Name the Bluefield store contest sparks $10 prize
The Bluefield Merchandise Exchange offers a $10 prize for naming the furniture business now run by Mr. Catzen. Open to city youths and Daily Telegraph readers, entries must be short memorable and distinctive. Send to Furniture care of The Daily Telegraph with letters numbered. contest ends March 17 at noon.
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Bluefield Merchandise Exchange
Daily Telegraph
Catzen
Tie
Bland Street Furniture Company
Gem Furniture Company
Easy Payment Furniture Company
Furniture
For Sale Eggs and Poultry at Keystone W Va
For sale eggs from pure bred Brown Leghorns White Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks at 1.05 per setting of 15. Shipped in improved packages. Manager G. C.Metager Keystone W Va. Also various patent medicines and tonics advertised with health claims and prices.
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Plymouth
Residents from Welch and surrounding towns visit Bluefield
Local notes list R R Smith J Baxter C W Davis and others from Welch Northfork Rock St Paul Big Sandy Keystone Thonaker and Princeton in the city and Bluefield yesterday. Word also reaches that Capt J D Dailey collector of internal revenue and prominent merchants from Crumpler Kimball Wilcoe Bramwell Salem and Williamsburg were seen, with several families and travelers passing through on business or moving plans.
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John D. Dailey
Internal Revenue
Tazewell
Norfolk & Western Freight Gains Spur Upward March
Railroad business shows a rise in March with more coke shipments relative to coal and a smaller deficit versus 1907. Norfolk & Western handled about 6 000 fewer cars year to date, but March improves from February. Shipments include steel rails landed at Norfolk for Virginian railroad and cargo from Iron Spar Rows Point and Baltimore toward the 206 mile post west of Norfolk.
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Norfolk & Western
Norfolk
Virginian
Sparrows Point
Baltimore
Ferrell Dry Goods Merchant Files Bankruptcy Petition
W G Ferrell proprietor of a large city dry goods store filed for bankruptcy due to creditor pressure. Liabilities are estimated at 16 000 to 18 000 with stock valued higher. John KE Hurst & Co is the largest creditor. Friends hope the issue will be settled soon and the popular store reopened by Ferrell.
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W. G. Kerrell
Labilies
John KE. Hurst & Co
Ferrell
Lip Bitten Off in Saloon Bar Fight at Princeton Avenue
In L Cohen's saloon on Princeton Avenue a brutal fight left William Miller lipless after Italian Patsy Cairo bit off Miller's lower lip. The attack occurred around 6 30 p m with Cairo later seen returning to the saloon in a fresh suit. Cairo, a known troublemaker, fled after the incident and had not yet been arrested by nightfall.
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L. Cohen
Princeton Avenue
William Miller
Patsy Cairo
Cairo
Miller
Clairo
Scott
Lner Tt
Ste Ian
Catro
Tallyman
Tillman Seeks Senate Finance Probe Into Bank Practices
Washington March 12 Senator Tillman today introduced a resolution urging the senate finance committee to investigate financial legislation. Questions focus on New York banks providing permanent capital for speculative ventures, known loans to be traced by the Treasury, and banks seeking to influence currency policy in Congress.
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Washington
Tmllman Todey
Senate Commiitee On Finance
National Banks of
New York
Treasury Department
National Bank of North America
C. W. Morse
Congress
Railway Carriage Outburst Aboard London-Bound Train
A youth aboard a London bound railway carriage disturbed fellow passengers with loud foolish remarks. An elderly man grumbled about the mood and joked the railway would be scarred from the asylum. The dialogue shifts to unrelated comments about meals and a Detroit press note on Mrs Grindly’s habits.
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London
Ulee
Rail schedule fragment noted for Roanoke and connections
Train timetable snippet lists 2 55 p m departures to Roanoke Lynchburg Shenandoah Valley Philadelphia and New York with sleeper service to Philadelphia and Roanoke Cafe car and 38 p m to Roanoke Lynchburg Richmond Norfolk including Pullman sleepers to Roanoke and Norfolk Cafeteria car service referenced.
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Roanoke
Norfolk
Shenandoah
Pullman
New York
Hagertown
Richmond
Lynchburg
Shenandoah Valley
Philadelphia
Sleeper
Cafe Cer
Gary
Pullman Sleeper
Norfolk Cateen
Binefield
Kenovo
Columbus
Cincinnati
Toledo
Tazewell
Nort’a
Clinch Valle
Norta
Clinch Valley
Kenova
Wayne
Welch
Norfolk and Ecthie Railway
W. B. Bhviil. G
Virginie
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Manuacturers
Saul
Liberty Credit CO
Bluefield Ave
BELL
R. L. Speai
W. P. Hawley Merchandise CO
South Brand Street
Bluefield Water Works and Improvement Company
Wm, McCarthy
Eng
R & Supt
G. Betelle
Cashier
Uuid al Vw
Tn Rhinkh Poultry Farm
G. C. Metager
Keystone
W. Va
Chamberlain
West Kind Drug Co
Wast Mad
Dinefield Pharmacy
Rocky Mountain
Mill Creek Coal and Coke Co
Weat End Drug Co
W. J. Peters
Miceman
F. Starbird
East Raymond
Maine
Deep Blue Sea
Wollister
Mi Creek Coal and Coke Go
Week End Drug Co
Freeman
R. R. Smith
City
Kk. J. Baxter
Bluefield
C. W. Davis
Northfork
Crockett Bailey
Rock
C. D. Mundy
St. Paul
H. A. McCoy
Big Sandy
W. R. Dudley
S. I. Jackson
Thonaker
R. Gildersleeve, Jr
D. P. Crockett
Cletus
Honaker
O. K. Ulsnbert
Princeton
C. F. Miller
Kimball
Sliefield
John Bailey
J. R. Greenawalt
W. H. Sanford
George W. Williams
Beckley
Lillian Stinson
St. Luke's
Maybeury
Charles Dare
Crumpler
R. L. Bailey
Keystone Bank
K. McFarland
C. J. Miller
J. K. Wolfe
Wilcoe
J. W. Rader
T. J. Cohen
Ingleside
Isaac J. Mann
Bramwell
Piladelphia
William Cooper
Salem
Cooper
J. T. Jewell
Virginia City
Mr. Jewell
Mrs. Bond
Tacoma
Kiner, Va
Lucy Hall
Clarence Dennison
Letehard
A. Vane Lester
Little Son
Williamsburg, Ky
Rails
The
W. G. Ferrell
William Willer
Tillman
Pitteburg Port
Virginia
Michigan
James Wilson
Washington, D. C
Yours Truly
W. A. Scott & Co
Southwest Virginia
North Tazewell
G. M. McCulloch
W. J. Pearson
Sec’ty and Treas
Fab Top Insurance Agency
Generla Insurance
Bluefield, W. VA
M. Smith Insurance Agency
Heatotil
L. G. Toney
Edward Cooper
H. C. Donaldson
Ss. M. Smith
S. M. Smith Insurance Agency
Kelly & Moyer
Idneys
DeWitt
E.C. Dewitt & CO
Chicago
R. L. Morris
Rick
Frame
Bluefiaid Transfer Co
King’s New Discovery
Suriers
Booker & Crenshaw
Kelly & Moyer Building
Dr. King
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