Education bonds urged to modernize Beaver Pond schools
Beaver Pond District voters are urged to approve a $150000 bond issue to build repair and equip schools across Bluefield and surrounding country. The board cites crowded aging structures lacking heat and light and argues for a district high school to attract families and reduce out-of-district schooling costs. Prominent local figures and chamber of commerce leaders back the plan as essential for future prosperity.
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Beaver Pond
Board of Education
City of Bluefield
South Bluefield
Christie
Bedford Street
Colored Baptist Church
Bluefield
Belcher No
Cliff Town
West Virginia
Ity
Ironton
Ohio
Salisbury
Friends of Public Education
W. J. Newenham
Chamber of Commerce
Cow
Harold A. Ritz
ER. H. Easley
WM. McCarthy
B. McClaugherty
H. 1
Shott
How to Avoid Appendicitis and Laxatives Advertised
Advice on avoiding appendicitis links habit to constipation. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup is touted to cure chronic constipation by stimulating liver and bowels and restoring natural action. It claims mild, non nauseating relief and urges refusing substitutes with ads for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea and various druggists and stores.
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Orino
G. H. Wade
How to Cure Chilblains by John Kemp East Otisfield Me
John Kemp of East Otisfield Maine advises applying Bucklen's Arnica Salve for chilblains and frost bites. He reports success on salt rheum and other skin ailments, noting the product is guaranteed for fever sores indolent ulcers piles burns wounds and skin diseases and available for 25 cents at drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kemp
East Otisfield
Bucklen
The Jailer’s Daughter and the Escape
A jailer’s daughter aids a wrongly accused prisoner of horse stealing to escape using a file and case knife. They flee by night, evade a posse through a thicket, suffer exposure in a fire, survive on berries, and reach a ranch where the man returns home. Five years later the jailer's daughter marries the man she saved.
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North Star
Eastern College
Arnold Atherton
Market Quotations Reported by the Bluefield Broker
Market quotations are listed by the Bluefield Brokerage Company located in Bluefield West Virginia. The firm operates from the third floor of the Kelly and Moyer Building and deals in stocks, bonds, securities and provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Brokerage and Commission Company
Kelly & Moyer Building
Bluefield
W. Va
New York Cotton Market Curiosities in Ancient Australia
A fragmented note describes central Australia with Lake Amadeus as a salt sheet, vast rivers, and extinct fauna like diprotodons. It notes scarce wildlife, water holes, frogs gathering after rains, and drought, while Indigenous groups maintain totem reverence and婚 customs restricting marriage to other groups.
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Austerlia
Amadeus
Diprotodon
Ike
Emousse
Robert Burns
Common sense of common things, a bottle and a bore
A scientist visits and explains why a round dull bottle was filled with water only after being held under the tap. The anecdote supports the view that cleverness does not guarantee practical intelligence in everyday tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. H. K. Dobbs
Fry's Magazine
Why Currants Are Nutritious
Currants are highly nutritious because they consist largely of grape sugar in easily digestible form. The currant’s piquant flavor comes from tar tar ic acid, and potash is present as cream of tartar, offering potential dietary value as noted in Ladies' Pictorial.
No Excitement From A Dramatist On The Courtship
The Louisville Courier Journal quotes a dramatist saying a tale of a loving husband and wife offers material for drama, noting the challenge of shaping such material into a compelling work. The remark underscores a focus on traditional marital themes in storytelling.
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Sue
Louisville Courier Journal
Inference On Turkish Baths Sparks Debate
A witty exchange questions the premise of Turkish baths as a scheme to keep one dirty. The judge retorts that the speaker has never taken one, implying cultural misunderstandings. The remark underscores humor over sanitary norms in the era.
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Oney Gap Tunnel
Jit Ig
Hollister
Rocky Mountain Tea
Mill Creek Coal and Coke Co
West End Drug Co
W. J. Peters
Freeman
NEW York Stock Market
Chicago
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Cotton of
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Kan
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Pacific
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New York
Owen
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Norwood Lumber Co
Kimball
Louis Cary
Mgr
Core Telegraph
R. L. Graham
Rogers Street
A. S. Abernathy
Carolina Ave
POR RE
S. K. Davis, Welch
Rient
Russell Street
Bluefield Pant & Overall
Turk’s
Bland St
Highland Avenue
Spencer
Giles St
Bland Street
Care Telegraph
Fifth Street
Sublette & James
South Bland Street
S. PB
Block St. Paul Coal Co
J. W. Rader
ShuMebarger’s
Windsor
Princeton Avenue
People’s Store Cos
Art Stationery Co
W. HH. Harry & CO
L A Bartlett
Guilford
Dr. King
W.E
EL. Shufflebarger
Solon Building
Merchandise Exchange Incorporated
HEARN
Richmond
7Th and
H Street
Washington
B.C
Union Station
Capital
White House
Metropolitan Club
Wayside Inn
Lake Lauzerne
N. Y
Adirondacks
Switzerland of America
Saratoga
Clifford M. Lewis
Bluefield Normal & Business College
Pitman, Gregg and Kimball
Oliver,underwood, Remington and
Smitig Machines
H. Cunningham
Williams & Stewart
Troom 50 State Bank Building
Wytheville, Virginia
Wytheville, Va
Virginian Railway
Nas
Tiss
Heeles
Mabon Mullens
Herndon
Matoaka
Deepwater
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Norfolk and Western Ry
M. Adsit
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Norfolk
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