N&W in 1910--Luggage

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
July 8, 1910
[Two articles]

TRUNKS ATTRACT NOTICE
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Twenty-eight Belonging to Mrs. H. C. Stuart Pass Through Bluefield
    The Stuart trunks arrived yesterday at Cleveland [Virginia, on the Clinch Valley line] and will be taken to the Stuart home at Elk Garden.  Twenty-eight in all, they gave the local baggage men all they could handle as they were piled into a Clinch Valley car yesterday morning at the Bluefield station.  Mrs. H. C. Stuart accompanied the trunks, going back to her Virginia home after a two years absence abroad.  Mrs. Stuart did not court publicity and would have passed through the city without notice if it had not been for the trunks.  It is an unusual sight to see so many trunks and when they are all consigned to one person the inquisitive always get to see the whys and wherefores of the occasion.  Since her return to this country from France Mrs. Stuart has spent the most of her time in New York, Washington and Richmond.  The Stuart trunks gained publicity in New York at the customs offices when they were brought here and under a new ruling of the customs officials their contents were found to be dutiable. Mrs. Stuart, who has traveled considerably, thought otherwise and a misunderstanding arose which was finally settled by the payment of the required duties when the trunks were released.
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THE GRAHAM DAILY NEWS
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Mrs. Stuart Goes Through
    Prominent among the passengers carried through Graham on No. 5 yesterday morning was Mrs. Henry C. Stuart, wife of the Hon. Henry C. Stuart, the wealthy Elk Garden landowner and candidate for congress from the Ninth district on the Democratic ticket this fall.  Mrs. Stuart was returning home from her two years trip abroad, where she was taken by her husband for treatment under French specialists.  It is said Mrs. Stuart was much benefited by the twenty-four months stay in Paris.  Among the servants accompanying Mr. Stuart yesterday to Elk Garden were three French maids and the party chatted fluently in French.  The friends of the Stuarts in southwestern Virginia will be very glad to know that Mrs. Stuart has returned home looking so well after her long siege of illness in Paris.
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Gordon Hamilton
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