Local residents spend Sunday in and around the city
Numerous travelers and visitors are listed in a city column, with names from Princeton, Marion, Coopers, Roanoke, and other towns noted as visiting or returning home. Several births are reported, and local officials or residents travel to Bristol, Tip Top, and Pipestem for leisure or work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. J. M. Welch
Niagara Falls
The
City
Mrs. Welch
Mrs. C. O'Leary
Princeton Avenue
Will Not Appoint Him Deputy Clerk
W B Honaker Republican candidate for clerk of circuit court responds to rumor he will appoint Rev A Thorn as deputy. He states no such arrangement exists and no agreement with Thorn or his friends. Document dated October 19, 1908. W A Brown, Notary Public. Mercer County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer County
A. 3. Thorn
W. B. Honaker
W. A. Brown
N. P
Warn: Heart Disease Risks From Haste After Forty
The New York Herald cautions people over forty about sudden death from heart disease and arteriosclerosis. It advises avoiding haste and heavy strain such as lifting or rushing and limiting table indulgence to reach an long life, noting many die from apoplexy kidney or heart disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Milner Hat Quixote: Pretoria’s Four Silk Hats Hire Plan
A tale from Pall Mall Gazette recalls Lord Milner’s Pretoria reception when one shop held four silk hats. Faced with demand, the hatter refused sale and offered hats on hire for ten minutes to successive groups. He insisted it would be unfair to sell, to customers, or to himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Milner
Pretoria
Transvaal
Pall Mali Gazette
A Black Farmer Laughs At His Crop Year
A Chicago Record-Herald quote tells of a black farmer who, unable to read or write and with no money, jokes over his hopeless finances. He chants a rascal rhyme about favors for the white man and nothing for the black man before tucking the paper away with a whimsical mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Record-Herald
Absolute Diapep sin Cure for Indigestion and Dyspepsia
An old advertisement claims Pape's Diapepsia or five minute relief for dyspepsia with 50 cent cases. It promises quick digestion, improved appetite, and a clean stomach, urging readers to ask pharmacists to read the formula printed on the package. The ad touts Triangule tablets as harmless candy like pills.
Visible and blind typewriters in use at Bluefield college
The article notes in the typewriting department the presence of Oliver Underwood and Bennington visible machines alongside the New Remington No 10. It highlights short hand and typewriting courses, stating about five hundred hours to proficiency and the ninth year of operation offering stenographic instruction to help students rise to better opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Narnival and Business College
Oliver
Retail Grocers Enter Credit Agreement in Bluefield
Bluefield West Virginia October 8 1908 Retail Grocery Merchants sign a pact to refuse future credit sales to any customer with unpaid accounts past due until paid in full and to avoid new customers with existing debts. The list of signatories includes Mercer Merchandise Co Sublette Barnes Lilly Caldwell Mast End Campbell Jopling EK Carter Kahle Kahle J A B Bruce H S Stafford Co L B St Clair Co J H Hogan Son Matthews Rock Stafford Hawley J A Steele Wilson Moise Co B Kelley Chas Goff Co J M Wilson Co Hutcherson Clark Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
W. Va
Mercer Merchandise Co
Sublette & Barnes
Lilly & Caldwell
Hutcherson & Co. Clark & Co
Astonishing Cure Claim for Dyspepsia Tablets
A medical advertisement promotes Miona tablets as a cure for stomach troubles by strengthening stomach walls to properly churn food. It claims quick relief from vomiting of pregnancy, motion sickness, constipation, nervousness, drowsiness and heartburn and notes a money back guarantee from The White Pharmacy.
Flight amid cries: mother defends infant on crowded transport
In a tense scene a mother on a public vehicle rejects a gray suited man’s tirade at her crying baby. She counters that the man’s own youth showed harsher judgment, prompting witnesses to scrutinize the men’s uneasy reactions as the scene escalates.
Orthodontist Bradshaw Highlights Children’s Dental Care
Dr. Bradshaw emphasizes special attention to children's teeth at his practice located on No. 1% Princeton Avenue. Contact number is 507.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradshaw
Princeton Avenue
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S.S.S
S. S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Bluefield Mercantile Company
Bluefield Mercantile Co
Kodol
Kodo
Wude
B.C. DeWitt & Co
Chicago
Chas. W. Mayer
Optometrist
Neeton Ave
W. WA
George D. Clark
Virginia Steam Laundry
Lynchburg
Princeton Ave
Tom Esimt
L. G. Via
Pearisburg
J. A. Leslie
Tazewell
H. A. Wilson
T. B. Spangler
Coopers
J. H. Padbury
Coaldale
Dr. W. King
Spanishburg
G. M. Barger and Son
Bob Morris
Princeton
W. S. Dangerfield
Cecil Lilly
Athens
D. E. Spangier
Roanoke
J. R. Henry
McDowell County
J. B. Bruce
Marion
Scale House
L. M. Miller
Baltimore
J. B. Pacey
Portsmouth
Virsitia
Wit
Worth Kilpatrick and
J. A. Armstrong
Connellsville, Pa
Messrs
P. H. and
R. J. Phelps
Tip Top
Lawrence
Greensville, Tenn
KE. H. Arters
E. T. Spencer
Bristol
Col
Frank A. Harman
Hazel Neel
Brush Fork
Bernie Adkins
South Bluefield
Harold Lee
Lena Lee
Birmingham
Ala
Robert E. Lee
Bramwell
W. W. Hamilton
John Ellwood
E. H. Witten
Mrs. Mann
George Mann
James Mann
Miss Curtis
L. H. Phetteplace
Hagerstown
Eugene White
St. Paul
J. A. Baylor
Bland Street
Holston
Chattanooga
T. B. Roach
Pipestem
Mr. Roach
Sauta
G. G. Perry
Loch Bleefield
Huntington
Honaker
Arthur Thorn
Typewriter Exchange
A. A. Wygal
Mar
State Bank Building
Bluefield Normal & Business College
Timar
Pitman, Gregg and Kimball
Oliver, Underwood, Remington and Smith Machines
Acudenta Way
al Thue
W. H. Cunningham
Sunrfield
Lindsey's Pool & Billard Room
Bluefield, W. Va
Barbers Clean Shop
R. Chapman
Ormal and Business College
Virginia
the Daily
Newsboys
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
Great Cave
Prise
Daily Telegraph Printing Company
Baby
Lendon Craphie
W. C. Atwater & Co
Pocahontas
Raven Red
Howard White
Martinsville
Portland
L. E. Reneesone
Citizens Coal & Supply Co
Col. Bluefield Avenue
Pearls Street
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