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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1913
Page
7
A Madison Heights Virginia reader touts Thedford’s Black Draught as the best medicine for stomach troubles. The notice highlights relief from nervousness nausea heartburn and fullness after meals and promotes the 75 years of proven cure for such ailments with safe pleasant action for all ages at a price of 25 cents.
Reader notice hints at a local advertisement promising instant cash value. Wording is terse and incomplete, suggesting a sales pitch urging quick action within a short window.
West Main street store near Rappire National Bank advertises a large closing-out sale under Clarence P Stout who runs the business from Mason county. The chapter describes the sale as highly successful and unusually rapid as bargains attract shoppers. A separate note mentions K G Lewis proposing a $10,000,000 women town on a 12,000 acre Atascadero ranch with homes for each woman and a corresponding college.
Ten years ago today a tramp version of Jack the Rapper roamed at night. A deputy sheriff chased him after he knocked and fled toward the Lowndes residence. James Madison Jackson, a millionaire banker with local relatives, died at Parkersburg. Architect B C Holmline planned a court bow in Bikins. The rector Thomas W Cooke was hospitalized at Reynolds Memorial in Moundsville for improvements. The text notes aging methods, a death of Mr and Mrs Hamilton Riley at Northview, and Whooping cough cases. A Singer Sewing Machine agent, H H Snodgrass aged 35, died of tuberculosis. The Jackson Lodge A F and A M dedicated a new hall at Good Hope with Charles W Lynch acting as most worshipful grand master. Incorporation papers granted to the Shumstod Social Club. William Herndon of Baltimore was struck by streetcars in Harrison County Hospital.
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