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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1901
Page
3
The Telegraph announces a prize contest with cash and subscriptions for six brainteasers. It lists rewards for top solvers, asks 40 cents per entry, and includes six arithmetic riddles about sums, weights, division, and a bear weighing puzzle.
An advertisement asserts deafness results from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh. It promises one hundred dollars for any case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, promotes related products, and directs readers to send for circulars from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
A diner at a busy lunch counter struggles to get service as frustratedly he demands boiled beef with horse radish sauce. The overworked waitresses juggle orders while maintaining pace at the 60-person lunch rush, ending in a comical miscommunication.
A narrator argues inspiration comes from nature and skies. The painter interjects with a cough, hinting at a square black bottle seen in the narrator's portmanteau. The scene echoes a belief that the truly artistic soul possesses heightened powers of divination.
A brief quotation from the New York Evening Journal highlights pride in athletic lineage and self-care by a speaker claiming to come from a strong athletic family. The remark emphasizes vigor and confidence in physical training traditions.
Dialogue from Tit-Bits and Philadelphia Press snippets feature Miss Minks and Tess bantering about a upcoming church leader in Havelock street and a dying uncle’s fortune, mixing social chatter with humorous observations on wealth and luck.
George E. Cary editor of the Guide Washington Virginia recounts a severe ankle sprain cured after using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. He notes relief appeared soon after starting the treatment and a complete cure followed. Sold by H. N. White druggist.
Mrs L Pease of Lawrence Kansas had suffered years of kidney and liver trouble and debility but after taking three bottles of Electric Bitters she could walk again in three months she felt like a new person. Women with headaches backache nervousness sleeplessness melancholy fainting or dizziness are advised to try it with guaranteed satisfaction from druggists for 50 cents.
A column of brief quotes and jokes opens with a Washington Star quip on popularity and rejected photographs, followed by a Pittsburgh Chronicle telegraph quip about trichinosis, and a Philadelphia Bulletin aside on an insane asylum performance. The snippet ends with a notice that the Bluefield Mercantile Co. sells white shirt waists and a dissolution filing: Geo N Speiden & Co now succeeds to Saxon Lime and Lumber Co. and N. Spieden.
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