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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1907
Page
2
The passage recalls a banquet with a rude repast and a "quaking custard" served amid peckish revelry. Citizens eat heartily and even bring portions home, while women demand costly luxuries such as cherries, peas, and small game at high prices, in a vivid glimpse of culinary and social excess.
From eighteenth and nineteenth century notes on Scotland's industry and social life, stories recount indentured pit workers bound by law, the 1775 act freeing many but slavery fading only by century's end. Also included are curious vignettes from hunting, biblical auto mobile hints, pipe smoking tips, the Washington Monument, animal sounds, and stray quips on success and youth.
Henry Dixey presents The Man on the Box at the Grand opera house with Walter N. Lawrence directing a strong company. The NY cast includes Marie Nordstrom Sydney Booth Fred Peters Chester Beecroft Pauline Hudson and others. Pitt Patt Pout and Pitt Pam Pout are musical pieces featured with a star cast.
A rumor circulated Tuesday claiming Miss Purnell was absent from the Kathryn Purnell company at the Grand Opera house. Mik Purnell appeared in the leading role and will continue the rest of the week while Miss Purnell rests at her hotel.
O D Junkins, formerly with the Maderta Will Clark Coal Company and linked with other interests in this region, has accepted the head bookkeeper post at Cascade Coal and Coke Company in Bookans Washington. The Cascade firm is described as one of the coast’s largest coal producers and will benefit from Junkins extensive coal experience.
Caele Josh Spraceby presents a one night engagement at the Grand on Monday June 21. A big street parade with a big band in rustic and military costumes will march at noon, followed by a concert that promises novelty and crowd drawing appeal. Hack man, the press agent, touts the act as unique and attention grabbing.
Telegraphic tips report Jeremiah Mulcahy killed and conductor R M Cousins and brake man T C Shaw fatally injured in a rear end freight collision on the Nickel Plate near Bushell. All victims from Conneaut Ohio. Brooklyn era brief.
Fragments describe an Acme Collecting Agency notice at 110 South Third Street and a Roberts Hardware Company plumbing service. Also mentions unrelated lines about readings and stars and witce. Content is garbled with errors and appears as stray ad fragments.
A collage of misread excerpts recounts dogs, patience, a surgeon tale, an insurance joke, opera bites, Nasreddin stories, and a playful debate on gender roles. The jumbled OCR yields scattered names, places, and fragments without a clear single event or focus.
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