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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
5
A wife of a powerful man faces judgment from peers as she is described as overdressed and pretentious. A friend notes the wife’s influence on her husband and the firm while the group distances themselves from ostentatious display and pretense.
Maud Robinson critiques parental double standards as a mother lectures virtue while stealing fruit and praising one child while neglecting another. The piece suggests a careless, self serving upbringing breeds bad behavior and questions common sense childrearing and praise.
The ad touts Papes Diapepsin as a five minute cure for indigestion. One Triangule of the 22 grain tablet digests a heavy meal and cures heartburn belching nausea and sour stomach with no need for laxatives.
Notice announces an ordinance to amend Bluestone Traction Company franchise to build and operate an electric street railway in Bluefield West Virginia. It details proposed route changes from South street to North street and specifies streets Bland South South Jefferson and Adams, with council action after 30 days.
Uniontown Testing Laboratory offers analyses of coal lime fire brick boiler water and more with special contract rates. Norman R Coulter endorses Electric Bitters as a tonic improving digestion liver kidneys and blood purification claims. 0¢ at all druggists.
Edgar Manross, a young clerk in the British foreign office, uses a whistleblower tip about the Suez shares to secure a high position. He travels to Egypt to negotiate the purchase for England and earns £109,000 plus a secretary of legation post in Washington. He later becomes ambassador and marries Gladys Hillhouse.
Notice records dissolution of Pacahontas Coke Company at a March 17 1908 meeting in Broomwell Mercer WV. Resolutions authorize surrender of charter convert assets to cash pay debts and distribute remaining funds to stockholders pro rata after required publication. Publication to four weekly newspapers near principal office and filing with West Virginia secretary of state. Dated March 17 1908 signed Chas Thorne president. DeWitt's Little Early Risers advertised.
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