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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1908
Page
1
A feature praising Bluefield Dry Goods and Nation Company for delivering a metropolitan stock of goods with quick shipping and strong local support. The piece extols the cooperative model, broad inventory, and sustained growth noted by merchants and the Daily Telegraph.
A passenger train No. 42 and a standing freight collided at Crockett water station near Bristol around 3 20 am. Reports of mass deaths were false as injuries occurred to several crew and passengers including H C Adkerson mail clerk and J H Smith engineman with varying injuries.
J A Muir, former general manager of the Daily Leader, will remain in Bluefield and plans to make it his future home. He is linked to promoting a market house company with strong local interest, stock nearly half sold, and a site secured. Muir is also approached for the chamber of commerce secretary post.
Advertisement copy urging shoppers to choose Blue Ribbon Vanilla and a range of salad dressings and relishes at Sublette and Barnes. Mentions budget pricing and grocery specials in a period-appropriate sales tone.
New York Jan 11 Firefighters battled a 13 story blaze at the Parker building on Nineteenth Street and Fourth Avenue. Five men on the top floor sought the roof while others used ladders and a mortar line to reach them. Three firemen were saved but three others remained missing as crews searched the smoking ruins. Dozens were injured and a newspaper printer on the fifth floor was reported missing. Subway service was halted due to fears of collapse. Deputy Chief Binn attributed rapid spread to lack of water from limited reach of water towers.
Bands of angry workers scour Bougere Swamp Louisiana seeking the man who shot and killed Mrs Harris wife of a railroad contractor. The killer fired from ambush near the railroad camp hitting Harris who wore a hat before striking his wife. Harris and wife had come from Georgia. The slayer likely to be lynched if captured.
Rev. James A. Kroveo of Oak Park Illinois was found guilty in a United States court of possessing molds to counterfeit government coins with intent to defraud. Judge Humphrey sentenced him to two years in the penitentiary.
Baron Takahira the Japanese minister to Italy has received Tokyo's appointment as ambassador to the United States. He will leave Rome late January or early February for London and then sail to the United States.
Louis McElvaine, a Neil House clerk in Columbus, has disappeared. Police in Columbus have been asked to locate him. His home is in Lynchburg Virginia and relatives are said to live in Richmond.
A marriage license was issued in New York on January 11 to Miss Gladys Moore Vanderbilt and Count Laszlo Jeno Maria Henrik Simon Szecheny of Hungary. The bride was listed as 21 and the groom 28.
New York reports the clearing house statement showing the bank reserve deficit erased and a surplus of 6 084 050 above the legal 25 percent requirement. Weekly data list reserves deposits and circulation with gains across reserves and specie and a robust stock market. London bids for American securities rise as steel and sugar stocks hit new highs, while money flows out of hoarding increases.
Miss Anna Bright, an 80 year old Richmond philanthropist, was fatally burned after a mysterious fire ignited in her room while she was alone. Her mother, 70, who rushed to help, was burned as the blaze spread, and a passing Black man aided in extinguishing the flames.
A full Baltimore church welcomed Mrs Basil Gordon formerly Miss Lelia Sinclair Montague of Virginia and Lieut Col George Barnett U S M C as they were married. Guests traveled from Washington New York and Baltimore for the ceremony. Sublette Barnes offered Pickles Sunbeam Henry and Mrs Kidd's Pin Money Pickles noted in the page.
A note mentions a congregant coughing last Sunday and urges the buyer to get Foley's Honey and Tar from druggist G. H. Wade. The item list also touts Sublette & Barnes breakfast bacon and Washington Fruit Cakes, with coal sales by Citizens' Coal Supply Co. and Sublette & Barnes promotions.
Party urges nonpayers to call and settle taxes at once to avoid levy costs. Assertive demand notes inability to delay further and references to goods and sellers Sublette & Barnes and Chase & Banborn in relation to tea and coffee fees.
A letter from L A Bartlett of Guilford Maine praises Dr King’s New Life Pills for curing biliousness malaria and constipation. The endorsement claims the medicine works year round and is guaranteed at drug stores. Also mentioned are poultry designs tally cards Sunbeam preserves and Telegraph want ads.
In Washington a fierce House debate focused on codifying the penal laws, especially section 19 on conspiracies against civil rights. Amendments to exempt labor unions failed. one to strike section 19 punishment survived. many votes were party-line as debates on law proceed for weeks. A joint resolution to limit presidential terms and other bills were introduced, while a navy inquiry sought documents on Surgeon Stokes and Admiral Brownson.
Lawyers in the Thaw case took today to study testimony for the final time as the trial opens Monday with an address by Assistant District Attorney Garvin. The defense plans to argue stuporous melancholia, a mental illness, and will present Dr. Hamilton's interpretation that the mind can awaken after tragedy. The jury will be sequestered, with restricted mail and limited contact, under heavy guard.
New York January reports Harry K Thaw the slayer of Stanford White fears return to Matteawan Asylum. Officials deem him mentally irresponsible and the state maintains the large facility for criminally insane custody and safety.
The article describes Matteawan as a near prison for the criminal insane with wide liberty for inmates at times and crowded conditions that led to the creation of a second asylum at Dannemora near the Canadian border. It notes long-term confinement of many inmates, some over twenty five to forty years, including an elderly woman confined since 1852.
George A. Dorsey curator of the Field Museum of Natural History sails on the Lusitania to map a global expedition plan. He will visit London Paris Vienna Egypt Ceylon Southern India Siam Cambodia Sumatra Java Australia New Zealand New Caledonia Melanesia New Guinea Mindanao Mindoro and Mindanao before returning by Japan and San Francisco.
Hunters and ranchers from many points will gather next week in Spokane Washington for what organizers call the biggest rabbit drive in the northwest. Several hundred hunters in three parties will converge in Cowiche Canyon to act as the three contingents in the drive. The event follows a period when jackrabbits multiplied and became a menace to local farmers after a prior drive years ago.
Associate Justice Harlan warned of a likely war between the yellow and white races at the Navy League of the United States dinner in Washington. He urged U S preparation and proposed spending 50 million dollars annually on the navy for ten years.
The United States dredgeboat Henry F. Ladd was burned to the water's edge at its moorings in West Memphis. The vessel, newly built, valued at $175,000, was engaged in dredging the Mississippi River channel. No injuries were reported.
The captain of the German cruiser Bremen received a wireless from the American fleet stating they are nearing Rio de Janeiro. The message did not specify the American vessels' position.
A London crowd stampede at a public hall in Barnely leaves six teen children dead and forty injured. Attendants moved some children from the gallery to the stalls triggering a rush as panicked youths surged down stairs and overran aisles, with police and ushers rescuing survivors amid screams.
A horse was found at a hitching post near Bruce's store on Mercer street left in cold, rain, and snow for over twenty two hours. Police took charge and seek owner or suspect. detectives pursue a murder suspect from Virginia who may have stolen the animal.
Judge Sommes ruled the 9 PM closure requirement for city saloons with populations over 16 000 constitutional. An appeal is anticipated as the liquor interests continue the fight against strict local regulations. Fresh vegetables and a pharmacy ad clutter the page alongside a county mill scene and a poetic line.
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