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Today in WV History
01 May

Hugh Ike Shott bought out his partners in Bluefield Daily Telegraph

The Bluefield Daily Telegraph is a daily newspaper that serves Mercer, Monroe, and parts of Wyoming and Summers counties in West Virginia, and Tazewell, Buchanan, Bland, and Giles counties in neighboring Virginia. As of 2016, its circulation was 1...

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