Hughes Telegram Challenges Democratic Speaker George Byrne
Congressman Hughes issues a pointed telegram to George Byrne from Charleston West Virginia dated October 11 1908. He defends his staff naming two private secretaries Frank Marcum and D E Hughes. He corrects alleged party misstatements and questions Byrne’s accuracy asserting he expects truthful reporting in the future.
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Hughes
George Byrne
George Byrnes
Charleston
Westoa
Williamson
Frank Marcum
D. E. Hughes
R. W. White
Committee of ‘Accounts
Washington
Jas. A. Hughes
Another Way Out of It In a County Bargain
Abel Pond refuses to sell a library site under six hundred dollars. The building committee offers five hundred, but Pond counters with seven hundred, proposing to donate a hundred toward subscriptions to spur public support. He suggests making a sum a neat prompt to awaken local duties.
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Abel Pond
Mr. Pond
Public apology cited from Transvaal paper
An Atlantan recalls Joel Chandler Harris as editor and a noted public apology he read aloud. The apology retracts accusations against Mr. G. P. Bezuidenhout, signed by A. C. du Plessis, calling himself a liar and denying any wrongdoing.
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Joel Chandler Harris
Remus
Transvaal
G. P. Bezuidenhout
A.C. DU Plessis
His Cough Cure
A clergyman recalls a boyhood town where a new minister halted a coughing congregation on his first Sunday. After a short sermon the coughing peak stopped, and he quipped that when he stopped preaching the cough ceased. From that day the church coughed no more.
Curious Bellary wedding custom from Brahman families
In Bellary district India a Brahman wedding custom features a mock male effigy representing the bridegroom's father carried through streets before the feast. The effigy is washed and marked by the bridegroom's mother while the bride's party women show mock attentions to other female relatives.
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Bellary
India
St. James
Five Men Enter Café With Varied Orders
A waiter at a light lunch cafe notes the first five customers each placing distinct orders from coffee cake to cocoanut pie and cocoa. The dialogue ends with another customer resisting a chocolate cake request as the scene hints at a larger brand promotion for Judges Library lemon vanilla extract and medals.
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Judges Library
Graham Telephone Company elects officers and reports progress
The Graham Telephone Company met on Monday night and elected officers led by President R L Gillespie and Secretary treasurer P J Ritter with Dr Carl Greever as general manager. A strong year end outlook was voiced as directors aim to improve the company’s performance.
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Graham Telephone Company
R. L. Gillespie
P. J. Ritter
Carl Greever
Tazewell
His Own People and a Jest of Passing for White
A tale recounted by Stannard Baker in American Magazine tells of a very light mulatto from Tennessee who passes as white on a river trip from Memphis to Cincinnati. He enjoys besting racial borders until hearing negro songs on deck drives him back to his roots, and he concludes he has been a Negro ever since.
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Dolly May
Tazewell
Graham
A. J. Doss
Pocahontas
Alexander Umbarger
Bluefield Yard
West Graham
Umbarger
Josephine Porter
Norton
Peterstown
Annie Hearn
Cincinnati
Fts
Stannard Baker
American Magazine
Tennessee
Memphis
Fitz-Greene Halleck
Mr. Howe
Lndy
Halleck
The Elder Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton born November 14 1765 in Little Britain Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Biographers call him a self made man and note limited references to his parentage. His father, also Robert Fulton, left no substantial patrimony yet held notable roles in Lancaster civic life as a founder of the Presbyterian church and secretary of the Union Fire Company.
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Robert Fulton
Little Britain
Lancaster County
Scotland
Ireland
Cromwell
Kilkenny
Fulton
America
Lancaster
Presbyterian Church
Union Fire Company
Juliana Library
American
In the Sahara a strange insect traps prey
An explorer notes a tiny creature named fourmilion that pummels prey with sand. It digs a funnel hole about the size of a silver dollar, hides water at the bottom, and ambushes insects that probe its slippery walls.
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Sahara
Stately Ceylon Palm Deadly Bloom Ends In Decay
The talipot palm of Ceylon grows to about 180 feet, flowers once in life, and after fruiting its trunk withers within two weeks. The blossoms presage death of the tree as tall spathes burst, revealing a plume of blossoms and later conspicuous fruit clusters.
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Ceylon
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W. H. Harry & Company
Bluefield, W. VA
Princeton Avenue
L. E. St. Clair and Co
Princeton Ave
Everett Piano
Everett
Ford Music Company
Bland Street
WE & EL
Shufflebarger
Bluefield
W. VA
Albert’s
Albert
the Barber
Booker & Grenshaw
Ron
Bluefieht
Mrs, Lettie Goodwyn
Senos
Wuughes
Saner
United States
Telegraph
J. L. Gleaves
BE. Lee Trinkle
Wytheville
Graham Pharmacy
Red Sox
Graham Fox Club
Daily News
East River
Chicago Cubs
Chicago
Detroit
Stieff Pianos
Steinway
Stalts
Dinterroth & Co
Frederick Doll
Windsor
Chas. M. Stieff
Main Street
Lynchburg, VA
C. W. Whitmore
Mr. Lubberton
Adam and Eve
Luefield Merchantile Co
Boquet
Portsmouth
Bluefield Telegraph
J. C. Wainwright & Son
Freeburn C. & C. Co
Delorme
C. O. Smith
P. O. Edgarton
Care Crozier C. & C. Co
Elkhorn
St. Paul
Marion
N. C
Meadows Company
Care
M. H. Weiler
Johnson City
Tenn
P. F. McDonald
Roadmaster
O. J. Zimmerman
Dante
Big Sandy
W. C. Baxter Co
The
Miller Supply Co
Bedford Street
Rodgers St
Tyter Street
B. Baldwin
Pioneer
Dr. Jolland
Yey
F. L. Black
F. J Brown
A. J. Mee
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Follawsbee’s
Mark Kincaid
Bluefield Brewing Co
Altamont
Coool Farr
B. M. Cohen
Opealta Pe
Enger
Virginian Railway
Deepwat
Eccles Maben
Auc
Wally
Herndon
Matoaka
Deepwater
Chesapeake and Ohio
Norfolk and Western
M. Adsit
Noefole
Vutepinia
Secret Society News
Rea
Bluefield Lodge
Masonic Hall
Lazerus
Knights of Pythias
Castle Hall
Old Masonic Hall
D. B. Baldwin
What National Bank
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