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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1905
Page
4
A fragmentary column riffs on bingo, politics, and weather as a State Journal editor hints at Samuel B. Montgomery running for Congress in the Second District. It notes Major Elliott's retirement from newspapers and speculates on broader life changes while remarking on weather boosting holiday trade.
Notice to merchants: ads for the Daily Telegram due by 9 a m and for the Weekly Telegram by Wednesday noon. The cold weather calls for aid to the poor with Salvation Army and church aid societies to prevent suffering. Senator Doliver of Iowa says Elkins leans toward rate legislation. merchants report good business and holiday trade. Congress faces a major clash with corporate power and tax-law attacks. Sheriff Flanigan reports strong tax collections. Repetition of Dawson and Hall shown by some papers. Curtin mills fire noted but recovered. city council harmony praised.
Parkersburg West Virginia December 4 a major newspaper deal nears completion as John W Burchinal of Moundsville buys a controlling interest in the Parkersburg News The move signals consolidation with the Parkersburg Dispatch under Burchinal’s management Burchinal previously led the Dispatch and plans to relocate to Parkersburg George Elliott long time owner of the News and his complex financial dealings are noted amid the transfer The sale may realign local Republican factions but details remain uncertain
Washington D C Dec commissioner's Snater opinion rules in favor of Red Rock Fuel Co against Baltimore and Ohio railroad, noting denial of side trek connection to mine in Fairmont district West Virginia for interstate coal shipments, while other mines receive track access. Decision cites unlawful discrimination and unreasonable preference by carrier, orders action to stop further violations of section three.
A major fire in Sutton West Virginia on December 4 destroyed Curtin Lumber Co. double mills. The blaze left several hundred workers temporarily unemployed as firefighters kept flames from spreading to nearby sawyers. Insurance covers about thirty thousand nine hundred sixty dollars in losses.
A clipped transit fragment references Pinehurst Camden and Tampa along with all resorts of the Carolinas and Florida reaching a line via Washington Seaboard Air Line. An address is given as R, 1 Stansell, T. P.
The Waldo barber shop hires an expert manicurist and offers bath and porters, with a hotel balcony presence and a telephone call service for ladies visiting residences. Booklets on Florida and other regions are available from R. HL. "Stansell.
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