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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1913
Page
4
The item argues Senator Goff as ideal for president, praising his bench tenure and nationwide recognition. It notes West Virginia pride and shifting nomination norms, with linkage to Martine critique and Greenbrier Independent’s view, urging support for Goff as a unifying national candidate.
A scrambled bundle of quotes and notes from Huntington to Parkersburg and beyond discusses political figures and events. It references Senator Goff, Congressman Davis, Governor Hatfield, and President Wilson with speculative turns on 1916 presidential prospects and local wartime sentiments. The text mixes clippings from Huntington Herald Dispatch and other papers, noting Gettysburg celebrations and party loyalties in Preston county.
Wetzel County items report the sale of coal and mining properties to the Pittsburg and Fairmont Fuel Company for 1.5 million dollars. Updates cover executives moving to Idaho, the rise of a local oil well, county property assessments at 11.4 million, and various local actions including school salaries, a bank bid, a highway obstruction arrest, and marriages.
W H Lester, a merchant, was fined 15 dollars and costs this morning for burning a pile of rubbish near his store on West Pike street. Four men were convicted of street drunkenness, fined 3 dollars and costs each. One paid and was released. the others, in default, were sentenced to work in the city’s cleanup crusade. City clerk Finly presided as acting mayor in Mayor Cole’s absence at the annual DIks convention in Rochester, N C.
On sale silk gloves listed at 79 per pair with extra features such as six button length and double finger tips. White belts of white kid leather offered in various styles and sizes, buckles covered. prices at 25c and 150c. Also silk boot hose 50c with full fashion and color options including black white navy pink gray tan.
An old advice note on summer home comfort suggests screening doors and windows, shading sunny sides, opening windows for air, darkening rooms, keeping ice and summer foods, and having bottled water. It urges reading THE DAILY TELEGRAM ads for ideas on devices and sources.
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