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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
2
Harold Lockwood stars in The Land Laper at The American today. Local listings promote showings with accompanying notes and audience engagement in a busy cinema schedule. Plays and film advertisements highlight other events in town including social gatherings and a children’s job notice.
The Bible Convention at the Pentecostal Holiness church 121 Bluefield Avenue begins Sunday June 4 and runs through June 23 with daily lectures at 10 am 8 pm and 7 20 pm conducted by J H King from Anniston Alabama. All welcome to attend these services.
Anthony Vengen will organize a class focused on horizontal bar techniques and related skills, inviting interested participants to join a session covering grips, swings, and safety. The program aims to build core upper body strength and technique for bar routines.
The article lists local enlistments in the navy with Paul and Good Schlossbuerg. It notes Attorney General Speaks at the Presbyterian church on Monday evening June 16 at eight o'clock with General Magland delivering a war message. Dr J B Kirk and family return from Florida by automobile to Bluefield occupying apartments on Land Street.
A train of about eight to ten cars carried 360 Wyoming cowboys to Camp Lee Virginia. Spectators described the arrival as a lively show with riders, a brave colored boy on a broncho, and a crowd-pleasing but controversial display near a transfer shed and yard.
The ladies aid society of the First Staplist Church will meet this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the church.
Directors deny Child's Conservation League funded the playgrounds saying donations came from town’s public spirited men who rarely turn down a good appeal. They praise the grounds in South Pinefield and invite further contributions to equip and extend facilities for all children.
Jop Thompson, a Royal Flying Corps member now stationed in Canada as an instructor, is home on a two week furlough. The Russell County Virginia native rose from auto mechanic to captain, and locals expect a tale of escapes and wartime experiences. He plans visits to Russell County, Bluefield, and Graham before returning.
Local observers will witness a partial solar eclipse Saturday with about seventy five percent of totality visible in this section. Beginning around 6 30 pm the eclipse will reach half its orbit by 7 30 pm and last about two minutes before fading. Residents prepare smoked glasses as interest grows in the event.
Local readers react to an instant bowel flush claim for Adler-ika, advertised as a remedy containing buckthorn and glycerine that supposedly clears the entire tract and prevents appendicitis. Druggist T. Frank Mastin notes the Empress of Fashion in town with Valeska Suratt at the Colonial.
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