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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1908
Page
6
Fragmented OCR text reports a death involving Attorney Thomas Rumane's mother with mentions of a Sunday evening incident and a person named Motchy Evering Me Barnasyo. Details are unclear but suggest an inquest or investigation into a sudden death.
An advertisement argues that aging skin and hair loss reduce employability. It claims dandruff signals a burrowing germ harming hair roots, and promotes Newbro's Herpicide as a cure and hair dressing. Sold by druggists with samples available from The Herpicide Co Detroit Michigan. price two 3-cent stamps and $1.00. Wells & Haymaker, Special Agents.
C L Hickman architect and builder offers plans specifications and contracts for all kinds of buildings. Forty years experience with satisfaction guaranteed. Available for work in any part of the country.
Petition excerpts circulated for city council meeting in Clarkaburg West Virginia protest Clarkaburg Gas and Electric Company franchise. Arguments include a 50 year term, high rate limits, yearly options, and price concerns for natural gas versus artificial gas.
About 200 blowers and gatherers met in Kaut Feld Hall to demand work and prompt benefits from Faulkner’s group. They appointed a four person committee to seek an audience with President William Shinn and press for jobs, warning of potential labor conflicts and union enrollments.
The shortest month February will have five Saturdays this leap year. Laborers gain five pay days and unmarried women have five Saturdays to propose. The article notes the rare occurrence may puzzle students to solve and wonders when it will recur.
Col. Carleton C. Pierce travels to Boston for the Inter-State Nations Guard Association session running through the 15th. The focus is boosting state guard efficiency and planning legislation to present at the national congress.
A Washington birthday celebration in Wheeling on February 22 invites celebrity attendees from across the country. Notables listed include Col. Frank Posty of Evansville Indiana Governor Robert P. Glens of North Carolina and Congressman Joseph H Gaines of West Virginia. The event promises an elaborate program with broad participation.
Fragmentary notice shows a local shop offering packaged goods and fresh fish at Smithy's on Fourth Street. Mentions pies and meats with garbled phrases about prices and orders. The readable pieces indicate a small-town grocery or market listing with unclear product details.
The annual meeting of Home Bank for Sayles in Clarksburg West Virginia is set for Tuesday January 28 1908 at 11 oclock am in its baking room to elect directors for the ensuing year. James T Drudy is cashier. Also ads promote DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills and Deans Ointment for eruptions and skin complaints with prices listed.
A column promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as a cure to prevent pneumonia and lung damage from colds. It urges rejecting imitations and endorses the genuine yellow package from Sturm & Wilson.
C O Eldridge of Em pire Ga lauds Dr King’s New Discovery as the best remedy for coughs colds croup and throat and lung troubles. He claims it cured his family for seven years and praises its quick action for croup and throat ailments. Sold by Frank G Bland with trial bottle free.
A faded ad notes a nighttime remedy for coughs and colds. It emphasizes a yellow package and Sturm & Wilson as the seller and implies the product cures ailments, urging readers not to risk health with inferior fakes.
A simple home remedy sold by T. F. Burke gains growing use for children during colds croup and whooping cough. Advertisements claim rapid relief from cramps fever and poison symptoms with gentle sweating and cleansing effects.
An old advertisement touts Kobol as the best remedy for stomach disorders including dvanepes and maleestion. It claims pleasant prompt relief and states the product is sold by all druggists.
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