This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 18 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1907
Page
7
OCR reads room numbers and business names including Clarksburg Telegram Co and Fairmont Coal Co with doctor and lawyer references. scattered addresses create an incomplete listing of local firms and professionals on multiple floors and rooms.
Ellen defies Meadville norms seeking art education and independence while Elton Maxwell proposes a practical path. A town’s moral pressures and family hopes collide as Ellen faces marriage, career, and identity in Meadville.
A company promoter tells his youngest son he’ll award five abilIings for preparing ground for a future garden. The boy asks for 25 percent of the tract price in advance as working capital and suggests burying a penny to spark neighborhood digging. The tale ends with the father’s hopeful tears at the boy’s future prospects.
The text discusses heart weight differences between birds and humans, noting heavier hearts in birds relative to body work. It mentions how increased activity raises heart demands, blood flow duties, and hints at rapid movement. It also references birds carrying heavy loads midflight and express train speeds context.
The text discusses how heart rate changes with rest, activity, and temperature, noting that pulse quickens with exertion and certain substances. It emphasizes the pulse as a key indicator of feverish conditions and the value of temperature measurement alongside pulse readings for disease detection.
A compact study traces how English weekday names derive from ancient deities and planets, noting Sunday’s gold and yellow gems, Moon day’s pearly stones, Tuesday’s Mars, Wednesday’s Jove, Thursday’s Thor, Friday’s Venus, and Saturday’s Saturn associations, with a segue into river-town lore and a series of brief, era-flavored vignettes from newspapers.
The fragment discusses the lotus fruit myth linked to the Orient and Arab traders, noting the belief that the plant grows where greed and danger rise. It mentions Tennyson’s poem The Lotus Eaters and compares the lotus to Central Africa species found by Mungo Park, whose dried berries could be eaten as bread.
A fragmented excerpt quotes historical wages and meal costs, noting a six person turkey dinner at 17 cents and a total America discovery price of 7200 dollars. It contemplates era salaries from John Knox to Edward IV, then shifts to short anecdotes about animal friendships and a humorous tale of a butcher’s dime missing from a child’s steak fund. The piece blends curiosity, prices, and whimsical human and animal moments.
An ad promotes Preventics cold cure tablets to head off colds and grippe, claiming use can prevent pneumonia or bronchitis. Sold by dealers, 8 and 25 cent sizes, with catchy lines about stopping symptoms and pleasing customers. Activ Collecting Agency at 110 South Third Street handles prompt collections.
The Acme Collecting Agency will collect your mccounts promptly and turn your money over quickly. Located at 110 South 27th Street.
A local debt collection notice from Acme Collecting Agency asks the account holder to present a prompt re payment and offers a small percent. The notice references 110 South Third Street as the contact location for settlement.
A playful mock ad lists Kennedy laxative cough syrup as the best winter remedy. It features characters Wille Winkie Wintry Witlie Winnie and Wistom whispering about cold winds. The piece notes the product is sold by Stone and Merorr in a contrived humorous fashion.
We offer reduced clubbing rates on United States publications with high commissions for agents. Readers are invited to request sample copies of Tam Waexiy Engunxy and consider winter agency work. Offers include a subscription bundle valued at $5.00 for $2.00 and a daily paper plus weeklies and monthlies for $1.76.
An advertisement touts Dr Shoop's Croup Cure as a pleasant safe syrup that stops croup within twenty minutes with no vomiting and distresses. It emphasizes the product treats only croup and is sold by all dealers.
An old advertisement touts Dr Shoop's Magic Ointment for piles claiming rapid relief from itching burning and bleeding. It promises certainty and lasting ease and urges readers to try it and buy from dealers.
An advertising claim presents KODOL as prompt efficient relief after four toals. It markets Kodol as bearing to the gestive roles and digesting what you pet. Sold by Stune and Mercer as an id ne guaranteed relief plan.
A fragmentary health coffee promotion mentions a clever blend of cereals and coffee flavors. The text touts a beverage labeled Health Coffee and references Dr Shope Health Coffee, with unclear phrasing about taste and compatibility with java.
Fragmentary OCR text suggests a local junk dealer in Clarksburg offering second hand items for trade or sale. The note mentions clothing or rope and references an address or store line with unclear numbers. No clear people, organizations, dates, or concrete items are legible.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.