Taylor County election year announces many candidates
A flood of Republican primary declarations from Grafton and Simpson districts details candidacies for Sheriff Constable Assessor Clerk Prosecuting Attorney and County Commissioner in Taylor County West Virginia. Voters are urged to support trusted party members as May 26 primary nears.
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Grafton
John H. Dean
Taylor County
T¢Ha County
West Side
Philander F. Bartlett
Simpson
W. Va
Sentinel
Melvin Newton
Taylor
Newton
Sentinels
R. A. Morrow
House of Delegates
John Granville
Guld St. Clair
Court House
West Virginia
G. W. Ford
Justice of the Peace
Circuit Court
Mari
William M. Feltner
Felthar
the Sentinel
The
Republic
William Mallonee
Carne
Thomas C. Long
Brochard
Wlemington
Taylor County Commissioner Candidates Named
Robt E Philips announces candidacy for County Commissioner in Taylor County May 26 1908 primary. Editor J Oscar Jaco notes he is independent of any clique. G Brochard of Wilmington district also seeks Republican nomination May 6 1908. Also includes a health coffee advertisement from Dr Shoop of Racine Wisconsin via Jno N Tregellas.
Day Night Life Evolution in Animals and Canned Vegetable Tips
The text contrasts diurnal and nocturnal life across species, noting how sleep emerged with eyes and daylight. It explains primitive life’s lack of cycles, then details how higher development splits activity into waking and resting phases. It then shifts to a New York Times note on canned vegetables and Boston Herald recipe suggestions, including onion with stewed vegetables, salmon pairings, string bean and asparagus salads, and a pimento walnut salad served very cold.
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Mars
New York Times
Sweet Melody Flour Roof Painting Bid
Smyth and Wells offer tin roof painting services with D F Wells at 104 Ninth Fairmont West Virginia reporting readiness to handle all kinds of roof finishing and related work.
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Smyth & Wells
Ae Ifress
D. F. Wells
Ninth Fairmont
Office Boy Rites of Passage in a Bustling Office
An insurance agent notes the rough arc of an office boy’s rise from meek newcomer to head boy. The pattern shows the subordinates’ rough language and disregard for decorum intensifying as authority shifts, a blunt study of workplace behavior across cases.
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Pullyiags
New York Globe
Beauty Habits for Thin-Chested Women
The New York Sun recommends deep, gentle breathing routines to calm nerves and improve appetite. It advises standing at a window, extending arms, breathing deeply in cycles, and cautions against overdoing breathing to avoid palpitations. It also suggests frequent meals and a beauty diet featuring maple syrup greens cocoa and chocolate in a sanatorium setting.
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New York Sun
Boonville Hen Worth a Thousand Dollars a Pound
A Boonville Missouri story reports a hen named Peg valued at about one thousand dollars per pound. Her owner refuses a fortune, travels around the world and spends heavily on maintenance, including a private valet. Peg receives daily baths, manicured beak and comb, leg scrubs, exercise, and gourmet fare.
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Boonville
Peg
Sweet Melody Flour and the Absam May Marriage Lore
The church of Absam near Innsbruck is famed for a May marriage superstition. Couples wed there in May are believed to enjoy lifelong happiness, attracting many lovers who heed the notice to arrive early to avoid the crush, as reported by Wide World Magazine.
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Absam
Innsbruck
Church of Absam
Wide World Magazine
Plants Poison Each Other Near Trees
It notes that grass and grain grow poorly near trees due to mutual poisoning from excretions by both sides and root competition. Experiments in England and the United States attribute the effect to substances released by trees and by grass, not just shade, exhausting shared nutrients.
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England
Big Coal Deal Involves Fairmont Property Sale
Negotiations in New York prime for sale of the Federal coal property at Fairmont West Virginia to New York buyers. Current owner largely Col J M Guffey of Pittsburg. spans over 5000 acres. Output ranges 600 to 1000 tons over four days. full capacity 2000 tons. Price talked at 1,300,000 in 30 year bonds plus 200,000 cash. Cumberland News.
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New York
Fairmont
W. Va
Col. J. M. Guffey
Pittsburg
Cumberland News
No More Second Class Fares Across Western Route
Passenger officials of the 4. & O. R. R. announce that from May 1 all Western Passenger Association roads will end second class fares. Travelers in chair cars tourist sleepers and Pullmans will pay the current first class rate of $39.20, replacing the existing $36.70 second class fare for Chicago to Salt Lake.
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Western Passenger Association
Chicago
Salt Lake
Itch Cure Promised In Half Hour By Woolford Lotion
A vintage advertisement claims Woolford's Sanitary Lotion cures itch in 30 minutes and guarantees reliability. The copy mentions bold claims by W. H. Jackson & Bro., druggists, in a terse sales pitch typical of era patent medicines.
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Wool-ford
Jackson & Bro
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J.T. Moore
L. C. Haymond
B. F. Movick
Thomas T.selvey
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Hugh Warder
C. A. Hefner
Thomas F. Welsh
Guy D. Haymond
Durbin Allender
Chas. W. Monroe
J. Frank Wilson
Republican County Executive Committee
Hayward Fleming
District of Grafton
Charles R. Lilly
Alf
Jenkins
Thhe Pollas
Grafton District
H. Morris
J. M. ‘Ross
Flemington
Ross
Robt
E. Philips
J. Oscar Jaco
Boston Herald
EH. Hostler
Main St
Portieres
Footer’s Dye Works
Cumberland, Md
Footer’s
Baltimore, Ohio
W. Ya
Cumberland
Yain
Mt Bake Park
Parkersburg
Les You
Wheeling
Mall
Alee Pti
Meee
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Washtgton
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