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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1908
Page
3
An illustrated Victorian note discusses horsemanship focusing on the “divine gift of hands.” It describes riders keeping body parts in balance and examples of improper hands causing loss of control, contrasting horses with and without this skill during a covert ride.
Excerpt describes a bee's sting as a three blade weapon with a central hollow-faced lance and two side lances sliding within grooves. The design allows successive penetrating points to deepen wounds, likened to a war device more brutal than an explosive bullet, and augmented by poison for deadly effect.
A medicinal claim urges readers to take Kodol to cure dyspepsia indigestion sour stomach or any stomach trouble. The ad promises noticeable results within a day and backs it with a guarantee and sale by all druggists.
The Thacker fires persist for a month with miners halted to battle the flames. A lumberman says young trees are damaged but most timber remains usable. only stumps suffer significant harm. Smoke faded as winds shifted, easing the haze.
Judge Joseph M. Sanders was appointed president of the Beaver Pond district board of education succeeding W. J. Newenham who resigned to move to California. The board accuses the contractor of using substandard materials and intends to enforce plans and specifications. A meeting will set steps to ensure compliance.
A major fire at Dorchester destroyed ten company houses early Monday with losses estimated at 15 000 dollars. Firefighters dynamited several structures to halt the flames, but cause remains undetermined and locals heard detonations reaching Norton.
The Colonial Coal and Coke Company's plant sits at a location noted in history. The nearby commissary burned recently causing an estimated loss of about $65,000. Rebuilding is likely for the houses affected.
Special to the Roanoke Times reports Frank Old and Joe Chirice two Italians were found murdered Monday morning near Kire Va at a new station on the Big Stony Railway along the Interior Waiteville road. Sheriff Durham investigated but no killers found. Coroner's inquest returns Old died from a pistol shot to the left temple and Chirice from three stab wounds to the neck. Both men were from H H Georges railroad camp across the mountain in West Virginia.
An old fashioned weather house, largely Swiss in origin, uses catgut and a wire driven platform to move two figures. Moist air twists the catgut to reveal the man, while drier conditions show the woman. The weather house is easy to make.
Advert mentions a Danish hotel with charming location, garden, youth cuisine, friendly service at moderate rates and good transport. It highlights salmon and trout fishing nearby and mountain views that attract travelers, noting the landlord speaks English very well.
A Moro matron dressed in a helio trope jacket purple trousers with heart embroidery a red and black sarong yellow slippers and silk motilla accompanied by a maid with a magenta parasol walks past the soldiers quarters this morning according to a soldier’s report.
A landlady and lodger spar over breakfast options with a witty exchange about eggs. The landlady tests the lodger by asking for a preferred choice, but the reply points to choosing between an egg or nothing, highlighting brisk London humor in Scraps.
In a brief exchange, Feditor pushes back on unpaid labor while a jester asserts paid work. The dialogue underscores tensions between writers and editors over compensation and process amid a clipped note from Illinois State Regis.
Announcement notes resumption of business after a sister's death. Ad copy touts DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills for back pain and inflammation. Also promotes Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup with no opiates and maple-sugar taste. Mentions Kinzer Your Jeweler for bracelets.
A simple recipe using fluid extract dandelion, compound karyon, and compound syrup of sarsaparilla is claims to cleanse kidneys and relieve rheumatism. The mixture, taken after meals and at night, is said to eliminate waste and uric acid, improve urinary symptoms, and strengthen renal function.
An ad testimonial from Evans of Bluefield West Virginia touts Dean's Kidney Pills curing backache and kidney trouble. The speaker praises the product, recounts prior use, and notes purchase at John Crockett's drug store with price 60 cents. Foster M. Burns Co of Buffalo NY named sole US agents.
W V Henry of Panama Mo asserts seven years proof that Dr Kings New Discovery cures coughs colds and throat chest issues. The ad claims thirty eight years proof the medicine treats la grippe asthma Day fever pneumonia early consumption and hemorrhage of lungs with a guarantee and trial bottle free at drug stores priced 40 cents and 1 00.
Bluefield Water Works and Improvement Company directs water takers to pay flat rate rents in advance starting January 1 1909 and to pay metered service rents by the 1st of the month following the service. The notice dated November 2 1908 urges strict compliance.
Mary Dowling of 228 8th Ave San Francisco testifies to electric Bitters relieving acute indigestion and liver troubles. The tonic purifies blood and aids female weakness, sold at drug stores for 50 cents.
Advertisement promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills. Claims relieve biliousness malaria and jaundice and urge avoiding liver and bowel trouble. Appears in a period print with price 25 cents at all drug stores.
A. F. Hardy of Fast Wilton Maine credits Buckien's Arnica Salve with curing sores boils ulcers and burns for fifteen years It has saved us many a doctor bill he says The salve is priced at 25 cents and sold at all drug stores.
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