18 May 1918
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1918
Page
1
Bluefield columns mix market prices at The Bluefield Market and Bluefield Market Co with notices on taxes, coal mine sales, church services, Chautauqua arrangements, local personalities, and upcoming events. Key names include Wm. S. Hart and Taylor Holmes in films, ex governor White and Henry C. Stuart in town, plus civic items like Delinquent tax list, U C T meeting, and Red Cross drive benefits.
Mrs. Hilda A. Thurtle of Nottingham England and her family contribute to the war savings fund in southern West Virginia. She uses all her husband’s earnings, while he serves with the British army in France, to buy war savings stamps.
Mrs. Walters of 220 Poplar Street supports Britain in a two year conflict while her allotments fund the war savings, and she actively participates in Red Cross work. Her family, including two sons in France and another serving in the British army, plus a son wounded at Vimy Ridge, exemplifies patriotism and sacrifice.
An advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a 35 year trusted remedy for catarrh. It offers a $100 reward for incurable cases and claims the medicine works through the bloodstream to cleanse mucous surfaces. The notice urges immediate use and requests testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
Public auction of one upright mahogany Bond piano No. 11805 at the Law and Commerce Building Bluefield at eleven o'clock a m on May 18 1918 title holder George Richardson jr trustee in bankruptcy of G C Kitts estate.价值 instrument may be bought at a bargain for cash to highest bidder.
The Mercer county fuel committee urges all consumers to place orders now for this season's coal needs. They explain delivery may be delayed by rail issues and embargoes but early orders will expedite supply through the proper channels.
Col A G Houriet and Thos Harlowe Scott toured McDowell county to promote the order and the Red Cross drive. Meetings in Maybeury and Crumpler conferred ranks on candidates and planned further cooperative efforts with Bluefield lodge. Houriet will install a Pythian Sisters Temple at Keystone Tuesday night with state officers expected. A note mentions a road in Africa with a solid ice foundation.
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