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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1935
Page
7
A well lighted brick structure behind Mercer Funeral Home adds five ambulance stalls with overhead sliding doors. The reinforced steel garage, approached from Bland Street alley, features a ramp and rapid door operation to speed ambulance calls.
The article reports that Platnick Bros. has broadened operations from junk dealers to include new and used automobile parts. The plant stores both new and used parts in well stocked quarters, with used parts carefully selected for life and suitable for a wide range of makes and models. About 15 to 18 second hand cars are received monthly and dismantled for usable parts, while junk remnants are sold as junk.
Unfavorable weather across the United States dampens May retail sales and credit activity amid labor tensions. In Bluefield, summer apparel sales suffer from coal shortages and rainfall while merchants anticipate improvement in July as heat arrives.
Bluefield Paint and Varnish, Georgia Lumber, and distributors tout public service paints used on the Chicago post office. The project highlights sublimed white lead in Public Service house paint, reducing lead ironing and yielding a whiter, cleaner finish.
Platnick's advertises a large selection of used cars including trucks and cars. The firm also operates the local Graham automobile agency and maintains several models in stock at all times.
Appalachian Power Company promotes a low cost nature conditioned cooling system using a four foot fan to circulate mountain air. The display shows attic temperatures and how 75 degree outside air can yield 75 degrees inside, costing about one and a half cents daily. Superior Sterling and Bluefield Hardware distribute, with the power company offering free expert advice.
A new neon sign in green and white script reading Nunnally's Studio graces the Medergl street window. The sign highlights portraits of young women displayed in the show window as part of a hoped for strong season for the business.
The Grunow refrigerator story rises from the Great Depression as Bill Grunow launches a high priced, quality model in March 1933. He uses selective wholesalers to preview the design in Chicago, securing distribution and dealer buy in. Within sixty days Grunow sales span major cities nationwide, surpassing all first year records and exceeding expectations.
Goodykoontz drug stores celebrate twenty eight years serving Bluefield and the coal fields with a June Health and Beauty sale featuring value combos on drugs and toiletries. The four stores began under C. H Goodykoontz in 1907 and have filled 1,200,000 prescriptions, employing 21 people.
More than 1 000 barrels of cement were subscribed in one day by Richmond citizens for a new stadium at Eastern Kentucky State Teachers College.
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