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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1907
Page
6
A garbled collection of Santa letters and requests from children across towns, naming gifts such as mittens, dolls, pets, candy, clothing, games, and household items. The letters show kids asking for coats, toys, a pony, a dog, and various personal belongings, with scattered names and places barely legible.
Colored woman, daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Cambric, dies at home on Me chauie street Sunday night after a long illness. She was years old. Funeral planned Tuesday afternoon at 2 30 with services at her home and burial in view cemetery.
A horse fled from its field near Bellmont then entered a nearby house on Graham Street before being recaptured. Dr. Nelson, visiting a patient in Belmont, left the horse with a helper who allowed it to roam. The animal covered several miles at high speed before being restrained.
An advertisement discusses Herpicide as a cure for herpes and scalp issues, promoting its use and distribution. It also mentions Well’s and Haymaker agents and a carbolized salve for inflammation and wounds. The text includes testimonials about Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets improving post meal dullness and liver function.
Trade notes mention Sweet Melody Flour and Sweet Meboot Flour in brief market tidings. The fragment references merchants and commodities with limited details. Further context is unavailable in the readable text.
Sweet Melody Flour announces Health Coffee as a rapid one minute coffee substitute by Dr Shoop of Racine Wisconsin. The toasted cereal based product contains malt and nuts and is claimed to closely imitate real coffee without grain tea. Sold by dealers.
A boy named Calligan working on a vacation stint at a paper mill fell onto the great rollers. His head and shoulders struck the roll and his body was drawn in as workers gasped. Despite efforts, the machine could not be stopped in time and he was killed.
An old classified style notice advertises ManZan in collapsible tube for piles with a 25e price and guarantee from H. F. Burke. It mentions Chamberlain's Salve for skin ailments and notes a 4 beautiful well kept cemetery near the city with perpetual care and contact at 450 W. Meier St. for information and cemetery visits.
Fragmentary ad style notice mentions a baby named Tos and a mother figure. References Casca sweet remedy, drugs sold by druggists. Mentions typewriters repaired and a business line for A MT Cunningham with an address.
A partial OCR fragment mentions mailing trial documents and a Dr Shoop. It references a person possibly named Cater Raves and a Ley line. The text is incoherent but indicates logistical steps for documents and a dated process.
The notice touts "OUR PIE" lemon filling with three flavors Lemon Chocolate and custard. Sold in eight packets for ten cents at grocers. Each packet makes two pies and carries a Pure Food guarantee.
Real estate ads describe a 7 room near South Chestnut with mantel and baths for 30 dollars monthly cash, a six room house near Chestnut with 28 by 178 foot lot at 1600 dollars with 1000 cash and rest in one year, and a vacant 66 foot industrial lot at 300.50 with one third cash and balance over one to two years with interest. Also included are two laying lots at Northview 166, a five room Glenwood rental at 15 monthly, Glenwood building lots 316 to 450, and a vacant lot in Stewart Addition fronting the trolley at 350 with one third cash and rest in one or two years.
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