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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1908
Page
2
An advertising note extols Kodol for digestion, claiming it mirrors natural stomach processes to rest and strengthen the stomach. It argues indigestion harms brain function and promises a money back guarantee if the product fails, noting large and small bottle sizes and the Chicago labs of B C DeWitt & Co.
The Satur day Afternoon League Wholesalers defeated Motive Power Crow, with Crow striking out sixteen and Gibberson seven, despite fielding errors aiding the spread. Lacy’s bunting produced two safe hits as Wholesalers clinched an 11 to 6 win on the tower grounds.
Mil 33, Entsier of St. Paul was in the city last night. Welch resident W Burbridge Payne was here yesterday. H. M. Roach returned from Union. Fontyz left for Norfolk. Earl Lane left for Franklin Virginia. Dr H D Hatfield of Mekman visited Bluefield yesterday. Thames to visit son in business at Cincinnati. McCulloch departed for Oklahoma and Texas. Ollie Ashworth a Tacoma resident guest of Mrs Geo Kitts. Moran from Mullins visiting ill wife at Bluefield Sanitorium. Cornett family returned from Virginia. Mrs W A Thomas and daughter Georgia to Tip Top for weeks. Monroe family returned from Roanoke to Adams street. Mary Priddy improving from typhoid fever. Warsham left for Farmville Virginia. Griffin of Bedford City and Litchfield of Abingdon visiting Mr and Mrs R J Belling. Pearson left for Chicago to head W W Catman Coke office. Ferrell left for New York to buy fall stock. Mrs Mary Fisher also to New York for stock for Scrrel stores.
A fencing master in Boston dons hours of challenge until English refugees Judge William Goffe and Edward Whelley disguise as villagers. Goffe uses a cheese shield and muddied mop to fend off the swordsman. The master escalates to a broadsword but is deterred by the judge’s firm warning.
A 1908 letter from H A Barber state health secretary discusses enforcement of a health order in Bluefield and Point Pleasant. The note explains travel delays due to injunction suits and warns that prosecution will proceed if the order is not complied.
Mrs J H Hare, who had traveled to Richmond for an operation at Memorial Hospital, submitted to the knife yesterday and late last night word reached here indicating she was resting well.
The Raleigh street M. KE church hosted a colored teachers institute drawing teachers from McDowell Fayette and Monroe counties. Morning focused on organization and enrollment while the afternoon featured talks on topics of interest to teachers and many visitors attended.
A letter from C N Cornell of Rod Ing Ga dated August 27 1906 praises Kodol for curing a stomach disease after buying a bottle in spring 1902. The note claims the benefit was priceless and wishes long life. Sold by all druggists.
A Denver Field and Farm tale recounts a pale transient who becomes a range hero in Bernal Springs New Mexico He confronts a bully named Sandy and forces him to drink water from a pan like a dog after a yearlong debt confrontation The stranger’s display of grit and justice ends the threat to the local saloon bully with decisive frontier action
An ignorant would be bully named Nolr issues a duel challenge to a French statesman on vague grounds. The statesman replies with a letter saying he chooses the spelling book as weapon and that Nolr is a dead man. The duel never occurs.
A Newton Massachusetts man known as a character counts his children to answer how long he has been married. He lists Eugene forty, Norah thirty-five, smuty-five, Lizzie thirty-two, then asks how many more he has.
Suffering patrons praise De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills as effective cures after trials with other medicines. The ad notes the product is sold by all druggists and touts endorsements from unnamed customers in promotional language.
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