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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1919
Page
2
A bustling Bluefield page lists grocery ads and prices from Gibson's Cash Grocery and other shops, plus fresh produce and meats at THE MARKET. Local services include a veterinary offer by Dr. Thompson and a Harley-Davidson for sale. Community events feature Moose meetings, a Bearer of flowers, and a Welcome Committee planning July 4 celebrations with civic groups.
Eureka Hardware Co advertises electric irons priced at six dollars, claiming a cheaper rate than six dollars and fifty cents. The notice highlights a discount offer to attract customers.
Listings show numerous Bluefield homes for sale across Spruce Walnut Hardy Gilmer Rogers Highland Caro lines with prices from 1 525 to 7 570 and several streets described including Princeton and North Street Also notes on a Richmond death furlough for C Braxton and local civic fundraising daisies sale.
Local business leaders urge Bluefield residents to donate to a yearly charity drive. The appeal asks for $1,400 to aid the needy, the sick, and hungry households, with daisies sold today to fund the effort.
A Huntington Indiana mother recommends Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy to treat cholera morbus in children. She recalls two of her children recovering quickly during the 1811 summer illness.
Five men riding home from a Kimball meeting of a colored lodge were in a car that ran off a road near a schoolhouse at Big Four. Two died at the scene and a third died in Welch hospital. two occupants escaped uninjured. The inexperienced chauffeur lost control at a sharp curve.
Argo Armstead and Dexter Stokes were held on $1,000 bond by Justice of the Peace M. Posilethwaite after confessing to breaking into the Appalachian Garage on Raleigh street. Police traced the theft to a car near Pinnacle Rock. $200 in tires tubes and two batteries recovered. Seven Negroes fled in the car, five from Pocahontas. Armstead and Stokes admitted the charges.
A diocesan church calendar lists Catholic Mass at Sacred Heart, Immanuel Baptist services with Sunday school, and Graham and Princeton churches holding morning preaching and evening services. Calvary Baptist and Bland Street Methodist share schedules, with Holy Communion, Epworth League, and midweek prayer. Strangers invited to all services.
A Richmond Kentucky note by F B Tressy promotes Chamberlains Tablets claiming they are a wonder and a safe remedy for indigestion and constipation. The message urges readers to give the product a trial despite denying prior sales.
Captain Walter Graham and his five sons plan a summer at Springville Grange farm. The group includes Sgt. John DuPuy Graham and George Ross Graham with roles in the U S Marine Corps and ordnance. Mrs and Miss Graham will visit relatives in Bluefield. The article notes military service, honors, and postwar assignments, ending with a remark about Trinidad spiders.
Sealed bids will be received by the Council of the City of Bluefield until 10 on the 20th day of June 1915 for granolithic sidewalk construction in the city for the ensuing fiscal year. Bids filed with the city recorder must be marked Bid in sidewalks. The Council reserves the right to reject any or all bids. By order of the Council T AKERS city of Bluefield.
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