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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
6
Kelly Brothers expect a large crew to start paving on April 1 and push to completion. Remaining streets include South Bland Higginbotham Raleigh and several northside streets. With ground material ready and good weather, Bluefield should have its new streets before summer.
The Jolliffe's Bright Lights tent show schedules its regular summer tour to follow a winter run. The manager notes strong prospects, printing underway and cards out announcing Josie Conner's March 24 marriage to Rev. Robert Stuart.
Get DeWitt's Carbolized With Hazel Salve it is good for piles. Sold by all druggists.
A quoted dialogue from Fliegende Blatter reports a distressed wife accusing her husband of infidelity with the cook after a late night kiss in the dark. The piece conveys rumor and suspicion through concise dialogue.
The arrangement calls for two thousand tons monthly from March to June and two thousand tons in September and October, totaling seven thousand tons over the period.
Miss Luella Sisson and Mr C B B Graham, both of this city, were married yesterday in Princeton with Rev D P Hurley officiating. Sisson resided in Bluefield with her sister Mrs G E Ickens, while Graham had lived in Bluefield for several years. The Daily Telegraph extends best wishes. A prayer meeting at Mrs C T Bakers in South Bluefield drew about fifty attendees, led by W K Pearson.
The Women’s Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church will meet at the home of Mrs Henry Kendrick at 3 o’clock this afternoon.
Beginning Monday night moving pictures will be shown at the rink every night with no extra admission. Skates as usual. Saturday afternoon there will be a special matinee for ladies and children.
Washington March 18 Senator Clay Georgia proposed an amendment to the ocean mail shipping bill to ensure that all intoxicating liquors transported into a state or territory are subject to that jurisdiction’s police laws to the same extent as local production and are not exempt by importation.
Boston reports that Cardenlo F. King, a financial agent once able to write a one million dollar check, is in London while friends and agents circulate rumors of trips and further movements as a hunted fugitive from justice.
A New York financier sought in embezzlement warrants fled with cash and negotiable papers from his office and sailed on the Cunard liner Etruria to Liverpool on February 22. He was not listed as a passenger, stayed hidden until the pilot departed, then surfaced in public.
In an address at Glasgow University, Lord Rosebery speculated that if Pitt had stayed in Parliament and persuaded George III to accept American representation, the thirteen colonies could have remained part of Britain. He argued this might have averted wars and kept Britain as a European empire eastward across the Atlantic.
The Forum Romanum in Rome served trade, public meetings, and justice administration by consuls and other magistrates. As fora expanded to about eighteen or twenty, they divided into public meeting and court centers and trade markets. The Roman forum paralleled the Greek agora as a civic hub.
The Medical Record recounts a man cured of blindness by a surgeon with an unprepossessing look. After vision returned, the patient told his benefactor he would not have consented if he had seen him first.
A witty London Telegraph quip recalls a hotel scene where a porter blocks boots that had kicked him the night before, turning a small incident into a public joke about manners and misadventure.
A brief note invites readers to start the day with the Daily Telegraph offering news, weather, and features to begin the morning informed and engaged.
Two Italian men, Joe and Louis Farro, who killed Walter Fogg and G. W. Averd at Davis Colliery in Copen, West Virginia, are hunted by a miners’ posse. A veiled threat of lynching accompanies the pursuit as the fugitives were later captured five miles from Copen after a night of searches.
Richmond Virginia March 18 the supreme court of appeals issued one opinion before summer recess in Wytheville. The case Tazewell and others versus Herman treasurer of Norfolk held that voters must personally pay their own taxes to qualify. The court sustained the treasurer's demurrer to mandamus and dismissed the petition.
Judge Skeen presides as Lige Wright faces murder charges for the February killing of William Sifers. Prosecution led by O M Vicars and Judge A A Skeen. Wright, a noted Kentucky feudist, has prior penitentiary terms and is accused in a prior killing of Newton Ramey.
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