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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
5
An old classified notice promotes real estate, stocks, bonds, and investment securities services. It invites correspondence, proclaims efficient service and customer satisfaction guarantees. Small loans on short notice are advertised as a specialty.
Trains depart Deepwater at 2 45 p m with connections to Eccles Maben Mullens Herndon Matoaka and Iowa times listed for both departure and arrival. Deepwater to stations and return trips show 6 20 p m 6 00 a m and 5 50 p m 5 50 a m respectively. Connections at Deepwater with Chesapeake and Ohio Ry and at Matoaka with Norfolk and Western Ry. ADSIT Gen Passenger Rgt Norfolk Virginia.
A Bluefield, West Virginia market update notes quotations from the Bluefield Brokerage and Commission Company, dealers in stocks and securities. The note lists the firm as located on the third floor of the Kelly and Moyer Building in Bluefield and references market activity and prices.
The page shows a garbled caption about the New York stock market and a quoted classroom remark about happiness, followed by an unsententimental note from a Philadelphia press source. The readable text suggests a chaotic crosswind of opinion rather than concrete market data.
Quote attributed to Cui taco Newa about marital expectations and religion suggesting a man’s beliefs influence views on his wife’s conduct.
Keeping Open House. Everybody is welcome when we feel good and we feel that way only when our digestive organs work properly. Dr King's New Life Pills regulate the action of stomach liver and bowels so perfectly one can't help feeling good when he uses these pills. At all drug stores. Subscribe for the Daily Telegraph.
Fashion hints discuss whether elbow or wrist length sleeves will dominate the new season. French gowns favor sleeves down to the knuckles and a chic, well fitted look. The article also describes a guimpe waist pattern for misses and suggests velvet button molds to create decorative buttons.
Beau Fielding, fashionably idle and rumored robber, is described as the fifth son of a poor Leicestershire gentleman. His life, marked by ostentatious gains and strict tongue control, ends with little fortune and no clear answer to his secret. Also notes expert Marquesan tattooing and the London babies hotel for over eight year olds with separate suites and nurses for child wards.
A new babies hotel in London offers first class home comforts for infants. Rates start at two guineas weekly for under three months, with yearly stays ranging from two hundred fifty to four hundred pounds. The facility sits near Kensington Gardens in an exclusive district.
Families of English officers missionaries colonial officials or others who must leave home may confide their children to the babies' hotel with assurance of good care. Guardians parents and mothers unable to care for babies find it a suitable temporary home for the younger children and it has proven financially rewarding for enterprising American women such as trained nurses or medical graduates.
A physician remains in constant attendance to keep children healthy, detect early illnesses, and tailor care for each child. When a baby is brought, it is promptly placed in the model infirmary for expert medical attention. Precautions quarantine ailing youngsters to prevent contagious diseases.
The hotel staffs all nurses and attendants selected for gentleness and thrift. Nurses undergo six months of preliminary training before full nurse status. A head official supervises all under nurses, inspecting suits and welfare, with options for kindergarten or private schooling nearby.
The author argues a London style children's hotel could aid widowed or divorced parents with small children left without female relatives to help. She notes middle class acceptance in this country for such rates and says the hotel would provide a comfortable, temporary home when boarding schools are unsuitable for very young children.
In a castle siege story narrated by Nellie BDna Curtis, a disguised spy in armor is executed on the parapet but the ghostly body vanishes. A returning princess reveals she staged the ruse to learn the fortress’s weakness and secure surrender for her fiancé, the prince.
The readable text presents a quarrel over a roommate choice and a mother objecting to a suitor. It references a professor and a concerned parent worried about contamination by dreadful language in a college setting. The lines are jumbled and incomplete.
Dialogue notes a humorous sign read Magazine Jest Out as a punchline about a news agent and a missing magazine. The exchange implies a casual, urban-teen slang scene with a playful misunderstanding. No broader events or identities are specified.
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