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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1909
Page
5
The Gary baseball team led Huger 13 to 10 in the ninth inning but officials' calls against Gary prompted a forfeit and walk off the field with Huger at bat and two outs. Other items note local street work, court cases, fishing trips, and memorial day observances.
E D Lucas arrives in the city after touring southern cities including Alabama Georgia Tennessee Florida and Louisiana saying business is good throughout the region. The report notes widespread optimism and strong commercial activity.
Don’t toil at the hot stove and risk wrinkles as a helper offers ready comfort. The ad promises easy, flawless supper solutions with trusted service to spare you fatigue.
A city school year finale at the Elks pera house drew full attendance as pupils from grades four through eight staged a lively program. Numbers ranged from operetta songs and a King Lear skit to recitations and lively cakewalking performances by Dosothy Shirey and Ruth Postlethwaite, with Master Maxie Matz and Miss Shipman cited for their roles.
The Admiralty trains divers and every British warship carries divers with training schools at Portsmouth Devonport and Sheerness. Depth limits reach 120 feet with reports of 204 feet. the suit weighs over a quarter hundredweight and boots similar, copper helmet screws tight, air pumped through a canvas pipe with lifeline and telephone communication.
A historic Wichita anecdote recalls West Street being paved with buffalo skulls and horns in early days. Demand existed only in theory as settlers hauled bones to town and found no steady market, while authorities forced removal. Father Bliss alone seemed to value the skulls and horns.
A bygone practice features Father Bliss piling large buffalo heads on his roof, a practice that disgusted locals. Buffalo bones were shipped to New England for buttons and other goods, part of a rush of hides and robes that decimated the American bison. The story notes how profit driven commercialism discarded heads now valuable, and pivots to a personal line about love.
Bid submissions due June 26 1909 to erect a two story brick or stone residence at Mullins West Virginia Plans and specifications available at Mullins shop or at A I Wysong's Princeton office after June 5 1909 Right reserved to reject any or all bids D D MORGAN Daily Telegraph
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