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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1925
Page
11
Fragments show multiple old classifieds including FOR SALE REPAIR OFFERS WANTED TRADE and JOB SEEKERS. Phrases reference a trade for a high grade something, a one ton Ford tractor, a cheap Ford tractor in rough condition, and an experienced bookkeeper. The legible items suggest a busy rural or small-town classifieds page with mixed sale and employment notices.
Advertises a furnished Union rental from now to June 1 1926. Seeks a responsible occupant, possibly with one or two children, to care for the place. Apply mornings at Jon Street.
Public auction authorized by mortgage trustees of Mercer County will sell six months interest in several city parcels in Bluefield West Virginia. The sale, to be held September 3 1926 at 11 a.m., will follow the terms of a trust dated July 1 1907 and recorded in Mercer County Court Clerk’s Office.
A trust sale of Lot 5 in Section 171 Bluefield Mercer County West Virginia, 150 by 50 foot parcel along Highland avenue and an adjacent alley, to satisfy a trust debt secured by Annie Pil Croster and HM Croster to John R. Dillard Trustee. Sale at Coal and Coke Building front door October 17 1925 at 10 am. Cash.
Trustee A Phillips will sell at public auction on October 6 1925 at 7 00 p m the parcel of real estate in Bluefield near Mika West Virginia on Wilken Street described as lot and line bounds from Brown Street to Stella Cisco's lot and back to the beginning conveyed by D G and wife to Mitchell Bane Albert Smith and Robert Anderson as trustees of the church. The sale is to satisfy the deed of trust dated 1924 in favor of Weeks and others due to default on notes.
Sam McKnight trustee will sell at public auction on Fries October 23 at 2 p.m. for cash the property described as lot bounded by West Bedford and Mercer streets, beginning at the northeast corner of West Bedford and Perk streets. The lot once conveyed to C. T. Ross and later to William E. Ross, with chain of title from 1908 and 1918. Terms cash on day of sale. September 22, 1924. A. J. LURLINER, Trustee.
Public auction of the bankrupt W Modell Odell estate in Coopers Mercer county West Virginia scheduled for September 28 1995 at 2 pm. Sale includes merchandise fixtures and accounts receivable with lien-free title and subject to bankruptcy court confirmation. Separate item by item sale to follow creditors meeting October 1 1925 at 2 pm. The case files list real estate interests in Thoeffield Mercer County with notices to interested parties and heirs.
The readable fragment notes someone named Walker and Matz in a partial report about shoe operation methods and a Nepalchine reference. Details are garbled but indicate an event or instruction involving seating and transit on a pavement area. No clear location, date, or full names emerge.
Female help wanted for store in coal fields seeks a buyer and office tasks with interview required. Merchant advertises in Daily Telegraph. A white settled woman for general housework wanted. phone 1891, YO Neat Young Lady sought for a position with a large Chicago corporation at Mats Hotel before 9:30 am and after 4 pm, no phone calls.
A lost briefcase containing blanks receipts photos and furniture is reported. Finder to return to Warlick Furniture Company for reward. Call Mrs Vaught at 586 for liberal compensation.
A. D. Williams profiles Morristown College founder Dr Judson Hill and his wife, tracing the institution from a 1830 Baptist church to a slave market era to a thriving college valued near half a million dollars. The piece highlights leaders Dean John Zedler and Prof Miller W Boyd and notes students from Pocahontas Bluefield Gary Welch and Indiana.
Students from Alabama to Africa gather at Morristown for instruction and development. A record number of Flat Top Coalfield students attend the school this year. The East Tennessee Conference praises its leaders and a monument to Judson B. Hill is erected at Morristown.
A detailed listing of radio broadcasts on September 22 across networks WEAF WHIT KYW and others includes orchestral concerts sport updates news and talk shows. Notable items cover Mayflower Orchestra Evelyn Read performances and multiple station hour by hour schedules with Central Standard Time references.
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