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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1908
Page
2
The Telegram announces 4s readers can obtain paper patterns from exclusive New York designs. Price is 10o for each pallet, available for mail or in person.
Fragmentary OCR item lists a street and city state with incomplete details. No clear event or person identified. material appears as part of an address line from a longer notice or obituary.
Ellen Stan outlines a launderable skirt and waist pattern with a wide fabric range including stripes checks and plaids. It notes fabrics like veilings taffeta poplins and mohair feel and offers a pattern in eight sizes with yardage details and a 19 cent mail request for pattern number 2027.
Letter from M L Buckwheat Jackson of Preston County explains he is not tied to Fairmont and would manage Clarksburg if terms are agreed. He rejects being forced by Fairmont officials and expresses willingness to serve Clarksburg fans if offered the position.
Senator Sam B. Montgomery introduced Senate Bill No. 20 to amend section 24 of chapter 26, 1905, to deem houses clubs and other places that store sell or give away intoxicating liquors as common nuisances. Courts may enjoin abatement without proof of unlawful use at hearing, with licenses revoked and sales barred for one to three years. Prohibition sentiment cited as driving this measure in West Virginia.
Sale advertisement for a room house with water gas bath cellar and price 51,950 with monthly rent 20. Offers listed at 127 Jackson street. Includes note of urgency and sale terms from the seller.
A colored woman of note in Clarksburg, Ellen B. Dixon born June 18, 1818, lies buried in Charleston. Reverends Jenkins Hopkins Murray lead the funeral. she helped birth Methodist schooling and Freewill Baptist church in the valley and aided teachers postwar, admired by white and Black residents alike. Her influence touched Storer College and local government schools, testified by Prof N Brackett and Dr Hopkins. White friends in Clarksburg recall her kindness and leadership.
Our Girls and Boys 8 O Clock Club invites readers to submit club buttons free of charge. Send entries or requests to The Telegram office by Thursday evening. winners announced Saturday. Today’s puzzle features a word building contest with prizes including a baseball mask and fur topped bedroom slippers.
A scanned puzzle notice lists names and addresses for a prize drawing. Entries include John Stuart city addresses 409 Duf street Candas Queen 223 S Third St Emily Taylor 258 Wilson St Eilna Crane 658 Locust St Wm Johnston 4408 Chestnut St J Raymond Coughlin Lamberport Mabel McCune 142 Harrison St Estella Lynch Buckhannon and Ruth A McConnell with prize details and number 194.
Rules explain puzzle entries and coupon collection. Write name and address on coupons, mail by Thursday, send latest Saturday date, and earn Credit Coupons redeemable for articles.
McVille D Post writes for Pearson and in Tele stuary issue presents An Adventure Of St. Vaten tine's Night. Post's fiction grows more fascinating monthly with bright humor and modern tone, likely to entertain readers across Clarkstare and West Virginia where he is well known.
Fragmentary verse scene where a night prayer motif unfolds. Phrases invoke laying down to sleep, shadows, dew on a bough, and birds bowing in slumber, conveying a quiet nocturnal mood.
Five Lewsburg residents form The Silivans Oil and Gas Company of West Virginia which is chartered. The hub of the new firm will be located in Greenbrier county with main works at Stone and Cathown counties. Authorized capital stock 4236,000 with 1,000 subscribed and $390 paid. The incorporators are R. Triford, W. M. BN, George W. Keller, FR. M. Beil epi, J. M. Auntin, all of Lewisburg.
A garbled column of aphorisms and jokes on marriage, money, umbrellas, weather and humor. It mixes quips about married men, honesty, mirrors, and a river’s mouth with stray phrases about ducks, crops, and planers. Odd, fragmented and era-tinged musings appear without clear narrative.
A fragmented OCR item shows garbled phrases with references to a modern Jackie and Little Jack Horner. The text appears to mix lines about hiding a corner and a smoker with stray phrases about a mother’s gaze and a public reaction, lacking coherent facts. No clear entities or events emerge.
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