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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1914
Page
2
The notice promotes summer music from bands and orchestras to be heard at home via Packard Player devices. It lists church services in Roanoke and surrounding areas with varied sermons and open air evangelistic meetings, board meeting postponement, and district conferences scheduled through June.
Chereh of the Brethren holds Sunday school at 10 a.m. Norfolk and Western shop men perform at 11 a.m. Evening preaching at 8 p.m. by J. C. Dixon.
Miss Annie Mullin arrived in Bluefield Thursday night returning to her home in Graham after graduating with honors.
Sunday School at 9:30 with superintendent C. F. Chapman and Rev James J. Franklin sermon at 11 at First Baptist. Evening activities include B Y P U at 6:45 and an 8 p m open air service in front of the church. children’s service at 8. Also watch for a Wednesday prayer meeting at 8. Other items note mistaken date in a bankruptcy referee notice and travel of P Taylor to Pearisburg for a sick baby. Y M C A chapel service and Lutheran and Graham church times plus L E M memorial at Bland Street Methodist Church.
Annual memorial service for B of L division 448 and GIA 211 will be held at Blind Street Methodist Church on Sunday at 11 a m.
Harry Angrist has returned to work at his office following an appendicitis operation at St. Luke's Hospital. A Catholic Mass will be held at 9:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church on North Mercer Street. The Bluefield community is urged to drink Pure Distilled Crystal Tea from Bluefield Ice & Cold Storage Co. and to buy Baby Farms products. Ice is promoted as affordable.
Library closes Sundays through summer. notice also mentions a person from the Baby Farm at 16 Higginbotham Avenue.
H B Lee Jr announces retirement as referee in bankruptcy for the division of the southern district based in Bluefield West Virginia He will devote time to law practice focusing on bankruptcy and federal courts He moved offices to Kelley Moyer Building rooms 12 and 138 and will continue in legal work there Respectfully signed Read Blair P Wilson Co special. Then note the Baby Farm Man at No 16 Higginbotham Ave St Beans Attract Attention contains a string beans shipment
An archival fragment from F. M. Archer & Company of Bluefield West Virginia lists numbers and references including a phone contact 134-1. The snippet appears to be part of a classified or business notice with no clear full context.
On Saturday May 20 Sergeant Cunningham and Constable O. S. Long arrested Cawley with aid. The water worth $50 was recovered at a local pawn shop. Mayor French said no prosecution as the watch was recovered.
The Standard Fuel and Supply Co. announces plans to erect a modern coal tipple, along with new stables and an office building. The improvements, costing several thousand dollars, will establish one of the best facilities in the city.
Mrs Isadore Katzen entertained on her third wedding anniversary with a sewing party from 2 20 to 5 oclock. Dainty refreshments were served. Attendees included Mesdames Hutson Solins Edwards Downs Gay Logan Burbridge Payne Hutson Kyle Williams Harvey Williams Josephy Herzbrun Carper Henderson Mitchell Lufford Frank Johnson and Misses Carl Hutson Hertha Mitchell. Boy Scouts Beat Gary 7 to 3 in a Thursday match with Trivett Kell Gary Philipps and Kiley as batters. Umpire A L Eubanks.
Owing to Rev. J. T. Crowe's absence attending the Episcopal diocesan council he will not have his usual services in the Presbyterian church here Sunday morning. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Glenbruce of Coal Wood and others in town yesterday.
A brief item promotes a "Buy a Baby Farm" offering with a tagline to begin childrearing on a guided program. The text is fragmentary and presents no clear dates, organizations, or outcomes.
A catalogue of fire alarm signal locations and street crosspoints in the city with Central Station at Pulaski Street, plus an instruction noting that alarms originate from the central station and suggesting investigation of the “Baby Farm” today.
A shipment arrived yesterday morning on train No 15 from New Orleans consigned to Mican Fruit Company of this city. Sunday school opens at 9:30 a.m. with GC Hancock as superintendent. Rev Samuel Melkonyan from Tarsus Turkey preaches at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Special choir music planned for both services. EK Jones of Radford will sing at the evening service. Cordial invitation extended to all, especially visitors.
Mayor K. 8, French and Town Sergeant Fred H. Cunningham of Narrows searched the city yesterday for Ernest Cawley who is alleged to have stolen a watch from Mrs. W. R. Davis home in Narrows.
Owen Compoell has begun excavating the ground for a large two story brick business building at the corner of Third and Mercer streets beside the Virginian hardware store. The site is described as excellent and the project will become one of the west city’s notable business properties.
A new carnival has opened on the Snider lots on Mercer Street opposite the Virginian Hotel. It draws limited patronage while three picture shows also operate nearby, aiming to break the monotony as the ball team prepares to organize.
The county court clerk issued two marriage licenses on Thursday and yesterday, naming Jesse H. Franklin of Bluefield to Etha McCulloch of Graham, and James T. Siphers of Bluefield to Carrie Russell of Bluefield.
Rev. Samuel Melkonyan of Tar sus Turkey arrives in Bluefield this afternoon aboard No. 1 from Princeton New Jersey. He preached here before at the Presbyterian church and will speak at Bramwell Tezewell and Bluefield churches this week before sailing July 1 for St Pauls College. He plans to address the Sunday school and visit Pollock home on Bluefield avenue.
Dr W H Clair and T H Beck er of Bluefield Sanitarium plan to travel Sunday night to Cincinnati for the sixth annual Norfolk and Western surgeons session. A special Roanoke train and steamboat convey the group to Hotel Gibson with Dr Alfred Gordon of Philadelphia and Dr J B Claybrook of Cumberland as speakers.
Between twenty five and thirty members of the local lodge of Hiks will leave here Monday night for the annual reunion in Parkersburg starting Wednesday. A special Pullman car will be attached to train No 3 for the local delegates, with plans to send the car directly to Parkersburg from here. Baltimore and Ohio officials are being approached about the arrangement as Parkersburg lodge aims for a record turnout and a very successful gathering.
The piece surveys union activity including the American Brotherhood of State Workers convention in Bangor Pennsylvania, the English Bootmaker federation’s $500000 fund, and plans by United Mine Workers to unionize Texas and Arkansas coal mines. It notes wages in Missouri unions rising by $1,245,984 and leaders like San Dell Gompers. It lists conventions in Winnipeg Nashville Boston and concerns over seamen undermanning following ship disasters.
In Bohemian Days In Fleet Street the artist Phil May once rode home from Fleet Street to Kensington and left his horse with a boy outside the Cosy club. The horse remained unguarded until a constable arrived at 2 a.m. to question the boy. May had departed at midnight and forgotten the horse, returning home by hansom.
The so called dancing disease or chorea was a nervous epidemic blamed on hysteria and contagion. During St John’s festival in 1754 crowds danced frantically through Aix-la-Chapelle and spread to Cologne Metz and Strasbourg causing disorder and fatigue.
A Harlem era jail scene is recounted where a negro teamster explains his whipping of animals on a public street. The judge asks for a plea and the prisoner protests that he was not cruel to animals, claiming the beasts were mewls. The piece reflects period dialect and legal language.
The mainland coast line of Alaska exceeds eight thousand miles materially longer than the Atlantic coast of the United States. The main land and adjacent islands boast a coast more than four times the length of the U S shoreline.
In a witty aside from the Washington Star a character notes sending the Russian alphabet to Mr. Bumshus to spark interest. The reply suggests he already pretends to grasp everything, except this one thing.
The Pittsburgh Post notes that young singer Little Tommy Tucker was so successful with his supper song that friends started a subscription to educate him for grand opera. He now performs as Signor Tommasino Tuckerino and is a famous figure in the opera world.
Alley cat Pelix and house cat Selim clash in a quirky scene noted by the Kansas Star. Felix joins with scrappy James as the neighborhood chorus of cats speaks in playful tones.
The city of Quebec plans a labor temple while in Wisconsin La Crosse Teamsters win a wage increase of five cents an hour. The British Amalgamated Society of Engineers adds about a thousand members monthly and Baby Farm activity grows with over two million members cited at Higginbotham avenue.
An participation of a Cobden quote frames the contrast between luck and labor in political discourse. The line highlights how chance and character are weighed in economic and social discussions.
Terre Hill Pennsylvania resident Mrs Augustus Lyon reports relief from severe female health pains after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad extols the remedy as a standard, dating from forty years of use, with references to Lynn Massachusetts lab files and countless letters from women praising its health benefits.
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