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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1907
Page
4
A quick round of quips notes witty lines from the Baltimore Sun about a poet who lives on thoughts, a Chicago wife counting 3 285 drinks a year, and a Tennessee woman marrying the same man for a seventh time. It jokes about tariffs, statues for silence in Boston, and the cost of living rising with neuralgia.
Boston financier Thomas W. Lawson, after weeks in Europe, advocates a third term for the president. He has previously criticized Roosevelt and sought a White House meeting without success. On returning, Lawson is expected to align with third term supporters, pursuing their aims with energy.
Editor Sam W. Small, longtime evangelistic co-worker of the late Sam Jones, is now a leading editorial writer for Tom Watson's Jeffersonian Weekly in Atlanta and a regular contributor to Watson's Magazine. Citizens recall his Bland Street Church lectures and remember him.
Besides his literary work he runs a suburban Methodist church where his eloquence draws large congregations each Sunday. Few men in American journalism today possess a more pointiful fund of information than Sam Small, whose knowledge of the classics, the Bible, Shakespeare, and standard works is said to be marvelous.
Statistics compiled in Washington show Pennsylvania suffered about 500 coal mine deaths in 1906 due to gas or dust explosions, with roughly 250 from explosions alone. West Virginia recorded 88 such deaths that year, with early 1907 fatalities already surpassing a hundred as the national geological survey studies causes to aid miners and operators.
The Daily Telegraph guides Bluefield shoppers to current sales and bargains. Progressive local stores present attractive offers, with the paper acting as the link between businesses and the community. Mention in ad space when you buy.
Isaac T Mann chairman calls Republicans of East River district Mercer County West Virginia to meet June 1 1907 at Mercer county courthouse Princeton at 2 30 pm to suggest three candidates for the vacancy on the county central committee caused by the death of William M Maacod. Bramwell May 22 1907.
The piece defends Methuselah as the era’s oldest figure against Professor Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago who doubts the biblical patriarch’s 869 years. It urges Starr to stop attacking Methuselah and to leave the ancient “oldest inhabitant” in peace.
Ladies widely report quick scalp cleansing from dandruff and itching relief after using Newbro's Herpicide. The product claims to cure dandruff by destroying its germ, prevent hair loss, and even act as an ideal hair dressing. samples offered by mail.
Advertises Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea and tablets priced at 35 cents and a Kidney and Bladder Pills for backache and urinary troubles. Claims a week’s treatment costs 25 cents and lists multiple local druggists selling the products.
In Fedora Tennessee C V Pepper recounts illness with lung and throat hemorrhage. He attributes recovery to Dr King s New Discovery and notes rapid relief and return to work. The ad promotes cough and cold care with a trial bottle offered, and lists Urino Laxative Fruit Syrup and Kodol as stomach aid products sold by local druggists.
A Cedar Grove man, Geo H Parris, writes that after liver and kidney troubles and failing to find relief he used Electric Bitters. He says one bottle helped and three bottles cured him. The product is guaranteed for stomach liver and kidney troubles and sold by all druggists.
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