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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
3
The service is delivered by city carriers or mailed to any address for 4 dollars yearly 2 dollars for half year or 1 dollar for three months. It is sold on trains hotel newsstands and by newsboys within a 100 mile radius of Bluefield.
An article explains how horizon distance depends on observer height and earth curvature. Simple rules show visible distance equals the square root of 1.5 times height in feet, and height needed to see distant objects equals two thirds of the square of the distance in miles.
During an amateur theatre progress, a man in historic court dress confesses his love to Marie as the prompter calls her name. She rests her head on his arm and asks him to proceed with his declaration, insisting the cue can wait for a moment.
A description of the Japanese spider crab noting its size and flexible pinchers. It tears off sponge and seaweed fragments to apply to its limbs and body, camouflaging itself as the ocean floor. The piece ends with an unrelated health ad fragment mentioning Hollister's Tea for constipation and bad blood.
The article explains glue as a product of transformations in drying and boiling hides and bones. It describes sources including tanner waste, bone stock, hoof glue, sinews, and various fish glues, noting color, quality, and stock age affect outcomes. It warns that some glues can be misrepresented and highlights fish glue from air bladders as a superior variety, with practical cautions.
A Germantown amateur struggles to photograph a four month old baby in the arms of a dark nurse. Repeated attempts fail as the baby moves and twists while the nurse’s patience wears thin. The pair’s efforts reveal the inherent difficulties of lighting and posing in such portraits.
The piece explains oyster aging by shell growth, noting six months equals a dime, one year a half dollar, and two years about a silver dollar. It contrasts oysters with crabs and describes ridge marks from growth. It states best quality occurs at four to five years and urges protection of beds to that age. Conscientious planters avoid harvesting too young oysters.
A market notice lists pineapples oranges tangerines lemons malaga grapes catawba grapes bananas apples coconuts for sale at Sublette and Karnes with the date 12 24 31.
A mother recounts that her infant recovered from severe bronchitis after using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. She details trying eight stores before success and notes local pharmacy availability. Includes ad snippets for Mandarin Oranges and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea and other products.
A Real Wonderland in South Dakota known for its silver mines bonanza farms wide ranges and curious natural formations. In Mound City Mrs KB D Clapp hosts a remarkable healing case recently observed by locals.
Christmas in Richlands Va was quiet with few drunks jailed. Bill Jackson, chased by officers for a local shooting, apparently killed himself but later walked into the mayor’s office and confessed. Sam Lewis, colored, wanted for murder in Norfolk, was arrested near Town Hill and is believed to be the suspect. KO DOL advertised for stomach troubles.
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