City and Goalfield May Locate Here
Local notes report R M Fox, former Keystone jeweler now in Chatham, exploring relocation to Bluefield. The death of Parks Johnson aged 18 from spinal meningitis en route to Wilkesboro. Mrs J B Mills travels to El Paso to be with ill husband. A child undergoes TB bone surgery. condition serious. Society meetings set. Daughters of Rebekah plan a box social. First girders arrive for Allen Street bridge. work to start soon. Public opening of Simple Simon Simple tickets. rink opening with Bluefield Welch basketball game. Bankruptcy of Banks & Rosenheim. receiver appointed. Wedding of Mamie Trent Fage and William W Wysor in Roanoke. Death of infant son of Mr and Mrs Harvey Perfater noted. Local ads for cheese and tonics conclude.
Bluefield Feed Co Specialty Ad Lines Up Feed Staples
This day offers a kitchen of specialties from Bluefield Feed Co. They promise success by focusing on their feed business with Beet Pulp for cows Rye Wheat and Corn Chop for horses and Pure Water Ground buhr mill Mead. Call 540 for a trial.
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Buhr Mill Mead
Bluefield Feed CO
Best of Humor: Customer Salmon Mayonnaise Query
The Tatler notes a humorous exchange where a waiter, while absentmindedly practicing for a diabolo act, asks if a waiter should spin or throw a salmon mayonnaise under a leg, capturing a lighthearted dining mishap in a witty scene.
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Tatler
Italians in Mass Meeting Urged Union Support
A mass meeting of city Italians on Raleigh Street heard Signor Imanto Brengio of Philadelphia urge joining U S unions. He argued prosperity would raise wages and many would apply for admission to unions, with an interpreter noting strong arousal among attendees.
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Afernoon
Raleigh Street
Italy
Signor Imanto Brengio
Philadelphia
Signor Brengio
Kansas City hotel prank prompts dinner bill dispute
A rural politician stayed at a Kansas City hotel and argued over charges on the American plan. After learning meals were charged by time he ate, he tried to eat again to "get his money's worth" and racked up a $5.35 bill. The episode ends with a quip about the European dining room.
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Kansas City
Jan
Siarpers
Regal Shoes Appeal to Fleet Members at Campus Style
A Regal Shoe Store manager in Brooklyn grants approval for fleet members to place Regal orders, noting the fleet’s collection would rival a small shore store. Notable patrons include Governor Magoon, Prince Chu, Robert Skinner, and Alton Parker with Regal purchases cited. Prices $3.50, $4.00, $5.00 at Thornton Clothing Co Bluefield West Virginia.
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Admiral Evans
Great Fleet
Pacific
Regal Shoe Store No
StooRlyn
N. Y
Magoon
Roosevelt
Directorate of
Cuba
Prince P. C. Chu
Robert P. Skinner
Marseilles
France
Alton B. Parker
Thornton Clothing Company
Red Lot Corner
Bluefield
W. Va
Breakfast cereal question in grocery humor
A town woman asks to be shown a good breakfast cereal. The clerk cites predigested food and she retorts asking who makes it. The exchange reflects light weekly humor from Woman's Home Companion.
Missing Sponge Quips Spark Curious Courtroom Talk
A fragment from a serialized note quotes a playful exchange about appetite and medicine. A joking remark about a sponge hidden inside a patient surfaces alongside a punchline about adding 810 to a bill. The text reflects a light courtly banter tone from the era.
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Norre
Emminent Suregeon
Duck
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Ious
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Arthur
Rosa
Kerschbaum
E. S. Pedigo
Princeton Ave
West Virginia
Follansbee
Bland Street
Belmont
Cafe
D. E. Mastin, Prop
J. F. Thompson
Mgr
Slobe-Wervicke
R. M. Fox
Keystone
Chatham
Ennis
Parks Johnson
Wilkesboro
N. C
Husband
J. B. Mills
Pocahontas Division
el Paso
Tex
Boy
KE. H. Fields
Missionary Meeting
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
J. N. Packer
Rebekah
Bluefield Avenue
Allen Street
Welch Five
Banks & Rosenheim
Samuel W. Williams, Jr
Mes B. Postlethwaite
Roanoke
J. J. Fage
Matoaka
Mamie Trent
William W. Wysor
Dublin
R. KE. Shirey
Littl
Harvey B. Perfater
Lurien
Sublette & Barnes
DeWitt
Tok
Globe Weenteke
Ases
Sele Book & Stationery
Elks’ Building
White Pharmacy
Stetson
Metropolitan Men’s Furnishing CO
Philadelpha Ress
St. Louis Globe Democrat
NM. G. Whitlow Hardware Co
Bluefield, W. VA
EL Shufflebarger
Sohn Building
Nannie M. Harman
Tip Top
Virginia
Care Tip Top Supply Company
Booker & Crenshaw
Kelly & Muyek Building
R. L. Morris
Daily Telegraph
Denniace Ave
Columbus
Ohio
W. H. Cunningham
John
Crockett and Granam
THE
Bluefield Trust
Dr. King
Holmboe & Lafferty
Higginbotham and
Princeton Aves
Clarksburg
Empire Building
Athens
Bluefield Transfer Co
NS Wiijukewesten
Norfolk
Shenandoah
Pullman
New York
Hagertown
Richmond
Lynchburg
Shenandoah Valley
Gary
Kenova
Cincinnati
Toledo
Tazewell
Nort’a
Clinch Valle
Norton
Clinch Valley Division
Kenovg
Wayne
Welch
Norfolk and Western Railway
W. B. Bevill
M. Cohen
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