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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1906
Page
4
A fragmented OCR snippet lists offices and rooms with two numbers 10 and 14 and 444. The text resembles a newspaper directory or classified reference to internal rooms or offices. No event or person data is readable for a fuller summary.
A mass convention of the Republican votes of Mercer county West Virginia is called to meet in Blue Held on June 20 1906 at 2 PM. The meeting aims to nominate county officers including members of the House of Delegates judge of the criminal court county superintendent of free schools and county commissioners and to select delegates to upcoming congressional and senatorial conventions as well as elect county Republican officers and fill vacancies.
The letter discusses a finished private sprinkler contract leaving streets dusty and dirty and urges action. It notes city officials face rising workloads and argues salaries should attract capable workers, warning against short sighted cost cutting.
The write up argues muckraking draws crowds and dollars as the public seeks sensational displays. It questions why people pursue destruction and scandal while noting journalism profits from revealing corruption and political rogues.
The conferees report the rate bill retains most amendments strengthening it, tightens the anti pass provision, and consolidates pipeline and express company edits while certain car provisions remain unclear. Senator Tillman trades the Jim Crow car clause to curb restraining orders on rates after a five day hearing notice. Overall Tillman loses some control yet gains public credit.
An advertisement asserts Electric Bitters as a universal remedy, citing S A Brown of Bennetteville SC who credits the nostrum with restoring his wife after years of dyspepsia and a torpid liver. It lists benefits for chill fever malaria biliousness back and kidney and bladder issues with a 50 cent price.
An old advertisement promises a cure for wrinkles and worry with Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. A smiling face supposedly follows usage. Sold for 35 cents as tea or tablets by West End Drug Co. Bluefield WV and other locations including W. J. Peters Freeman WV, Mill Creek Coal and Coke Co. Coopers WV.
A sweeping critique of requests for government investigations across Congress and cabinet offices. The author imagines endless inquiries spanning mundane sponges to vast railroad systems, arguing the scale would outlive a century.
A truncated 19th century opinion argues magazines became muck rakes for private gain. The excerpt notes public appeal of scandalous muck-raking and cites Al fred Henry Lewis in the June issue of Human Life.
Readers are assured that catarrh can be cured in all stages. Hall's Catarrh Cure is claimed to be the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. The remedy is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces and build up constitution. Proponents offer one hundred dollars for any failure to cure and invite testimonials by mail.
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