Visitors in the City On Business
A stream of visitors from Gardner Bluefield Northfork Welch Fazewell Keystone and Princeton were seen in the city on business. Notables include James S. Clark stenographer to Judge Herndon, and T. Weaver returning from Radford to join the Southern Express Company.
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A. Wood
Gardner Bluefield
W. A. Stamper
Northfork
City Today
Ee M. Howes of
Welch
Bluefeld Aday
M. Goldstein
Keystone
James S. Clark
Herndon
Princeton
Starkey Players Present Little Homestead At The Theatre
Starkey Players presented Little Homestead last night to a good sized audience. Mr Starkey is a leading man, and the company includes F H Sayles as Monte Peyser, Hazel Carlton and Daisy Carleton, the latter showing versatility in two roles. Tonight they stage Man and the Brute, a play similar to Lamb and the Brute, with Starkey noting no lady with a weak heart should attend. The engagement closes tonight with Man and the Brute.
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Starkey Players
Chas. K. Champlin
Statue of Steuben Unveiled Amid Parade Speeches
A Steuben statue unveiling in a corner of La Fayette Place drew Count von Bernstein the German ambassador President Hexamer of the German-American Alliance Representative Bartholdt and Major General Cano von Steuben descendant of the revolutionary hero. The event honored the general for his service to Washington at Valley Forge and Yorktown with veterans from the Franco Prussian War and a large parade following.
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Count von Bernstein
Hexamer
Valley Forge
Breuben
Maj
Andre
Yorktown
Steuben
United States
Booming 1911 Ad Campaigns Across Major Cities
New York reports that advertising agencies expect a booming year in 1911 driven by census population growth. Major contracts from $10,000 to $200,000 have been signed as cities boost efforts via daily papers. Western and Southern cities lead, with campaigns spreading to many states and statewide efforts expanding in California Oregon Mississippi Georgia Nebraska Washington.
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New York
Chambers of Commerce
Fead
Ameri Thone
Dex Moines
Houston
Portland
Ore
Spokane
Memphis
San Antonio
Kansas City
Reno
Okla
Oklahoma City
Wichita
Montgomery
Savannah
Seattle
Lutheran Church Services This Afternoon
Lutheran church holds services at 4 p m for Christmas children practice, 436 p m for proper and prayer service, and 150 pm for Bible school workers meeting. Public invited.
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Lutheran Church
Bible School Workers Meeting
Puble
Notice to Electric Consumers From Bluestone Traction Co
On and after the next reading the December a minimum charge of 7 cents per month will be charged on all meters if less than the value of current is used The Bluestone Traction Co P M Waliser Manager in Leader Cutten Gerin The Leader Cutten.
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Bluestone Traction CO
P.M. Waliser
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Grippe Cure
The advertisement claims severe cold relief with Pape's Cold Compound taken every two hours for three doses. It asserts rapid vanishing of neuralgia, headache, fever, sneezing, and other symptoms, citing three years of research and fifty thousand dollars cost. It also notes no quinine and promises prompt, safe relief from a cent package.
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Grippe
Pape
Letters to the Leader Warns on Gambler Joints
A writer claims three gambling joints operate on Princeton Avenue, with police aware but taking no action. The piece urges revoking whiskey licenses and prosecuting those permitting such business, threatening to present evidence to the prosecuting attorney if powers fail to act.
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Vicims
Princeton Avenue Avenue
Board of Affairs
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Christmas
Bluefeld
Richardson Hardware Co
Cee Ata Eee
The
Foland Printing Co
Princeton Ave
Bluefield, West Virginia
Com. Harman
D. R. Sayers
Fazewell
Cee
B.S. Morefield
Morefield & Parlor
Hinton
Co. T. Weaver
Radford
Weaver
Southern Express Company
MR. Dresser
Shumiate Clothing Co
Ger
Cutten
W. H. Harry & Company
Leading Jewelers
Bluefield, W. VA
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