Mine Timbers and Timbering Costs for Coal Mines
The article notes an eight cent rise in coal costs due to mine timbers. It explains timber needs for cross ties in railway haulage, including gangways of two legs nine to ten feet long and thirteen inches in diameter. A colliery may use about 1,000 sets per gangway, with ten gangways common. timber life averages two years, 45 percent decay, others destroyed by wear and insects. Treatments with oil or chemicals extend service.
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Vegetarian Magazine
Bramwellite Urges Bluefield Baseball League Start
A Bramwellite visiting Bluefield blamed the city for the season’s weak baseball. He proposed a four team league with four pros per team and 15 non pros to keep a season long, open to Bramwell Elk Horn Keystone Gary and Welch for lively regional play. He urged Bluefield fans to push a start at Bramwell.
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Bluefield
Bramwell
Elkhorn
Keystone
Gary
Welch
Bramwellite
Bluefield Baseball
July Weather Forecast by Rev Irl Hicks
Rev Irl Hicks predicts July weather for the east with storm periods on the 4th to 6th and 9th to 18th and 19th to 24th. Expect falling barometers, warm waves, rain, thunder, and possible waterspouts and quakes. cooler spells may follow and a hot spell around July 28th.
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Irl R. Hicks
Venus
Mercury
Earth
Neptune
Tip Top Their Mecca Hotel Plans Fourth of July Opening
The new hotel at Iron Lithia Springs will open on July Fourth with a string band for daytime and evening dancing. A brass band will perform on the veranda and a general celebration is planned. A Tip Top prominent man expects many locals and visitors from Virginia and West Virginia.
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Iron Lithia Springs
Tip Top
Tazewell County
Kappa Sigma Fraternity Holds Denver Biennial Conclave
The eigh tenth biennial grand conclave of the Kappa Sigma fraternity convenes in Denver with leaders from top colleges attending. Headquarters opened at the Albany hotel with red, green and white decorations. the group traces to 1876 at the University of Virginia and claims over 75 chapters and about 10,000 members nationwide.
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Denver
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
America
Albany
Kappa Sigma Fraternity In
University of Virginia
Europe
University of
Bologna
Paris
Florence
Orleans
Races at Radford Fourth of July and Pills Review
A fragment announces Radford races on July Fourth and features a testimonial from B. F. Ayscue of Ingleside North Carolina praising Dr King s New Life Pills after years of indigestion and high costs. The ad states the pills are the best sold and offered at druggists for 25 cents with a guarantee.
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Dr. King
B. F. Ayscue
Ingleside
N. C
Kennedy Laxative Cough Syrup for Children
A vintage ad describes Kennedy Laxative Cough Syrup as a child friendly remedy. It touts gentle action on the bowels and a maple sugar flavor, marketed as a convenient druggist purchase for families.
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Kennedy
DeWitt's Little Early Risers Liver Pills Ad
An old advertisement notes DeWitt’s Little Early Risers liver pills are sold by druggists across the city, promoting their reputation and wide availability to customers seeking relief.
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DeWitt's
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