Final Quaker show ends Bluefield run with charity cash prize
After five weeks the Quaker Doctor concludes his entertaining series in Bluefield this Saturday night. Tonight features a lady ventriloquist and a watermelon eating contest for boys. tomorrow night Lasley performs rock breaking. Saturday night offers a ladies wood sawing match with a $2 prize. The Quaker Doctor will keep his 413 Raleigh Street office after the shows.
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MR. Lasley
Wood
Raleigh Street
Roctor
Bluefield
Red Lot
Lasley
Bee's Laxative Cough Syrup Promises Quick Cold Cure
An early 20th century advert touts Bee's Laxative Cough Syrup as a prompt remedy for summer coughs and colds. The product, described as pleasant and mildly laxative, is sold by Goodykoontz Drug Co.
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Goodykoontz Drug Co
Beswick mystery deepens as Orrin Beswick return hinted
Judge Marcelus orders restoration of Orrin Beswick after a fire that faked his death. Abe Cronkite tracks the Beswick estate and confronts Frante Galbraith over suspicion and a planned hidden task. A blind girl Alice Beswick is led to witness while tension rises in the Beswick house.
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Abe Cronkite
Beswick
Marcellus
Bilsie Beswick
Orrin Beswick
Frante Galtraith
Doug
Orrin
Russia
Cronkite
Beswicky
Beswicks
Orvin Boewick
Galbraith
Cave
Cronkte
Beswick House
Mrs. Beswick
Alice
Jove
Billy Orrin
Willa
Berwick
Crank Plot Tightens in New York Sun Serial Scene
Galbraith pressures Cronkite to forge a will and marry Alice Beewick as part of a tangled scheme. Alice reveals the paper, warning of a fatal web of deception surrounding Orrin Beswick and the Beewick estate. Cronkite, driven by fear and greed, confronts the violent crossroads as the conspirators collide.
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Galbraith
Alice
Qalbraith
Alice Frame
Orrin Beewick
Marcellus
Alk
Cronkite
New York Sun
Frantic midnight discovery in the old house
A dark doorway yields a cautious entry as Cronkite is greeted by a warm, pleading voice calling Frankie and hinting at hidden deeds. The moment hints at an unfinished plan and a stifled note of melancholy before the scene shifts to further talk.
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Galbraith
Cronkite
Frankie
Rudolph
Raillery
Notable Confrontation Ends With Deadlock in Front Room
The scene shifts as Galbraith presses Cronkite for a copied document while Alice Frame sits pale by the fireside. Cronkite refuses a test copy and Galbraith rages, tearing at a wall recess and demanding the pad, with tension mounting over a missing paper.
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Alice
Cnals
Bluff Galbraith
Galbraith
Cronkite
Business Age and Life Intertwined as Commerce Prevails
A reflective piece argues that commerce dominates modern life and that business principles underlie all professions, shaping society. It claims life revolves around production, distribution, and consumption of goods, with the butcher, baker, candlestick maker, and professionals all essential.
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Fife
The Mille of the Gods
The text discusses earth’s tipping axis causing a past glacial period and ice sheet retreat shaping the landscape. It speaks of a new humanity focused on brotherhood, justice, and mercy, noting patience with divine plans as the mills of God grind slowly.
Ilue city bids sought for plank sidewalks 1909
Sealed bids will be received by the board of affairs of the city of Ilue field until 3 30 p m July 2 1909 for plank sidewalks for the year ending June 30 1910 in accordance with specifications available on request. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. By order of the board of affairs. T Akers Auditor.
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Board of Affairs
City of
Iluefield
T. Akers
Notice to Bidders for Bluefield City Prisons feeding contract
Notice to bidders from the Board of Affairs of Bluefield inviting bids for feeding city prisoners for the year ending June 30 1910. Bids due by July 2nd. Board may reject any or all bids. By order of J T Akers Auditor.
DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills Ad Claim
The ad asserts nothing matches DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills for kidney and bladder ailments causing weak back rheumatic pains and urinary disorders. It urges a free trial box by sending name to Kk. C. DeWitt & Co. Chicago and notes sale by all druggists.
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DeWitt
Kk. C. DeWitt & Co
Chicago
Notice of Revolver License Application in Mercer County
The undersigned will apply to the circuit court of Mercer County on June 21, 1909 for a license to carry a revolver as authorized by section 7, chapter 148 of the West Virginia code as amended by the February 16, 1909 act.
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District Court of the United States
West Virginia
R. E. Joint
Bluefield
Mercer
R. . Joint
Mercer County
W. Virginia
G. J. Holbrook
Cirrcuit
Notice to Bid for City Draymen in Bluefeld
Notice to bidders from the board of affairs of Bluefeld invites proposals by July 2 1809 at 8 30 pm for appointing city draymen responsible for removing garbage ashes and cans to the city dump on a flour barrel basis across districts north of Norfolk and Western Railway south of the railway and west of Wand street and south of the railway and east of Bland street the board reserves the right to reject any or all bids by order of J T Akers Auditor
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Bluefeld
Wit
Norfolk and Western Railway
Wand Street
Bland Street
Board of Affairs
J. T. Akers
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Gerite Us
Rubberrote
Pioneer Manufacturing Co
Cleveland
Ohio
Erueka Hardware Co
Bluefield, W. VA
A Maas
Virginia
Christopher Tomphins
K. D
Dore
Richmond
John W. Kennedy & CO
Chicago, U. S. A
Goodvykoontz Drug Company
D. B. Baldwim
India
Sublette & Barnes
Farrar Lumber Company
Dalton, GA
McKanna’'s
Princeton Ave
J. J. McKanna
West Va
Chapter
Designa
O Keith O
Frantz Galbraith
Rudolph Frame
A Business Age
Mille of the Gods
Coats
Han Iadea
Bluefield Transfer Co
Tazewell
Jas, L. Harrison
Tazewell, Va
Thomas E. Peery
N. & W. Ballway
W. VA
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