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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1908
Page
4
The Anderson Indiana fireworks factory restarts full time operations. The piece notes other light items including winter weather humor and local commentary. It mentions coke fields in Connellsville and remarks on Thanksgiving turkey prices and politics.
A surge of new activity sweeps the industrial world with cheering signals from trade sources. The Journal of Commerce notes improved financial and business confidence, with steel rails priced lower and big orders placed. Railroads plan betterment, mills in Newark run around the clock, and Pennsylvania Railroad orders increase labor demand across factories in New Jersey and beyond.
In Pittsburg repair shops 10000 freight cars are readied and a large Pittsburgh firm raises wages by twenty percent with extra hours. Richmond locomotive works adds 2200 workers. The pattern shows businesslike policy and a belief that the next four years will bring a business administration.
W L Foutz of the board of supervisors tells the Daily Telegraph the city has not bought another fire wagon. The council had ordered Mr Speiden to buy it, but the board says he may not purchase for the city unless done with private funds. The situation stands unless citizens’ fund is used for a carnival and fireman’s benefit.
The Parkersburg Dispatch News lists F Teter Barbour H C Ogdin Ohio Arnold C Scherr Mineral George McIntosh Fayette Stark L Baker Randolph KK M Grant Monongalia Thomas W Fleming Marion George W Curtin Braxton Romeo H Freer Ritchie Dr George W Otto Ohio. Wheeling Intelligencer names George Work and Clarksburg Telegram Virgil Highland. The Daily Telegraph backs Highland as a capable businessman with no prior office held.
A bond issue would fund a substantial up to date city hall with proper facilities for city business. The location should allow a handsome but affordable structure matching other improvements. The next item on the program is Thanksgiving day. No registration is required.
A granite Doric column in Fort Greene Park Brooklyn will be formally dedicated on Saturday November 14 with Judge Taft delivering the address. The monument honors American Revolution prisoners who perished aboard British prison ships amid pestilence starvation and harsh conditions with officials noting the city’s duty to memorialize their memory.
The William Tell Flour ad claims the product is made for the particular housewife who demands clean flour and good tasting bread. It highlights airtight storage at Ansted & Burk mills in Springfield Ohio, sixfold grain cleaning, and fully automated packaging.
The article recounts steps from 1792 to 1904 toward burial and memorials for the prison ship dead, including Stiles and the Tammany Society efforts, cornerstone events, and a 100000 dollar congressional appropriation. It notes McKim Mead & White designed the 135 foot monument with a Great Dome and urn, and that bones rest in the vault beneath after recent removal.
Meteors show air density remains high enough to glow on entry at about a hundred miles. Humans have reached only sixteen miles in practice, with the highest authentic altitude at thirty five thousand five hundred feet. Kites reached twenty one thousand one hundred feet and an unmanned instrument balloon rose to eighty five thousand feet.
One hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. I J Cheney & Co and Walding Kinnan Marvin endorse the firm as trustworthy. Cure taken internally. price seven cents per bottle. testimonials free. sold by all druggists. also Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A collection of anagrams from famous names and phrases with humorous or apt reinterpretations. It includes Gladstone, Disraeli, Florence Nightingale, Horatio Nelson, and others, followed by a remark on mineral waters and air from Sir E Ray Lankester.
A self labeled “A Son of Rest” writes that work is a habit like drug use. He asserts that a man who never works will starve or die if he stops, and a man who starts working but then quits will similarly perish. The piece contrasts work with dependence in stark terms.
A reflective note from Exchange on patience and growth. It likens garden progress to life, stating that forcing bud development destroys it and best results arrive slowly through steady, regular progression.
A compact collection quotes discuss the value of experience and the prompt to act. The Cleveland Leader notes experience loses value at sale, while a P Pranktin line urges doing tomorrow’s tasks today.
An advertisement proclaims Wilson Evaporated Milk meets all state pure food laws and is sold at all stores. The notice emphasizes purity and nationwide availability.
Pleasant and easy to take liver pills marketed as DeWitt's Little Early Risers. Sold by all druggists.
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills are promoted as unequaled for weak backs backache bladder inflammation and rheumatic pains. Sold by all druggists.
The notice lists morning departures at 8:30 a.m. for Roanoke Norfolk and Shenandoah division with Pullman Sleeper Roanoke to New York via Hagertown and Parlor car services. 9:30 a.m. runs to Roanoke Richmond Norfolk with Sleeper Dining Parlor cars. 2:55 p.m. service to Roanoke Lynchburg intermediate stations Shenandoah Valley Philadelphia with Sleeper to Philadelphia Cafe car Gary and Roanoke. 9:25 p.m. Roanoke Lynchburg Richmond Norfolk with Pullman Sleeper to Norfolk.
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