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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1906
Page
4
The Telegram will not publish its edition on Christmas Day as staff prepare for holiday observances. The editor notes Christmas is a season of regenerated feeling and charity, with Santa Claus receptions at homes and a focus on hospitality and generosity.
An editorial outlines two common drag types split log and plank drag used by farmers to smooth dirt roads. It explains construction details including log dimensions, hole placement, braces, wedges, and cross supports, plus notes on rigidity, forward slant, and mounting to the frame.
Parkersburg’s gas supply, rates, and inducements for industry are featured as editors argue the city offers cheaper, ample gas compared with Clarksburg and Charleston. The piece cites 1 cent per thousand for Parkersburg vs 6 cents in Clarksburg for ordinary use and discusses future gas supply prospects and regional competition.
The text reflects on Christmas as joyous yet highlighting lonely hearts affected by the season. It cites a Woman’s Home Companion piece noting sorrow can visit anyone and suggests meaningful acts of kindness. Lonely individuals may help others by offering comfort to the aged and infirm and inviting children to visit, finding purpose in quiet service.
A Charleston newspaper article cites State Historian and Archivist Virgil A. Lewis asserting James Romsey, a West Virginia native, as the inventor of the steamboat twenty three years before Robert Fulton's 1807 Hudson demonstration, underscoring early West Virginian ingenuity.
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