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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1908
Page
3
A vintage health advert promotes Dr Kiliner's Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney trouble and related symptoms. It touts rapid relief from dribbling, backache, and fatigue, claims universal benefit, and urges readers to mail for a sample bottle and order information despite its dubious medical tone.
Clarksburg Transfer Co advertises padded vans and experienced packers for household goods and heavy machinery, with two local phones listed. A separate note touts a new coffee imitation called Health Colton by Big Shoop of Racine Wisconsin, claimed to be made from toasted cereals and lacks real coffee.
The Home Bank shares of Clarkeburg West Virginia will hold its annual meeting in its banking rooms on Tuesday January 1808 at 11 o'clock a.m. Directors for the ensuing year are to be elected.
Notice states the Meng tore owned by Don Wilson and Charles Amos, partners, has been sold by the Glen Wik Deng Co. All persons owing goods to the firm will arrange settlements to meet their accounts by June. Don Wilson signs. Also mentions Dr Biwon and Dr Shoop remedies in broken ad copy form.
Greenlawn Cemetery is described as well kept and near the city with perpetual care for all plots. For more information call 530 W. Mann street. The notice references the cemetery and Home phone numbers.
Anpaad meeting of the bank directors to be held at 10 Wetock A.W. Tammany on 14 WK at the Yanking Hones Sewer Mali agd Thin streets W. 1. DAWIA Canuter. Contain details unclear due to OCR errors but notes a governance gathering and proposed actions.
A sprawling, fragmentary reminiscence on Sunday rest laws in Woado Boise Tahoe. The piece juxtaposes theater exhibitions, church influence, money, and social behavior with disjointed musings, political voices, and scattered local details, including a 1907 postmaster money orders tally.
A marriage license was issued in New York today to Atise Glaiys Moore Vanserbilt and Count Szochonyi of Hungary. The unusual names and title suggest a high society pairing, with the formal record noting the issuance on January 11.
Anthony Comstock, longtime agent of the Society for the Suppression of Vice in New York, pursued evidence related to the Stanford White case. He hoped to prove White lured young women to the twenty fourth street resort and Hudson River towers, aiming to indict White before a grand jury, but lacked sufficient corroboration.
An American narrator reveals how two Englishmen and the Princess sparked a deadly web in a fog shrouded manor. He identifies the murdered man as Lord Chetney, son of African explorer the Earl of Chetney, and describes a frantic escape through drifting mist ending with police intervention.
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