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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1915
Page
3
Four to ten dollar hat values advertised as the best and most legitimate bargains in a bold sales pitch. The notice emphasizes $4.00 $5.00 $6.50 $7.50 $10.00 values as available now. The promotional style mirrors a period newspaper ad touting strong value.
Charleston reports the supreme court of appeals schedules its next term starting September 1 with hearings by circuit across a sequence of dates. Original jurisdiction cases open September 1, then September 7 for tenth circuit, September 14 for second circuit, September 28 for eighth ninth nineteenth, October 5 for fourteenth and fifteenth, October 12 for twelfth sixteenth eighteenth, October 19 for twentieth twenty second, October 28 for thirteenth, November 2 for twenty third, November 9 for twenty first and third, and November 14 for fifth sixth seventh circuits.
Five Montenegrins including three commissioners and a former foreign affairs aide implicated by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to undermine the U S neutrality laws. Henry Schmulbach, retired billionaire brewer, is critically ill at his Wheeling home with only a slim chance of recovery per Dr John B Marschner.
Miss Ollie B. Garnes a noted contralto from Columbus Ohio will be assisted by a male quartet and sing at the Pride A M E church Friday evening. She is highly recommended by musical critics of her home state.
The Clarksburg Council No. 23 United Federation of Travelers schedules a big outing at Norwood Park on Saturday, July 17. Activities start at 2:00 pm with a girls potato race, boys 50 yard dash, then races for older boys, an egg race for women, a 3:19 baseball game, and a communal basket meal. Prizes include chocolates, a pocket knife, Waldo shoes, silk hose, and fine cigars. A group picture will be taken by W. Amon for the Sample Case.
The grand jury at Princeton returns fraud advertising indictments against United States Woolen Mills Company and its Bluefield store manager over a Palm Beach suit giveaway offer for 15 dollars. William S Nutter of Goodall Worsted testified. The case marks the first in the state under the new fraudulent advertising statute, with note that United States Woolen Mills is distinct from United Woolen Mills Company of Parkersburg.
Judge James W Robinson has called a special term to decide the case of Cecil Morris 18 who violated parole after being convicted of breaking into G L Swentzel's Bristol store and sentenced to two years Morris was paroled to the Stout farm but returned to jail and then Bristol prompting renewed action likely to reimprison him under the state parole law first used in the term.
MORGANTOWN July 9 A mystery unsolved is the disappearance of Edwin S Brown a wealthy lumberman from near Reedsville Preston county He left his home June 23 and was last heard from in a June 25 letter stating he was tired of home and family should not expect him back He is feared to have taken his life He is linked to a prominent Preston county family as brother in law to Mrs W M O Dawson Charleston wife of ex Governor Dawson He leaves a wife nine children four sisters and five brothers A reward has been offered for any trace.
Mrs. Jarrell and her daughter Lydia traveled from Charleston to the state penitentiary at Moundsville to comfort Matt Jarrell, who faced execution that evening for the murder of Silas Nance, an Hikdale officer. Jarrell sought clemency from Governor Hatfield after an earlier audience and petition.
Seventeen people died and about fifty were injured when a special trolley car on the Queenston Heights slope derailed while racing to catch a steamer for Toronto. The car plunged fifteen feet, struck trees, and nearly broke in two. Nine bodies were taken to Toronto morgues, eight to nearby morgues, all residents of Toronto.
Arrangements are complete for the twenty first annual meeting of the West Virginia Funeral Directors Association set for July 13 14 and 18 in Permesting Head Panera at the Hotel Windsor.
New York July 9 Dow Jones reports the White Star Adriatic has docked safely at Liverpool around 2 o clock in the afternoon. Guardian qualifications stated Charles L. Watkins named guardian of Mary C Horner infant daughter of Rayn M Hornor, with Clare A Watkins as surety.
On July 9 in Berlin the American ambassador James W. Gerard conferred with Dr Alfred Zimmerman the under secretary of foreign affairs on Germanys reply to the American note concerning the Lusitania incident. The talks aimed at further discussion of German tentative proposals from an American viewpoint.
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