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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1908
Page
6
A garbled catalog-like list shows numerous price entries for fabrics and garments with many “Were” price references followed by current figures. The dense OCR reads as a sale-style price sheet lacking complete context or dates.
The Pocahontas Company held its annual meeting Tuesday electing I. T. Mann Harry Bowen J J Tierney S W Patterson W J Beary J K Gilliam and Philip Goodwill to the board The directors then selected officers with Philip Goodwill as president Harry Bowen as vice president and S W Patterson as secretary and treasurer.
Miss Inez C. Tench wed Wyndham Stokes in Epiphany Church Washington D C with a high noon ceremony. Guests included relatives from Welch Switchback and Williamson. The couple honeymoon in Florida then Havana before settling in Welch March 1.
The article traces Sir Hiram Maxim's path from a civil war veteran to conceiving a rapid fire gun after testing recoil with a Springfield rifle. It notes factory resistance in Birmingham and Maxim’s move to Paris where, by 1885, he demonstrated a gun touted as the future. The weapon could be varied from one to 600 rounds per minute and used belts of 333 rounds, with a compact model weighing 35 pounds and firing 2000 rounds in three minutes.
A fragment discusses the meaning of beat it as depart and hints at police slang for get off my beat. It cites Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes and a Frenchman learning English irregulars with humorous translations and the exclamation Mercy for irregular verbs.
O Howard Royer Roanoke and assistant general freight agent of the Norfolk and Western died in the Hotel Raleigh Washington of heart failure after traveling from Roanoke to Philadelphia and then to Washington for railroad officials meetings He leaves a large family including wife Helen seven sons and one daughter and is survived by a Kansas City brother and two sisters in Lockhaven Pa Funeral arrangements await brotherly word Royer born March 15 1851 in Rogersford Montgomery PA served since 1868 with Shenandoah Valley railroad later absorbed by Norfolk and Western also led Great Southern Dispatch and Shenandoah Dispatch Fast Freight services.
Theodore Alvord Anti Saloon League president testifies before Senate committee claiming he provided Charleston Gazette reporter with details on a 150000 dollar whiskey lobby fund and states he had authority for the statement. Prohibition amendment moves to third reading as votes loom. House passes license tax bill aligning state and municipal liquor taxes.
Mrs. J D Hewitt hosted a brilliant social evening in Bramwell West Virginia for her Philadelphia guest Mrs Watson. Progressive ouchre and refreshments followed a gathering of local society including Mesdames Cummings Kirk McQuail Tierney and more with various friends visiting from Elkhorn Bluefield and Philadelphia.
A grandmother reproves her latte grandchildren for noise, saying they are loud and should be quieter. They reply that without them she wouldn’t be a grandma at all, per Harpers Weekly.
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