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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1908
Page
4
Editorial and business communications for the Daily Telegraph are to be sent to the Bluefield West Virginia address. No individuals are connected with the paper to receive mail regarding establishment matters.
A satirical note on many hereditary social clubs multiplying in Democratic circles. The column riffs on a future registry for Daughters of Senators and Representatives and the humor of rival hereditary orders. It mentions a Ship-Christeners Society and mocks government regulation of family societies while observing cold Northwest weather and national generosity.
The Chicago News mocks desperate Wall Street ploys and suggests bold measures such as securities backed by real assets. It notes a reported mob hanging in Mississippi described as orderly, and quips about a bishop advising spinster prayers. It also mentions Ohio Minnesota Governor Johnson, a wood saw, and the diamond trust potential bust.
The district attorney’s annual tally records over 25 000 grand jury indictments in six years, with 5295 in the last year the highest on record. Burglary and grand larceny dominate 1907 cases as burglars plunder even affluent Fifth Avenue districts despite police dogs and a new detective language school.
After Georgia banned liquor, doctors prescribed whisky for grip, sparking a surge in patients until doctors and druggists were arrested for selling alcohol. The court upheld the charges and the whisky cure vanished as the epidemic subsided. A curious reflection on medicine and policy ends with a note on garden seed timing.
An advertisement claims most deafness stems from catarrh and inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. It offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation, with Toledo based F J Cheney & Co as the makers.
The Kentucky Breathitt district, infamous for violence, is noted here for a growing prohibition sentiment due to prejudice against liquor. The piece laments ambush violence and urges greater temperance to strengthen leadership in the Hargis stronghold.
West Virginia Republicans meet in Parkersburg Wood County on April 2 to elect four delegates at large and four alternates to the Chicago national convention. Delegates must be certified ten days prior and contests filed ten days before. counties receive one delegate per 150 votes or more for Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. no proxies or alternates. Public notices and primaries follow after thirty days’ notice.
The Fifth district Republican convention is called for Huntington Cabell County WV at 2 pm on April 27 1908. Delegates from each county elect the district committee and two delegates to the national convention. Other business includes nominating a presidential elector and selecting candidates for congress and local positions.
Official notice dated February 1 announces a meeting of postoffice representatives in Spencer and Clarksburg West Virginia with H Woodyard as chairman and Virgil Highland as secretary.
A county party call urges Mercer voters to meet in Bramwell on a Saturday in April at 2 p m to select delegates across Rock Beaver Pond East River Plymouth Jumping Branch and to represent Mercer at a state convention in Parkersburg on April 28 1908 then send four delegates to the national convention in Chicago and nominate supreme court judges. It also lists 24 36 and 6 delegate allocations for various districts and a senatorial convention pending location and date. ISAAC T MANN chairs the general committee with L Bowman as secretary. Also notices sale of Beaver Pond school bonds on March 21 1908 for 150000 with 106090 per bond over 20 years at 6 percent.
Bids must be written and sealed and filed with the secretary before sale. Each bid requires a certified check for one percent of the amount. By order of the Board of Education dated February 19 1908 secretary Kk L Bowman. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup广告.
Hon. William H. Hearne of Ohio County asks Republican voters in the Northern Panhandle to assess his qualifications for West Virginia governor. The note appears in a county solicitation ahead of the next Republican state convention. Also included is a testimonial praising Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and lung diseases with a trial bottle offer.
Bluefield Lodge No. 266 1.0.0.F holds meetings every Tuesday at 8 p m at Red Men's Hall with Stated Communications ongoing.
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