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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1911
Page
2
A busy issue notes a June 20 minstrel show at the Elks Opera House with local talent including Riley Wilson and Charles Gano. Also covered are a June 25 revival at Pounding Mill and a new automobile ordinance restricting underage drivers, licensing for chauffeurs, and police action in Norton.
Interesting exercises by the Baby Roll, a group of children aged two to four, will be presented at the First Baptist Church today. The feature will be the baby doty as part of the morning program.
The board of affairs adjourned yesterday afternoon to meet Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Celebrate Tazewell plans a July 4th celebration. A bundle of garbled text references a hay ride event and a fiery exit scene involving baseball players, with incomplete phrases about a city and a trip.
A dying tramp finds a Prussian lottery ticket in Scottsville as a drummer, a hog buyer, a deacon, and others chase fortune. City hopes rise to a bust when news comes the ticket did not draw. The crowd erupts in anger, then returns to normal.
Bland Street Methodist announces Sunday school at 9 30 a m with J Kee Horne as superintendent and sermons at 11 a m on The Bread of Life The Junior League meets at 2 30 p m and the Senior League at 7 15 p m with Contentment Rev Frank Jackson is pastor and offers 9 30 a m Sunday school and 11 a m and 8 15 p m preaching The Christ Episcopal Church lists Bible class and Sunday school at 9 45 a m with no morning or evening service due to rector absence.
A traveler in Tangier can exchange a US quarter into English, French, Spanish, and Moorish currencies, with varying values. The piece wanders through shillings, centimes, pesetas, and bassant coins, illustrating volatile Moorish silver values and cross currency confusion.
Sunday services unfold at First Baptist Calvary Baptist and Presbyterian churches with children day Cradle Roll ceremonies at nine forty six, memorial service for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and a Sunday school concert. Promotions and gold badges will be distributed, with invitations extended to families and the public.
The report notes an arrest in a case involving a person nicknamed Weeping Scott who was taken into custody after attempting to evade pursuit and leaving with money already obtained, prompting questions about the sequence of events and motive.
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