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Newspaper
Bluefield Evening Leader
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1909
Page
3
New shipment introduces B V D Athletic Shirts and Knee Drawers B V D Union Suits and Sleeping Garments. Also features the Neglivee Shirt with a detachable sleeve, marketed as ideal for office wear and tennis players.
Train departures list for Roanoke, Norfolk, Shenandoah Valley, and connections with Philadelphia New York Bluefield Welch and Welch area. Includes times for parlor sleeper dining car availability and connection to Lynchburg Richmond Columbus and Cincinnati with Pullman sleepers and cafe cars. Agent information and maps available.
Danville hosts Lynchburg while Roanoke visits Portsmouth and Norfolk travels to Richmond. Local standings show recent results and matchups for Danville, Norfolk, Roanoke, Lynchburg, and Portsmouth with yesterday’s scores noted.
The supreme court held there can be no partnership in the business of gambling. Berns sued Shaw for 235 dollars lost at roulette in a rambling house in Fairmont owned by Shaw and run by Doc Thomas. The ruling notes joint liability for those sharing profits in illegal gambling.
The ledger lists team matchups and runs for American and National League games. Notable pitchers and batters are named alongside box scores including R H and inning lines for Cleveland Boston Washington St Louis Philadelphia Detroit New York and others with entries for players such as Besbe Bresnahan Widela Bergen Graham Stephens Bender Thomas Summers Stanage and Kletnow.
In Andersonville Georgia on May 13 the Georgia Daughters of the Confederacy unveiled a monument to Captain Henry Wirz commander of the Andersonville prison who was executed after a military commission found him guilty of murder and cruelty. The event drew a large crowd near the national cemetery where 13 000 Union soldiers are buried and featured Perrin of Natchez Mississippi the sole living daughter of Wirz removing the veil from the statue.
Will Chambers, a Black man from Irwin Tennessee, was tried in town and convicted for shooting and badly wounding the town’s chief of police in April. He received a sentence of thirteen years in the penitentiary.
In Weverly Tennessee on May 13 a verdict found fourteen men guilty of belonging to the night riders and assaulting Esquire J M Reese on October 16 1908. Each faces ten days in jail and a $500 fine with immediate jail confinement under military guard as a new trial motion looms. The judge instructed on Ku Klux legal penalties and related misdemeanors as the defendants prepared for tomorrow�s proceedings.
A public notice invites bids for concessions at Union Park offering ice cream soft drinks restaurant fruits nuts candies cigars tobaccos and dancing pavilion. Bids via P O Box 683 or by calling at Park.
Mr B Wilton joins Clint Bailey Merchandise Co at 226 South Bland Street and invites former customers to call and trade with him for general merchandise.
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