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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1911
Page
4
A promotional note urges readers to subscribe to the Daily Telegraph with 25 cents for over two weeks. It promises continued correspondence from home and asks subscribers to send payment with their address.
The piece questions if individual cups truly prevent disease and mocks excessive sanitation measures. It notes the common cup use by the healthy and exposes the paradox of universal fumigation proposals while wryly hinting at impractical bans on public spaces and travel.
Miss Peck and Mrs Workman plan to climb mountains well above the 20,000 mark this year. The remark suggests frustration at stairs without an elevator.
Report notes Lynehbrre aviators maintaining rapid flight tempo akin to Bluefield last week as they pursue record-setting missions. Detailed outcomes and participant names are not provided in readable text.
A collage of editorial asides and letters touches on Lynchburg aviation, Chicago stock exchange leadership, Bluefield memories, Taft era politics, Arkansas militia threats, Panama Canal timelines, college orator ambitions, press power, and Girl Scout organization in a dated newspaper snapshot.
A testimonial from Mrs. M. Karberg of Ann Arbor Michigan asserts Hyomei cures catarrh by delivering antiseptics to the germs. The ad promotes Hyomei inhalers and complete outfits priced at 1.00 with a money back guarantee for catarrh coughs colds croup or sore throat sold in Graham Virginia by the Graham Pharmacy.
Fallon florist Roanoke Va offers fresh wedding bouquets including bride’s roves and lilies of the valley or orchids with prompt shipments.
On page 7 a photo shows soprano Miss Florence Hinkle. She is announced as a candidate or waned for the June music festival, highlighting her as a featured performer.
The Washington Post notes Senator Scott’s long service since 1888 and his role as observer amid next year’s campaigns. West Virginia GOP insiders discuss a governor candidate, with Attorney General W. G. Conley named by some in the Second district and Alvah Martin active in state affairs.
A geologist describes rocks in three classes igneous rocks formed from molten material solidified underground or erupted lava sedimentary rocks made from weathered igneous fragments and reconstituted into new forms and metamorphic rocks deriving from igneous or sedimentary origins.
The text explains how rocks transformed by heat or chemical action become metamorphic. It discusses sedimentary rocks built in strata, earth surface movement altering shorelines, and sandstone as a simple sedimentary example formed from eroded older rocks. It notes porosity in sandstone and cementation producing denser varieties.
Miss Colombo a booster society girl marries Chief Wolf Wanna full blooded Navajo. They wed Thursday night. Colombo grew up in San Antonio where Wanna worked as foreman. Carlisle graduate Wanna has lectured for the government on Indian life in war and peace.
The New Central Coal Company is chartered in Marion county to mine coal and manufacture coke at Baxter with an authorized capital of 47 million dollars. Incorporators include Frank W. Cummiskey and Alexander Campbell of Brooklyn, William Bailie of Newark, Duncan Sinclair of Fairmont, and Malcolm Baxter Jr. of New York City.
Mrs J A Wayland editor of the socialist Appeal to Reason was killed when the car her husband drove struck a telephone pole after the steering gear failed. Mr Wayland publisher of the same paper sustained serious injuries in the collision near Girard Kansas on June 10.
Advertisement seeks unmarried men ages sixteen to thirty five who are United States citizens of good character and temperate habits, able to speak read and write English. Apply at Recruiting Office Thornton Building Bluefield West Virginia.
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