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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1900
Page
2
Hon Charles W Smith, Mercer Criminal Court judge, will retire at year end with the esteem of citizens. He served with impartial justice and did not hang anyone. Those who faced him did not deserve it and those in need remain at large as readers of the Telegraph refuse to pay the printer.
The government release signals a bigger cotton harvest than traders expected, easing prices in New York New Orleans and Liverpool. U S remains three fourths of world textile input. buyers await confirmed supply while speculators face losses.
It requires no experience to dye with Putnam Fadeless Dyce. Simply boiling your goods in the dye is all that is necessary. Sold by Flat Top Grocery Co.
Fragmentary ad copy describes a man claiming a woman suffered years of servitude and was cured after using a patent medicine and Eletrie Bitters. It touts a miracle remedy for female ailments, nerves, sleeplessness, and headaches while promising low prices and broad druggist distribution.
A committee of the Presbyterian General Assembly, after evaluating over 200 presbyteries, favors revising the Westminster Confession. The Outlook notes general support for changes that preserve core doctrine while adding a concise statement of essential beliefs. The committee will propose methods for revision to the May assembly.
An advertisement offers a hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case with Hall's Catarrh Cure. It states F J Cheney & Co of Toledo stands behind the firm, with endorsements from West & Truax and others. The cure is advertised as internal, injectable to the blood and mucus, price 75 cents per bottle, with testimonials and Hall's Family Pills promoted as well.
Dayton Tennessee resident Thomas Coppinger extols Ramon's Liver Pills and Topic Pellets saying the tonic revived his youngest son from a pale delicate child to a robust, rosy cheeked boy. Also notes Norfolk and Western Railway holiday excursion tickets sale dates with return validity days.
P A Danforth of LaGrange Georgia suffers six months with a frightful running sore on his leg but reports Bucklen’s Arnica Salve wholly cures it in ten days. The ad touts it for ulcers wounds burns boils pain or pile with a 25 cent guarantee and pharmacist availability.
An advertisement for Kodol Dyspepsia Care from H. N. White promotes a product that “digests What we eat” and allows eating all the food you want while restoring the digestive system. It claims to digest all kinds of food and supports the stomach’s rest.
Fiduciary notice states James H Champ and Marion Copen accounts before me for settlement dated November 27 1900. Legal notice in Mercer county circuit court demands defendants The Columbian Building and Loan Association and J R Fishburn trustee appear within one month to protect their interests in a suit to enjoin sale of property and determine usury claims.
On the 2nd day of January at the Minefield law office of Anderson and Easley Mercer county West Virginia I will take the depositions of J J Pickering and others for use in a chancery suit in Mercer county West Virginia where Sam is the plaintiff and son is a defendant If depositions are delayed or incomplete the taking may continue to other times and places Until completed By counsel.
Creditors of C. L. Dickenson must present claims to A. M. Supton Commissioner of Accounts in Princeton West Virginia by December 1, 1900. The notice dated October 20, 1900, designates A. K. Caffee as trustee for the estate.
All creditors of Davis and Ould must present claims to trustee John M. Anderson for adjudication at his Princeton West Virginia office on or before January 5. The notice is dated November 4 and issued by Sutton as administrator.
The document outlines several parcels including undivided interests in tracts on Clear Fork Tug River and adjoining lands, with acreages ranging from 6 to 309 acres. It names trustees and special commissioners, notes a chancery suit in Mercer circuit court, and orders defendants to appear to protect their interests.
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