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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1902
Page
4
A damaged notice from Clarkshure announces the re opening of a local ladies merchants outlet. It promises easy payments with no charges to men and appeals to former customers and new patrons with assurances of good service and fair treatment.
Before the rush begins the new fall suitings and over coat materials arrive with handsome exclusive patterns. This is the best time to leave your measure while the fabrics are here and prices are modest.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad runs two mid winter excursions to Washington on January 22 and February 10, 1903 at very low round trip rates with ten days return. Includes excellent train service, standard coaches, Pullman parlor and sleeping cars. For tickets and full details contact B and O R R or agents. A fully illustrated guide may be purchased for 10 cents.
Thompson Music Company moves to the north end of Glen Elk Ridge and opens a two-display music store featuring instruments and accessories. The shop promises обновленный ассортимент and a wide line of small tunement items, inviting customers to visit for updated offerings.
London mourns the archbishop of Canterbury with funeral at noon Saturday as dignitaries including the United States chargé d’affaires visit the palace. The National Equity Society forms in Indianapolis to unite farmers and related trades. A Frankfort mother and child die in a kitchen fire while a younger child is badly burned. The cable ship Slivertown reports a brisk crossing with 125 knots of cable laid in the last 24 hours. Lima notes the Shaw lease purchase for 560,000 dollars covering 6,500 acres and 273 wells. Survivors from the Palmer and Crary schooners improve after a collision near Thatcher’s Island. Manila reports a new cholera outbreak with 40 daily cases and rising death tolls. a Manila death follows from self-inflicted gunshot. Captain Whipple’s son dies by his own hand in San Francisco. Pittsburgh Steamship captains to receive a 10 percent wage advance. A Broubenville telegraph operator sues for damages of 30,000. Wellsville’s population rises as local records update the police census.
The New York stock market shows mixed gains and cash movements to New Orleans reach 1.475 million for December. Bond activity remained broad with some strength in prices, while money rates edge up on holiday demand. Pennsylvania court hears appeals from railroad wage attachments in West Virginia cases. Reports include murders in Nebraska, a shooting in Jackson Tennessee, a delay request for an execution in Harrisburg, and other city notes across the nation.
A proposed civil service bill seeks to abolish fixed tenure and require periodic reexaminations for clerks and other workers. It advocates merit by screening incompetence, with a two year reexamination cycle and potential replacements to improve efficiency. The Census and Geological Survey plan mine data collection by mailed questionnaires to speed reporting.
A garbled transcript from a New York Weekly item mixes misheard reform rhetoric with a court appearance. It touches on marriage proposals to refugees, school demonstrations, and a judge questioning a defendant about vagrancy while amid scattered societal commentary and distorted dialogue.
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