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Newspaper
Bluefield Evening Leader
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1910
Page
4
The article details subscription pricing for the Daily Evening Leader and comments on Mercer county politics and Prohibition. It critiques party shifts and storage of public funds, comparing dry and wet factions, and cites attorney general office costs and related legal fees as context for state finance.
The Ohio State Journal questions a forty thousand dollar price for a congressional nomination while a Huntington Advertiser critique notes large sums spent by a senatorial candidate in West Virginia. Handshakes are ridiculed as relics of barbarism though still common in political culture and a chaotic stream of stray lines from the Philadelphia Inquirer and others fill the page with adrift commentary and unrelated clippings.
A collage of jokes and oddities from old papers includes a wife gently taunting a husband over endless proposals, a Sunday school quip about the first parents, a Midgar joke fragment, and a traveling hair grower pitch that ends with a wary buyer and a risky internal dose warning.
Hamilton Fish, a former assistant U S treasurer for New York and current member of the House, is described as a ragless insurgent and a close ally of Theodore Roosevelt. Born in 1881, he rose through New York politics, serving eleven times in the Assembly before Roosevelt named him assistant treasurer and later a congressman. His father held multiple high offices, including governor, senator, and secretary of state.
The readable fragment jabbers about using Monitor Pulverized on crushed wheat and promotes healthier bread and cake. It then lists distorted phrases about printing firms, a sale notice, and an illegible historical advertising jumble with dates and names lost in garbled OCR.
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