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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1909
Page
5
The text argues that starting work depends on digestion and breakfast quality. A hearty meal aids muscular labor, while light activity suits sedentary tasks. It warns against heavy meat breakfasts and suggests a simple diet for a week to boost ambition, noting how overexertion harms women and stressing proper foods, sunlight, and air to fight lassitude.
A household guide discusses making biscuits bread muffins with tips on dough handling and temperature. A separate tale from Wide World Magazine recounts Father Darbellay’s account of St Bernard dogs searching mountains for lost travelers, rescuing eight people including a woman and child.
The whilliner advises balancing a four sided trimmed hat by placing heavy headed pins on the opposite side. He notes top heavy hats are hard to keep straight and suggests pins on the plain side to secure the headdress. Mark the front with a hidden pin to ensure confidence when going to the theater.
Weffles are lighter with sour cream and thin batter. Serve with chicken gravy or cinpaAmon and sugar, or melted maple sugar. DeWitt's Little Barly Risers are praised as gentle, pleasant liver pills sold by all druggists.
Hubert G. Clark returns from Hampden Sidney College Farmville Va with high class standing and debater's medal. Reynolds from Raleigh street reappears after a suspected abduction, Health of Reynolds reported. Memorial services for RE. of L. BH. and G. I. A. set for Bland Street Church at 2 pm. Five coal cars derailed at War Eagle Norwich and Western delays traffic. Frank D. Black and Emma Mae Wills wed at Bristol. Deaf and dumb institute students travel home on No. 1. Rosebud Society to hold rag doll social at Bland Street Church chapel. Leona Taylor breaks left arm. City council meeting may adjourn due to Worley absence. Russell S. Ritz visits Huntington to sick mother. brother Judge Harold Ritz joins. Tent meetings draw large crowds near car barns led by Hudgins and Martin. Fire at Algoma destroys two houses. Civil service exam for storekeeper post and deputy collector on Sept 1. Kaiser Song in New York World with Neumann. flowers offered by Bluefield Floral Co.
The Bluefield Eagles lodge plans a two week completion for their new home on Bland street second floor with billiard pool card parlor reading room library banquet kitchen and more. The 250 member order, started in Seattle after a dispute with the Elks, aims to host a grand celebration once finished and attract rapid membership growth.
Police issue warrant for J E Dennis and an unnamed partner alleged to run a gambling device described as a cross between a fare layout and a graphophone with moving picture attachment. They fled Roanoke recently and whereabouts are unknown. officers labeled the scheme a graft game and violation of city ordinances.
Tobe Stafford of Staffordsville Virginia a brakeman on the Norfolk and Western was instantly killed near Pearisburg yesterday afternoon while coupling a stock car. His head was caught between the cattle chute and the car as the train moved away.
A well known Virginia family member, Stafford, aged about twenty five and unmarried, died in a crushing accident with his skull badly crushed and death nearly instantaneous.
Bluefield enforces a cow curfew with seven AM to seven PM streets access. After hours, cattle must go home or risk imprisonment and fines for owners. Public opinion splits on removing cows from city streets as Chief Newkirk orders strict adherence.
The article outlines a feminine bedroom styling plan using white and blue themes. It suggests white walls with blue papers or blue floral stencils, white dimity curtains, Delft blue matting, blue and white cushions, and white dotted swiss bed coverings with blue cheesecloth accents. It notes narrow framed prints, a shirt waist box in dark linen, and mentions yellow with brass beds as an alternative with light wood furniture and imitation bird's-eye maple as economical furniture.
This column gives DIY advice on pest control and cleaning practices. It covers using tartar emetic with sugar to deter ants, cleaning copper with salt and buttermilk, and killing earthworms with lime and mustard water. It also mentions using light for microbes, modern architecture for lighting, and a washing fluid recipe with potash tartar salts and ammonia for linen care.
The time a phone device shown at the Chicago electrical show lets a listener hear the hour and minute. A button press triggers musical chimes for hours quarters and a bell for minutes. Hotels may install units in rooms connected to a master clock in the basement.
A drug store encounter involves a young woman who received a small blower-decorated envelope from the pharmacist during a purchase. The details remain unclear as to the envelope’s purpose or origin.
A woman believed a free package contained flower seeds. She planted the envelope marked with blue flowers in a crock and waited for blooms. Her child read the outside and revealed the package actually contained a sample of talcum powder. She now awaits a safer chalk factory or non combustible powder outlet.
The federation outlines goals including public comfort stations in Missouri cities. It calls for investigating care of dependent and delinquent girls, promoting a sane Fourth of July, ensuring women physicians in women’s public institutions, and creating forest reserves in Ogle County and the eastern Appalachians and White Mountains.
The piece argues that many women lack work at home due to rising costs and wealth, creating social strain. It questions societal pressure to abandon home life and notes the danger of idleness, urging constructive efforts rather than withdrawal from work. It ends by promoting Foley's Kidney Remedy for kidney and bladder trouble sold by druggists.
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