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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1908
Page
5
At the Dou residence yesterday a four year old girl Planch Dou caught fire while near an open stove. A servant heard screams and forced a locked door, freeing the child as the blaze scorched her back and clothes. Dr. Martin attended. injuries may prove dangerous due to the child's youth.
Official notice sets 2 pm April 27 1908 Huntington Cabell County WV to nominate a congressman elect two delegates and two alternates to Chicago June 16 1908 and nominate a presidential elector. Delegates apportioned by county Roosevelt 1904 votes with no proxies allowed. By order February 8 1908.
A home remedy is offered for kidney and bladder issues. The recipe uses Fluid Extract Dandelion, Compound Karyon, and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, with dosing after meals and at night. A local druggist asserts one week of use yields good results for back pain, frequent urination, bladder pain, and chronic rheumatism.
A mass convention of Republican voters in Mercer county is called for Bramwell West Virginia on April 4 at 2 p m. to select 24 delegates by district and to represent Mercer at a state convention in Parkersburg on April 29 1908 to nominate supreme court judges and send four delegates to the national convention in Chicago June 16 1908. Also to appoint 36 delegates to a Huntington congressional convention on April 27 1908 and 36 delegates to a Beaver Pond and Fast River senatorial convention to be fixed. Issued by Isaac T Mann chairman and ER L Bowman secretary February 15 1908.
Norman Coulter, a prominent architect in the Delbert Building, San Francisco, endorses Electric Bitters as a tonic for everyone. It is said to correct stomach liver and kidney disorders and build up the system, with Electric Mills claimed as the best spring medicine cure sold by druggists.
A secret poll among Virginia State Senate allies shows Hen dhenry C. Stuart leading for the Democratic nomination for governor by eight votes over rival William H. Mann. House results were also favorable though exact margins are not yet learned. Stuart, a former Virginia Corporation Commissioner from Russell County, has strong southwest Virginia backing and a large stock-and-farm base.
An advertisement promotes Miona stomach tablets to cure indigestion and stomach weakness. It claims lasting relief by strengthening digestion, increasing gastric juice flow, and avoiding laxatives, with a money back guarantee if not cured, priced at 60c a box.
Specialties focus on feed and water services. The Bluefield Fered Co promotes Beet Pulp for cows Rye Wheat and Corn Chop for horses and Pure Water Ground Buhr mill Meal for customers. Phone 540.
An advertisement promotes Cascasweet claiming it calms a cross unhappy baby. It asserts no opiates or harmful drugs and urges mothers to buy from druggists.
Miss Mamie Trent Fagg and W. W. Wysor wed in Roanoke at the Hotel Roanoke parlor in a noon ceremony attended by family and friends. Rev. W C Campbell officiated. The couple will spend two weeks in Florida before settling in Chattanooga at 412 Cherry Street. The bride, daughter of J J Pagg, is a Stonewall Jackson graduate. the groom is chief engineer of Chattanooga's electric car lines.
In Giotto on Monday evening violence left Rufus Laxton and brothers Hamilton and Harry Cook wounded. Laxton fired first with a shotgun, striking Harry Cook who later lost a leg to amputation. Hamilton Cook was wounded in the shoulder and head but not considered in danger. All involved were under medical care.
A man identified as Goad lost a pocketbook containing two North Dakota tickets, baggage checks, and a farm deed, while a port of the money went missing. A colored Union News Company worker recovered the bag beside the westbound track and a local fund was raised to return the money to the woman.
Bland resident N R Draper and many others including A B Nelson Glen Lynch J Ss Ellis Bluefield visits J M Walker Williamson Percy Hancock Marion Va Hoawker O T Harman Tazewell Wis Miss Hall Saeger J Clark Oceana State Senator W W White Welch O K Lambert Princeton James Jones Switchback Miss Lucy Clapp Tazewell Mrs 8 M Whitworth improving St J Shott and children visiting Washington Mrs A P Allen Niagara Falls guest of C O Leary Zack Lilly Spanishburg en route to Beckley G W Murrell Maher N&W A H Williams Wytheville Geiser Mfg K O Toole Gary George A Harris N&W L M Ages Winston Salem NC visiting sister Floyd back home
Rev F Starbird of Mast Raymond Maine says Backlen's Arnica Salve heals an old army wound and other obstinate sores. He also uses it in his veterinary practice with great success. Price two pence halfpenny per box at all drug stores.
An old advertisement promotes The Lucky Quartier box of Dr King’s New Life Pills promising health benefits for headaches nervousness constipation and malaria. If not satisfied the price is refunded at all drug stores.
An 1808 testimonial from W R Allison of Mooresville claims Dr Miles Nerveine cured his son's epilepsy after years of fits. The notice urges readers to obtain the remedy from local druggists, promising refund if it fails and offering letters of acceptance from cured patients.
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