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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1906
Page
2
Notices urge subscribers and advertisers to file specific complaints with the Daily Telegram by nine oclock a m to guarantee same day changes and with the Weekly Telegram by Wednesday each week. The aim is to improve service through prompt reporting.
A garbled historical fragment references Clarksburg West Virginia and Republican political activity. The legible bits mention rapid local progress and discussions of figures supporting improvements, though the text is incomplete and lacks clear events or dates.
In Asheville on April 15 a special term of court is set at Greensboro for the trial of Gene Treiman Blackburn indicted by the grand jury for accepting fees for services performed before a government department. Judge Nathan Goff is designated as the trial judge with Judge Morris of Baltimore as alternate.
In municipal court Mayor Shields questions a drunken prisoner in a swift, formal tone. The accused pleads for leniency citing a tomorrow paycheck and a promised payment. the mayor, noting the city department’s credit line, releases him with a 4.60 fine.
A cryptic message describes a city facing an unclear situation and mentions a Big Sis, a train, and a chilling scene near Olarkabig Aa. It references a Deh 9 date and a number 5-28, with a sense of municipal urgency.
Scrambled OCR text shows amateur night judging and nominations for a local newspaper event tied to the Secretary of State in West Virginia, alongside scattered references to a play, a stock company, a drug store window display, and a palace furniture firm. The fragmentary items hint at a weeklong schedule and public notices in a small-city paper.
Notice is hereby given that at meetings of the solder after Elis Rim Oil Coy a 00) tien created and organized in the State of West Virginia the Elk River Oil Company adopts resolutions to discontinue business as a corporation and surrender its charter to the State. The March meeting adopts the first resolution for dissolution and surrender of corporate franchise.
Kenneth Molver of Vankeboro Me recounts a near death from throat inflammation and lung congestion. Three doctors gave up, but a last resort with Dr King's New Discovery saved his life. The remedy claims to cure coughs bronchitis tonsillitis and grippe, sold at Bland's drug store 50¢ and 1.00 with trial bottle free.
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