Ten Years Ago Today in Daily Telegram Files
Ten years ago today a jumble of items from the Daily Telegram lists events across multiple towns. Names like J and Dowman clash over a libel suit with Wheeling Register. a thief at a pay station in Glen Elk is sought. Baglee’s regiment is mentioned. Farmers Bank stockholders plan a banking room at the Delson hotel. Thomas Brady promotes Strerton factories. Howard Talkington dies at Adamston with twin brother Homer previously dead. Seventh Day Baptist conference opens in Salem. Elkins fair aids health, and Telegram staffer Sherman Jacox suffers an accident. Buildings in progress include a Waldo hotel and county jail, plus several banks and factories across the area.
Bridgeport lamp chimney factory adds shops and workers
Bridgeport reports the lamp chimney factory expanding to thirty shops including two paste mast shops. One hundred forty men and women are employed with monthly payroll over 7000 dollars. Five carloads of ware shipped weekly, over half of output from prior period. Community benefits rise as boarding houses fill and business picks up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derecian
Pridgefort
Bridgeport
Benjamin ‘Coffman
Senour Shinn
Northview
Wilbert Rider
Oho
A. Sutton
Mary Sandusky
C. A. Willis
Industrial
Hary Poling
Rosemont
Marshall Jones
William Nutter
Craigmoore
Sabra’ Sutton
Jonathan Wootter
Parkersburg
George Woorter
Pansy Graves
Nen Baptist Association
Belngton
Runaway Boy Detained After Police Telegram
Bert Brown a young colored boy about 11 years old is detained at city headquarters awaiting arrival of a policeman from Wellsville. Police Sappington and Washington took him into custody at Lee Run’s after a telegram from the Wellsville chief of police requested action. British cotton piece goods export in four months totaled 2 400 000 000 yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Brown
A Good Investment by Whitemound Merchant
W D Magli a well known merchant at Whitemound Wis bought a stock of Chamberlain medicines to supply customers. After receiving them he fell ill and states that one tall bottle of Chamberlain Cough Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy was worth more to him than the cost of his entire stock. For sale by all dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Magli
Whitemound
Wis
Monday Laundry Routines Prompted by Fresh Smell
A fragment describes women preferring Monday laundry to tame smell and cleanliness, claiming washing clothes yields clearer fabrics and sweeter scents. The passage notes the diligence, heat, and effort involved in laundering, with references to steam, dirt removal, and a white port ro robe.
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ORN
Nusbauims
W. Main Street
Reliance
Calor
Southern Pine Lumber Co. Cor
Elk and Mtn Sts
Rady & Deeme Tailors
Janie
the Daily
J. & Dowman
Wheeling Register
Dowman
Stacle
Bing
Glen Elk
Baglee
Algul Vetare
Farmers’ ‘Bank
Delson Hotel
Thomas G. Brady
Strerton
Howard Talkington
Seventh Day Baptist Denomination
Salem
Columbus Johnson
Elkins Fair
Sherman Jacox
Telegram
Wetzel County
New Martinsville
John T. Helmick
George K. Lowther
Waldo
People's Bank
Empire
Bank Hifiding
B. Smithy
Bridgeton, N. J
W. B Shuttleworth
Martin's Farry,’C
Henjamin F. Shuttleworth
Dully Malt Whiskey Co
Rochester
N.Y
Dennis
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Walter. Buzby
Oluen
Tiler
Paige
Tesuurch
China
Clarksburg Wholesale Crockery CO
Clarksburg Wholesale Crockery Company
T. J. Lynch & Company
Empire National Bank
Main
Fourth Sts
Clarksburg
Capital
Gentral
West Virginia
Lake Erie
West Virginia Fair Association
S. C. Denham
James N. Hess
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