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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
6
A lengthy pre Easter promotion from Boggs & Buhl markets Spring and Summer wear for women misses girls and men boys. It touts low prices, mail order shopping, and extensive stock across dresses suits coats hats gloves and accessories with deep discounts on Easter and summer apparel and urging readers to request particulars.
Boggs and Buhl advertises a farm three miles from Keyser West Virginia with 188 acres of fruit and pasture land. Features include an old apple orchard of 1500 young trees, modern farmhouse and outbuildings, immediate possession, and a dairy or stock raising potential. Personal property includes a team of young mules. GEO R DAVIS is listed as the contact. Miss Mary Durbin has returned home from Mt DeChantel College and will spend vacation with her parents.
DANVILLE IL March 13 Uncle Joe Cannon, travel worn and alone, left Washington for his home and told the American people it is great to be a plain American citizen again. He arrived last night and, unlike former returns, went to his home unattended. Cannon, after forty years in Washington, is greeted by friends and neighbors as he retires to his private office at the bank with a few friends.
The House of Death at 2559 Wentworth avenue in Chicago burned in an incendiary fire today, killing three people including Mrs. Frank Tucalla and her two young daughters. The building had earned its grim name after a decade of fatal incidents linked to prior tenants and occupants.
Washington March 19 Associated Press Dispatch Senator Smith of Maryland headed a delegation of Marylanders who went to the White House to urge the appointment of W. C. Deveeman of Cumberland as judge of the Fourth United States district court to succeed Judge Goff recently elected United States Senator from West Virginia.
An advertisement claims old theories on eczema are wrong and that salves clog pores. It touts D.D.D. Prescription as penetrating and effective, offering a full size bottle with a guarantee that it will stop the itch at once or no charge, from Union Drug Company.
A regional study notes that the phrases we uns and you uns are not limited to the south but appear in Allegheny speech as a remnant of old speech patterns. The article traces their origin to Scottish immigrants and cites Tyndale’s Bible usage around 1526 as historical precedent.
A humorous reminiscence recalls Joseph Jefferson Jr detailing a friend who cut smoking in half from forty to twenty cigarettes daily after a doctor's joke. The piece also quips about Paderewski in South Africa, recounting insults aboard a ship and disparaging a nation’s cultural understanding, ending with a critique of lack of art appreciation.
A prominent New York lawyer relies on after-dinner naps to cope with frequent awakenings. His habit causes embarrassment, such as dozing during a conversation with a distinguished judge at a dinner guest event, though his wife noted the slip and the judge remained unaware.
Green visits a racecourse for the first time and ignores warnings about welshers and thieves. He bets on an outsider, it wins, and he collects his winnings with a polite card return to the bookmaker amid a curt exchange.
A weary book agent visits homes seeking subscribers for a women’s suffrage era publication. She faces frequent refusals as women defer to husbands. At one last house a widow shows interest, but declines, saying her late husband would have approved the purchase.
Leaders of a new common sense clothing crusade in Berlin urge light summer attire for men and the abolition of all collars. They argue women shed heavy garments with heat and men should do likewise, embracing cooler styles as heat comes.
In Monterey on March 19 the mayor and two city officials were arrested on rebellion charges and dispatched by train to Mexico City under orders from the district judge.
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