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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1908
Page
3
The 8 O'clock Club in Clarksburg offers prizes including a doll furniture set, an engine and train set, and matinee tickets. Entries must reach The Telegram by Thursday. winners announced the following Saturday.
A list of names and addresses appears as winners from last week’s puzzle event. Entries include Boma Evans Box 68 Lost Creek Paul Thorn 649 Mulberry Street Plarkshoro and others such as Genevieve Skidmore Katherine Devine Winnie Hudking Olen Lewis and Beren Shuttleworth with various street addresses.
A plan outlines printing church aid cards at no cost. Cards would share church needs and information with a church picture for a souvenir. The cards would be distributed and returned with a Telegram subscription, with a percentage of the amount directed to the church fund.
A mixed fragment from a historical page presents verses titled A Boy's Song by Tammes Hogg and a short reflection on a mother spanking a child. The text includes lines about rivers, hay fields, and playful dolore, then shifts to thoughts of punishment, funeral imagery, and a child's view of Christmas. The pieces read like a collected crop of poems and personal reflections from a bygone era.
A short prayer fragment expresses gratitude for safety through the night and requests guidance for the day. It includes a grace before meals reflecting on meat availability and thanks the Lord. The text attributes the piece to Hubert Burns and notes a prize for pin holes with Virginia McCune at 142 Harrison St. Number 4 271.
A cryptic OCR fragment hints at a subscription year related to Saccom Magselne titled the greatest musder. The readable text is incomplete and lacks clear dates or actions.
The notice lists multiple church services across denominations. Rev L W Bowden preaches morning and evening at Monongah. First Baptist on West Pike offers Sunday school at 9:30, preaching by Dr B D Stelle at 10:48, junior union at 3, prayer at 6:30, and evening sermon. Goff Methodist Episcopal holds classes at 9, Sunday school at 9:45, sermon at 10:45, Epworth League, and evening services. St Paul’s M E, Episcopal, and other churches schedule morning and evening worships, Sunday school, prayer meetings, and revival services led by various pastors. invitations extended to locals and strangers.
A garbled note mentions A. M. Zummes of Lewellen and an odd claim about a cure or product. It references electric bitter and a 58 cent bott le, with unclear effects described as breaking up something and a yellow substance.
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