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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1906
Page
3
A call to action advertising Accumulative and Annual Dividend life policies by Claude W. Gloss. It warns that any non insurer bearing risk on your life endangers your wife and child and notes delaying purchase costs more. The message urges immediate coverage for home protection.
Labor groups plan a national cooperative league in Minneapolis to boost collective buying power. A New York court upholds an eight hour wage standard for city employment. In South Bend a clash plays out as the Amalgamated Street Railway Employees run twenty taxis against rival trolley cars. Springfield hosts a major university extension program run by the University of Chicago’s umbrella. Maryland enforces an eight hour telegraphers law, while the Marble Workers Federation gains wide membership across the U S and Canada.
Report notes ministers in Birmingham Alabama join the Trades Council amid strike activity in Winnipeg and growing farmer organization efforts in the southwest. Amid winter sickeness advice promotes Early Risers pills for cleansing and health. Alaska Packers Association fleets exceed others with 65 steamers and 15 sailing vessels.
A fragment notes Argo Red Salmon canning bound by tall machinery and crude processes. It mentions flat-hand Hana workers in factories and a price of 15 cents per can at all grocers.
An OCR fragment shows assorted ads and product pitches from a bygone era. It mentions paint by Green Seal Liquid Paint and Eureka Hardware, men's wash ties, and Kennedy's Laxa- a cathartic remedy. It also touts DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve for burps boils sores and piles sold by druggists.
Judith Early notes a quiet social week with several clubs disbanding and summer plans ahead. Weddings, birthdays, and yard games marked gatherings, including a Princeton Avenue party for Georgia Thomas, with guests listed and a pink and white decor theme.
A humorous tale of Saint Peter denying entry to a couple seeking heaven. The wife’s nagging prompts Peter to switch the man to Hell while the husband is rewarded with a heavenly harp for enduring thirty years of domestic strife. The joke ends with the reversal of earthly judgment in the afterlife.
Testimony from Mrs Tarver of 107 Reese street Bluefield confirms Doan’s Ointment relieves eczema itching and skin eruptions. She sought relief after unsuccessful salves and bought at John L Crockett’s drug store. Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents advertise the remedy at 50 cents.
Advertisement extols Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as the remedy that digests what you eat and lets the stomach rest and recover. It promises restoration of digestive organs to full natural function after meals and notes availability from all druggists.
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