Fragmentary Pricing Notation Sells Mildly
A cryptic OCR fragment lists prices such as 3.98 and 10 and 12. al with a parenthetical note 4.95 13 /50s to 16.75. The text lacks clear context, dates, or entities beyond generic price figures.
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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1909
Page
5
A cryptic OCR fragment lists prices such as 3.98 and 10 and 12. al with a parenthetical note 4.95 13 /50s to 16.75. The text lacks clear context, dates, or entities beyond generic price figures.
Misses and boys shoes featured with varieties in vici kid leather patent tops and calf styles. Sizes range from 11 to 4 for Misses, 1 to 4 for Childs and 1 to 2 for Sorosis lace shoes. Prices marked from $1.75 to $3.50 with discounts on blucher and button styles and includes hand sewn heavy leather options. Also offered are shoe care items like shoe blacking brushes at low cents.
The Shinnston town council held its regular 1909 meeting with several resignations accepted and replacements named for town offices. New appointments included C. Epens, F. H. King and Thomas Jarwelt to fill vacancies, while OC L Watkins and Willson Robinson were chosen as tax assessor and street commissioner respectively. The mayor announced a court suit against Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for damages on Bridge street, with a $300 defense fund established, and residents including Mrs. Willa Strickler and visitors were noted.
Mayor Edward J. Wood presided over city court sessions this morning. Eddle Carroll was jailed three days for drunkenness after defaulting on a $4 fine. George Shingleton paid $4 to avoid jail, plus $3 fine for drunkenness. William Hileman released after paying $2.88. John Davis jailed three days for drunkenness after defaulting on a fine.
The funeral for Mrs. Lloyd Lowery, who died at her home on Monthcally Avenue, will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at the Church of the Tamacatkte Contention, with interment at Holy Cross cemetery. The readable fragment also includes an unrelated advertisement for a children's product and mother care advice.
Notice records the 1908 stockholders meeting in Pittsburg Pennsylvania where McKelvy Oil Company resolves to discontinue its West Virginia charter and corporate franchises. Directors to convert assets to cash, pay debts, and distribute remaining funds pro rata to stockholders.
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