Whitney’s cotton gin breakthrough aided by a woman’s insight
In a narrative from Old Paths and Legends, Katherine M. Abbott recounts the young Eli Whitney testing his gin at Dungeness on Cumberland Island. A guest, Mrs. Greene, suggests using a clothes brush to free the saws, leading Whitney to proclaim thanks for perfecting his invention.
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el Whitney
New England
Katherine M. Abbott
Nathaniel Greene
Whitney
Cumberland Island
Mrs. Greeve
Wedding Invitations and Local News From Bluefield Area
Mrs Hannah Coffman mails invitations for Sophia Bell to Walter Millatr at Bland Street Methodist Church Bluefield WV. Notices on civic duties and a Richmond/ Southwest Virginia obituary include Col John C Roper death near Austinville Wythe County and charity scene.
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Hannah Frances Coffman
Sophia Bell
Walter Dearing Millatr
Bland Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Bluefield
West Virginia
Mrs. Millner
Princeton Avenue
Col. Roper
John C. Roper
Austinville
Wythe County
Southwest
Virginia
Robert Roper
Lee
Jackson
Richard Shelton
Willie Roper
Tomato Plant Advertisement Promotes Prompt Reliable Relief
A fragmented ad highlights tomato plants and a prompt shipment from Fallon Roanoke Virginia. It urges taking reliable stomach aids like Kodol for Dyspepsia and Indigestion, noting its pleasant taste and guaranteed relief sold by druggists including DeWitt’s Little Early Risers.
Tigers Call Game In Fifth Rain Shortened Championship
Bluefield Tigers led 7 to 4 over High School when rain halted play in the first game of the series. Tigers planned two games at Concord State Normal School after leaving for Athens.
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Bluefield Tigers
Bluefield
Tigers
Johnson
Baker
Tanner
Fink
Sanders
Palmer
Biggs
Looney
Potts
E. High School
M. McCue
Kagsley
Brunner
Tickle
A. McCue
Melcher
Douthat
French
Evans
Crick
Athens
Concord State Normal School
Benefit skate for High School baseball team at local rink
A benefit skate Friday night will aid the High School baseball team with five dollars awarded to the most graceful pair on the floor. Also noted is H C Whitworth, once of Bluefield now a state penitentiary guard, who testified about moving twenty-one McDowell county convicts to Moundsville.
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Bluefield
Pythian Castle Hall
Bland Street
Masonica
J. J. Giles
H. C. Whitworth
State Penitentiary
Welch
Moundsville
McDowell County
Giles Street
Monroe Street
Princeton Avenue
The Hippocratic Oath and Medicine’s Ancient Ethos
A discussion of the Hippocratic Oath from Appleton's Magazine traces medicine’s sacred calling. It recalls Hippocrates’ pledge to heal with purity and secrecy and notes the enduring ideal guiding physicians through sickness and death.
Buenos Aires Deemed City Of Comfort And Charm
Arthur Ruhl writes in Scribner’s Magazine praising Buenos Aires as a well ordered, compact city. He notes clean streets, accessible hotels and theaters, and a cosmopolitan atmosphere where a visitor feels at home and admires the quiet efficiency of city life.
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Hiim
Buenos Aires
Arthur Ruhl
Scriboer’s
Accomplices in New York Streetcar Conductor Ruse
A New York streetcar conductor encounters a group of women suspected of aiding Mala prop rival. The party splits seats, with one woman paying the fares for four and remarking that two others across the car are implicated. The scene signals a planned trap or pretense of complicity.
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New York Times
Memorial of Adam on April First in Ancient Calendars
The Chicago News recalls an oriental tradition marking April 1 as Adam’s Memorial. It says Adam, on death, instructed his sons to embalm his body with myrrh incense and casein and bury him in the cave of Al Tianuz near paradise. They later moved his remains to the earth’s center for posterity’s salvation, supposedly accomplished by Noah and Melchizedek reburying him on Calvary.
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S.S.S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, GA
Adam
al Tianuz
Paradise
Noah
Melchizedek
Calvary
Chicago News
Twelfth commencement at Bluefield Colored Institute honors graduates
The Bluefield Colored Institute held its twelfth commencement with about 700 in attendance. The program featured music, sermons, and presentations including diplomas awarded by T. P. Sims. Performances included songs, a poem on The Courage and Heroism of Martin Luther, and readings by Elizabeth Miles and W. B. Poin Dexter.
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Bluefield Colored Institute
Edwards
Go Pretty Rose
Martin Luther
Henry L. Dickerson
Salo
Annie Whisiker
Campbell
Glee Club
Cass
Vogel
F. Cooley
Bebes
T. P. Sims
What Shall We Have for Dessert Try JELL-O
An advertising note extols JELL-O as a dainty economical dessert. It can be prepared instantly by adding boiling water and serving when cool. Flavors include lemon orange raspberry strawberry chocolate cherry peach and more. All grocers sell it and JELL-O complies with Pure Food Laws.
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Racumatis Macs
Bluefield Normal & Business College, CO. Charter
Pitman, Gregg and Kimball
Oliver, Underwood, Reming
TON
SMITH
W. H. Cunningham
Bluefield, W. VA
D. B. Baldwin
Pioneer
W. VA
Firet National Bank Band
Wotary Public
R. L. Morris
Dailyrogram Bluefield Normal & Business College
King
THE
People’s Grocery Store
Consumers’ Mercantile & Supply Co
Wonderland Theatre
Bluefield Ave
District Court of the United States
Edw. J. Shawver
Mercer
J. Shawver
Mercer County
G. J. Holbrook
Eli Whitney
Ankie Bailly
W. R. Rock
Clay Street
M. L. Clifford
Pocanhontas Concern
Virginia State Corporation Commission
A. J. Doss Manufacturing Company (Inc
Pocahontas
A. J. Doss
J. D Chambers
Honaker
J. W. Graybeal
Aid Society
Ladies Aid Society
First Baptist Church
Chamber of Commerce
Thornton Building
Rosie May Meadows
George Abshir
Todd
D. Emory Hawk
John D. Daily
Tazewell
Capt Daily
Internal Revenue
Coul Creek
Tazewell County
Buchanan County
Fallon
Plorist
Roanoke
DeWitt
Grace Parsonage
Grace Church Parsonage
Dora Daniel
Lewis
Mestin
Stone
Aoung
Roma
Pen
Broadway
John FP. Slocum
Julian Edwards
Wallack’s
New York
Big Town
New York World
M. Witmark & Sons
Music House
Appleton
Hippocrates
Christ
Police
P. Band
Grant and
Wayne Streets
F. K
P. Ellis
Iagles
Red Men
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Typgraphical Union
Somers Street
Scott Street
Stewart Street
Wyoming
Scouse
Monece
Knights Templar
Grand Lodge
Rayo
Standard OL Company
G. M. McCulloch
N, Sec'ty and Treas
Fat TO Insurance Agency
General Insurance
Bluefield Institute
the Black Republic
W. B. Poindexter
Industralism In
Elizabeth Miles
G. W. Ruunion
A. Whisiker Campbell
Cardwell
Kindness
Blanche Thomas
Frederick Douglas
W. E. Gentry
EB. A. Wood
VM Free
Miller Supply Company
W. L. Draper
Studebaker
Geiser
Vulcanite
Bluefield Implement & Machinery Co
ING
Kelley & Moyers Building
Hamberlaing
Dr. King
J. I. Aysene
N. C
Bluefield Bottling Company
Thoods BK
Peery, & D
EAM
Ovenlisi
Balbwayie
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