Saturday Night Shooting Affray In Graham Town
The Graham Daily News recounts a Saturday night carnival in Graham that drew Bluefield visitors. Police clashed with a rowdy crowd, resulting in Chief Grace falling to a rock strike and shooting an attacker named A W Sanders, who was not fatally wounded. The paper defends Officer Hall as justified and notes broader carnival aftermath and local attendance.
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Graham Daily News
Bluefield
Daily News
A. W. Sanders
Norfolk and Western
Sanders
Daily Telegraph
Hall
Graha
Graham
Monday
Telephone telegraph system expands across railroad
The Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio Railroad, which began using the telephone for train operations, is installing the telegraph across its entire system. The phone service did not satisfy management and failed to live up to expectations set for the new Gill system.
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New
Carolina
Clinchfield
Ohio
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for Catarrh
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages through a constitutional internal treatment. The ad claims the medicine targets blood and mucous surfaces and offers 100 dollars for any cure it cannot achieve. It urges sending for testimonials and lists Toledo, Ohio as the company location.
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Hall
Notice to Bidders for City Draymen Positions 1909
Seated bids will be received by the board of affairs of the city of Bluefield on the 2nd day of July 1909 at 3 50 p m for the appointment of city draymen to remove garbage ashes cans and other refuse to the city dump on a flour barrel basis as provided by an ordinance. Districts covered include north of the Norfolk and Western Railway south of the railway and west of Bland street and south of the railway east of Bland street. The board may reject any bids. By order of the board of affairs J T Akers Auditor.
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Board of Affairs
City of
Bluefield
Andi
Norfolk and Western Railway
Said
Bland Street
J. T. Akers
Grandmother Suspected in Kidnapping of 16-Year-Old Grace
Grace Hylton, 16, daughter of A B Hylton of Simmons County, was reportedly kidnapped Sunday by her grandmother Mrs Tanny Brown of Bristol Tennessee. Hylton alleges the girl took $44 from his till. A warrant was issued. police pursued via trains but authorities in Bristol were to arrest on arrival.
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Grace Hylton
A. B. Hylton
Simmons
Tanny Brown
Bristol
Tenn
Hyton
Bluefield
Squire Kersey
Newkirk
Radford
Miss Hylton
Drowned Railway Worker Edward Wilson at Tug River
Edward Wilson a colored man from Graham Virginia on the Norfolk and Western extra force drowned Sunday afternoon in the Tug river at Roderfield while bathing. He evidently was seized with cramps and died before help arrived. Wilson held a $500 life insurance policy payable to his wife.
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Ea Wilson
Ecard
Graham
Tug River
S. W. Garnett
Edward Wilson
Norfolk and Western
Tug
Roderfield
Wilson
Tragic death at Herndon coal bank
Miss Florence Comer daughter of T. J. Comer was crushed by a fall of stone in the mouth of a coal bank at Herndon where she had gone for water. Her father had just been buried there a week earlier from paralysis.
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Florence Comer
Herndon
T. J. Comer
Tragic Death in Coal Mine Water Supply Cave-In
A young woman Florence is killed when a coal bank roof collapses at a spring used by several families for water. Her father and two brothers testified to the tragedy as neighbors remove debris and recover the body. most bones are broken, with minor facial bruising.
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Stady
Florence
MRS KATHERINE RITZ GERD Rites Held for Mrs Ritz
Russell Ritz left for Huntington to attend the funeral of his mother Mrs Katherine Ritz who died Sunday afternoon of heart failure at her home. Judge Harold A Ritz was at her bedside. Mrs Ritz 59 is survived by husband and eight children. Burial planned at Spring Hill cemetery Huntington.
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Russell S. Ritz
Huntington
Katherine Ritz
Wheeling
Harold A. Ritz
Bluefield
Stuart L. Ritz
the Red Oak
New York
Charles L. Ritz
Kentucky University of Medicine
Louisville
Alva
Rosa Ritz
Spring Hill
Nine ty mile link plan to connect lines at Winston Salem
Vice President Maher confirms Atlantic Coast Line and Norfolk and Western will buy the Winston-Salem Southbound railway to build a ninety mile connecting link between Winston Salem and Wadesboro North Carolina. Construction is expected to take about eighteen months with bids to be requested immediately and work to start soon.
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Typanoke World
Maher
Norfolk and Western Today
Atlantic Coast Line
Norfolk & Western
Winston
Tragedy as Man Killed Attempting to Board Freight Train
Claude Wilson twenty is killed at Devon twenty miles east of Williamson while attempting to board the Norfolk and Western freight train No 74 eastbound. Train was moving about twenty miles an hour when he was struck his body mangled and he died instantly. Relatives reside at Devon.
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Claude Wilson
Devon
Williamson
Norfolk & Western
Devision
Bluefield
Wilson
Keeley Cure Endures As Timeless Treatment Claim
The Keeley Cure remains a trusted remedy, said to be stronger today than in past decades. Medical historians note its lasting presence in historical discussions of addiction treatment.
Quaker Doctor Moves Quarters to Higginbotham Avenue
Commencing Tuesday June 29 the Quaker Doctor will move into new quarters at 205 Higginbotham avenue. He announces daily office hours from 9 30 to 12 00 m and 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p m except Sunday when hours are 9 20 to 12 noon. Free consultation and advice offered.
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Higginbotham Avenue
Advertising banks rely on the daily newspaper
T D MacGregor of Banking Magazine says newspapers reach many cheaply and effectively. He stresses right media and fresh copy as key to ad impact, noting circulation quality matters, editorial policy, and a clean, progressive paper boosts banking notices.
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Philadelphia
American Institute of Banking
T. D. MacGregor
New York
Banking
Hungerford Observes Ancient John of Gaunt Grants Ceremony
Curiosity ceremonies dating from John of Gaunt's manor grant were held in Hungerford with sunrise horn blasts symbolizing borough liberties. The Hocktide jury met to appoint officials while Tutty-men collected a head penny and a kiss from some wives. Luncheon featured punch from an old recipe and children received oranges and halfpence.
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John of Gaunt
Hungerford
Hocktide
London Standard
Chicago university extends practical farming via ten nearby farms
The new agricultural course will grant students access to ten Chicago area farms owned by wealthy individuals for applying classroom theories. A St Paul paper approves, seeing added dignity to agriculture and potential profits from scientific methods.
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Chicago University
Chicago
St. Paul
Severn tunnel brick count estimated at 77 On 600
An estimate states the Severn tunnel uses 77 bricks per unit on 600. The figure appears in a brief note citing construction metrics and material specs.
See George the little man at the Carnival Union Perk
The fragment notes a person named George described as a small worker at a Carnival Union Perk location. No further context, actions, or dates are readable.
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George
Carnival—Union Perk
Bankrupt Hurst Seeks Discharge in West Virginia Court
C W Hurst of Matoaka Mercer County West Virginia petitions in the Southern District of West Virginia for a full discharge from debts under bankruptcy acts. A hearing is set for June 30 1909 in Bluefield with notice to known creditors by mail and publication in the Bluefield Telegraph.
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District Court of the United States
West Virginia
C. W. Hurst
Benjamin F. Ke
Co. W. Hurst
Matoaka
Mercer
Congress
A. D
Southern District of
Bluefield
Benjamin F. Keller
Charleston
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