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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1912
Page
7
A damaged OCR fragment from a Bluefield West Virginia paper dated Tuesday June 4 1912 includes advertising lines and a Bible quote plus a Milton quotation. The legible text mentions The Telegraph Printing Co and Bluefield addresses.
The article urges West Virginia Republicans to participate in today’s state primary for all offices from governor to constable. It argues the primary should be state driven, not party oriented, and stresses citizen participation and expressing a universal preference through the vote. The official ballot appears in the Daily Telegraph advertising columns.
A sermon contemplates approaching vacation time and the variety of breaks from a week to a summer. It asks what vacation time fits, ends, and aims to serve and how it should be spent for proper purpose.
The piece argues many fail to use vacations for genuine rest. It calls for self reflection and quiet away from crowds and temptations. It suggests Americans will learn to value leisure, noting an hour of self contemplation can beat a day of social bustle.
H. E. Beshore of Wellsburg writes to the Clarksburg Telegram praising Dr. Hatfield as a longtime friend of workers. He recalls Hatfield aiding railroad men in accidents, saving a leg, sharing mercy and fearlessness, and notes Hatfield’s origins in Dungess, W Va, as a dependable, generous physician and neighbor.
The text explains pus forming bacteria are common in soil water and on skin and can inflame any body part. It lists diseases from boils tonsillitis blood poisoning and meningitis while promoting Chamberlains Tablets for bowel regulation and constipation relief.
A classified line offers potato plants at 3.50 per thousand and transplanted celery at 1.00 per 100. Fallon, a florist in Roanoke Virginia, provides a lower list. The ad is dated 24-16t.
A collage of clipped items includes remarks on legal verdicts in Pittsburg and justice commentary from Cleveland and Jacksonville, brief political quips, a marriage engagement joke from Manchester Union, a plant sale and florist ad, and a Mercer county sheriff candidacy notice by J. H. Lilly. The mix reflects a town page of miscellany and notices.
A vintage hair care piece describes dry frizzy hair treatment with weekly powdering using arms root and cornmeal, olive oil massage, and fine pins. It cites curling methods, steaming, damp fingers, and emollients including ether, alcohol, whiskey tinctures, and quinine.
A Keystone youth with £59 in his pocket lost the money at the Northfork carnival. G T Swain and associates set a decoy purse to trap the thief, who was caught and jailed by local officials. A Raleigh-like aside on rheumatism and a liniment advertisement appears in the same piece.
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