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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1917
Page
5
A dated advertisement claims Dodson's Liver Tone is a safe alternative to calomel. It asserts fast relief from biliousness and sluggish bowels, promises no salivation, and guarantees satisfaction with a money back offer for a morning reset in liver function.
In Virginia Democratic gubernatorial race Ellyson and Pollard trade acid on prohibition records. Pollard cites a 1886 Richmond letter opposing a local option, while Ellyson explains his stance as dry and predicts drys will prevail. Street Saturday finds a jewelers find among amethysts and pearls linked to a wedding of prominent Virginians.
The Tazewell County Sunday School Convention meets at Ebenezer Church Bluestone on Thursday with a full program. Key speakers include Rev R Homer Anderson and J N Harman, plus sessions on teacher training and Sunday School problems. Election of officers F H Forbes secretary and R Homer Anderson president.
The Graham Daily News reported Judge Samuel W. Williams wed Mrs. Lucy Walker of Tazewell in Washington. The ceremony followed an Eastward journey described as an important mission, with the couple keeping the event secret from friends and relatives until the dispatch.
The article notes Graham men urged by President Wilson to enlist during Volunteer Week. Robert Greever plans to join after a brief home visit, likely serving as a bugler in a regiment band. Eugene Witten contemplates July 25 call and has prior service with the Richmond Blues and the hospital corps of the first Virginia regiment.
Graham officials vow no more carnivals or snake shows after a costly last visit. They claim most council members, and likely residents, oppose future street amusements as a public nuisance and wasteful of town funds.
The Graham Red Sox baseball team saw a 4-0 lead vanish in the sixth as Tazewell exploded for ten runs. Douthat and Bourne pitched for Graham while Brown Harman and Battimore powered the Tazewell comeback. Also notes travel of Mrs FE and Tom McNeer and Master Gordon.
The item notes McNeer of Pulaski is attending school in New York and mentions Mrs. B. C. MeNeer as an aunt of Gaston Callaway.
The Pres byterian church holds quarterly communion next Sabbath at 11 a m Preparatory services start Wednesday evening at 7 45 and continue Thursday and Friday at the same hour Young people of Graham are especially invited as Rev T Mowbray preaches from Proverbs third chapter noted for youth relevance.
The first national association of automobile dealers and distributors will be organized at a Chicago meeting this week. It will be called the National Automobile Dealers' Association and will include distributors and dealers with direct factory connections. There are over 25,000 such dealers nationwide, and most are expected to join.
Government introduced testimony that price lists fixing $3 as the minimum cost of semi bituminous coal were mailed to operators the day after a January conference in New York. The trial involves 51 individuals and 102 companies charged in a coal production case in federal court.
Chester Sawyer, an African American man, was taken from Galveston jail by a small mob and hanged near the city limits. He had been accused of attacking a white woman and was to be brought to trial this morning. Sawyer had arrived from Brooklyn earlier this year.
Herbert Hoover, to be national food administrator, met Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore on June 25 to discuss food supply. The cardinal will issue a letter urging housewives to practice the strictest economy in their kitchens nationwide.
At a congress of Georgian national democrats held Sunday in Tiflis, a resolution was adopted in favor of the autonomy of Georgia. The move signals rising nationalist sentiment in Trans-Caucasia as regional groups press for self rule within the empire.
James R. Gray editor of the Atlanta Journal died here tonight. The veteran journalist who led the paper for decades passed suddenly, leaving the newspaper and city in mourning.
The St James Gazette notes the June 27 1828 Grimaldi benefit at Drury Lane when the famed clown, aged and memory forsaken, was wheeled on in an arm chair to sing Hot Codlins. A total of £1740 was raised, a record for years.
The note cites Kant 1795 arguing universal peace requires world organization and peoples ruling rather than kings, urging hospitality and goodwill toward all races and nations. A Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist contrasts this with skepticism by citing Claude Allen and a tongue in cheek critique of costly leisure.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a couple debating the time to finish a sewing project and the certainty of a lifelong marriage. The text includes a stray moral remark from a cousin about ignorance as a source of misery and vice.
Purported lemon juice skin whitener combines two lemons with three ounces orchard white to yield a quarter pint lotion. The method warns lemon juice is acidic and may irritate skin unless diluted, and promotes daily massage on face neck arms and hands to reduce freckles sallowness and tan while restoring whiteness and softness.
In a North Forks of Holston River tragedy, Lloyd from Mountain City and Simpson of Kingsport died after efforts to save them failed. Lloyd, aged about 28 and newly married, was pulled from the water around 2:05, breath restored briefly. Simpson, 23, likely died on extraction. Simpson, born in Bluefield, had served in the army and worked in meat business. Funeral plans set for 3 PM at his parents’ home, with Maple Park Cemetery burial.
An American passenger liner near Ireland repelled a German submarine attack as gunners held fire with a torpedo missing by under twenty feet. AP staff witnessed the gun crews at forward positions and officers on the bridge as the submarine’s wake trailed the bow.
The lookout cried torpedo and submarine off starboard bow as the ship swung to a twenty degree tilt. Gunfire flashed but shots likely missed as the submarine vanished beneath the dark wake. Two minutes later a conning tower surfaced briefly before the raider disappeared. The ship pushed to safety using full steam.
Jackson Mississippi June 25 a company of the fifth Mississippi regiment with two machine guns was sent by automobile to Canton thirty five miles north to prevent a threatened race riot. Whites and negroes were armed and a clash was feared after a mob threatened to storm the jail and seize a negro charged with assaulting a white man at a lumber camp.
On June 25 three Czech regiments deserted to the Russians as stated by F von Georgi, Austrian defense minister, to a southern Austria deputies committee. The report, published in Berlin papers Lokal Anzeiger and Tageblatt, cites the discussion of Czech deputies demand for releasing Herr Klofac, condemned for alleged attempts to reconcile Russia and Bohemia.
Survivors report the British steamship Ottolan of 2145 tons gross owned by the General Steam Navigation Company was torpedoed and sunk on June 14 with three crew lost. An American vessel nearby rescued survivors and fired on the submarine.
In Petrograd on June 5 Admiral Kolt ehak was removed from command of the Black Sea fleet after mutiny by sailors. He charged delegates from the Baltic fleet fomented the uprising. A meeting with 15,000 sailors resolved to arrest and search all officers including the admiral and staff on suspicions of counter revolution.
Officers on a British steamer arriving at an Atlantic port report sinking an attacking German submarine. A shell hit the U boat’s magazine causing an explosion that splintered the vessel midships. The submarine faded with both ends sinking separately while the British ship remained undamaged.
A historic reminder advises readers that bilious symptoms including constipation headaches loss of appetite restlessness and a coated tongue merit a course of Calomel as recommended by doctors. The tone reflects period health guidance promoting a purgative treatment option.
Advertises Blacko Stomach and Liver Tablets as a safe gentle alternative to calomel with no salivation or next day sickness. Offers a full money back guarantee if buyers are dissatisfied. Sold by all druggists with end of display notice.
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