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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1908
Page
2
A massive tobacco haul passed Bluefield a few days ago, four car loads containing 400 cases and about twenty million cigarettes. The shipment, bound for Tacoma Washington, will go to the Minnesota battleship and is expected to arrive June 2. The Minnesota will distribute cigarettes to its squadron at San Francisco.
The Norfolk and Western announces a new timetable effective Sunday with one new train and three changes. No. 9 will run Bluefield to Gary at 3 10 a.m.. No. 18 shifts to from Gary to Roanoke via Spa at 8 15 a.m. arrival Bluefield 8 30 a.m. No. 7 Bluefield to Williamson departs 10 45 a.m.. No. 2 runs Williamson to Bluefield with 6 45 a.m. departure and 1 20 p.m. arrival. No. 10 from Pageton at 3 15 p.m. to Bluefield 6 45 a.m. replaces No. 8. Eastbound Nos. 4 and 16 stop only at Welch and Bluestone between Williamson and Bluefield. No. 4 leaves Bluefield 9 30 a.m.. No. 16 leaves Bluefield 12 12 p.m. Fastbound passengers west of Williamson may use Nos. 4 and 16.
Numerous Bluefield area social notices list residents visiting and traveling between Tazewell Welch Bramwell and nearby towns. A Mass Republican convention in Mercer County set for May 16 1908 at 11 00 AM to choose delegates and county officers for the November 3 1908 election.
A period ad promotes DeWitt's Little Early Risers as small safe pills. It lists a learning schedule with shorthand typing bookkeeping mathematics rhetoric and law in day hours and music in late afternoon plus evening study.
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