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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1919
Page
6
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Mercer County Farm Bureau adopts milking Shorthorn cows for milk and beef, and Shropshire sheep. Farmers place orders for ten cows and one male carload, with a July 1 purchase target. Berkshire pigs arrive for boys and girls clubs, plus neighbor hood pig placements. A local estate sale joins recent deaths and marriage licenses as town notes.
Readers are promised a cure for catarrh with Hall's Catarrh Medicine taken internally and distributed by F J Chempton & Co Toledo. The ad claims the remedy cures by cleansing the blood and boosting constitution and offers a $100 reward for proof of failure.
The twenty month old child of Mr and Mrs Karl Thornton of 414 Princeton avenue died early yesterday morning of infantile paralysis. Burial will be held this morning at 11 near Oakvale. A three year old girl, Little Marine Johnston, daughter of J A Johnson, underwent a tonsil removal operation at Princeton Hospital yesterday.
The Mercer Healing Springs opened last night with attendance from several city residents. A specially prepared dinner and dancing highlighted the event as part of the inaugural observance.
In Washington on June 18 the Senate tabled a motion by Senator Phelan to add a rider to the agricultural appropriation bill. The rider would exempt beer and wine from war time prohibition. The vote was 55 to 11 with party lines and a few cross votes noted.
Sir St. Clair Thompson of Britain condemned prohibition as absolute nonsense at a Philadelphia visit during the AMA convention in Atlantic City. He argued the ban on alcoholic stimulants is impractical and revolutionary and warns it may push Americans to seek alcohol or other options abroad.
Washington June 18 officials announce the censorship board will discontinue United States postal censorship at the close of business next Saturday.
Wartime golf widows face renewed bereavement as phantom husbands reappear in homes to haunt with golf chatter. The London Daily Mail quotes T B noting widows' remarriages collapse as spouses return as ghost golfers.
In a New York court inquiry into milk costs, a proposal called for using pneumatic tubes once used by the mails to distribute milk to city sections. Carriers would carry six quart bottles or ten pint bottles, not milk in streams, with one carrier every six seconds. The note also cites rising English use in Philippine schools and a Tokyo subway plan to ease transport.
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