Various Local Notices and Business Snippets in Bluefield Area
City and Coalfield Short Items list coal firms and services with ads for Mercier Coal, Bowers Coal, and Elkhorn Hazard Coal. Notices include annual meeting in Bluefield January 24, 1925, Play House Cafe advert in Pocahontas, Shrine Dance, wood and coal calls, awning samples, Hankla Grocery, Ku Klux Klan speaking date, a card of thanks, Sunday School Rally, private school enrollment, Madame Kaspar Lawson recital, synagogue service at 7:30, and Bluefield Seafood Market opening at 499 Raleigh Street run by C E Pedigo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkhorn Hazard Coal Co
Bluefield
W. Va
C. B. Bell
Bluefield Sea Food Company
Raleigh Street
Hutcherson
Fish variety promised as scarce stock arrives
The article notes limited supply of fish including Spanish mackerel croakers Flounder balibut and oysters. It promises best quality at reasonable prices and offers to dress fish on request. Also lists Boys' Club schedule with Cadet drill Senior basketball at 5 and junior class at 7 with a postponed Wilson team practice due to a broken schedule. It mentions Hicks Agency Bob Baldwin joining Spiller Hicks General Agency of Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co.
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Wilson
Hicks
Bob Baldwin
Bluefield
Johns- Manville
Spiller Hicks General Agency
Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co
Philadelphia
Mr Bob Delights Laurel Debating Club Audience
Jerome Katz reports the Laurel Debating Club staged Mr Bob a two act farce at the high school auditorium before a large audience. Beaver High School concert orchestra opened with an overture and supported a clever performance featuring Anna Wood Katherine Stahlman Anita Commetti Gordon Dick Frank Smoot Kurt Armentrout Dorothy Dillard under directors Miss Willis Miss Morley and Miss Hunter with production by the Laurel Debating Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurel Debating Club
Beaver High School
Bob
High School
Rebecca Luke
Katherine
Phillip Royson
Robert Brown
Phillips
Jenkins
Pattie
Lewis Furniture Co
Anna Wood
Catherine Stahlman
Anita Commetti
Gordon Dick
Frank Smoot
Kurt Armentrout
Dorothy Dillard
Miss Willis
Miss Morley
Miss Hunter
Lost Wrist-Watch Near East End School
A wrist-watch was lost Thursday evening between East End School and Wyoming Street. Return to Lucy Minor at East End School.
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East End School
Wyoming Street
Lucy Minor
For Sale Two Good Farms in Monroe County
Two farms offered for sale in Monroe County with terms. One farm has 82 acres level land suitable for a country home. The other is 1806 acres of prime grazing land. Enquiries to L. L. Lambert at First National Bank Princeton West Virginia.
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Monroe County
L. L. Lambert
First National Bank
Princeton
W. Va
Furnishing the Home for Low Income Families in 1924
A Better Homes in America booklet by Mrs Charles Bradley Sanders guides modest households on furnishing a three to seven room home. It covers selecting size suitable pieces, harmonizing style, cost, paints, floors, furniture, curtains, and kitchen hardware, with essential and desirable utensil lists and a brief bibliography. The pamphlet is sold at a quarter per copy through Better Homes in America, National headquarters moved to Washington in 1924.
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America
Charles Bradley Sanders
Sanders
Better Homes In
New York
Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
Hardware merchants given some pointers at West Virginia hardware banquet
Llew S. Soule editor of Hardware Age spoke at the West Virginia Hardware Association banquet in Clarksburg on January 22. The session closed the convention’s third day, with Soule as principal speaker praising the event as the most successful in the organization’s history and offering practical business talks for dealers to apply at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
W. Va
Llew S. Soule
New York
Hardware Age
West Virginia Hardware Association
Soule
Yankees announce 38 players for spring training camp
New York announces a 38 player roster for spring training in St Petersburg Florida. The lineup includes 13 pitchers, 5 catchers, 10 infielders and 10 outfielders with rookies reporting around February 22 to manager Miller.
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New York
New York Yankees Today
St. Petersburg
Fla
Miller
Huggins Plans Spring Stint With Ruth In Hot Springs
Huggins will join veteran pitchers and Babe Ruth for a two week spring training stay in Hot Springs Arkansas before reporting March 1 in St. Petersburg with the regulars.
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Huggins
Babe Ruth
Hot Springs
Ark
St. Petersburg
Friends Shocked by Death of Mrs Barnes at Tazewell
Friends here were shocked to learn of the death of Mrs John Barnes which occurred suddenly on Wednesday night at Tazewell She was an aunt of Mrs Luther Mustard and Mrs S S McNiel of this city.
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John Barnes
Tazewell
Falls Mills Teen Dies of Typhoid Fever
Earl Wagner sixteen year old Virginia Side high school student and son of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Wagner died early Thursday morning after a one week illness. He attended Virginia Side high school for two years and was well known in Falls Mills. Funeral services will be held at his parents home with Rev. O H Logan preaching and burial in the family plot. His father was a former sheriff candidate in Tazewell County, known as Boss Wagner.
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Earl Wagner
Virginia Side
C. M. Wagner
Falls Mills
Viceginia Side High School
O. H. Logan
W. L
J. Kek. Wagner
Bluefield
Tazewell County
Boss Wagner
Who Won the Chinese War in Perspective
The Asheville Times questions the outcome of the Chinese conflict beyond grand rhetoric, noting historians debate the winner while highlighting the practical results on the ground and the parties involved. The piece spotlights the roles of competing factions, international reactions, and the ambiguous endgame in China.
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Asheville Times
For Sale Homes and Lots in Bluefield and Princeton VA
Real estate listing across Bluefield and Princeton shows cottages, five to six room houses, and multiple lots on Rollins Tuggle Wilson Clark Calvert Bramwell Colley Jefferson Rockbridge Princeton Road and College Avenue. Prices range from 3 000 to 15 000 with options including cash and monthly payments and trades. Contact R. R. Street Bluefield VA for details on nine room and brick homes and available tracts.
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Rollins St
Bluefield
Virginia
Tuggle Place
Wilson St
Clark Street
Calvert Street
New Midway
Bramwell Road
Colley Avenue
Jefferson Street
Rockbridge Street
Princeton Road
Princeton
R. R. Street
College Avenue
Smallpox Quarantine Enforced At City Jail After Whiskey Arrest
The Scott Street jail became a quarantine station as smallpox broke out in a state prisoner. Two new inmates, Jack Gilley of Roanoke and Harvey Wright, were jailed for possessing six gallons of whiskey. After arraignment they were fined $100 and given thirty days. Gilley fell ill, exposing others. the health department vaccinated all city prisoners and released them while the two cases are detained.
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Scott Street
Jack Gilley
Roanoke
Bluefield Hotel
Harvey Wright
Magic City
Officer Watkins
Squire White
Gilley
Wright
Mastering Discordant Sound With Acoustic Wave Filter
Dr. G W Stewart of the University of Iowa claims to have perfected an acoustic wave filter that can suppress unwanted noises by making sound waves interfere. The device allegedly creates a battle of waves to block transmission, potentially quieting zones in hospitals and reducing automobile noise. A brass tube experiment shows tones below a certain note are blocked while higher tones pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Stewart
University of Iowa
Stewart
Dr. Stewart
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mistuh Boot
BY Williams
City Coal Co
Mercer Coal Company
Carl G. I. Smith
Bowers Coal Co
Play House Cafe
Chas. Mamos
Cincinnati
Pocahontas
Call Hick and Lewey
Dor
Bluefield Awning & Furnace Co
Bluefield Ave
Hankla Grocery Co
Fest
Nice
Call Hankla Grocery Co
Ku Klux Klan
EF. H. Yankee
Clarence Edward Davis
Shrine Patrol
First Baptist Sunday School
Eivery
J. M. Carter
Franceska Kaspar Lawson
Warlick
Rogers ST
Harry F. Jones
Tax Service
Bradmann
N. M
Honaker
Federal Street
Law and Commerce
WM. H. Carr
Abrams 405
Coal & Coke
Kes
West Virginia
N. E. Rierson Dentist
Ay Vasoana Bank
Princeton Avenue
J. B. Eades
Osteopathic
Physician and Specialist Mayer Building
Bluefield, W. VA
Hove
James Stott
National Association
Grand Piano Co
Bradmano
R. L. Morris
Atkins
Arturo
Altamont
THE
Henry Rodgin Company Jewelers
Mercer Funeral Home
Bland Street
Modern Funeral Establishment
Harry L. Greenspon
Bradmann Bidg
Hall Radio Supply Co
Bradmann Building
Kent
Chiropractors
North and Jefferson
MR. Bob
Jerome Katz
Bath
Co. W. Akers
Better Homes Association
Barnes
Ah Typhon
M. K. Harman
Hone
J. W. Wade
Princeton, W. Va
L. A. Pine
Call Coal, Co
Ash
Bluefield Gas & Power Co
State Board of Control
Charleston
Wysong & Bengtson
James 8. Lakin
Charleston, W. V
Goodykoonts Drug Company
Three Good Drug Stores
Riker
Violet Cerate
Harmony
Cara Nome
East End
Bluefield Pharmacy
Fairview Pharmacy
Bland and
South Streets
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