Rail offices to Close Across Clinch Valley Lines
Telegraph dispatch reports discontinuation of railway telegraph offices at Richlands Coeburn Fink and Toms Creek with night staff cut. Local official says offices not closed though night force to go. Operators W L Beer at Coeburn P C Boyd at Toms Creek promoted to Cedar Bluff R Wright at Fink reassigned Norton third trick. Some warehouse staff laid off but essential workers kept.
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Tazewell
Daily Telegraph
Richlands
Coeburn
Fink
Toms Creek
Clinch Valley
Rairoad
Seaboard Company
Dante
W. L. Beer
P. C. Boyd
Cedar Bluff
R. Wright
Norton
Coke plant in Gary to ship 400 tons daily
United States Coal and Coke Company's Gary works received orders for 400 tons of coke per day. Operations 4 and 6 are being opened, with mine No 12 to follow when tracks are finished. Black Wolf Coal and Coke increases output as demand rises while retrenchment limits new hires at Norfolk and Western amid achievable growth.
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United States Coal and Coke Company
Gary
Black Wolf Coal and Coke Company
Black Wolf
William Leckie
Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company
Leckie
Lathrop
Association Press
Welch
Huntington
Elkhorn
Norfolk & Western
Three Feet of Snow Paralyzes Mountain Region
Reports from Mountain Lake Virginia say three feet of snow has fallen in the mountains. Two boys were found frozen to death in the snow, but their names are not yet learned due to remoteness. Bucklen's Arnica Salve is promoted for various ailments at 25c a tin.
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Giles County
Virginia
Mountain Lake
Chamberlains Salve offers quick relief for itching
The ad notes Chamberlains Salve provides instant relief for skin disease itching and smarting. It lists a price of 25 cents and notes availability at West End Drug Co West End Pharmacy and Bluefield Pharmacy.
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Chamberlain
West End Drug Co
West End Pharmacy
Bluefield Pharmacy
Coal shipments report from December 1907 totals
Joseph W. Coxe of the Norfolk & Western reports December coal tonnages by field. Pocahontas Tug River Thacker Kenova Clinch Valley total commercial and company coal, grand total 933 743 tons of 2000 pounds.
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The
Daily Telegraph
Joseph W. Coxe
Norfolk & Western
Pocahontas
Tug River
Thacker
Kenova
Clinch Valley
Taft Honored as Chief Guest at Ohio Society Banquet
War Secretary Taft was the chief guest at the Ohio Society of Philadelphia banquet in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on January 14. The event drew notable attendees from Ohio and Philadelphia.
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Ohio Society of Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Taft
War Department
War poet dead in Augusta. Randall wrote Maryland
Augusta Ga Jan 14 James Rider Randall of this city famed as a war poet died this afternoon. Among his works was Maryland My Maryland. Also notes on appendicitis and a laxative product promote readers to use advertising and want ads.
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Augusta
James Rider Randall
Maryland
Rostand Tale Of A Peasant With Power Over Animals
A Paris paper recounts Edmond Rostand’s sleep troubles at Bayonne and a peasant said to tame barking dogs by imitating animal sounds. Rostand rewards the man, then the dogs return, and a trap yields the wry line that “that is my dog story without a dog.”
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Edmond Rostand
Bayonne
Paris
Wiiter
Rostand
Barker
Food Abundance in Seventeenth Century Virginia
Abstract of a historical piece notes Virginia's rich food supply and variety in the seventeenth century, highlighting the colony’s agricultural potential and provisioning patterns from early English settlement. It emphasizes crops, livestock, and local resources shaping sustenance.
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Virginia
P. A. Bruce
Taxpayers Urged to Pay Dues to Avoid Levy
Notice from W. P. Hawley Deputy Sheriff demands nonpaying parties settle taxes immediately or face collection action. Call to pay at once to save levy costs.
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Pedigo’s
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
E. S. Pedigo
Princeton Ave
Bluefield
West Virginia
Follansbee
Bland Street
Belmont
D. B. Mastin
Prop
Cafe
W. Va
Pp. M
Sloan
Globe Wernick
D &4 Book
Blue Book & Staonery
United States Company
John Kemp
East Otisfield
Bucklen
Norfolk & Western Fields
Augusta, Ga
Orivo
Orino
G. H. Wade
Knox Hat
Metropolitan Men’s Furnishing CO
Ellis’ Building
Intermont Electric Co
W. P. Hawley
M. G. Whitlow Hardw. Co
West Va
Ford Music Company
Ford Music Co
Bluefield, W. VA
Cuull Thornton Clothing Co
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