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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1901
Page
2
A satirical column attacks figures like Dowie Wanamaker and Depew on money and power while contrasting public virtue with cash needs. It jokes about annexation, weather reports, Mormon converts, common law marriage, Roosevelt’s 1904 nominating talk, and Filipino Fourth of July wishes. It ends with a beer ad and a cautionary note about Hes IER beer.
Mining man Thomas F. Drew believes he has found an asphalt lake in Canada beyond the Great Divide near James Bay. He describes an expedition where an Indian guide and setters observed a fox trotting across the lake surface leaving water spray. The spring setting left about an inch of water on the asphalt surface as efforts to locate the lake continue.
A garbled page promotes Ball's Catarrh Cure and Chamberlain remedies for deafness and headaches. It claims Eustachian tube inflammation causes hearing loss, offers one hundred dollars for untreatable catarrh, and cites testimonials and local merchants selling medicines and tonics.
I W BR Honaker Clerk of the Circuit Court of Mercer County West Virginia certifies that O M Eassey Special Commissioner named in the preceding advertisement has provided the bond required by a decree entered in said chancery.
Light running gear wagon with buggy top and covered body suited for medicine man or pedlar. J. D. Shott of Bluefield West Virginia advertises this wagon for sale.
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