Chamber of Commerce Names Committees and Invites Bradstreet
President Coffman announced the new standing committees of the Bluefield Graham Chamber of Commerce at a directors meeting. Resolutions invited the Bradstreet Company to locate a Bluefield branch to provide quick reports to local firms and banks.
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The
Chamber of Commerce
Coffman
G. A. Shirey
Samuel Walton
William Hicks
R. B. Williamson
H. A. Ritz
W. S. Foutz
H. I. Shott
A.S. Booker
B. A. Marks
J. W. Ruff
G. H. Hill
C. W. Kester
J. T. Thornton
J. H. Sluss
P. J. Kelley
Edwin Mann
J. E. Morton
W. P. Hawley
W. J. Newenham
J. H. Hardy
W. A. Bodell
C. B. Hancock
N. Huffard
L. H. Phetteplace
R. L. Lafferty
Bluefield
O. L. Alexander
William McCarthy
E. H. Easley
Graham
W. L. Sexton
R. B&b. Williamson
J. B. Saunders
E. H. Smith
William Mitchell
George H. Hill
J. W. Ruft
Bluefield-Graham Chamber of Commerce
Pdcahontas Flat Top
Clinch Valley
Tug River
Thacker
Virginian Railway Company
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Matoaka
Tim
Bluefield-Graham
Bradstreet Company
West Virginia
W. Va
Bradstreet
Lynchburg
W. H. Coffman
Inland Daily Press Association Meets in Chicago
Editors and publishers from Illinois to Indiana gather at the Chicago Press Club for the Inland Daily Press Association annual meeting. Topics include parcels post premiums circulation methods and related matters with President Will Curtis of Kewanee Illinois presiding.
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Inland Daily Press Association
Chicago
Chicago Press Club
Illinois
Minnesta
Wisconsin
Michigan
Iowa
Kentucky
Indiana
Will Curtis
Kewanee
Tll
Chaly
Tri State Medical Association Opens In Charlotte
The Tri State Medical Association begins its annual meeting in Charlotte North Carolina with members from North and South Carolina and Virginia gathering at the Selwyn hotel for sessions spanning today and tomorrow.
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Charlotte
N. C
Tri- State Medical Association
North
South Carolina
Virginia
Selwyn Hotel
Electricity and Stars Illuminate a Changing World
The article notes electricity surpassing fire as man's servant, enabling rapid technological shifts and creative fusion of technician, chemist, engineer, and artist. It adds a Reader Magazine piece about stellar colors and distances, warning our sun is a small star among many, with Vega as a blue giant speeding toward us.
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Earth
F. Nelson Tracy
Vega
Lyra
Reader Magazine
One Scam For Fifteen Years
In the boot and shoe trade labor is divided among many workers with each performing a single repetitive task. A single pair may pass through fifteen hands before completion, and some workers sew only one seam for years. The Westminster Gazette notes many laborers perform century long routine tasks.
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Westminster Gazette
Celestial Wonders of Sky Moon and Star Hues
The excerpt explains how atmospheric color affects the sky and moon. It notes the sky appears alive with color, the moon can look yellow, and at fifty miles up the moon would appear white while the sky turns black.
First Christmas Gift Book Advertised in 1750
In the General Advertiser for January 9 1750 the earliest notice of a Christmas gift book appears. It promises Nurse True love's Christmas Box or The Golden Plaything for Little Children given Gratis by J Newberry at the Bible and Sun St Pauls Churchyard with binding for one penny. It aims to teach letters and manners through thirty cuts.
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J. Newberry
Bible and Sun
St. Paul's Churchyard
London Mail
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E. S. Pedigo
Princeton Ave
Bluefield Ave
Belmont
D. B. Mastin
Prop
Cafe
P. M
J. F. Thompson, Mer
Slobe-Wernicke
Bluefield Book & Stationery
Elks’ Building
New York World
Daily Telegraph
Knox
Paris
Honolulu
New York Herald
Knox Hat
Metropolitan Men’s Furnishing CO
Doctors OF
Medical Association
Electricity
George Elliot
VM Lh
M. G. Whitlow Hardware Co
Bluefield, W. WA
Bluefield Water Works and Improvement Company
WM. McGarthy
Eng
G. G. Betelle
Cashier
Yoursservice
Follansbeeth Druggist
Bland Street
S. M. Smith Insurance Agency
L. G. Toney
Edward Cooper
H. C. Donaldson
Sec
S. M. Smith
Bluefield, W. VA
Intermont Electric Co
Felenmeier Brew
West Vaginia Brewing Company
W.E. Stewart
Eikeystone
West Va
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