Bluefield Virginia Merchants Note Busy Pay Day Trade Surges
Bluefield Virginia reports a strong midmonth pay day with merchants seeing busy trade. Local tonnage from Pocahontas field rises amid building plans and payrolls, while a 19 year old boy suffers a fractured thigh after a baseball incident on the tower grounds. The Virginia Side anticipates May thirteenth baseball showdowns and season ticket sales renewals as enthusiasm grows.
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Norfolk and Western
Pocahontas Field
Bluefield Va
Tower
Henry Davis
Davis
O. K. Phiegar
Lomax Stal
Davin
Phiegar
Ren
Highland Avenue Tigers
West End
Virginia
Baseball on Every Vacant Lot Today
Indications from yesterday pointed to baseball being played on every vacant lot in the area today. The scattered reports suggest a spontaneous urban effort to bring the pastime to open spaces, with residents expected to participate and observe.
Ferraline Mineral Water Ad Promises Fast Stomach Relief
Ferraline, a concentrated mineral water treatment, is advertised to cure indigestion heartburn sour stomach and billousness with a money back guarantee. A one dollar bottle is claimed to equal many gallons and is sold by druggists with refund if not effective after the first te. Start Ferraline today for quick permanent relief.
Old Spectacles Found Between Ancient Logs on Morton Street
Workmen tearing down the Crockett residence on Morton street found a pair of spectacles wedged between two old logs. The metal frame, likely copper or silver, is in good condition and shows an oblong shape with ends sliding, suggesting they were tied with a string. Dennis Garlick holds the relic for cleaning. Uncle Hugh Ratcliffe notes the house dates to 1864, before the Civil War, and says Dr. Brown lived nearby and rode a bay horse with a collar-and-halter. The article ponders the specs may have belonged to Dr. Brown’s wife as generations passed the property through many hands before Crockett acquired it to build a new home.
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Crockett
Morton Street
Dennis Garlick
Hugh Ratcliffe
Dr. Brown
Brown
Hugh
W. J. Crockett
Fourteen Killed or Injured in Auto Smashes Around Columbus
Through passengers coming into Bluefield Friday morning report that only fourteen people were killed and injured in automobile accidents in and around Columbus on Thursday.
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Bluefield
Columbus
Virginia Side Talks Of Legion Band Serenade
The Virginia Side reports on the American Legion Band performing on a hotel porch with Professor Bell leading and about a thousand people listening on sidewalks. The Legion presents the war picture Over The Top at Bluefield city auditorium Monday and Tuesday under legion auspices, drawing expected large crowds. A Tazewell soldier recalls places from the front depicted in the film.
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Virginia
American Legion
Bell
New City Auditorium
Bluefield
Tazewell
Proposal for a New City Hall Meeting at Town Bank
The Bible class at Memorial Baptist Church invites visitors to Sunday school at 9 45 a m with a word of welcome. Directors should attend, with early arrival at the Twin City National Bank corner, marching to the church by 9 30 a m. Members urged to bring absentees and support the teacher. Falls Mills W C T U held a meeting discussing local matters including the moonshine raid on Devila Stair Steps. Musitaleto be repeated at 8 o'clock tonight with Will Ward and singers performing Negro spirituals. Tonight at 8 o'clock business people and taxpayers are urged to discuss the proposed new city hall turn to Page Eleven.
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Paul and
Silas
Memorial Baptist Church
Twin City National Bank
Falls Mills
Jim Queen
Flat Top Yard
Devila Stair Steps
Ward
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Atwater- Kent
Radiolas
Warlick
Raleigh Street
H. Kelsey Allen
Macomber Sales Co
Minneapolis
Crepe de Chine
Broadway
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