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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1908
Page
2
An essay recounts the Mississippi as both grand and vexing. It praises its vast power while noting hazards from riverbank collapses, shipwrecks, and overflows that foil plantation hopes and river trade.
A grocer tests a job applicant by asking him to weigh five pounds of sugar. The trainee balances with careful adding until the scale tips, demonstrating a learned trade method. The tale suggests that generous adding delights customers, while subtraction breeds distrust, as observed in the New Orleans Times-Democrat recollection.
A reader recalls a case in which a livery stable keeper charged a man a half sovereign to ride to Richmond and another half upon return. The client sought justice by hiring the same horse to Windsor, paying a sovereign, and asking where the horse was. The ruse exposes sharp practice and legal advice leading to a laugh at the stable keeper’s expense.
A weathered stranger, chief victim of a car crash, asks a surgeon staying at Bushby Inn to accept trade for his fee. The patient offers future services such as hanging blinds, installing lightning rods, or playing the cornet once he recovers, and asserts his own competence.
In France the oyster trade is said to be unsuitable for women though well paid. Women labor from dawn to dusk standing knee deep in water under a scorching sun, and never a year passes without some going mad and being hospitalized. Owners reap large profits from beds and quickly accumulate small fortunes.
Story recalls that young John Fremont ran away to marry Jessie, provoking Senator Benton to threaten violence. Mrs. Benton coolly quips that he should just give the suitor Jessie herself, defusing the danger with dry humor.
An advertisement mocks a medical man and promotes Kodol as a digestives product. It claims Kodol combines natural digestive juices to digest all foods and offers it through druggists. The tone imitates a humorous local essay style with a quoted aphorism about laughter.
The Graham Daily News reports Hon. Lee Trinkle’s visit to entertainments hosted by Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Hufford, with dinner guests including William Mitchell J H Hardy and W L Sexton. Trinkle plans to speak at a Giles County barbecue with Claude Byars. Baseball, dramatic club plans at Graham College, and various local notices follow.
A long list of residents and visitors to Bluefield and nearby towns yesterday includes P. L. Hawks of Godfrey. Miss Haven Strader of Falls Mills. S. S. Cofer, W. C. Hendrick, A. Witt. L. S. Gillespie. Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Johnson. Bertha Fairfield. W. B. Honaker. Miss Ora Akers. the Bodells. Mrs. G. J. Holbrook. Edith and Eva Bailey. Davis Thorne. R. C. Lilly. Mrs. J. E. Biggs. J. K. F. Steele. N. J. Ellison. and others moving through or staying at Iron Lithia Springs.
A medical student asks for a vocal teacher after a surprise visit and a young woman directs him to a wrong number saying the instructor "fils saws." The anecdote ends with a joke about a coal ad urging readers to stockpile Clinchfield Coal before the cold season.
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