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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1908
Page
2
The notice states delivery by city carriers or mail at 4 dollars yearly, 2 dollars for six months, or a three month option. It also mentions sale on trains and hotel newsstands within a 100 mile radius of Bluefield.
The Binefield Merchandise Exchange offers a ten dollar prize for the best store name using the word furniture. Open to city students and Telegraph readers. entries must be sent in by March 17 at noon. Suggestions published with numbering by The Daily Telegraph.
Local No. 568 Retail Clerks Union urges Bluefield merchants to sign 1908 early closing contracts. Stores already on the list include Metropolitan Men's Furnishing Co EK 8 Pedigo The Grand Leader Shumate Clothing Co Samuel Tork C Jd Kinzer Jd M Wilson The Paris M Rosenbere Hutchinson & Co The Mureka Hardware Co M G Whitlow Hardware J A White Campbell Grocery City Grocery Kahie & Son Jopling Grocery Jat Top Furniture Phelps Furniture Fowler Richardson Hardware Co. Closings start March 1 at 7 p m except paydays Labor Day all day and at 12 oclock Fourth of July. Contracts run to September 30 1908. Best healer in the world ad for Arnica Salve 25 cents.
A Sunday evening sermon at Bland Street Church by Rev. D Emory Hawk urged young women to build and sustain a home. Ushers Nellie Hatcher and others assisted as the pastor spoke on Ruth 1 16 and the responsibility of women in shaping home life and culture.
A sermon on the duties of women frames home as a sacred center and asks young women what they will be to the home and to future generations. It extols a sensible wife and mother over mere ornament and urges rejection of idle professional folly. A college trained daughter who serves at home is praised as ideal and crucial to societal happiness.
Bluefield stores promote Vinol cod liver extract as superior spring medicine. They claim it purifies blood boosts appetite and strength without oil, produced from fresh cod livers with peptonate of iron. Customer letters praise results. money back guarantee offered at West End Drug Co East End Pharmacy Bluefield Pharmacy.
An advertisement touts Hyomei as a five minute relief for catarrh via a pocket inhaler. It claims the liquid mist gives air a tonic healing effect, kills germs, and soothes irritated membranes. The White Pharmacy guarantees refunds if the $1 outfit fails to satisfy.
Prominent architect Norman R. Coulter endorses Electric Bitters as a universal tonic. He claims it corrects stomach, liver and kidney issues promptly and strengthens the system. The product is advertised as a superior spring medicine and blood purifier available at druggists.
A narrator recalls introducing Len Richmond to his cousin Myra Ducher and triggering an awkward clash of romance. Len doubts marrying a homely woman, Myra hints she prefers Len, and the narrator schemes to fix the situation while questioning the saying that marriage doubles joys and halves sorrows.
A dessert recipe using English Walnut meats figs and Jell O dissolves in boiling water then thickens with fruit added. Serve with whipped cream. Walnut and fig mix is economical and available at groceries. Also testimonial from Mr. John Riha praising DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills sold by druggists.
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