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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1901
Page
2
The Bluefield Daily and Weekly Telegraph lists liberal display rates for run of paper ads over three months with tiered per inch pricing for 1st and additional insertions. Shorter runs priced reasonably. front page and special clone ads charged extra. classified and public notices have specific per inch and per word charges.
A fragment from a historical column discusses holiday trade ransoms, retirement, the Isthmian canal, Croker’s influence, congressional reform, farm subsidies, price tagging rituals, and U S territorial expansion under cautious, pragmatic foreign and domestic policy perspectives.
The text notes that a quiet man becomes conspicuous because he is related to the James boys and questions why a mere accident of birth should thrust a peaceful citizen into public notoriety.
The piece notes smallpox outbreaks in the city and county with one recent death, a Brown youth, and spread from a barroom worker misdiagnosed with syphilis. It also reports orders for Krag Jorgenson rifles for West Virginia militia and National Guard units arriving soon.
Mrs John Gilbert recalls the governor in wartime theater life. She recounts his stubborn ways and his obsession with two blue majolica vases that haunted actors as they prepared scenes. She recalls the day a vase shattered and his quiet reaction.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh as a constitutional disease. The ad claims the medicine acts on blood and mucous surfaces, building up constitution, with a $100 reward for any failure to cure. Testimonials praise Ramone Liver Pills and Foley's Honey and Tar for children and adults.
Notice requests information on Banner Salve effectiveness in treating ulcers sores tetter eczema or piles. It states manufacturers believe no remedy cures all cases and offers a refund if Banner Salve fails, signed G. H.
The article describes the dytiscus as a carnivorous water beetle that hunts by day and emerges at night to fly to distant ponds. It notes its air gathering behavior at the surface and the moonlit misperception of glass for pond, plus whirligig beetles making musical sounds on the water.
In a Chicago scene a book agent visits a back door and asks to show work to a woman scrubbing garments. She scours a tubful of clothes and challenges him to prove his work can outdo hers, prompting the agent to depart.
Frank H. Risteen notes in Rod and Gun that beavers function as portable pulp mills, capable of felling birches and large saplings quickly. He observes their rapid tooth regrowth after breakage, with teeth regaining full length in about ten days.
Harold A. Ritz trustee will sell at public auction on December 31, 1901 a Bluefield West Virginia lot described as on Boone Street near Wyoming Street. The sale enforces a trust deed securing James E Mann and Victoria Mann with 25 dollar notes. Cash in hand required.
In Mercer county circuit court a suit by Dominik Birky seeks dissolution of marriage from Jennie Birky. The order requires Jennie Birky a non resident to appear within one month of first publication and protect her interests in the chancery case.
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