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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1915
Page
11
A quirky item notes Chaplin’s comic capers as a feature in a job listing or entertainment snippet. The brief mentions playful scenes and a possible collaboration or showcase, reflecting a lighthearted public interest piece about Chaplin’s activities and appearances.
Several listings describe furnished rooms in Clarksburg and nearby towns offering light housekeeping, bath access, phone use, and reasonable rents. Locations include West Pike Street, Second Street, and Maple areas with various tenancies, porches, and updated interiors. Also notes several houses and flats for rent, some with modern amenities and front porches, in nearby streets and towns.
A collage of assorted sale notices lists medicines like Gribbiths Roots and Herbs and liver tonics, a 1915 Buick C-37 for half price, home loan offers with repayment plans, early moving picture equipment, a Whitney piano, Jersey cows at auction, a Cadillac touring car overhaul, a route of round baling machines, Buckhannon River sand for sale, two generators, storefront frontage, and other miscellaneous items from Telegram office classifieds.
Ad offers two 50 by 200 foot lots with good condition, promising a bargain sale this week. Nearby street and Summer School note appear, with pupil interest in summer ware and copy.
A West Virginia stockholders meeting authorizes sale of the Spaniah American Casino property in Grassells via resolution. Proceeds plus remaining assets will be distributed to stockholders after settling debts, with bank checks to be used by stockholders within ten days after July 20, 1975.
A local warning urges residents of Clarksburg to stop littering alleys and sidewalks. Officers may escort violators to police headquarters and impose fines. The notice cites pervasive trash from lawns and warns against leaving refuse at home or in doorways.
The fragment mentions a Chicago event and a 600 mile context with racing and honors, noting a husband linked to a victory and his wife in a related matter. Details are unclear due to OCR corruption but imply a sporting or racing result with first honors awarded in a "Van darbilt cup race" associated with Restaland.
Four room finished cottage on a large 50 by 185 foot lot with slate covered exterior. Investigate price is 1650 dollars cash with balance options of one, two or three years. Principal features include a stone or slate facade and spacious lot suitable for development. May appeal to buyers seeking affordable early 20th century housing with flexible terms.
New cottage listings on Stealey Heights Avenue offer five rooms and a bath with oak finish and cabinet mantels on a good lot, price 1890. Dodge Court cottage features five rooms and a bath with a similar finish, price 1600 with 500 down and easy payments.
Fragmented OCR text references cotton mills in the United States and Britain, noting production scales over several years and mentions of Yorkshire miners and British/Eastern regions. The passage is garbled and lacks coherent events or dates to form a precise summary.
A brief notice lists Second Hand Furprices operating in Clarksburg, West Virginia, with services including repairing and storage offerings. The fragmented OCR text references a person or entity named W. Bibs and a second entity or location at Craton with AER noted, suggesting a local business advertisement or notice for fur prices and storage options.
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