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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1908
Page
6
Local society mentions W A Bishop of Switchback and others visiting Bluefield for business. Includes names such as Dr Farley Ennis W B McNutt H Sanders Princeton J C Turley from Irenton OH Rev Father Clement Poca hontas and others traveling to Pitt sburg Bland county Lynchburg Sidney Nova Scotia Philadelphia Roanoke Shenandoah Valley and Philadelphia trips noted.
A fragment notes a 5c Smoker offer sold only on a wedding tour through Canada and the north. It records various local travelers and visitors in the city yesterday and their travel plans. It mentions Mrs Buck and Miss Buck, J K Hoffman and L K Wilton, Mr and Mrs Sam Patterson, Miss Mamie Layman, Miss Mary Ottino, Rev Father Straven, Mrs J A Bruce, Ernest Bruce, R C Bernheim, Miss Davis, Mr and Mrs W S Becker and Misses Mattie and Hazel Becker, Mrs Sauace Wright, and Rev Octavio Nevroz, highlighting movement to Philadelphia Washington Morgantown Hot Springs and Ravenswood.
Mrs M S Johnson died Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock at her Clay street home after a brief illness. She was the daughter of Charles and, from Kegleston Springs Virginia, and had lived in Bluefield for years. Survived by husband and five children. Funeral held at Kaegleton Springs at 11 this morning conducted by Rev Thomas Priddy. Escort included L J Johnson Emmett Johnson R L Johnson Miss Beulah Johnson S L Bowen J J Wimmer Mrs George Stowers. A disabled man at the East Wnt Pharmacy, it.
Baseball summary notes rain prevented two Norfolk Cincinnati games and further postponed Brooklyn St Louis and Philadelphia Chicago. In American League action Chicago edged New York 2 to 1 after ten innings. St Louis defeated Boston 10 to 0. Cleveland beat Washington 2 to 1 in ten innings.
Four partygoers drown when a car careens from a pier into the North River on West 56th Street. The driver escapes, swimming to safety. four victims identified aged 19 to 28, plus a 5 year old. Local notices and ads accompany disaster report in the page.
Scipione Tamburino an Italian about 85 was struck by passenger train No. 3 in the west end yards Sunday night and fatally injured. He died several hours later after being taken to the hospital. Witnesses say he stood on the westbound track watching the Clinch Valley S86 pass. His body was sent to Crockett's for burial. his wife and two children remain in distant Italy.
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