General business shows healthy improvement
B A Marke general manager of Bluefield Dry Goods and Nation Company says June will be best in the firm’s history. He notes steady business growth and an encouraging outlook despite earlier panic and new-bidder challenges. He expects coal field commerce to rebound to former strength. Architects and builders take notice plans requested for two to four room schools by Elkhorn district board of education secretary Arts Hbe yser Elkhorn West Virginia 6 22 1w
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B. A. Marke
Bluefield Dry Goods & Nation Company
Marks
Everthing
Board of Education
Elkhorn
AR TS Hbeyser
West Virginia
Century old Negro Frenchy leaps to rival youths
In Guyandotte, West Virginia, Philip Brown known as Frenchy, a hundred-year-old Black man, astonished onlookers by winning a leap frog event described as long-distance vaulting among young players. Born a slave in Louisiana, he later joined his master in the Mexican War and now receives a government pension. He once walked to Ohio routes, crossing river banks, after fleeing slavery.
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Guyandotte
Bell County
Philip Brown
Frenchy
Negro
Huntington
Bluefield
Louisiana
Gallipolis
Ohio
Roots Herbs and Barks From Old Family Medicine Chests
The article reflects on the fall collection of roots, herbs and barks used in family remedies. It notes Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a longtime remedy for female ailments, is now produced in large quantities from the same roots and herbs with careful precision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia B. Pinkham
Burroughs Adds Time Saving Trial Balance System
An advertising pitch touts four methods using a Burroughs Adding and Listing machine to shorten monthly trial balance to hours rather than days. It promises daily postings proveable, quick error locating, and a free system demo in the reader’s office with no obligation to buy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burroughs
Hibernia Bank & Trust Co
New Orleans
Four New Pushers for Virginian Rails Ready by July
Four heavy compound locomotives of a novel type are being rushed to completion at the American Locomotive Company Richmond works for the Virginian Railway. They are designed to haul heavy coal trains over steep grades from Clark's Gap to Deepwater, with a leading two wheel truck marking a key design difference from other engines. Each engine will weigh about 880000 pounds, with 312000 on the driving wheels, and are expected to be ready for delivery in early July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Seaboard
Richmond Works
American Locomotive Company
Virginian Railway
Clark's Gap
Princeton
White Horn
Henry H. Rogers
Virginia
West Virginia
Norfolk
Deepwater
R. P. C. Sanderson
Richmond
American Works
Baltimore and Ohio
Erie
Baldwin Company
Great Northern
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for Catarrh
Readers learn Hall's Catarrh Cure is a claimed universal remedy. The ad asserts the medicine cures catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces and offers a $1000 reward for any unresolved case, with testimonials available and sales through druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Greentoro Kychey Institute Offers Narve Exhaustion Treatment
Confidential information from the institute states it is prepared to treat narve exhaustion, a disease tied to the strenuous modern business life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greentoro Kychey Institute
Bogus Nickels Convictions Weigh Sentences in Charleston
James F. Ross and Grover Cleveland Holloway were convicted of counterfeiting in McDowell County where a government mint sits. Judge Keller sentenced Ross to three years and six months with a $500 fine, and Holloway to one year and one day with a $300 fine. Ross, an ex convict, received the harsher sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James F. Ross
Grover Cleveland Holloway
McDowell County
Charleston
Keller Pr
Ross
Holloway
Confederate Fair Ad Message
Poemlike vintage notice urges readers to wake early and rush to the Confederate Fair to gather wealth for a merry annual event. It references a Daily Telegraph want ad section and invites participation with playful rhythm.
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Pedigo’s
Aungus
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
E. S. Pedigo CO
Princeton Avenue
M. G. Whitlow Hardware Company
Leap Frog
Frenchy Brown
Quyandotte
Serthe
Nelly
White Pharmacy
Burr
Detroit
Michigan
J. C. Russell
Union Trust Building
Parkersburg
Dhine
Burroughs Cash
Daly
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Knox
Mmeetropolitary Men's Furnishing Co
Elks Bldg
Bland St
Foy
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
the Confederate Fair
Daily Telegraph
Ironton Portland Cement
Miller Supply Company
W. VA
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