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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1908
Page
5
The Bluefield brokerage firm on the third floor of the Kelly Moyer Building Bluefield West Virginia reports market quotations in stocks bonds and provisions.
The article notes strong booster support for Speaker Cannon as the likely Democratic nominee with large Taft and Hughes button output. It predicts a rush to produce campaign emblems for Chicago contenders and highlights a surge in mass produced tin buttons with celluloid faces selling cheaply at 1 to 10 cents.
I as trustee will offer at auction March 7 at 1 o clock the entire stock of merchandise of Abe Scherick bankrupt in bankruptcy on the premises. Private bids will be received until day of sale with the highest private bid to start the sale. Terms One third cash balance sixty days and four months with security for deferred payments approved by the trustee M B Postlethwaite Trustee for Abe Scherick Bankrupt
As trustee I offer for sale at auction March 7 at 11 o'clock the entire stock of merchandise and fixtures of G T Bailey bankrupt at the store front. Private bids will be received until sale day and the sale will start with the highest private bid. Terms one third cash and balance in four installments with interest. Trustee for G T Bailey Bankrupt.
A historic note promotes Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup as a mild remedy that soothes the throat to stop coughing. The ad claims prompt action and lists druggists as the place to buy the product.
A Roanoke woman armed with a pistol rode No 13 toward Radford then Christiansburg, pressed to see guard Cauthorn and claimed insanity. She was jailed for carrying concealed weapons after a lengthy pursuit with officers, passengers, and guards aiding the restraint.
West Virginia Auditor Scherr seeks a state Republican committee ruling on Kanawha County’s governor ticket delegates arguing the primary slate and delegate names were illegal. Chairman H C Woodyard has called a March 3 meeting in Clarksburg to hear the contest with Dawson supporters among the minority.
Hon. David Robertson president of a Raleigh county court died Tuesday at noon at his Beckley home after months of illness. He suffered a complication of diseases despite medical care. Robertson, born March 1250 in Durdee Scotland, came with his family to…
Opinion from reliable quarters suggests the various car service associations forming the National Car Service Association will be dissolved in the next years or months, leading railroads to assume control of their own car service.
Railroad men cite Interstate Commerce Commission rulings as making direct car handling harder. The association seeks to prevent ships from using cars as storage and to collect demurrage when loading or unloading overruns occur. Fourty eight hours is allowed for unloading or loading before the cup service takes over. Life is too short to fret it out over the cook stove Sublette Barnes will save her from baking by furnishing breads and cakes including cream, Vienna, rye, graham, fruit cake, pou cake, citron cake, sponge, and silver cake.
A scientific preparation of vegetables acidified with estanti a digestive aid claims to contain the same stomach juices and says each dose will digest over 1 3000 grains of good food. Sold by all druggists.
The 1908 postal order limits how long publishers may carry subscribers in arrears. Dailies must renew within three months, tri-weeklies within six months, and semi-weeklies within one year. Nonpayment may bar second class rates. publishers may cut off nonpaying readers.
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