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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1914
Page
3
Bevin area real estate listings present options for buyers seeking homes or vacant lots. Potential buyers are urged to review available properties and compare prices and locations to fit their needs.
Milford Street offers a four bedroom home featuring finished rooms, a large jet fronting 40 feet on the paved street and extending back to the rear. Includes cabinet mantels, Geletiic gas fixtures, and modern touches. A rare bargain for buyers seeking value. interested parties may call for details.
A well built house described as a good buy for the money. Listed at 6000 dollars with terms. Located in Highland Park with a rear alley access and a well valued property for prospective buyers.
A readable line notes a property on Hornor Avenue near Seventh Street offered for 2400 dollars. The deal requests one third cash with terms unspecified. The listing mentions options such as cue and bro and three yours in unclear phrasing.
Now for a largot and fairly good house on South Chestnut Street. Lot measures 66 by 125 feet and includes the Toom house, a water well, first trees, and a grape arbor. Worth the money, buy this one. One-half wish, one and two years.
An advertisement urges readers to obtain a pocket size Prohibition amendment copy for self reading and trust in the Daily Telegram office run by A F Gombs. The notice notes three rental houses in Clarksburg with at least two slated for Telegram classifieds.
Ella Fist Young is ousted from the Chicago school superintendency after her vote. Mayor Carter Harrison asks Charles C. Sethness to resign from the board of education and names Mrs Seth Resor to fill the vacancy. Mrs Sethness is a strong supporter of Young.
Construction began Monday on a new fire department sub-station in the East End. The building, 45 by 25 feet, one story, on Linden Avenue between the Baltimore and Ohio railroad yards and Pike Street, will house five men and transfer the hose and wagon from the central station. An aerial truck will replace the current combination wagon at the central station. Completion is targeted for early August with L. L. Whyte supervising as foreman and carpenter.
In Grisons Switzerland on July 11 the canton marked the 1300th anniversary of St Sigisbert founding a Benedictine abbey. An Irish missionary, he began his work in 614 converting Alpine hunters. The abbey is reputedly the oldest in the world aside from a Roman one.
Senator Smith of Michigan introduced a resolution for an investigation into published correspondence about the Mexican embroilment. It alleges agents of the president aided rebels against the Mexican government to help evade U S orders banning shipment of arms and munitions into Mexico.
Sir Edward Carson addressed a large Orange demonstration in Drumberg Ireland, pledging Ulster loyalty and warning the British government that Ulster would reject any government but Ulster’s provisional authority if pushed. He claimed authority to act regardless of consequences and urged supporters to stand firm with divine support.
Freeport New York July 14 detectives on foot and by car followed a cold trail of the revolver used to shoot Mrs Lowise Batley on June 20. Dr Edwin Carman claims he followed the same path the day after the murder as Mrs Carman prepared for a Brandt Jury ordeal to testify, waiving immunity before the jury room, per District Attorney Smith.
Washington July 14 The funeral for Supreme Court Justice Lurton will not include ceremonies in Washington due to a route change for the funeral party from Atlantic City to Clarksville Tennessee. Tennessee members of Congress are pushing Attorney General McReynolds as successor, with Solicitor General John W Davis also mentioned.
Chicago on July 14 introduced sex separation at a city beach. A water fence restricted women’s area while police guarded the line to prevent men crossing. Husbands protested as officials cited complaints of male annoyance as the reason for the innovation.
Charles Wagner offered Mrs. Thornton a choice between slow poison or shooting. She drank poison and died yesterday after Wagner, who pursued her, killed himself. Wagner lay dead in a hospital from the same act.
Miss Misa Eather Cohen, a cashier from a wholesale grocery, was robbed of a satchel containing about $8,000 as she walked to her basket on a city street. A man watched her, then vanished into a hallway, leaving the scene in St. Louis on Monday.
In Connellsville Pennsylvania on July 14 Mrs Gilva Enos died in a heat related incident. The report notes extreme temperatures and a deadly heat condition affecting residents. The brief item identifies the victim and location with minimal additional detail.
Jarrett M Alstock will administer the estate of Ellen Stewart under bond of 500 dollars. Appraisers named are John Smith Seymour Tyson and Howard Morris.
The sheriff's annual settlement with the county court began Monday morning and will occupy the court through this week and part of next week.
A July 14 Detroit blaze destroyed a five story brick building housing Chope-Stev eng Paper Co and several smaller firms. Loss estimated at 200000 dollars after a lightning strike started the fire. Several firemen were trapped by a falling wall but none seriously hurt.
At Grafton on July 14 officials of the Baltimore and Ohio say Sunday heat caused the derailment of eastbound express No. 3 near Parkersburg. Rail expansion threw engine and two cars from the track with the crew escaping unharmed.
The Republican Committee of the First District of West Virginia calls a convention in Fairmont on Friday July 31, 1914 at 1 10 PM to nominate candidates for Congress. Representation is one delegate per 650 votes for Roosevelt and Taft in 1912, plus one for any excess over that quota. County committees must forward delegates to Wheeling for the reelection effort.
Mrs Melville Davisson, Post, Dr Sidney Post and John H Dubois Jr leave on Pittsburg train for Dubois Pa then motor to Atlantic City and back for two weeks. A patient at a local hospital will have surgical operation with hopes for speedy recovery. Mrs Lowther in hospital. Catherine Renz underwent a misc operation and is recovering. Benz suffers bone tuberculosis after second operation in two months.
The court named Lucil Tolinio administrator of the estate of WG DeRengo with bond. B F Horner and H J Stout acted as appraisers, and the state proceedings included licenses issued to Fred Delcapple and Marin Tanjes Wa Kirby, plus Cole Lacey Burkhammer and Sop Ko on.
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