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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1908
Page
5
Local council plans to decide on express and drag wagon placements at Monday night meeting. The street committee may designate suitable locations for wagons during their long stay on the streets, resolving a long standing curbside blockage issue.
A collision left several cars damaged with no injuries. J T Wall Jr child of Mr and Mrs J T Math buried after funeral attended by many. Walter Yockey returns home after appendicitis recovery. Reed Coal and Land Co forms to develop Pocahontas WV region with 25 million tons of ore. Grace Church Home Mission Society meets at Mrs J C Turley’s home. A four room cottage owned by Sam Arie burns. bucket brigade prevents spread. An Italian patient with typhoid fever dies at St Luke's Hospital and is prepared for burial at Crockett's.
News briefs from Lincoln Norfolk Hot Springs Oyster Bay and Portland report flood deaths political party shifts Roosevelt's woods trip and a wireless message from the Atlantic battleship fleet. Multistate notes cover recovery efforts and party maneuvering with dates and places.
L M Clark of Radford A J Dudley of Bramwell and others were in the city on business or visiting relatives. J Steinberg left for Baltimore for a family visit while several others traveled to Philadelphia Hunter's Springs and Mt Clemens. Mrs Coffman and family returned from hospital in Baltimore and Hot Springs.
A group of Texas Bankers Association members and their families departed Dallas aboard a deluxe train for a pleasure trip. The itinerary travels through Kansas City St Joseph Omaha Sioux City Minneapolis and Duluth with a final steamer to Chicago. A stop is planned at Mackinac Island en route.
Sheriffs from most Minnesota counties gather in Red Wing for the association’s semiannual meeting and outing. Mayor Pierce welcomed visitors as W. M Gerber, president, gave the response. The program emphasizes recreation on the second day.
Informal notice describes a barefoot person wearing wooden shoes with pink eyes and sunset colored cherry as last seen following the crowd toward Clark & Co to shop bargains. Advertisement lists potatoes apples melons cantaloupes squash beets and other produce at low prices plus breakfast bacon and Virginia hens offered.
Thomas E. Watson of Thompson, Georgia, was formally notified as the Peoples Party presidential candidate at a large Populist gathering in Atlanta. Judge J W Forrest of Albany delivered the notification speech and Watson accepted the nomination.
The King and Tucker troupe bring a traveling circus to Graham on Monday July 13 with two performances, afternoon and night, featuring trained animals including Mable the smallest elephant, nine clowns, and a grand outdoor exhibition at 1 20 p m. The act runs in its own moral, up-to-date train. Also offer fall suit measurement at Bluefield Mercantile Co.
An ad notes customers can buy a full suit today at the Field Mercantile Company's store with the prompt to place orders for stylish garments.
The Beaver Pond District Bluefield W Va board of education invites bids for repairs to the High School Building in Vilnefield the white school in South Bluefield and five colored schools in South Bluefield bids due July 1 1908 at 3 PM must be in double the bid amount and sent to secretary EK Bowman 101 Island Street Bluefield WV details available at the office of the board. The five Brothers wallpaper shop at 107 Princeton Avenue advertises wallpaper services.
Lester M. Nelson of Naples Maine writes that Dr King's New Discovery saved his life after years of use for coughs and colds. The remedy is promoted as a top throat and lung healer and pneumonia preventive with a guarantee at drug stores. Trial bottle free 50c and 1.00.
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