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Newspaper
Bluefield Evening Leader
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1910
Page
6
The store proclaims the best skirt season in history and announces a clean sweep of stock with eager prices. Shoppers are urged to take advantage of the season’s strongest discounts and new arrivals across all skirt lines.
J J Birney of Charleston visited the city today. Dickinson of Athens was here on business. Asi Adair of Rich Creek and L Nilford of Roanoke spent May in Bluefeld on business. W G O’Lillen, editor of the Tate Well Republican, in town on business. Goodwill, coal operator Jof Brotiwell, also in the city. Mr and Mrs Snyder of Hinton guests of Mr and Mrs W J Wylie. Mr and Mrs R P Holiday leave tomorrow to spend the summer in Hartford New Haven and Boston. Miss Gertrude Jones of Chillicothe Ohio in city returning from a visit to Miss Nannie Dickinson at Athens. K Elis Wox, wine clerk at the Matz hotel, to Billings Montana to locate permanently. R Martin of Woods & Martin Princeton ill but improving. Rev BE J Cassidy, presiding elder, leaves to join family at St Claire Tenn for vacation. Sam Worley and TC Tanner back tonight from Roanoke after ten days at court.
In Warrenton North Carolina the state versus Powell over the killed Chief of Police Charles W Dunn of Scot land Neck ended with the defense accepting a verdict of murder in the second degree and awaiting the court judgment. Judge Ward approved the action noting the jury might not have acquitted on insanity and would not have returned a different verdict. Powell received a thirty year penitentiary sentence amid surprise and disapproval.
A Roumanian woman known as Marcelle Weber allegedly aided by Paul Weber held a man in Egypt and fled to Brooklyn. Authorities recovered about 50 000 dollars. the woman confessed during questioning. The couple arrived June 16 and faced immigration scrutiny as German counsel intervened.
Readable fragments describe a Lutheran services schedule with a birthday mention and a Sunday outreach in Bluedeld area. References to Jefferson as a peer and a celebration of “ten on the day” hint at a civic or commemorative event. Privilege to attend is implied but details are unclear.
The Salvation Army will host a free outing on July 4 for 200 poor mothers and children near Yellow Springa School House. Those who wish to contribute food, money, or items may phone 324 J and a call for pickup will be arranged.
L B Reynolds advertises furnished single and double rooms in the Annex adjoining the New Altamont Hotel. Rates are 5.00 for single rooms and 8.00 for double rooms, with occupancy from October 16 to October 29.
Sidney Cooper, an English artist, met two critics at the Royal Academy exhibition. One critic mocked the sheep-like works, prompting Cooper to hand his card and offer a thousand dollar check to the Institute for Decayed Journalists if a machine could reproduce such art.
The corncob is grown with the grain marketed, and the cob itself is the real harvest. Acres in Ohio Illinois Missouri and Nebraska supply cobs cut and polished for pipe bowls. The cob pipe ships worldwide, popular in Australia and New Zealand as American. The briar remains English favorites among pipe smokers.
A visiting preacher offers sermons priced at eight six five and three dollars with a one dollar option, urging listeners to reflect immediately and choose which sermon to take, in a rural exchange setting.
The fragment presents a playful exchange in which Daniel objects to a plan and tweaks a How’s comment, remarking that he gets no moving picture royal tes. The passage captures a humorous, informal moment with character names likely from a literary or stage context.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars for an uncured catarrh case with Hall's Catarrh Cure by Cheney & Co Toledo. It includes testimonials from Walding Kinnan & Co and claims internally acting treatment. Also mentions Monitor Pulverized Flour praised for bread and cake appearance.
A mass Democratic meeting is summoned for July 2 1910 at 11 am at the Court House Prince ton to nominate a county commissioner two House delegates one county superintendent and to select delegates for future conventions to nominate a U S congressional candidate and a state senate candidate Also to elect a county Democratic executive committee member per magisterial district Voters vote by district with one vote per fifty voters or fraction over twenty five in Mercer County for the governor race and related nominations order of the Mercer County Democratic Executive Committee June 1 1910
The Polish Printing Company touts a plant with machinery for Job Print work and ink, claiming skilled workers and best workmanship. It pledges to please customers with the right price and offers to send a representative for orders, urging contact at 166.
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