Union Bank and Trust shines in nine months in business
In City and Goalfield reports the Union Bank and Trust Company shows excellent financial activity. The bank, only nine months old, has attracted more business than promoters hoped. In Bluefield a militia company plans began last night in the Bailey building with a three-man committee forming to appoint a captain and first lieutenant, and forty-one volunteers already pledged to enroll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Bank & Trust Company
Bluefield
Bailey Building
F. W. Smith
J. P. Martin
KR. L. Taylor
Unclear OCR Fragments On Kellog's 10 Cent Items
Fragmentary text shows prices around 10 cents and 15 cents for Kellog products and related items. No clear event, person, or location identifiable from the readable portion.
Community organization to finish at Bailey building Wednesday
The organization will be completed Wednesday night at the Bailey building and others who wish to enroll are asked to be present. The Fast Blind Merchandise Company store was broken into yesterday at 4 AM by an unknown man who smashed the plate glass front with a coal lump and fled with two pairs of shoes before escaping on an eastbound freight train.
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Bailey
Fast Blind Merchandise Company
Knights Templar Win Bluefield Commandery Concurrence
After a two day battle with Bramwell members at the thirty fourth annual conclave in Huntington the Knights Templar and their wives announce Bluefield will have a concurrent commandery. Today the circus arrives bringing the usual pageantry and parade fun for children with elephants ponies and clowns.
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Knights Templar
Order
Huntington
Bluefield
Ivanhoe
Bramwell
Deserted wife seeks help to recapture with stepdaughter elopement
John Scott of Norton deserted his wife yesterday morning and ran away with his 15 year old stepdaughter. Mrs Scott notified police along the Clinch Valley and Bluefield to locate the couple, but as of last night they remained unfound. Scott, about 25, had married the widow who had a large inheritance from her first husband. They reportedly lived peacefully before this trouble.
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John Scott
Norton
Scott
Clinch Valley
Bluefield
Elopers
Widow of Richmond physician dies of tuberculosis at Honaker
Mrs. M. O. Burke wife of Dr. M. O. Burke of Richmond died Thursday night at the Honaker summer home from tuberculosis after a long illness. She aided charitable work among the poor and was a longtime Baptist church member. Survived by husband and mother plus four siblings. funeral held at Honaker with many friends sending floral tributes.
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J. Frank Maynard
G. M. Barger
Bryan pleads for emergency currency to ease stringency
Chicago May 22 William J Bryan urged the Bankers Club to back an emergency currency plan to aid both state and national banks. He warned the public may demand a government bank if deposit security fails. New York May 22 refiners lowered all sugar grades by 100 cents per 100 pounds.
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Chicago
Wm. J. Bryan
Bankers’ Club
New York
Mules Shipped to Norfolk Western Yard in Roanoke Area
Fine transplanted stock from Fallon Florist Roanoke Va announced by R W Embrey of Graham Va. One car of fine mules arrived at the Norfolk and Western stock yards near Bluefield. Prompt orders welcomed for mules, tied per 100, as listed.
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Fallon, Florist
Roanoke
Norfolk and Western Stock Yards
Bluefield
Californian’s Luck With Bucklen’s Arnica Salve
Chas F Budahn of Tracy California recalls the luckiest day of his life after buying Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. He says the salve cured years of itching piles when other treatments failed and notes it is sold under guarantee at all drug stores.
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Bucklen
Chas. F. Budahn
Tracy
California
Jall
Common Sense In Exercise Explores Strength vs Life Span
In Metropolitan Magazine Charles H. Cochrane notes that extreme muscular development often shortens life. He cites Louis Cyr who weighed 820 pounds and performed feats, yet died at 37. Oarsman Kennedy and strongman Dowd also show early decline and death despite prowess.
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Louis Cyr
Kennedy
Dowd
Charles HH. Cochrane
Metropolitan Magazine
Nature Cures and the Role of Faith in Healing
An editorial argues that nature cures illness more than medicine, and that belief in recovery aids healing. It asserts drugs and surgeons help only by preparing the body, while physicians should use minimal medicines to support nature’s work.
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Slaven Register
Does a woman ever go to bed in the home quarrel
A quip discusses gender roles in a domestic dispute with lines about a wife rising early and tending children. The exchange includes a remark about a waitress being dismissed for impertinence and a sly reply about talking more to miss noise in the pantry.
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Atchison Globe
Morris Rosenburg Seeks Settlements by June Tet
Having sold out my entire business I call all debtors to settle accounts by June Tet at my old stand. I thank patrons for past patronage and sign off as G-21-51 Morris Rosenburg Osh Hanna's Green Seal Paint.
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Morris Rosenburg
Graham Gossip and Visiting Notables Enter Graham
Senator J N Harman and J A Booth visited Graham yesterday on business. J M Crotty and J W Crotty of Kegley are staying with sister Mrs Bi N Bonham. Harry L Matz of Pocahontas and Frank Baylor visited Cedar Bluff friends.
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J. N. Harman
Tazewell
Graham
J. A. Booth
Saltville
J. M. Crotty
J. W. Crotty
Kegley
Bi. N. Bonham
Harry L. Matz
Pocahontas
Frank Baylor
Cedar Bluff
Graham Drug Company
J. W. Hicks
H. H. Hardy
W. B. Morton
Union
Morton
Cone
Monroe County
Monroe
Wm. Mitchell, Sr
Roanoke
Charlies Stump
Lucy Shufflebarker
Christiansburg
County road project bids sought for Bluefield Mercer County
Mercer County seeks sealed bids to grade and macadamize 24.4 miles from Princeton Avenue eastern Bluefield to Stoney Ridge toward Princeton. Bids open June 1 1908. A $100 certified check and $25 000 bond guaranteed contract required. Plans at Bluefield committee offices. W H Coffman chairman. td. Try a Telegraph want ad.
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Princeton Avenue
Bluefield
Stoney Ridge
Princeton
W. Va
Mercer County
R. H. Bailey
P. J. Kelley
W. H. Coffman
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W. L. Douglass
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Dorothy Dodd
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State Bank Building
Bluefield, W. VA
Compton Bros., Dentists
Miller Supply Company
W. L. Draper
Studebaker
Geiser
Vulcanite
Bluefield Implementec Machinery Co
ING
Kelley & Moyers Building
Ted Pears
Kellog
Dot
Aragon
Lic
Glark & CO
Circus
Booker & Crenshaw
Kelly & Moyer
Thomas E. Peery
Seoulfettov
W. Railway
Bluefield Normal & Business College
R. L. Morris
D. B. Baldwin
Pioneer
First National Bank
Mr. Bryan
R. W. Embrey
Ile
OSH Hanna
John Walters
Pearisburg
V. L. Sexton
West Vrginia Brewing Company
W. E. Stewart
Keystone
West Vn
W. P. Hawley Merchandise CO
South Bland Street
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