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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1912
Page
5
A newspaper note promotes women’s skirts priced at 4.95, urging buyers to bring four dollars and ninety five cents. It highlights whip cord and men’s wear serge skirts in tall, gray, blue, and black, appealing to summer woolen burdens and timely seasonal pricing.
One of the buyer’s picks from the Eastern market features 142 silk petticoats in black and colored Inessaline silks. A skirt costing $3.95 to $5 could be bought for $1.95 this Tuesday, with a wide range of shades and styles available.
Large crowds enjoyed a concert by Cadenza orchestra at Loop Park yesterday with impressive attendance despite cool weather. Laura Thompson and Gus Smith gave solos, receiving encores as Clarksburg’s First Regimental Band later performed with notable enthusiasm after returning from Mt Gretna encampment.
Claude Dotson of Mount Clare is jailed in Clarksburg awaiting a hearing before Justice Jackson Carter on charges of carrying a revolver. He was arrested Monday at the Baltimore and Ohio station after returning from Mount Clare, following a feud over a garden. Officers Lane White and Odd McCloud detained him at the instance of John Caccelle. A sheriff's deputy visited but no complaints were filed, and disorder reportedly continued with two foreigners said to be attacked with a lead pipe.
Mr and Mrs R and J Johnson and family and Mrs Clay Bond returned home Sunday from a three week automobile trip through Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Roads in Ohio and Pennsylvania praised as best seen but West Virginia roads were poor. Between Wheeling and Fairmont roads nearly impassable. Speedometer showed 1200 miles. Thomas Prosser and Patrick Alley headed to Atlantic City for two week stay. WE Downs traveled to New York and Atlantic City for two weeks with debts to be settled.
A historical picture at the Bijou tells the tale of Jack Jouett’s ride aiding Virginia’s independence. The show links Jouett with Jefferson and Henry, noting Charlottesville briefly as Virginia’s capital and Cornwallis’s threat to capture the legislature. The drama promises a thriller finish.
Aug 5 report from the Clarksburg Telegram lists deaths and interment for a sixteen month old child in Sured or Wallace, along with visitors and relocations. Mentions residents such as Mr. and Mrs. Kemper, Miss Kemper, Miss Austin, and J N Smith visiting family, plus various local travel to Salem Webster Springs Center Village PA and Doddridge county.
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