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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1908
Page
6
The Telegram will provide readers with exclusive New York seam pattern designs. Price is 10a for each pattern, available for mall or in person purchase. State details are unclear in the excerpt.
Today’s suggestion by Ellen Stan advises short women to balance height and breadth with jumper outfits. The piece discusses waist emphasis, full skirts, and coordinated neck sleeves, noting contrast for taller figures and cautioning against over or under dressing.
A compact listing of Edison Records catalog items with file numbers and titles. The readable text includes several song titles such as The Merry Widow and When Sweet Marie was Sweet, with miscellaneous numbers and possible artist labels, but the legible portion shows a fragmentary catalog page rather than a coherent article.
A catalog-like fragment lists multiple record titles and numbers from New Victor Records, including operatic arias and misc. pieces such as Nurkies Spring Song and Madame Butterfly selections, The Evening Star, and The Colleen Bawn, with miscellaneous catalog numbers and marks indicating various performers. The fragment resembles a broken listing of song titles, composers, and catalog IDs without coherent narrative.
State news reports Morgantown prepares for Thursday inauguration as Thort Felling assumes office. Sheep killings by dogs devastate families in Backelen county while eastern states face fruit crop concerns. Kelley axe factory in Charleston adds two departments, employing additional workers. Transfer of Little Anawha property to Baltimore and Ohio highway division operation noted.
The first meeting of the two conventions was held Monday night in the Ward hotel assembly hall. D K Yes of this city gave a warm welcome to visitors as Prof Crow's orchestra provided music and a social hour followed a brief program.
Reported street car robbery at Meadowbrook last night proved false when officers arrived. Witness said a partially intoxicated man toppled against the car, grabbed a man’s hat in the wind, then fled northward with another man’s hat.
May 5 Cabell county Republicans in mass convention instructed for Charlex Wesley Swisher for governor. Cabell county is entitled to twenty five delegates.
Fragmentary ad style text promotes Dewey’s Best flour claiming it makes the best bread and offers a 2.50 dollar cop back for 1.60. It mentions sour grocer discounts and a 1 cent price cut to entice purchases.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions names and terms like ESMIGUERIA and Jaxellye with scattered references to people and items. The text is incomplete, making coherent facts hard to extract beyond a mix of names and accidental phrases.
By authority of the last will notary Notley A Shuttleworth, executor GEO. W. SHUTTLEWORTH offers at 1800 hours on May 9 1908 at the Harrison county court house front door several Clarkesburg properties. Includes two story brick houses on West Mechanic street, multiple tracts near Haymond Heights Broad Oaks Clarke County, and lots on Harrison and Daley streets. Terms require at least one quarter cash with three deferred payments due over 6 12 and 18 months, interest secured. For plats contact the executor at 534 Em Pike Building.
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