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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1908
Page
6
N. D. Hagy of Graham fell or was knocked from freight train No. 86 near Hemphill at about 4 pm and was found beside the track impaled on a sharp stick. He was carried to Miners Hospital in Welch in critical condition with a gaping, tearing wound and is not expected to survive.
Wu Ting Fang Chinese minister to the United States spoke at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York endorsing local efforts to aid overseas missions. He praised the “good people” of the city for creating a healthy atmosphere for his people and urged continued support.
In Biloxi a mob of several hundred white men forcibly removed Henry Leidy from the county jail and hanged him to a tree after Eliza Mayhauser, a white 15 year old girl, identified him as her attacker. The assault occurred on the road near Back Bay earlier today and left the victim badly injured.
Roanoke Va November 10 a committee of Fifth district Republicans said Senator Parsons will contest Judge E K W Saunders election by 91 votes Saunders insists he won fair and square Saunders declared confident of victory as returns stood.
A granite memorial for Rhode Island soldiers who fell at Vicksburg was dedicated in the national military park with a large audience. Twenty five Rhode Island officials and leaders attended the ceremonies, funded at five thousand dollars.
A living sign once hung above an inn at St Germain en Laye near Paris. Landlord skilled in cutlets hosted Alexandre Dumas who ran up a £1000 bill. When asked to settle, Dumas replied he could not pay but sent a live eagle to be displayed to recoup the debt. The sign attracted crowds for years.
Wilson Evaporated Milk meets requirements of all pure food laws in every state in the union. It’s the essence of purity advertised for sale at all stores. 2w.
Advertisement urges readers to subscribe to the Daily Telegraph and promotes Wilson Milk with reduced water as richer and better than competitors. It also markets DeWitt's Carborized With Hazel Salve for piles and general healing, cooling, and cleansing, sold by druggists with a call to try today.
Press dispatches report C Bascomb Slemp of Big Stone Gap the lone Virginia Republican congressman will retire at the end of his term or be rewarded by Taft with a cabinet post or foreign ambassadorship. State Senator J C Noel says Slemp will leave Congress and plans to run for Congress if Slemp retires, while praising Henry C Stuart as Democrat nominee.
The article explains incomplete color vision where red green or violet distinctions are lost. It describes how red blind people see the flag with green and white stripes and violet stars, green blind people see red violet stars, and violet blind people perceive stars on a brownish gray field. It notes total color blindness shifts the flag’s blue to yellowish brown and reddest stripes to dark brown.
An admirer visits her favorite author and finds him unglamorous. She recalls a plain scene at a garden gate with him in shirt sleeves swearing at a grocery boy, hair cropped, and not shaved, a bluntly human moment deflating heroic image.
The article argues travelers misidentify the roughest sea. It states the so called wickedest water is not the Dover strait nor Mediterranean or Cape Horn routes but the seas around the Cape of Good Hope near the eastern Cape Colony.
A Scottish correspondent argues Harry Lauder wore a kilt, not kilts, to amuse the king. The London News declines the correction and states that a Scot nearly always wears trousers, not a kilt or kilts.
A gushing young lady tells a popular actor she longs to go on the stage. The actor replies with a teasing quip about her ambition, reflecting playful backstage chatter.
A brief exchange from the Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a humorous moment about a cap belonging to a brother and a yacht. The dead boy remark frames the joke, illustrating newspaper humor style.
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