Northcott Seen as Leading Candidate for Southern District Judge
Washington reports indicate Northcott is ahead in the West Virginia federal judgeship race with Senators Scott and Elkins returning to Washington next week to finalize appointments. Vinson’s wedding is rumored to coincide with a commission as judge as a personal prize from Senator Elkins, amid broader West Virginia postings under the Dayton bill.
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Scott and Elkins
Capital
Wheeling
Colorado Springs
Elkins
New York
Washington
McKinley
West Virginia
Vinson
Northcott
Scott
Taylor Vinson
Huntington
Virginia
Richmond
Col. Vinson
Wonderful Recovery After Seven Years in Bed
Mrs L Pease of Lawrence Kansas notes she could not leave bed for years due to kidney and liver trouble and nervous debility. She credits three bottles of Electric Bitters with restoring her ability to walk in three months and feeling like a new person. The remedy helps headaches backache nervousness sleeplessness melancholy fainting and dizziness. 50 cents at druggists with satisfaction guaranteed.
Bear Grocery Company Formed in West Virginia
The Bear Grocery Company receives West Virginia’s largest certificate of incorporation. Weaving wholesale grocer and manufacturer roles, the Wheeling-based firm plans an eight story Main Street building and broad real estate powers with authorized stock of 15 million dollars. Incumbent Morris Horkheimer and fellow Horkheimer family members are listed as incorporators. The company will handle manufacturing packing shipping and all related wholesale grocery operations.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Bear Grocery Company
Wheeling
Morris Horkheimer
Bernard Horkheimer
Lewis Horkheimer
Julius Horkheimer
Benjamin 8. Bear
Atkinson
Main Street
Pathetic Scenes at State Prison in Moundsville
A long descriptive report from Moundsville portrays visits by families to inmates at the West Virginia state prison. It notes tears and shame during meetings with fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, and rare moments of devotion. The piece also covers escapes of dignity through front-door arrests and the diverse background of prisoners, including Washington DC natives and aristocrats, some illiterate or with disabilities, and a man who has spent forty years in state prisons.
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Washington
West Virginia
United States
Moundsville
Man
Washington, D. C
Auction notice of livery outfit sale in Bluefield
Miss Jennie Sadler of Bluefield seeks a music class. Meanwhile a public auction will sell the entire Bluefield livery outfit on Thursday June 27 at Bluefield Livery Stables Bland Street at 10 am. Terms four months with good security. Also an ad touts Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets at H N White's drug store priced 25 cents with free samples.
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Jennie Sadler
Bluefield
W. Valwk
Bland Street
Tds
Burleson & Poston
Mra
Tansill Punch Promoted For Spring Fever Prevention
An ad touts Tansill Punch as a cooling spring drink that wards off spring fever, promising happiness and contentment for five cents. It lists Fiat Top Grocery Company as distributors and urges readers to try it this morning. The page also advertises Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets to relieve headaches from stomach and bowel issues, sold by H. N. White.
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Fiat Top Grocery Company
Dying of Smallpox Protest Over County Health Efforts
Letter from Hon. H. B. Vinson criticizes Wayne county authorities for neglecting smallpox cases in Kellogg with patients in need and warns of spreading illness if quarantines are not enforced. Joel Ferguson is named as dying from the disease amid alleged lack of medical care and removal of guards by Dr Banfield, county health board president. The notice ends by urging county court action and mentions a Bluefield Mercantile Co ad for a $10 suit.
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Banfield
County Board of Health
Simmons
Bluefield Mercantile Co Urges Caution Before Buying
A fragment notes a Kirkman Indiana reader praising Bucklen's Arnica for a severe burn after a gasoline stove incident. It claims doctors failed to ease the sore, but the arnica fully cured it. Also mentions remedies for corns sores boils and skin irritation available at local druggists.
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N. BE. Palmer
Kirkman, In
Druzgig
Dr King's New Discovery and Chamberlain's Remedy Endorsements
Mrs W W Haviland of Armonk New York praises Dr King's New Discovery for a near fatal cough and bronchitis in her daughter and a niece cured of advanced consumption. A Winterset Iowa bank cashier reports a carpenter cured of diarrhea with Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Sold by H N White druggist. Trial bottles free.
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K Haviland
Armonk
WS Weedon
First Nations Bank of
Winterset
Iowa
Chamberlain
H.N. White
Plan to amend Virginia school taxation sparks debate
Richmond June 12 The Virginia convention on revising the state constitution discusses sweeping changes to tax funding for public schools. Presidents of William and Mary, Emory and Henry, Roanoke, Richmond, and McGuire’s colleges present opposing and supporting views on restricting or maintaining tax support for white and colored schools and the education of Black youth.
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Virginia
R. G. Waterhouse
Emery and Henry College
Tam
South
Jess
Boston man marries sickly heiress finds cure in pills
A Boston man recently wed a sickly rich young woman and claims happiness after giving her Dr King's New Life Pills. The advert touts cure for jaundice malaria fever and liver and stomach troubles with gentle but effective relief priced at 25 cents at all druggists.
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Boston
Dr. King
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Roansoke College
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