Board of Education Holds Annual Meeting
The board appointed FE. L. Bowman as clerk and George M. Ford as superintendent. Ninety-nine trustees were named for country schools. A nine month term was fixed for the city with six months favored by country attendees. Truant officers were named and several bills allowed.
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Board of Education
FE. L. Bowman
George M. Ford
G. M. Cornett
H. Hartley
Harriet S. Hale
Milzabeth T. Peck
Grace A. Jewett
Negro murderer jailed after deadly shooting near Cas sler's Hill
John Meadley, the man who shot merchant Neal Shannon near Tophet, is jailed in the city lockup after being brought from Radford by Chief Newkirk. The killing occurred during a Negro dance. Meadley fled but was later arrested in Radford. A reward reportedly funded his capture. Shannon and Meadley had prior quarrels, with an earlier courthouse day clash in which Shannon wounded Meadley's father.
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John Meadley
Neal Shannon
Tophet
Police
Newkirk
Radford
Chief Newkirk
Cassler's Hill
Racetrack Ridge
Summers
Mercer
Shannon
Meadley
No. 18
Pearlsburg
East Radford
W. L. Clark
Walton
C. G. Taylor
Jones
Pure Flavor Extracts Labeled Amid Advertised Remedies
An Odd ad shows Sauer’s Pure Flavor Extracts kept as PURI branding while listing DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Solve as a piles remedy. It notes prices of 10 and 25 cents and claims DeWitt’s is sold by all druggists, with a closing line on wants and reciprocity in human claims.
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SAUER
DeWitt
Night and Day Equally Bright at Guayaquil
Observers describe perpetual daylight patterns at Guayaquil with six o clock sunrises and sunsets, phosphorescent seas and stars in a tropical voyage. The text notes strange constellations, a sailors myth of the devil’s dinner bag, and a humorous aside about a political speech.
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Guaynaquil
Candidate boasts twenty two bills for district fame
A political candidate claims to have introduced twenty two bills in Congress aimed at benefiting the community. A heckler in the gallery interrupts, asserting the bills were introduced but not passed.
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Congress
God's Green Earth
Stockholders Meeting Bluefield Brewing Co Called
The stockholders of Bluefield Brewing Co meet in the Directors room on Tuesday July 14 1908 at 2 PM to elect officers and consider other business. All shareholders urged to attend. F T Tyree Secretary Treasurer July 23 1908. 6-24-tdm
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Bluefield Brewing Co
F. T. Tyree
Sec. & Treas
Tdm
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