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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>August 16,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>IN CITY AND COALFIELD</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>"Col. Tierney Buys Automobile"</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Col. L. K. Tierney, of Powhatan, has
purchased a "Chalmers 40" which he will keep in this city for use here until the
good roads planned in this section are completed. The car is to be
delivered by the first of September or else it will not be shipped this
year. The sale was made by the Mercer County Automobile Company. Mr.
Tierney's purchase shows what good roads will do for this section and is only
another argument for good roads in Mercer and McDowell counties. At the
present rate of construction McDowell will shortly lead this county in the
matter of roads unless the people of Mercer county get busy and get their
talking plans to work.</DIV>
<DIV align=left>[<EM>This item is included here to reveal the status in 1910 of
what would eventually become the principle contributor to the
demise of the local passenger trains. An earlier
article listed the seven or eight automobiles in Bluefield in late
summer 1910 and their owners (often doctors). Others articles were
like the one above in that the article announced each new automobile in
Bluefield and its purchaser.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><EM>Elegant Diners in Service</EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The first of the new dining cars to pass
through was in train No. 3 last night. It is a steel bottom, three truck
[<EM>three-axle truck?</EM>] car, fitted with electric lights and handsome in
all its appointments.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>