Christmas season brings notices, raids, and weddings
The issue lists election reminders for Odd Fellows and I O O F lodges, church notices, and thanks from a Lutheran congregation. It reports moonshine raids by deputies in Grayson and Carroll counties, a parkersburg trip for editor Stahlmann, and a series of local social events including a wedding in Reese Street, Christmas closures for city schools, and upcoming lectures at the Elks opera house and Presbyterian church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caleb Powers
Elks Opera House
Joan Dr. Dailey
Tazewell
Blue Ridge
Grayson
Carroll
Virginia
John
Grayson and
Casrell
Reese Street
Bessie Douthat
Robert Karnes
Kegley
Dout2at
D. E. Hawk
Blond Street Methodist Church
Missionary Father Swint Visited City for Lectures
Father J J Swint of Parkershore, a Catholic missionary, arrived in the city and will stay a couple of weeks with Rev E Olivier delivering several lectures. Mrs W J Borden at Bluefield Sanatorium shows signs of improvement. Red Cross Stamps for sale at the Daily Telegraph business office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Daily Telegraph
J. J. Swint
Parkershore
E. Olivier
W. J. Borden
Bluefield Sanatorium
Remains of Mrs Lucy Smith Taken for Virginia Burial
The body of Mrs. Lucy Smith, who died Tuesday at McComas, was escorted through the city last night toward Vinton Virginia for interment today. Accompanying the remains were her widower Thomas Smith and four children, the eldest eight years old. Passengers at the station tried to comfort the children as a little girl sobbed for her mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Smith
McComas
Vinton
Thomas Smith
Sahich
Wells Fargo stockholders approve large capital increase
New York stockholders at a special meeting approved raising Wells Fargo & Co. capital from 8 million to 24 million dollars. A 300 dollar per share stock dividend and 100 dollars in cash will be distributed, with two new shares for each old share. The plan ranks among the era's largest profit distributions by a big U.S. company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wells, Fargo & Co., Express Company
Great Gathering of Scholars Next Week
New York on December 22 reports arrangements for a major convention marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the American Historical and American Economic Associations. Delegates from ten societies total about 8,000 members across the United States and Canada, to be welcomed by President Taft, Governor Hughes, and Mayor MacClellan. Distinguished foreign figures include James Bryce, Henry Higgs, and Signor Economists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
American Historical and American Economic Associations
Canada
Taft
Hughes
MacClellan
James Bryce
Henry Higgs
Royal Economic Society of England
Signor
Antaleoni
Economists
Italy
Panama Canal Expected to Open by 1915
Congressman James A. Tawney of Minnesota says after returning from Panama that the canal will be completed and opened by January 1915 at a total cost of 375000.00. In Pittsburgh the fourteenth regiment armory of the Pennsylvania National Guard was destroyed by fire causing a loss of 1000000 with 14000 blank cartridges exploding during firefighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
James A. Tawney
Minnesota
Panama
Panama Canal
Pittsburg
Fourteenth Regiment
Pennslvenia National Guard
Ten Cent Cigars at Two Dollars a Box
Advertises ten cent cigars for two dollars per box from Cohen and Baker located in the Altamont Hotel Lobby. Also mentions combination sets for clothing and accessories at The Metropolitan. Bluefield bank stockholders to meet January 11 1910 for director election and business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cohen & Baker
Altamont Hotel
Flat Top National Bank of
Bluefield
W. Va
K. T. Tyree
Holiday Gift and Cigar Ads From Local Shops
Classified notices advertise ten a Fyate cigars for $2 at Cohen & Baker in Altamont Hotel lobby and urge Christmas flower orders from Hast End Pharmacy or Bluefield Pharmacy. Pedigo's promotes cut glass and handpainted china with a Dec 17 date. Also highlights table linen, silk hosiery, handkerchiefs, furs and neckwear as gift ideas with a December 11 to 17 window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hast End Pharamey
Bluefield Pharmacy
Pedigo's
Wyrick Mineral Water and Pine Salve Carbolized Ad
A vintage ad promotes Wyrick Mineral Water with claims of health benefits and availability at Bluefield Tea & Coffee Co. and druggists. It also touts Pine salve Carbolized for cuts and burns from The Goodykoontz Drug Co. plus King's Little Liver Pills as a safe laxative sold by the same drug firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Tea & Coffee Co
Goodykoontz Drug Co
The
Cohen and Baker Cigars at Pedigo's 1910 Holiday Sale
Cohen and Baker announce a Christmas sale at Alta Mont Hotel with cigars and a range of smoking apparel and robes. They offer Christmas morning delivery and hold orders for pickup, inviting readers to visit Pedigo's for Keiser neckwear and related items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cohen & Baker
Altamont Hotel
Muffiers
Keiser
Pedigo's
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Ferrell Mercantile
Princeton Avenue
West Va
Sarney
M. Cohen
Ase
Eseo
Bluefield, W. Va
Keeley Institute
N. Dennison Ave
Columbus, Ohio
Hawley
Bluefeld
Whitlow Paint & Paper Co
Pulaski Street
Odd Fellows Lodge No. 250
Rebekahs
Olive Itebekah Lodge No
N.G
EB. L. Bruce
C. R. W. Kegley
Holy Land
Presbyterian Church
Prof
Maluf
White Pharmacy
Bluefield Furniture Company
Santa Claus
Mr. Franklin
Franklin Contracting Company
Rock
Robert Gillespie
Citizens Bank of
Welch
Mr. Gillespie
Texas
Dan Cunningham
Will Gore
Jim Gore
Summers County
Newkirk
Raleigh
Fayette
Charles
Huntington
Gore
Parkersburg
O. Stahlmann
James Shott
Catamount
Mr. StahIlmann
Dante
W. H. Schmitzer
Clinchfield Coal Corporation
Charleston
Mr. Schmitzer
Graham Bay
Don William Pondexter
Graham
Farley
A. J. Farley
Jopling
Bluefield Avenue
Flat Top Book and Stationery Company
Metropolitan
Ladies’ Clothing Store
Matoaka, W. VA
Indian River
Express
Florida
Sublett & Barnés
Wells-Fargo
Fyate
East Nd Pharmacy
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
Edison
Columbia
Victor
M. B. Postlethwaite
Yonge & Kinzer
Old Stand
Kinzer
Waltham
Elgin
J. L. Grockett
Chamberlain
Geo. ¥. Wright
New London
Tenores
Kelly & Moyers
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