Membership surge urged for board of trade in city drive
The article notes seventeen applications for board of trade membership from progressive businessmen. It urges civic pride and rapid local development, invites more applicants, and promotes the Friday night public meeting in the courthouse to discuss city needs and improvements. It highlights past campaign success and aims to surpass it with broad participation. It also reports a separate incident of umpire violence at New Haven, where umpire Diel Croker was assaulted after declaring a forfeit in a baseball game.
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Thia
Mager
Court House
Oie
T Hey
New Haven
Connecticut
Diel Croker
New Haven Phayers
Avery Busiess
Clarkaburg
Board of ‘Trade
Town baseball riot prompts calls for order and restraint
A long account condemns mob violence at a baseball game in Clarksburg and elsewhere in Western Pennsylvania League venues. Officials urge protection of umpires, law and order, and swift punishment for participants. The piece notes connected local business meetings to discuss city progress and road improvements.
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Alspalch
Croker
Clarksburg
Ball Park
Pennsylvania
Health crusade urged as typhoid fears rise in Clarksburg
The Telegram urges residents to keep premises sanitary amid heavy rains and upcoming heat. With a Pittsrug typhoid epidemic rising to about 300 known cases, officials call for municipal cooperation to clean alleys, cross streets, and flush cesspools and water.
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Clarksburg
Pittsburg
Orchard threats and a fatal train switch incident reported
Boise dispatch notes defense questions suggesting Orchard threatened to kill Governor Steunenberg to avenge a loss in the Hercules mine stake. New York reports a Central railroad wrecker case involves an open switch made by youths. In Maryland a farmer’s daughter shot by a rejected suitor then the suitor died by suicide. In Pittsburgh a banker, Francis T. White, died of apoplexy on a Pullman car en route west. he endowed Earlham College and was Indiana born.
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Idaho
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New York Central Railroad
Columbus
Pittsburg
Francis T. White
New York City
Chicago and St. Louis
White
Indiana
Earlham College
Richmond
Local Market Produce Prices Recited in Recall List
The local market recall lists prices for eggs at 28 cents per dozen, butter at 20 cents per pound, and various vegetables including celery 8 cents per stalk, lettuce 15 cents, cabbage 7 cents per head, potatoes 80 cents, spinach 20 cents per gallon, tomatoes 15 cents, cucumbers 8 to 10 cents, strawberries 15 cents per quart, green beans 40 cents per gallon, and chickens at 20 cents to 60 cents dressed. item quality notes include dressed and undressed birds.
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Bermuda
Enterprise trainer receives promising two-year-old trotter
Sends Colt Hare Jamies B Fowler of Enterprise has sent his splendid two year old trotting colt Mutygorda to this city to be trained at the new air grounds. The animal is a large bay and one of the most promising trotting colts in this section.
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Jamies B. Fowler
Enterprise
State Happenings Lightly Sketched Across Coal and Rail Parts
In West Virginia notes, new coal mines near Parmington are planned by Davis Co. The Buckhannon & Northern line sees camps rebuilt and work resumed along the old right of way. A foggy wreck injures no one when a passenger train collides with a freight in Gratton yards. Morgantown seeks a Monongahela bridge. Frank French drowned frog hunting noted as first to use torpedo. Parkersburg Epworth League meets. Belva Lockwood and Mary Grace Quackenboss help prosecute peonage cases in Charleston.
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Buckhannon & Northern Railroad
Algan Point
New Hotel to Rise in Clarksburg Industrial Addition
The erection of a large hotel for Patrick McGare is under way in the Clarksburg industrial addition. C. E. Prunty holds the contract to build a three-story structure with twenty rooms, costing over $8,000. McGare will operate the hotel for factory workers at the nearby Tana glass plant, currently under construction.
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Patrick McGare
Clarksburg
Local Grain Market Prevailing Prices Listed
The local grain market lists wholesale and retail prices for corn yellow and white, wheat No 1 spring and No 2 red winter, oats No 2 white, and hay No 1 Timothy. Wholesale and retail figures range from 60 1-2 to 1.25 for grains and 22.00 to 23.00 for hay.
Gun Club Meeting Set at Johnson Law Office
The Clarksburg Gun Club will meet this evening at 8 o'clock in the law office of Charles B. Johnson, located in the Lowndes building on Third street. All interested are requested to attend.
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Clarksburg
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