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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1902
Page
2
A compilation of brief reflections and observations on diverse topics. The note touches on maritime news, literary figures, economic quirks, and urban development with a wry tone about Boston’s envisioned skyscraper and St. Louis’s world’s fair prospects.
A medical ad argues deafness results from inflammation of the Eustachian tube caused by catarrh. It offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case curable by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes circulars and Hall's Family Pills sold by Druggists for 75 cents in Toledo Ohio.
A jury acquitted Laura Biggar and convicted two men of conspiring to claim the Bennett estate. The piece questions the verdict while noting other public interests from Marconi supervision to a large Methodist bank gift and health remedies from Chamberlain's tablets.
A note urges Sheriff Lilly to collect a large backlog of unpaid tickets from last year and the current year. The plea argues ongoing nonpayment harms both the sheriff and the public and hints at potential future trouble.
Mothers fear winter illness as children catch colds. The ad touts One Minute Cough Cure to liquefy mucus, ease inflammation, and stop throat troubles. Testimonial claims it restored voice for a contest, with names F B McMahon and J L Crockett.
An advertisement promotes DeWitt's Little Early Risers pills as a seasonal remedy to prevent fever and liver disorders. It claims the pills cleanse the system without gripe and stimulate bowel action to tone the glands. Jno. L. Crochett.
A reader from Ottoville Iowa touts Foley's Honey and Tar for immediate asthma relief after trying many remedies in New York and elsewhere. The ad notes Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a travel safeguard.
Public auction scheduled for January 27, 1905 at the Mercer county courthouse to sell multiple delinquent land tracts in Rock and Mud districts Beaver Pond and Cooperstown Beaverdam areas. Listings include parcels in Rock District tied to Jas Clacharn estate Melvina Coleman Sarah Crawford S. A. Hall and others, plus several Bluefield Beaver Pond parcels and one Cashmetet water land.
The sale lists two parcels for the school fund with tract numbers sixty two and sixty four corsing to named claimants such as J. W. Monroe and Silas Perdue. The deeds reference lands forfeited to the state for tax delinquency and describe eighty and sixty acre tracts in Mercer and Rockcastle counties with a six and twelve month credit option and executor bonds for deferred payments, conducted by H. I. Shot, Commissioner of School Lands.
timetable listing daily departures from Bluefield to Tove ford Roanoke Lynchburg Norfolk and Shenandoah division points with Pullman sleepers to New York Philadelphia Columbus Cincinnati and Pocahontas. arrivals westbound times and intermediate stops noted along with contact for N and W Ry agents.
Norfolk and Western Railway plans expenditures exceeding 500000 in Bluefield. Projects include yard extensions, track rearrangement, building of two overhead bridges, street paving with Belgian blocks, new houses for officials, and improved sidewalks and sewers to enhance city infrastructure.
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