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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
5
Ad pitches Pape's Diapepsin as a 50-cent remedy to rapidly digest food and end indigestion. It claims relief from heartburn, belching, nausea, and sour breath within minutes and urges households to keep a case on hand.
Local ad announces a Friday sale of Pawnee oats at J. M. Echols Cash Store. Include date 10 29 21 and emphasis on quality oats.
W A Floyd of Rural Route 2 Em pire Ga says Busklen Arnica Salve cured two worst sores on his hand and leg. He would mortgage the farm to get it. Price 25 cents at all drug stores.
Social events and local happenings include the Ladies Missionary Social Union meeting at the Presbyterian Church, betting chatter on the gubernatorial race with Glasscock favored, the death of Louis Howard a longtime city mail messenger, and a GIA B of L E meeting set for 2 30 pm. The Forger at the Opera House is previewed, Agnes Farmer and Allen Shott wed in East End, plus a young candy kid sighting and news on James W Paul’s impending retirement and a fatal hospital case at St Luke’s.
Miss Frances Blair and F C Oliver wed at the Mason home on Fairfax Street in Bluefield in a quiet ceremony conducted by Rev P C Clark. Attendants included Mrs Mason and flower girls Miss Morris and Elizabeth Angel. The couple left for a wedding trip on train No 16 after the ceremony.
Bluefield won the polo series game 2 to 1 after an extra period. Edwards scored in the third period to decide the tight contest, with Ray Evans and Don Godbey notable for the locals and Wright leading the Roanoke side.
Elijah Wright, aged fifty two, sentenced to be hanged at Clintwood for January murder of William Seifers, has been moved to Wise county jail after threats by his relatives in eastern Kentucky to free him. The case raised debate after Virginia abolished hanging, replacing it with electrocution, but Wright’s execution remains slated under the prior law.
The judge construed the law to apply to crimes committed after its passage. Wright has not yet expressed a preference for either method of dying.
An old patent medicine advertisement claims a cold cure in one day using LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. Druggists refund money if it fails. W GROVE is printed on each box.
A Guilford Maine resident L A Bartlet reports his family has good health after using King's New Life Pills for three years. The ad notes cleansing and toning benefits and directs readers to buy at drug stores with a marked circle and X. The notice also urges Odd Fellows to collect a lodge pin at a November Grand Lodge meeting and mentions a dentist Dr Bradshaw at Princeton Avenue with a phone listing.
G. M. Barger announces seeking election as deputy for Beaver Pond district under John B. Neal if he is elected to public office. Dated 10 21 1911. Subscribe for the Daily Telegraph.
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