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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1908
Page
4
The Daily Telegraph lists campaign events for Hon. H T Lovett and Hon H D Rummel with dates and venues from Camp Creek to Willowton and Bluefield. Town meetings at Dunns Graham s Chapel Oakvale Willowton and Bluefield are scheduled in October with specific times.
The passage ridicules voters switching allegiances and taunts Taft and Hughes while noting seasonal crops and election talk. It mentions a Georgia mule tipping a railcar, a critique of Bryan and government ownership, and forecasts on turkey prices near Thanksgiving.
The article outlines Taft and Bryan positions on tariff revision. Both pledge reform, with Taft supporting a special session immediately after the next president’s inauguration, while Bryan’s plan omits any start date. Bryan advocates revenue tariff and free trade principles stemming from the 1894 Wilson Act.
The piece frames the tariff dispute as free trade versus protection with William Jennings Bryan opposing federal protection and William Taft advocating a revised tariff that preserves the protective principle. It argues the coming economic upturn depends on avoiding drastic shifts in fiscal policy and keeping protective tariffs intact.
Judge Frank Cox profiles William K. Glasscock of Morgantown born on Indian Creek Monongalia County. A Scotch-descended self-made educator and lawyer, Glasscock rose from school teacher to county superintendent to circuit clerk, then lawyer, and was appointed collector of internal revenue in 1905 by Theodore Roosevelt.
The Wheeling Intelligencer presents a table showing the four year tax savings under new laws. It argues that property owners paid 975,904 in 1904, 662,732 in 1905, 316,132 in 1906, and 229,793 in 1907, totaling over 1 million dollars retained by citizens. The article asserts these are factual reductions, not rhetoric.
A housewife focused advertisement promotes William Tell Flour as ideal for the family kitchen. It emphasizes flour that produces good looking bread with fine taste while maintaining absolute cleanliness in processing.
Train times listed for Roanoke Lynchburg Richmond Norfolk and intermediate stations on the Shenandoah division with Pullman sleepers parlor cars cafe cars and connections to Philadelphia Columbus Cincinnati and West. Agent W B Brvill G P A Roanoke VA offers tickets maps and information.
Notice of public auction by Isaac T. Mann trustee to sell 3300 shares of Zenith Coal and Coke Company stock held as security. Sale set for October 21 1908 at 8 pm at the Bank of Bramwell front door, Bramwell West Virginia. Cash or other terms as agreed by majority holders of secured debts.
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