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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1911
Page
3
A Charleston WV medical ad advocates Fields Prune Syrup and Senna as the ideal remedy for constipation and related stomach liver and bowel issues. It promotes better blood and nerves, lists symptoms, urges use to restore health, notes price ten cents, and directs readers to order via White Pharmacy and local dealers.
Fidelity Banking & Trust Co. notifies sale by assignment on June 17 at 10 a m at its front door. 150 shares of Tug River Coal Land Co stock issued to Mark Packard, with dates Jan 26 1806 and Nov 12 1806, offered to satisfy a $5,000 note dated May 9 1910 plus interest and costs. Shares limited to cover the note, interest, and sale costs.
Instructions list varied Pullman sleeper and parlor car routes from Roanoke to Philadelphia Norfolk and beyond with multiple intermediate stations including Richmond Shenandoah Valley and Key cities. service times 4:22 am to 8:20 pm with connections to Norfolk Philadelphia and Columbus. agent W B Breville provides additional information.
A dying tramp in Scottsville finds a Prussian lottery ticket worth up to 25000. The town’s greed inflames bids from a drummer, a beef buyer, a tin peddler, and a deacon. A messenger returns with the verdict that the ticket drew nothing, triggering public outcry, mayoral resignation, and a perjury question tied to the city’s finances.
Roanoke Va June 3 Citizens discuss a plan to compel the immediate resignation of the mayor. Local leaders and residents debate lawful steps and potential recalls as tensions rise amid ongoing city governance concerns.
Tazewell Va June 3 Alex Coles a negro charged with murdering his wife at Cedar Bluff weeks ago was freed by a circuit court jury this afternoon as the state failed to prove a motive. The shooting occurred with a pistol. the wife died instantly. The same report notes Cedar Bluff school board elected W W Carson principal and a list of assistant teachers for the coming session.
L. Herbert Lanier argues in Medical Fortnightly that mental discipline is crucial to health and longevity. He warns against worry and anger, advocates slow regular eating and ten hours sleep, and notes many diseases arise from a deformed mind and unhealthy life stresses.
Vibrations pass from the stirrup bone to the inner ear creating noises heard only by the patient. Sounds range from windlike whistling to ringing bells and bird piping, with cases where nerves keep transmitting bell vibrations and froglike noises. Treatments include frequency currents and vibratory massage with encouraging results.
Bramwell area observes visits and moves including Jett Priday to Thayer to visit relatives and J B Biggs moving into a Freeman residence. Local grading work from Bramwell to Freeman railroad crossing nears completion. W T Williams of Bluefeld and Miss Lucille Rowan's Bramwell High School graduation highlighted. Montreal's spring racing meet opened with a structured program.
Welch baseball team captained by Dr. B G Koll travels to Athens to face Concord Normal School in a rematch this season. Brown and Waldron will be Welch’s battery. Also reports a lawn party by Miss Louise Booth’s circle raising about 85 dollars for a piano for the Methodist Sunday school. Regular Methodist services announced for Sunday. Numerous short local notices follow, including visits by Judge J M Santers and various residents traveling or returning home.
Paris hosts a week long aviation contest spanning Europe from Paris to Berlin Brussels London and back to Paris. The event promises a total prize pool of 100000 pounds in cash for top finishers and is billed as the largest series of aviation races ever arranged.
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