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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1908
Page
8
An old advertisement urges well being through Hood's Sarsaparilla with claims of health benefits and easy access. It promotes Hood Co. products including Sarsatabs and Sarsaparilla tablets, prepared in Lowell Massachusetts.
Reports from Union Heights describe a mirror reflection showing multiple images including women in white by a wine rack and a child by a chair. Local residents, including Neil Hooper and Rev J F Mazon, note the phenomenon as odd while others complete routine visits and moves.
Personal notes from Parkersburg report spring callers and travelers. Among those seen were Spring Cavew returning from Bermuda stands and Mr and Mrs Albert W. Tapp from Yarrnott. Steward Reed pursued his candidacy, J. B. Darat from Charleston stayed overnight after attending the West Union Republican mass convention. Local visitors include Stanley Boggess of Bristol Charles Coffman from West Union J. E. Law and J. M. Jacobs of Fairmont. Mrs EB Schmick hosts Osborns in Washington DC, and Mrs Gould travels to Warren Pa for a funeral. Frank Gould rejoined the Navy in Norfolk and sails later for foreign seas.
From Baltimore comes news of Dewey's Best Flour offering bread with less water and more nutriment. The gluten from hard spring wheats can puff with yeast to form large loaves, but Dewey's product yields a smaller loaf with a milder flavor and strong nutrition, inviting readers to ask for Dewey's Best.
W. E. Burwell of Baltimore, superintendent of dining rooms and hotels for the Baltimore and Olio Railroad Company, registers at the Waldo to inspect local hotel and restaurant service for railroad men and ensure top care for travelers.
The following pairs have been issued marriage licenses: George W. Linville with Fannie May Swiker, Charles Glenn Krand with Kowa Lee Cambridge, and Joli Sens cer Stone with Martha Isabelle Seely.
At a March 10 meeting of Manor Lodge No. 172 Knights of Pythias in Cust Hall, officers adopted tributes to Brother Michael II Taker. The resolutions mourn his loss, pledge support to his wife and children, and order mourning for sixty days, with copies to the wife and local papers.
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