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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1907
Page
5
W H Cunningham, noted teacher of flute cornet and vocal music, holds daily sessions from 4 to 7 PM with a vocal class at 8 PM on Saturdays. Location listed as Crockett and Graham block.
Mystic Encampment No 102 I C O F meets to elect officers in the new Bailey building. North Side residents demand street improvements and question tax usage as four churches and the Y M C A sit nearby. Navajo Tribe No 102 S O R M elects officers. Cattle mutilation probe advances with a $50 reward. Mrs. L N Perfater dies of typhoid at 40. burial in Bel spring. J A Davis to Dublin Va for Sunday visit with wife.
A freight train broke in two in the Big Tom Tunnel between Virginia City and Coeburn, stalling from 2:15 p.m. until 8:40 p.m. Smoke filled the tunnel and three men were overcome and carried out. Conductor William Allen, Robert Mills, and Leo Long were injured, engineer Mays escaped with assistance. A full report had not yet been issued.
A stormy sea off Ireland prompts a lifeboat rescue. The team saves all but one, then returns to rescue the final man. The crew discovers the lost brother is the last survivor, bringing word to a grieving mother.
Observations over several years show eagles favor at least two nest sites with some pairs using three or four. One pair uses a solitary cave nest high on a limestone cliff about 800 feet tall with a 400 foot drop to the summit, unreachable in a single day. DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve advertised.
Connecticut communities once gathered bayberries to make pale green wax candles whose aroma filled rooms. Now few pickers remain as bushes spread across pastures, with Branford boasting ten foot tall clumps. Town records show a 1717 ban on gathering before Sept 15 with a ten shilling fine, reflecting long-standing bayberry trade for wax and salves.
The piece highlights dangerous sea creatures like the devilfish a large guarded ray weighing 3000 pounds that towed a launch eighteen miles off Aransas Pass Texas. It also notes a green conger like worry of Bermuda and the aggressive swordfish hunted for oil and flesh along the US Atlantic coast.
A narrator recalls feuding with Miss Emmingway over a rascally ancestor who stole. The old man's valet replaces him while the narrator exposes the deception, returns stolen goods, and marries, only to learn the ancestor died by hanging, not natural causes. The tale closes with a hotel order note from the Daily Telegraph.
A native was caught in Calcutta sealing a shop wall wearing European clothes. He concealed himself overnight, dressed in a full sahib outfit with shirt, studs, te, socks, boots, watch, chain, handkerchief, pocketknife, hat and stick. He said he wished to learn English and chose to don sahib attire as a first step.
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