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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1913
Page
3
A partial building directory lists rooms and occupants on multiple floors including insurance companies coal firms medical society and law offices. An advertising paragraph at the end promotes a pest control product for bed bugs and a “Green Death” patent may help clear them.
The text recommends women living in apartments wash small clothes at home using Fels Naptha. Wet, soap, roll, soak in cool water, rub lightly, rinse and dry. It claims one fourth the time and one tenth the work of the old method and that clothes last longer.
Obscure listing cites sedentary habit and poor digestion as causes of stomach trouble. It promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a cure and notes sale by all druggists with a garbled advertisement tone.
An article describes eyestones from mollusks used to clean and protect the eye, noting how the grooved stone fits the eye corner and collects debris. It also mentions similar bones in crawfish heads and reports on trade routes bringing stones to the United States for therapeutic or decorative use.
A discussion on a form of insanity called olkman ia, where men brutalize their families while appearing kind outside. Noted cases include Dean Swift and the father of Frederick the Great, with women showing jealousy and men displaying brutal behavior at home. Historical cures and anecdotes follow, including extreme measures for madness and overwork, with varied quotes from papers and cartoons.
The Yale Harvard boat race began in 1852 with Harvard’s Onedia defeating Yale entries Uridine Shawmut or Halcyon on Lake Winnipesaukee. The annual event on the Thames now stands as the second oldest university sport regatta after Oxford Cambridge.
The Wesleyan College athletic board reports receipts from all sources total 4127. The expenditures reach 5241.41, creating a year deficit of 428.14. Football was the heaviest loser while baseball suffered from bad weather. Basketball was a bright spot, yielding a net 249.08.
In Kanawha vicinity a farmer’s ten year old third son was instantly killed by lightning while in a field near the Vaughn home. Two other men present were seriously injured as a bolt struck the group, causing fatalities and injuries in the field.
Marriage licenses were issued to Harry L Ott and May Swish ler and to Joha Coleemo and Viola Petro.
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