Sunday church services and community notices
Local churches announce morning and evening services with sermon topics and special music. Schools and civic groups provide reports on meetings, upcoming events, and safety appeals. A church appeal seeks donations to stave off sale of Raleigh Street Methodist property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Immanuel Lutheran ‘Church
C. R. W. Kegley
Presbyterian Church
Raleigh Street
P. P. Brook
Jones Street
South
Bluefield
Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup Promises Gentle Relief
Advertisement notes Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup acts gently on the bowels to drive the cold from the system and claims it is sold by all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Pastor Marie Vaught Returns Home From Pulaski Visit
Rev. 8. B. Vaught, pastor of the Southern Methodist church, has returned home after a visit to Pulaski.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
8. B. Vaught
Southern Methodist Church
Pulaski
Illness Update From Virginia Father on Marie Vaught
Virginia reports Marie Vaught, thirteen, recovering from typhoid fever after a visit to grandmother Mrs Jas. 8. Peery. Father states she is greatly improved and out of danger. Also note an advertising block for Ideal Shoe Store on Princeton Ave offering a strictly cash policy with refunds on returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Marie
Jas
Peery
Ideal Shoe Store
Princeton Ave
Free prizes and sales items from 1900s advertisement
A fragmented ad lists prizes and giveaways for a July sale with daily free prizes and various goods. It includes a note about a 1897 disease claim, a 1902 bottle reference, and a signed letter from C. N. Cornell in Bodine Georgia, August 27 1906, plus a druggist selling Kodol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.C. DeWitt & Co
Chicago
Georgia
C. N. Cornell
Bodine, Ga
Evolution of Men’s Costumes From Revolution to Victoria
The piece traces how the French Revolution influenced early 1800s fashion with shorter coats and pants, reduced powder, and universal haircuts. It notes 1814 civilian adoption of trousers and boots, the dandy’s starched collar waning under George IV, and later Victorian tweaks while knickerbockers and the tweed suit are newer styles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Paris
George IV
Queen Victoria
Tea shop flees to Hongkong after hoax sale
A London town tea shop pledged a free shilling check with each pound of tea to lure buyers. Crowds gathered only to find shutters down and a poster saying the owners have gone to Hongkong for more tea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hongkong
London
London Express
Sexton Burials Reported In Exact Terminology
A London Tit-Bits example shows a Manchester sexton reporting burials with explicit phrasing such as Died, John Green, male, aged three days, unmarried. The entry underscores clinical detail in cemetery records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
John Green
London
Dentist Diagnosis Sparks Patient Plea for Respect
A dentist tells the patient the tooth nerve is dying, prompting the patient to protest that the dying deserve more respectful treatment. The exchange reveals tension between medical assessment and patient dignity.
Unhappy Answer Sparks Curate to Pity
An exchange in London Opinion finds the curate Giles explaining loneliness after his wife’s death. The curate pleads for understanding as he defends keeping a spiteful old cat.
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Giles
London
Jonah Disembarks After Voyage in Whale Tale
The New York Sun quotes Jonah remarking on finishing the voyage and his rare luck of not tipping the steward as he watches the whale with a half approving glance.
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Jonah
New York Sun
Different Points of View in a City Dialogue
A seedy pessimist laments poverty while a ragged optimist counters with ease. The text frames social contrasts and hints at guilt as a societal force. The piece uses terse dialogue to paint a street scene and ends with a stray promotion for a Telegraph want ad.
Dean's Kidney Pills Proclaimed a Remedy
Bluefield readers report relief from kidney trouble with Doan's Kidney Pills. J C Barrow of 102 Mercer Street Bluefield W Va credits the medicine with reducing dull loins pain and urinary discomfort after exposure and heavy lifting. Sold by dealers at 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Bluefield
J. C. Barrow
Mercer Street
W. Va
John L. Crockett
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Claims Deafness Cure
An old patent medicine ad asserts deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh. It promises one hundred dollars for any deafness case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, and urges sending for circulars and buying accompanying family pills.
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Hall
Cheney & CO
Toledo
BLUEFIELD NOTICE SHOWS EXTENDED OPEN HOURS FOR CLERICAL COURSES
An advertisement lists courses at BLUEFIELD NORMAL & BUSINESS SCHOOL from 9 to 4 for shorthand grammar spelling penmanship and letter writing. Evening sessions 7 to 10 and 4 to 7 cover arithmetic cornet flute clarinet bookkeeping rhetoric and commercial law. Sold with DeWitt's Little Risers pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dally Re
Bluefield Normal & Business
Arith
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Baby Gaps Millinery
Ferrell Mercantile
Princeton Avenue
West Va
Kelley & Moyers Building
the Presbyterian Church
Calvary Baptist Church
J. W. Scruggs
Park Street
Christian Church
Hvmmn
D. R. Moss
First Baptist Church
Grace Church
Rebekah Lodge
Olive Rebekah Lodge
O O. F
Ilda Summers
Noble Grand
G. M. Hetherington
May Thompson
C. L. Clark
G. W. Hetherington
W. S. Bailey
W. B. Landrum
C C. Paterson
A. B.clare Daily Telegraph
Tower Grounds
Speas
Henry
Transport
Douthat
Hicks
Bruce, Witten
Jesse
Lauderman and
Lacy
Davy
Bernard Burton
J. T. Tanner
Flat Top Va
Graham
Burton
Tazewell
Radford
Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company
Tom's Creek
Ott Willis
Roanoke
Anderson Club
Memphis
Anderson
Willis
Electricians
Evening News
Willie
D. B. Baldwin
Pioneer Real Estate
First National
Kavk
Juffice
Phon
Wotary Pret
Thornton
G. R. Reese & Company
Raven Red Ash
THE
W. P. Hawley Merchandise CO
South Bland Street
Westinghouse
A. GC. Motors
Bluestone Traction Company
Clark & Co
Hes At
California
Can
Marie Vaught
Thornton’s
Manhattan
Pringeton and
HIGQ
Ginboth Avenues
W Va
Mr. Duffey
Miss Smart
James
New York Journal
Syrus
Hunt
DeWitt
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