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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1913
Page
3
A partial OCR list shows multiple business names and office locations with floor numbers, room notes, and company names such as Prudential Life Insurance, Metropolitan Life Insurance, Clark sburg Telegrams, and Elliott Building Company. The entry lacks cohesive narrative and reads as a scrambled directory excerpt.
Mrs Eula Mae Reid of Hines Alabama testifies Cardui the woman's tonic greatly helped her after illness and headaches. She claims weight gain and better digestion since using Cardui and urges others to try the remedy. A closing line notes moving vans in Chicago charging five cents a minute.
Local race lovers pack Morgantown for a four day fair starting this afternoon. H L Roe of the Pittsburg Post will start the events, featuring a 2 25 pace a 2 23 trot a 2 18 pace and a running event. Local horses Mason Autocrat and Bartolian are entered in key heats, with strong prospects for good showings.
Ada county school district covers 524 square miles as seven hundred home gardens begin in Port Mwen under school authorities. A Nebraska high school graduate receives a university letter urging consideration of the state university. The National Kindergarten College in Chicago dedicates part of its summer program to Dr Montessori methods. Two of Dr Montessori's graduates in Rome lead practice work with children. A vocational summer school operates in Gallimors Massachusetts offering printing woodwork cooking and home labor skills for boys and girls.
George A Laughlin of Wheeling cables from Kielside on August 4 1913 to accept the Progressive nomination for Congress if tendered He asks for the election date and wires that he will run if the nomination is offered He is listed with other names in the telegram.
James Farley known as a premier strike treater was reported dying at a New York hotel today Attendants would not confirm illness or its cause Farley retired in 1905 and claimed to have broken streetcar strikes in San Francisco Pittsburgh and New York at times employing up to 10000 workers.
Frank J. Welch purchases the Anglo Infacy at a public sale. Basil Welch and Harry Fullerton will manage the store and have opened the business for customers.
A nervous patient credits Postum and a regulated diet for rapid health gains. She describes crumbling health from dyspepsia, improved digestion, reduced head pressure, and weight gain after using Grape-Nuts or Postum products. The letter cites testimonials from Battle Creek Michigan and references The Road to Wellville.
Wheeling residents and guests including William Green J M Straus A R Chipperfield and J S Littl visit for business. Miss Snelia Thompson stays with grandmother. J N Frisby canvasses for U S Army recruitment. Harland Lantz Joe Funderbush Vera and Susan Fisher return from Kingwood. Vassar and Drummond head to Detroit seeking work and health. Master Jamison Meredith marks tenth birthday with friends.
Mr Stella Quinn and coal company employee C. E. Ingelbay were fined 1140 each in police court this morning for pening drunk and assembling for an immoral purpose in the Monticello addition. They were jailed in Jesse Kennedy's city wagon. The man paid his fine and was released. The woman was expelled from the city. Three cases of plain drunkenness were also disposed of. Mayor Willy H. Cole presided.
Morgantown reports work on the Bell telephone plant begins with new switchboards cables and equipment to be installed. Also noted a birth for Mr and Mrs L Wilson Annon of 260 Carr Avenue a daughter born Monday. In North Tonawanda fire destroys portion of Tonawanda Brewing plant causing about 150000 in losses.
An advertisement touts a remedy for all forms of rheumatism promising rapid relief. It claims joints and muscles loosen and dissolve pain with two bottles bought from Wells Laymarer Co. The copy uses sensational language and marketing tactics typical of depersonalized medical quackery.
An old advertisement extols Mother's Friend as a prenatal remedy that eases pains and prevents discomfort during pregnancy. It claims the external application softens abdominal muscles, allows natural expansion, and reduces nervous tension, touting wide usage and urging readers to obtain the product and a guidance booklet from the Dradinit Regulator Co. in Atlanta, Georgia.
Copy at Daily Telegram office to study House BIN No 8 by Mr Yost as passed by West Virginia legislature on February 13 1935 effective July 1 1914. Classified ad notes extra quality paper 23 pages including cover price 1 Be.
On August ninth, 1913 at 1:30 p.m. at the front door of the courthouse in Harrrigon county the Empire National Bank of Clarksburg West Virginia will auction a note for five thousand dollars dated April 1 1912 payable by J M Guffey and Charles E Reed endorsed by John H Galey with five West Virginia Company bonds as collateral. The bonds mature July 1 1909 and carry six percent interest. The note and attached bonds will be sold for cash to the highest bidder.
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