Klaeger area not in boom as residents stay busy
In Klaeger West Virginia and nearby railroad towns residents keep busy with pitching horseshoes and checkers between jobs. Sickness affects Mrs. A. D. Stedman with tonsillitis and Mrs. Geo E. Dennis with intestinal issues. Mrs. Petrie to stay with her daughter until recovery and a revival meeting led by Brothers Pangler and Holbrook shows good prospects.
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Geo. E. Dennis
Welch Hospital
Germantown
N. C
New Dr Baker Residence and Local Developments in Big Stone Gap
The large new residence of Dr. W. A. Baker near the Southern M E church is nearly finished and ranks among the Gap's best. A hotel and business block project promises work for local laborers this summer. Many town notes include land plans in Arkansas and Texas, express offices added at Imboden and Keokee, and updates on local residents and church organs. Major H G Wax nears ninety, and an organ valued at 240 dollars is installed at the M E Church on a 30 day trial. The State Summer Normal will bring many visitors in July, and Hon. C Bascom Slemp has returned from Washington. An 18 month old child of Melvin Garrison died of pneumonia and whooping cough and was buried in Glencoe cemetery.
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Big Stone Gap
W. A. Baker
M. E
T. R. Steel
Duffield
Arkansas
Texas
A. L. Witt
Interstate Finance and Trust Co
Indiana
Imboden
Keokee
Black Mountain
Virginia and Southwestern Railroad
S. W. Wax
Malcolm Smith
C. Bascom Slemp
Washington
Congress
Melvin Garrison
Glencoe Cemetery
Robbers Escape With $900 From Davis Bank
In Hoffman Oklahoma two robbers, likely from the Tyro Bank gang, entered the Davis Bank and held up bank officials. They obtained $900 in currency, mounted their horses outside, and fled southwestward, with authorities noting the gang’s prior Tyro Bank involvement.
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Muskogee
Oklahoma
Tyro
Davis Bank
Hoffman
Here
Senator Boise Penrose Seriously Ill In Philadelphia
Reports from Philadelphia state United States Senator Boise Penrose is dangerously ill at his home with facial erysipelas. His temperature reached 104 degrees, and doctors say his condition is grave. A London note adds the Bank of England discount rate was cut to 3 percent from 3.34.
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Senator Penrose Dangerously II
Philadelphia
United States
Boise Penrose
London
Bank of England
Slain Duma Leader Karavieff Shot at Home
In St. Petersburg on March 19 Dr Karavieff a leader of a second Duma group was fatally shot at his residence by two men. The incident marks a lethal political killing amid upheaval.
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Karavieff
Toj
Duma
Sugar Prices Rise In New York Trade Action
New York on March 19 saw all grades of refined sugar advance 20 cents per hundred pounds in today’s market activity.
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New York
Roanoke
Lynchburg
Shenandoah Valley
Philadelphia
Gary
Lynchburg Riamond
Norfolk
Bluefield
Kenove
Columbus
All Points West
Northiwest
Pullman
Cincinnati
Coumbus
Toledo
Tazewell
Nort’ A
Clinch Valle
Norton
Clinch Valley Division
Kenova
Wayne
Welch
Norfolk and Western Railway
W. B. Bevill
Virginia
Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup Promises Gentle Relief
Laxative cough syrup by Kennedy acts on the bowels and reduces inflammation while being pleasant to take. Sold by all druggists. Kodol is promoted as a leading remedy for stomach disorders including dyspepsia heartburn sour stomach and belching of gas.
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Kennedy
Fire destroys yard and grandstand in Washington area
A blaze at midnight damaged Essenger Brothers lumber yard the Washington Amer ican League grandstand and about twenty residences near Seventh and U streets northwest. The fire left destruction in its wake with property losses already around half a million dollars and was not under control.
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Washington
A Real Miser and the Barber Charged with Saving
An Italian tale recalls Arpagnio the Roman miser dying in a bare palace on the Corso. As he asked how long remained, a barber is summoned and charged 20 centisimi for shaving a corpse. Arpagnio dies with seven minutes left and smiles at 4 lire 80 centisimi saved.
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Arpagnio
Corso
Thanksgiving Feast in 1714 Connecticut Meeting House
In a Connecticut minister’s diary from 1714, dignitaries feast at Mr. Epes’s hilltop house with bear and venison. A Pequot hunter is condemned for lying about the buck and ordered to forfeit the deer’s price and receive forty stripes save one, while the council shares the meal except Mr. Shepard.
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Mr. Epes
Pequot
Ananias
Connell
Mr. Shepard
Butterfly Fake Outs Colorful Insect In New Yorker Tale
A collector debunks a blue butterfly as a fake colored by aniline dyes. He notes growing butterfly fakirs who dye ten cent insects to imitate ten dollar specimens, with dye ruboff fooling buyers who expect genuine wing dust.
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New York Press
The Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis
The aurora borealis is an electrical phenomenon in high northern latitudes during winter, lighting the sky with moving streams of light. It is described as merry dances with shapes and colors from pale red to deep blood red and is connected to disturbances in the magnetic needle.
Iron in the blood debated by kittens and old catfish
A rural dialogue features a stern elder catfish challenging a young kitten about whether iron is good for blood. The kitten asks, and the elder warns that iron’s danger lies in a hook.
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Times
Not a Military Hero Worshiper
Milton Forester, a lieutenant in the Spanish American War era, faces battlefield fear and a cowardly moment under fire. His friend Nathan Burge conceals his shame while Forester is wounded. Mary Mills, his fiancée, believes him dead until news arrives of his wound and promotion.
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Miitén Forester
National Guard
Mary Millis
Forester
Mary
Florida
Cuba
Santiago
Nathan Burge
Nate
Mary Mills
Burge
Montauk Point
Milton Forester
John Kellogg
Vorester
Mary Millsforester
Merrick Augeh
Pocahontas Coke Company Votes to Discontinue and Liquidate
At a March 17 1908 stockholders meeting in Shanwell Mercer WV the Pocahontas Coke Company resolves to surrender its charter discontinue business and liquidate assets debts and liabilities. Proceeds will be distributed pro rata to stockholders after publication of notice and court required steps. CHAS S THORNE president signs with dates and publication instruction. DeWitt's Little Early Risers liver pills ad follows.
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Pocahontas Coke Company
West Virginia
Shanwell
Mercer County
W. V
Boacd
Boses
Chas
Thorne
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Eureaka Hardware Company
Bluefield, W. VA
Thomas G. Peery
Blueheid, W. Va
Hmeatiot Yar N
W. Paliwar
Daily Telegraph
W. P. Hawley
South Bland Street
Doves Olabel
Bluefield Brewing. CO
Bluefield, West Virginia
Tyro Gang
Hanna
New England
Connecticut
NA Whitfalke Western
Shenandoah
Hagertown
Richmond
Pullman Sleeper
Kelley & Moyers
M. Smith Insurance Agency
Ll. G. Toney
Edward Cooper
Donaldson
Sec'y
S. M. Smith
S. M.,smith Insurance Agency
Kelly & Moyer Ed'g
Holmboe & Lafferty
Higginbotham and
Princeton Aves
Clarksburg
Empire Building
Athens
Ohio
DeWitt’s
DeWitt
Plymouth
Plymouth Rocks
Rhine Poultry Farm
Dr. C. Metzger
Mer
Keystone
W. VA
Nannie M. Harmar
TIP Top
Care Tip Top Supply Company
Kuks Opera
Voelckel & Nolan’s
Dixie
Minstrels
Palm’ Grotto
Grand Street
W.E
EL. Shufflebarger
Solon Building
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