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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1914
Page
3
A GE real estate listing invites potential buyers to inspect available properties and consider investment opportunities. The notice emphasizes reviewing the current catalog and options before making a purchase.
Seven room house on Milford Street with pantry basement double tack porch wide front porch finished hardwood with cabinet mantel and chandeliers. Lot 0x112 feet. street in rear. Plenty of room for garage. Don’t delay act now cash balance on time.
Nic level lot fronting 52 feet on Park Boulevard and extending back 120 feet to alley in rear. PRICE 2350 Part cash.
An ad fragment notes a sale with price references of 1850 and 2600 dollars. It mentions a small cash payment and a balance due, with wording that is unclear about dates or parties involved. The text preserves broken phrasing and partial figures from the original item.
An appealing prenatal tonic extols the external embrocation Mother’s Friend to ease labor pains and nerve tension. Claimed to lubricate muscles and reduce strain on cords, the remedy is said to be trusted by generations and widely recommended by mothers. Available from Bindfield Regulator Co with a request for a fathers’ guide.
An aged testimonial extols Cardui the woman’s tonic from Chauncey Medicine Co. promising relief from years of womanly and stomach ailments. The speaker claims rapid improvement after six doses and urges other women to try Cardui, noting its long history and broad usage.
White Seal Toilet Paper touts superiority from strong jute stock and silky finish. The copy emphasizes durability and smooth texture as selling points for the product.
An important meeting of the parade committee convenes at 8 o'clock Tugaday evening in the upstairs lobby of the Hotel Gore. A mammoth street pageant is planned as a major feature. Those interested or able to help are urged to attend. Claude W. Gore chairs.
On the Grafton pike Sunday afternoon J O Coffee’s car overturned at high speed. Miss Josephine Layman sustained the most serious injuries including a broken arm. another occupant was bruised but not seriously hurt. All received hospital care at Mineral and, aside from Miss Layman, were later discharged home.
Joan Simmons a fireman was killed and Sam Bryant an engineer seriously injured in a collision between the Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad train known as the Carolina Special and two freight cars near Somerset Kentucky. All three engines were demolished and four coaches overturned.
Five women identified as Annie Smitth Ethel Franklin Ada Coleman Fannie Burwell and Allen Hinton were escorted from the city by Chief Brooks on Monday. They claimed to be from Parkarabirg and were bound for Hellsire Ohio. The chief confronted them on Fourth and Pike after dusk and, finding them loitering, ordered them to move on or face a magistrate. They chose to leave.
A coroner's jury empaneled by Colinty Coroner Frank A. Lloyd investigates the death of John H. Sheets, 45, who fell from a third story window at Cook's hospital Sunday morning. Sheets, delirious and restrained, was not closely watched as the window remained unsecured. Autopsy performed. multiple prior hospital deaths prompt county inquiry. Sheets leaves a wife and three children. body taken to Cadiz for burial.
Several U S senators consider introducing resolutions for investigations into the life of a Senate letter paper linked to promotion of a Gold TN mine. Names on the letter paper include OVerman NC and Chilton WV as committee chairs. A proposed resolution also probes a treasury official sent to inspect the mine property by John Skelton Williams.
A search for a Treless man reported in the West Fork river near the Adamston glass plant found no body after a noon hour inquiry. Boys swam and one reportedly stepped on something, prompting a rushed but unsuccessful coroner contact and undertaker call. In Pittsburgh, Moon Switch and Signal Co says 700 of 2200 workers are at the plant on Monday with no planned strikebreaker measures, while a Westinghouse foundry parade drew 150 additional workers.
Three men fined for drunkenness at a railroad station with one imprisoned on county roads while another paid fines and was released. A fourth man aboard a passenger train was fined and released. The report notes arrests by private detectives and includes a World newspaper item about a West Virginia University student from Wheeling earning a gold medal for military efficiency in a competition.
In Livermore Falls Maine on June 18 a mother killed her six year old son and then took her own life. Officials moved to Jay to investigate and found Mrs William Brown a Prosperous farmer's wife had shot herself through the head with a carbine after hanging the child from a hook in the ceiling. The mother had been despondent since the death of her parents a year earlier.
T F Coughlin Cecil Davin I Mi Coughlin FL Fenner and Charles Right depart Monday afternoon for Parkersburg to attend the annual Elka convention to be held Tuesday through Thursday this week.
Parkerburg June 16. Local committees met at the First Christian church to finalize plans for the upcoming Christian Endeavor state convention. Virgil Butcher of Tala city chairs the preparations and announced the outing for the last day, with a potential long trolley ride instead of the planned Blomerhassett Island steamer. The convention opens June 23 at the First Presbyterian Church with a reception and speakers from national organizers, and the junior department is a major focus with a large Palmont delegation anticipated.
The body of Stephen Tee, a former Folsom resident murdered in Tulsa on Tuesday morning, June 9, arrived for burial. Funeral services will be held at Fairview Church near Rinehart, with burial in Fairview Cemetery. Tee, survived by his widow and several siblings, died after a street confrontation with an acquaintance who shot him through the heart and head. A. Ice, a brother, accompanied the body.
Members of the commission to investigate the Empress of Treland disaster leave Montreal for Quebec by boat to discuss the inquiry scope. The wreck on May 2 on the St Lawrence River claimed more than 1 000 lives and hearings begin tomorrow.
Washington dispatch notes Third district Republicans have closed ranks behind Samuel Brashear Avis for Congress. He is praised as a well spoken, effective member with a strong record, likely to extend tenure and increase usefulness to his constituents and the nation as his service continues.
The thirty seventh annual council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in West Virginia meets in Morgantown. Delegates discuss church affairs and local parish concerns as part of the regional gathering.
President Wilson transmitted the names of Charles Hamlin T. B. Jones William P. G. Harding Paul Warburg and A C Miller to the Senate to fill Federal Reserve Board vacancies. E G Simmons reported his declination to serve on the board had been accepted but offered no reason.
The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Hermon Lodge announces a public dedication and centennial celebration to be held at the Masonic family starting 7:20 Friday evening. Events include lodge room open at 7, public dedication at 7:15, a historical sketch by A J Thorn, reminiscences by John J Davis, a address by L N Tavenner, retrenchments and dancing, with an open house.
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