churches ask women to keep hats on.
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