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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1906
Page
3
The Ladies' Aid Society of Golf M s church holds its annual sale December 13 and 14 in the GWalde room at Hewes and Fourth streets. Special sale items include dolls and band s kerehinfy. New church workers will serve sandwiches and coffee.
Reprint notes the safety and legitimacy of Dr Shoop's cough cure amid opposition to narcotics. Promotes Health Coffee as coffee substitute, with free samples. Christmas sale at Christ Episcopal church Aid Society sale of work aprons candy and cake in Walgo hotel assembly room. Also mentions Portland cement and furniture repair services by local businesses.
A historical note recounts Sarah Siddons born 1756 at Shoulder of Mutton inn Brecon Wales to theater parents. Her father Roger Kemble, a strolling manager, shaped her stage start at age ten as Ariel. Siddons married Henry Siddons in 1773 at Trinity Church Coventry after Kemble opposition and a lovers’ correspondence.
A collage of notes references Buddhist figures in Japan, political anecdotes from the era of William IV, and a later social snippet about Lady Bounty and charitable hopes. The piece blends travelogues with a political anecdote and a commercial plug for Dudley’s and SWHET MELODY FLOUR.
Anita Ford becomes entangled with the methodical Keen after a kiss and a glove gift. Keen’s calm, deliberate manner draws her, while misread signals lead to jealousy, vows, and an eventual reckoning that tests their feelings and future.
Public speakers often face interruptions from coughing. The text claims Foley Howes and Tir cure coughs colds and prevent consumption and mentions a yellow package sold by Sarah Wilson. It references Sweet Melody Flour and a general remedy market with unnamed officials and products.
An advertisement notes urgent payment requests to the Collecting Agency at 110 South Third Street. It promotes DeWitt's Kidney and Bidder Pills as a quick treatment to purge poisons from the system, offering a week’s supply for 25 cents through Stone & Mercer.
The Merchants National Bank of West Virginia at Clarksburg will hold its annual stockholders meeting on Tuesday, January 5, 1907 at 10 o'clock a m to elect seven directors. Empire National Bank will hold its annual meeting on January 8, 1907 at 1 o'clock pm to elect directors and address other usual business.
An advertisement inserted beneath classified listings claims to bring readers what they want. It emphasizes access to desired goods or services through its promotional placement and seeks to entice buyers with promise of satisfaction.
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