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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1915
Page
20
Palm Beach style suits prized for summer wear with sharp tailoring. Fletcher’s advertises prices at five fifty and ten dollars, promoting savings on stylish reinings in the season.
A farmer visited Washington and presented quartz pebbles he believed were diamonds. The geologist proved they were quartz with high clarity stones, a test showing the deception. The man left disillusioned, having spent money planning a family purchase from imagined wealth. The tale reflects common delusions about gem value.
A museum tests ores for radium using a two-box apparatus while private collectors flood in with specimens. Amid feverish wartime interest, many stones prove to be fool's gold or fake relics, with Panama Canal zone finds and Grave Creek stone debates illustrating widespread deceit and curiosity.
A museum received objects claimed as opal treasurers resembling tart portions that prompted the archzoological chief to send them to a lab for verification. The blowpipe test exposed the items as brever imitations of genuine grass artifacts. Authorities say many fake SS treasures were planted nationwide in the late 1890s, with some recovered or sold, and others kept in museums as warnings to private collectors, including tablets, ancient jewelry, axes, hammers, and knives.
The Mount Clare children’s day service under the Methodist Episcopal Sunday school drew a crowded house with flawless performances and a specially prepared choir interlude. A pantomime and a violin and piano duet left a deep impression as the event closed with the song Abide with Me.
Property includes 54 acres of good land 13 miles to tar val road and street car line seven miles from ark sburg. Apple and small fruit trees totaling 300. Seven room frame dwelling with slate roof insured for 1800. Free gas while land leased for oil and gas 8 to 10 acres of coal to be included in sale.
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