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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1915
Page
11
In Clarksburg locals advocate buying locally as a fad, urging residents to patronize neighbors and friends. The piece highlights community loyalty and urges support for hometown merchants and products.
A reader notes how local merchants in Clarksburg benefit from buying at home, urging residents to patronize home shops to keep money local. The Telegram education drive exposes the drawbacks of mail order buying, including higher costs, longer waits, and poor inspection, while highlighting merchants' ready stock, delivery, and credit. The piece portrays a community shift to supporting home commerce and deters buying from distant catalogs.
A citizen urges residents to support local shops over mail order houses, arguing that buying locally strengthens Harrison County’s economy, preserves jobs, and reduces dependence on distant capital. The writer mocks out of town catalogs, notes examples of loyalty to home merchants, and praises local campaigns to keep wealth and business within the community.
A garbled OCR snippet mentions politics and social phrases, references to a university and debutantes, and scattered terms about speech, fashion, and military officers. The text is largely indecipherable, with numerous misspellings and nonstandard phrasing. No clear events or names emerge for a concrete news item.
A November 29 1915 Telegram column responds to a Lumberport farmer letter from the booster edition of November 22. Questions arise about selling vegetables in Clarksburg, competing with southern produce, and whether to pivot to dairy, canned goods, or other products. It questions the farmer’s choices, local purchasing, and the costs of Columbus firm groceries versus Harrison county merchants.
A compiled roster names Clemm's Wall Paper Store Gentael Shen Farrell's Drug Store People's Furniture Co TJ Lynch & Company The Bon Ton Bloch Parrish Tailoring Co Dohotive & Johnson Martin Brothers Clarksburg Storage & Auc Co Spears Shoe Co Rud Wilson Sons Co Highland Brothers & Gore Hall & Bradford Model Shoe Store Standard Garage Chas Griffin Gill Brothers Furniture Co Irving Plano Co Southerns Pine Limber Co and Greenhouse Co Dairy Department Store Frank Reta Courillé Poo H Burke Heinze Co Glen View Brick Co Home Bakery Union National Bank Merchants National Bank The Willison Dennison Co The Fashion United Shoe Stores Co Weber's Flower Store Dudley's Flower Store Deem Swager's Ice Cream Coleman Brothers Hi Wilsons Sons
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