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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1902
Page
2
Rates for advertisements are listed as four dollars in cash in advance and one dollar for a separate item. The notice notes post office entry at Bluefield West Virginia as a second class mail matter.
A blunt wedding notice recounts Willie Shortlike and Annie Bloomers marrying at the M E Church with modest finances and borrowed decor. The piece quips about flowers, outfits, and a St Louis trip, then shifts to local business critics and a civil ordinance skeptic.
A reflective holiday tribute lauds the “man with the bundle” as the season’s real hero for giving joy to others. It praises generous acts toward family and neighbors, urging repentance and kindness, and ends with light jabs at public figures and a nod to Santa.
An advertisement claims deafness from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It offers one hundred dollars for any case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes Hall's Family Pills, urging readers to send for a circular.
O R Larson of Bay Villa River Cape Colony runs a rural store nine miles from the rail and twenty five miles from town, serving farmers within thirty miles. He touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with fourteen local cures in the past year and notes widespread use when medical advice is scarce. For sale by H N White. 1000 rings in all settings at Kinzer's. 12 16
Bargain note for men highlights B and B dress shirts reduced from 1 and 1.25 to 69 cents at Morris Rosenberg's store. Includes sale day or date code 12 21 41.
Sheriff Lilly faces a large backlog of last year and current tax tickets. Citizens are urged to pay promptly to ease the sheriff’s burden and avoid future trouble.
Mothers dread winter as croup endangers children. The ad claims One Minute Cough Cure liquefies mucus and reduces inflammation for immediate, safe relief from coughs colds bronchitis and lung trouble. Testimonials cite voice restoration before a contest and a hand engraving service is mentioned.
An advertisement urges preventing fever and liver troubles this season by cleansing the system with DeWitts Little Early Risers. The pills are claimed to be non gagging and to move the bowels gently yet copiously, providing tonic strength.<|vq_lbr_audio_98069|><|vq_lbr_audio_74684|><|vq_lbr_audio_20665|><|vq_lbr_audio_123714|><|vq_lbr_audio_77778|>
An array of advertisements cites Foley's Honey and Tar as asthma relief and Foley's Kidney Cure to improve kidney function. Other promos push a store with a Big B collar case and silk umbrellas, along with Blain steel goods and Kinzer's novelties. A Benton Harbor man reports relief after using Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, saying three boxes cured his indigestion and constipation.
Santa Claus Workshop at the Paris on Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia runs Saturday through Wednesday from 5 to 9 PM. Admission is free and all children are especially invited to attend.
If you have kidney or bladder trouble and do not use Foley's Kidney Cure you will have only yourself to blame for results as it positively cures all forms of kidney and bladder diseases. For sale by G. H. Wade druggist. Quick orders. Everything the market affords Pearson's Restaurant open day and night.
An advertisement promises relief from indigestion and related ailments with Dr King's New Life Pills. It claims gentle, thorough cure and lists price and availability at drug stores, with a secondary line about whiskey and liquor suppliers.
The Merchant's Lunch Cafe is established at Sam's Old Stand on Princeton Avenue offering daily lunch from opening to closing hours with a 15 cent menu including soup two meats baked beans slaw or potato salad. Short orders and sandwiches available at all hours. Silver novelties of various kinds for Xmas gifts at Mebane's.
A local ad highlights a fine selection of silk mufflers suspenders gloves and jewelry novelties at Block's on Princeton avenue inviting shoppers to browse the display and make purchases.
The annual meeting of the Bluefield Building and Loan Association stockholders will be held at Citizens Bank in Bluefield West Virginia on January 15 1903 at 8 oclock p m. The meeting is for electing officers and transacting other lawful business. Signed by David E Johnson president G M McCulloch secretary and treasurer G A Shirey. Also an advertisement for rings broaches charms chains society emblems and gems at Mebane's with ladies fancy watches solid gold from 15 dollars up.
R A Gray of Oakville Indiana describes a decade of kidney disease confining him to bed. After consulting top physicians with no relief, Foley's Kidney Care was recommended and brought lasting improvement. Available for sale by G H Wade, druggist.
Rev. Jno. 8. Cox of Wake, Arkansas says after 12 years of yellow jaundice he found relief with Electric Bitters. He claims the remedy cured a disease that held him for over a decade and urges others with liver kidney or stomach troubles to use it. Guaranteed by druggists for 50 cents.
Baldwin introduces a republished Bluefield real estate article from the Daily Treecrary dated December 3rd. The piece highlights homes and investments, aiming to aid readers seeking safe profitable property deals in Bluefield. The column frames the reprint as reader guidance for bargains and market insights.
A letter from Norfolk and Western President Kimball to Edwin Mann outlines over 500000 in Bluefield improvements. Plans include yard extensions, track rearrangements, long local delivery sidings, Belgian block paving, two overhead bridges, street paving with curbs and sidewalks, and new houses for officials. City officials urged to support street and sewer upgrades.
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