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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1906
Page
4
A fragment lists daily rates for multiple periods including three months six months one year and one week priced at ten cents daily. The note lacks context on service or provider and no further details are given.
A mass convention of Republican voters in Mercer county West Virginia is called to meet in Lincoln on the twentieth day of June 186. The event aims to nominate county officers elect delegates to congressional and senatorial conventions select a county executive committee chairman and secretary and fill vacancies. Dated May 15 186. D P Crockett Chairman BK L Bowman Secretary.
A provincial editorial voice praises public spirited citizens and warns about trusts risking higher prices. It urges canal, Panama, and Panama revolutions in a light touch, then extols West Bluefield as a model street needing improvement. The piece ends with a biblical invitation to relocate readers seeking a safe, virtuous life.
Remarks on the packing business warn that restricting summer camp activity could cause damage. It questions who can camp without canned meats and frankfurters and notes a slow trade in tents canvas and camp outfits if action is not taken quickly.
Readers are assured that catarrh can be cured in all stages. Hall's Catarrh Cure is described as the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. The remedy is taken internally and targets blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease’s foundation. Proponents offer a hundred dollar reward for any failing case and invite testimonials. Sold by druggists for 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A mass convention is planned in Bluefield on the 20th with all committee members signing the call and agreeing to the event. Notices were properly issued and no legal changes are needed. Some dissenters may raise a protest, but the majority of Republican voters remain calm.
At the last annual meeting officials urged Bluefield to host the West Virginia Editorial Association to showcase Southern West Virginia’s growth. They argued Norfolk and Western’s curbs on press access may push the meeting away, risking lost regional exposure and economic benefit. The editorial voice urges rail leaders to extend courtesy and support.
An old advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a universal restorative. It claims to cure stomach and liver disorders, headaches, fevers, malaria, biliousness, backache, kidney and bladder troubles, and hyperepia, with S A Brown of Bennettsville SC endorsing their effectiveness for his wife. The claim is that the product restores health after years of suffering.
A humorous ad claims a woman worries less after using Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets and a bright smiling face results. Available for 35 cents from West End Dry Co. in Bluefield and partners in Freeman Mill Creek Coal and Coke Coopers.
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