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Newspaper
Bluefield Evening Leader
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1909
Page
2
Personal mentions include G Gilmore of Matoaka and Miss Goldie Turpin of Lynchburg visiting in the city. Others travel for timber business, church duties, or attend weddings and family visits across Virginia and nearby states.
The Children's Aid Society of the Presbyterian church hosts a Japanese evening at 8 o clock tonight at Mrs. A H Mann on Tazewell Street to raise funds for the orphanage. Admission is twenty five cents with an elaborate program of music and recitations plus wafers and tea. H Easley is agent. W J Beals of this city is handling business matters in Roanoke.
The F. M. Kirby & Co. 5 and 10c store at 417 Princeton Ave opens to the public tomorrow with no sales yet but a Bluetell String Band concert from 3 to 7 pm. The remodeled space seats mahogany fixtures and green Kirby decor. Kirby operates 73 stores nationwide including Wilkesbarre, Columbus, Providence, and Cleveland with a large stock of tinware crockery dry goods glassware candy and jewelry all priced at ten cents or less.
Management aims to position Kirby's store as the vicinity's favorite shopping destination by enhancing inventory, store layout, and customer service. Local residents expect improved selection and a welcoming atmosphere to draw more shoppers.
A newspaper ad claims Hall's Catarrh Cure treats catarrh as a constitutional disease through internal use. It asserts the remedy cures by acting on blood and mucous surfaces and offers a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure, inviting testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo Ohio.
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