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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1908
Page
2
An advertisement extols Kodol as natural digestion support that lets the stomach rest while it processes food. It claims improved brain function and health, criticizes tonics and dieting, and offers a money back guarantee through the druggist for the large bottle from E. C. DeWitt & Co.
Roanoke travelers return while Kimball and Bramwell residents visit the city. Town residents, including officials, teachers, and clergy, travel to Roanoke Lynchburg Cincinnati and other points for business shopping or attending events. visitors also arrive from Welch Princeton and Keystone.
The Graham Daily News lauds the Graham college staff for their competence and praises the students for strong effort this year. It notes Prof. Baef attending a local baseball game, discusses Chestnutting after two frosts, and mentions a forthcoming debate between Slemp and Byars in Tazewell. It also highlights a typhoid bulletin from the Virginia health board and lists multiple residents moving, traveling, or visiting towns like Gary and Bluefield.
Rev Father C F Chechilzzit from Abyssinia spoke at the Bluefield Colored Institute urging negroes to go back to Africa. He claimed royal lineage and warned against religious orthodoxies while discussing race origins, citing Eve and biblical figures as dark-skinned. The article also recounts a later unrelated marriage/divorce scene at the Mowles home on Allen Street.
Last night Mr and Mrs J L McKinney returned to the city after wedding in Ironton earlier the same day. The bride daughter of Mr and Mrs Hensley Mowles of Allen Street is 17 and previously wed. the groom J L McKinney works for Home Furniture Co. The bride’s father objected to the match and threatened to separate them but the couple continued their plans despite guardians’ protests.
Tomorrow in Princeton avenue a remodeled building will host Henry A. Lilly’s new department store offering ladies, children's, and men's ready to wear goods and shoes. Lilly, longtime Bluefield resident, aims to please the public with a broad stock and prior mercantile experience. The note also mentions The Girls of Gottenberg at Knickerbocker Theatre and a World promotion with a song from the London musical comedy hit.
A promotional line touts Sauer’s Pure Concentrated Extract of Lemon and Vanilla as the largest selling brand in the United States backed by mentions of ten American and European medals.
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