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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1908
Page
2
A Norton house fire at 11 PM destroyed the home of Harry Smith and his mother, with Mrs. M K Stockton raising the alarm. Losses included a valued library and piano. insured for 1100, short of total. Nearby properties escaped major damage due to damp conditions.
A selection of humorous anecdotes from English and continental figures. The sultan and queen of Spain exchange gifts and quips with Fuad Pasha. A sharp exchange about wives follows a joke about worldly goods and dowries. Frederick the Great quips about God as an ally, answered by a witty English diplomat.
Edward Molter was killed by a freight train on the Norfolk and Western tracks near Keystone Saturday night. He had joined two strangers after a downtown outing and refused to return home. Molter died as the train cut his body in half, with both arms and legs severed, and was survived by a son, his father, a brother, and a sister. remains were taken to Central City for burial.
At a Bristol stockholders meeting the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railroad won approval to acquire the South and Western Railroad. George L. Carter serves as president. J Norment Powell acted as general counsel with proxies for nearly all stockholders. The combined properties may cost over fifty million dollars and the line is slated for completion.
A Philadelphia clerk, known for eccentricity, was scratched by a falling wire basket. He applied three two-cent stamps as improvised plaster. His employer, spotting the stamps on the clerk's cheek, quipped that he was carrying too much postage for second class matter.
A brief vignette shows a curbside exchange where a big brother sends Johnny to the shoemaker to learn his shoes are not yet mended. The streetwise boy answers that nothing is done because they haven’t been taken yet. Mention of DeWitt’s Little Early Risers liver pills appears as an ad tag.
W H Thomas of Huff Andrews & Thomas Co bluefield W Va plans a St Petersburg wholesale grocery branch. The firm operates eight companies across Virginia West Virginia Kentucky and Florida and maintains a Bluefield hub with expansion to Florida as ninth link. Thomas travels Florida for site and transport study while remaining resident of Bluefield.
Mrs J P White of Rushboro Pa testifies there is no use to die of lung trouble when Dr King s New Discovery can help. She says it relieved her cough quickly and can cure lung disease even after hopeless verdict. Described as best remedy for coughs colds lagrippe asthma bronchitis hoarseness. Sold with guarantee at drug stores 50c and 1 00 Trial bottles free St Clair Goodson drug goods and slices 3 24 3t
Dr Miles Nervine is advertised as restoring nerve energy controlling respiration digestion and elimination. A patient from Myrtle Creek Oregon claims relief after using Restorative Nervine and business recovery, with druggists offering first bottle at a discount if it fails to help. Miles Medical Co. Elkhart Indiana.
Notice declares Bluestone Traction Company seeks to amend its franchise to use Bluefield public streets for an electric railway. It lists Bland South Jefferson Adams streets and requests council action within 30 days. Signed by Edwin Mann president on March 6 1930.
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