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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1925
Page
23
A jumble of rental offers lists seven room houses four room apartments and furnished homes. Locations include 212 South Mer cer Street 206 Princeton Avenue Ferguson's Store and Fairview Apartments with mentions of meals pasture services and sub leases. Contact details listed include phone numbers and addresses.
For sale lot 60 by 125 feet on Essex Street priced at 700 dollars. Also offered is a practically new six room house in Hale Addition with full size concrete basement and furnace heat. Seller will consider a lot or automobile at first payment. Palance like rent. Platnick Brothers. Phone number provided.
Several terse help wanted notices run in this clipping including a first class colored short order cook at Carter Restaurant in Welch West Virginia a live wire saleperson for Standard computing scales meat grinders electric coffee mills and slicing machines with a district manager in Charleston WV a shoe representative position in Boston Massachusetts and a housework helper for a widower with two children at Delaware avenue Rhode Island area no dates or names beyond the listed firm names and locations provide a snapshot of era employment ads.
Various small ads list lost items including a suitcase with ladies shoes and child’s clothing on Tazewell Abingdon road, a purse with $10, and contact requests for returns. Other ads offer moving, cleaning, painting, upholstery, furniture sales, dancing lessons, and household help with contact details and prices.
An old classified-style ad from Morton Motor Company touts Marmon Seven passenger touring cars as dependable and priced very low with reasonable terms. The dealer lists phone contact as 398.
Live poultry shows broilers by express at 40 55c per fowl and 30 52c by express. Dressed poultry prices remain unchanged.
Funeral services conducted Monday at the Bramwell Methodist church honored Agnes Suther Hill 37 born in Franklin County Virginia. She moved to Bramwell six years ago from Chattaroy West Virginia where her husband managed the C. W. Fraser store. She was married in 1910 and joined the church twelve years ago.
Mrs Cuckoo visits Dr Bill recounting how English cuckoos borrow nests to lay eggs and raise families in Africa and England The tale unfolds with doctor and children listening as she explains the seasonal journeys and nest habits amid a community scene and obliquely shifts to a church notice and public bid announcements.
A sensational sale offer for a fruit and confectionery shop in Williameon opposite the passenger station. Rent proposition with the business included free, pitched to eager buyers including Greeks Syrians Anzacs and others seeking quick profits. Wall Street Office Edward Rh Jobling handles the listing in Willam PF Toney.
Vernal Ford trading as Bridge Pharmacy Keytone McDowell County West Virginia seeks discharge from all provable debts under bankruptcy law. Court schedules hearing May 1923 and orders notice to creditors via Bluefield Daily Telegraph. clerk to mail petition and order to known creditors.
A trustee sales notice announces the foreclosure of a deed of trust dating from August 1922 on property in Bluefield Mercer County West Virginia. The sale, to satisfy defaulted rent notes, will be held in front of the Law and Mercantile Building on a May date in 1925, describing one half of lot 1 in Section 31 fronting West K Street and extending back seven perches.
Attractive 4 room cottage near East Princeton Avenue priced at 2500 dollars with 30 dollar monthly balance. Six room home on East Princeton Avenue with 60 foot lot and garden for 4500 dollars. Seven room home in Midway with 4 lots and garage at 8500 dollars with easy terms. New Midway 4 room cottage on double lot with 3000 dollars balance 30 per month. Five room cottage New Midway at 4200 dollars with 500 dollar each and 26 per month balance. New Modern brick near car line in South Bluefield eight rooms with modern furnishings at 25000 dollars. Tes room home in South Bluefield painted and on paved street at 8500 dollars. Several home sites in South Bluefield Montvale Addition parcels from 2250 to 4000 dollars. Large lot options with shade and paving from 2250 to 4500 dollars. One lot on Cornett Avenue paved at 3500 dollars. Commercial lots in city priced 12000 to 50000 dollars. Terms available with real estate notes as partial payment.
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