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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1908
Page
2
Patrons praise Baker’s cash buying power and years of experience as the secret to a great sale. Manufacturers and jobbers rely on showing goods to move large lots, with Baker’s store always crowded while others are empty.
An advertisement touts Dr Bhoop's Restorative as a summer tonic to lift nerves and mood, claiming rapid 4% hour improvement and renewed appetite, digestion, and kidney and heart strength by reviving worn nerves, urging daily use for noticeable results.
An insurance pitch advertises salary protection for sickness and accidents with monthly cost of one dollar. It details indemnity of 50 per month for accidents and 50 per month for sickness for up to 36 weeks, plus 26 weeks partial sickness indemnity and 62 weeks disability, with contact for Charles Worcester in Clarksburg West Virginia.
An 19th century advertisement claims local applications cannot cure catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally. The text asserts catarrh is a constitutional disease and praises a tonic blood purifier combination to affect mucous surfaces. It includes a testimonial solicitation and an offer to send samples from Ghenex & Co Toledo.
A week long conclave of paymasters and dive jackets at the Brooklyn navy yard pits many chewing tobaccos against each other to select a contract for 4100 000 pounds. Samples will be unlabeled and tested for purity with judges including jack tars and navy officials.
The Blackberry Coal Company of Huntington is chartered by the secretary of state. Prohibitionists in Kanawha county plan a mass convention at Charleston on July 25 to nominate county candidates. Senator Littlepage of Kanawha remains in the gubernatorial race. A new bridge over the Kanawha River in Charleston nears completion and will open soon. A wreck at Sand Fork on the N and W claims Engineer Patrick Wyrick of Bluefield. N and W business is improving. Idle coal cars are expected to be in service within months. W G Matthews of Charleston files expenses for supreme court bid at 1.24. Charles Brown, accused of assaulting Mabel Combs at Parkersburg, to be tried this week with guards to prevent mob action.
The post office announces salary increases for clerks and carriers in West Virginia. In Clarksburg two clerks and one carrier rise to 600 to 800 dollars, four clerks 800 to 900, two clerks and six carriers 900 to 1000, two clerks 1000 to 1100. Grafton lists one clerk 600 to 800, one clerk 800 to 900, six carriers 900 to 1600. Morgantown shows one clerk 600 to 800, one clerk 800 to 900, one clerk and six carriers 900 to 1000.
Deeds recorded show J M Waggoner transferring 26 acres on Jesses Run in Grant district to F Randolph and 18 acres to Lloyd Stonj. M A C Hollen deeds one jot to M Stewart in Craigmoor. Sarah M Garrett conveys to Okey Kennedy one lot in the city. Charles G Reynolds transfers to R L Barnes's estate one lot in the city. E W Johnson sells two city lots to Milton W Bean, who then conveys two city lots to Clara John Jr.
A Polish miner leaving the Monon gah mine touched a live wire and was badly burned while holding an auger bit. He believed a passing driver struck him with coal and pursued the driver for several hundred feet after recovering from the shock.
A large TS-pound turtle was captured during a camping trip by the Muddy Ducks Camping Club. Members Bat Campbell Charles Hudson Harry Zafoot and D K Stiller transported the reptile to an exhibition at the Tana hotel in Indn trial.
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