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Newspaper
Bluefield Evening Leader
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1909
Page
3
A local note extols Mew D Hall as a skilled gentlemanly repairer of sewing machines. The ad urges payment for services and directs inquiries to W D Hall at 7 Bluefield Avenue or phone 124-16-29-61. Fidelity and Casualty states its claims are paid and invites tests of its claim handling.
Lynchburg 3 Roanoke 2 in fourteen innings. Danville 3 Richmond 4. Portsmouth 7 Norfolk 2. Standings show Richmond, Roanoke, Danville, and Lynchburg in tight races. American League notes include New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Boston and Washington with recent results and pitcher batter pairings.
Brooklyn loses to Philadelphia 4 2 as Bergen McCarthy and Tuckey homer for the visitors. In other NL action New York tops St Louis 7 3 behind Covaleskle Martell and Lehter. Pittsburgh defeats Chicago 6 5 with Letfeld Caninitz Hagerman Moran contributing key hits. Local ads note Endowments with the Pean Mutual and a medical dentist offering services near Bliefield.
A string of lethal and nearly fatal train accidents near Matewan leaves two men dead W M Cart of Edgarton and an unnamed man. a deputy sheriff and attorney Witt are injured, and Hatfield may die. The event prompts scrutiny of railroad safety and widespread shock at the scene.
Huntington W V July 5 Authentic information arrives denying earlier rumors of Justice’s killing by Sheriff Baldwin Foley county marshal. Report says Baldwin acted in self defense when Justice drew and fired while attempting to interfere with his duty at a dance, Baldwin surrendering Monday after posting a 45000 bond with sureties J Carey Alderson J Hobertson and James Henderson.
A Charleston, West Virginia case reports Dr Cyaning arrested for illegal prescription enabling a man to obtain whisky. After a heated trial Cunningham was fined two Nuadeel daltons, the first known in Charleston as authorities push for stricter enforcement of drug and alcohol regulations.
Betstul Virginia July 8 Bristol votes on local option as temperance forces rally with mass meeting and women marching. wets claim edge with expected cross state shipping to Tennessee Georgia Alabama Mississippi and North Carolina. Dozens of speakers condemn saloonism while anti saloon literature floods the city amid intense campaign and prayer at polls.
In Louis, Missouri, on July , Bertha VanOVA and her two children drowned while crossing a swollen Gravola Creek after heavy rains. Authorities have not recovered the bodies. a search is ongoing. The notice also includes fragmented legal notices and court actions from the era.
An old newspaper advertisement promises one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It features endorsement from Walding Kinnan Marvin and J Cheney and claims the cure acts on blood and mucous tissues. Price is 75 cents per bottle and notes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A Virginia Court of Appeals grants a new trial for Elijah Wright of Dickenson County, the man known as the hangman target who killed William Cyphers at a corn show. The homicide occurred as Virginia moved away from hangings to the electric chair, and Wright’s fate now rests with a second Inquisition leading likely to a penitentiary term.
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