Gold Dust Soap Boosts Cleaning Power and Germ Removal
An ad style notice touts Gold Dust as more than a surface wash. It claims deep cleaning and germ elimination, with vegetable cleansing ingredients that purify and save time and labor for users.
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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1913
Page
10
An ad style notice touts Gold Dust as more than a surface wash. It claims deep cleaning and germ elimination, with vegetable cleansing ingredients that purify and save time and labor for users.
An advertisement urges relief from stomach and liver issues using a remedy named Tatestt Patra. It claims benefit for digestive distress and general well being, presenting as a health option in a historical newspaper page.
A local ad lists B B and company curtains with multiple fabrics and prices. Lace curtains in white cream or Arabian colors at 1.00 per pair and 2.50 per pair for certain loom laces. Real Renaissance imported curtains priced at 37.00 per pair. Scrim curtains white cream or Arabian insertions and edged options from 18 to 25 cents per yard.
A catalog style entry lists wash goods including White Dress Linens 43 inches wide at 0c per yard, Side Bordered Crepes tan or riac 40 inches wide at 40c per yard, and Voiles with neat stripes Filack in tan or grey on white 27 inches wide at 15c per yard.
Health is linked to success with claims that regular bowels prevent sickness. The passage praises Chamberlain's Tablets for constipation relief, appetite, and digestion. The ad segment ends noting visitors Anne Shackwood of Washington and John J. Davis with Mary Musgrave returning home.
The funeral was held Tuesday in Parkersburg where Mary Catherine Horner died Sunday after ten years as an invalid following the death of her eldest daughter. Born January 30 1856 at Laurel Mills VA she lived in Pruntytown Moundsville and married James Y Horner in 1878. Survived by husband two children Charles and Mary and sisters Mrs C N Chaddock Mrs A R McMurray Mrs C E Brown and brother George W Webster.
In Elkins Sunday afternoon Elkins Council No. 602 Knights of Columbus exemplified major degrees to 35 candidates with elatorate speeches at a banquet by local and visiting members. State Deputy Farrell assisted by William Lavalier and staff of Grafton directed the degree work as 20 members from Clarksburg council attended.
In the House Captain Avis proposed amending the Underwood tariff bill to remove coal and coke from the free list and impose duties of forty, fifteen, and twenty percent respectively. The plan aimed to shield the state’s principal industry but was voted down as Democrats opposed changes. Grace Garee from Washington visits Mrs Smith in North Cheatnut Street.
Directory listing shows tenants and offices in the Empire Building including Alexander Brokerage Co, Consolidation Coal Co, Osborn offices, Prudential Life Insurance, International Life Insurance, Clarksburg Telegram Co, and various room numbers across second to fifth floors. Names and floor allocations suggest a multi-tenant address directory from a historic office building.
Elliott Northcott, American minister to Vene zuela, plans to return to the United States by the end of August. He hopes his successor may be a West Virginian, with Senator Chilton backing John Dice of Lewisburg for the post. Northcott aims to obtain a sixty day leave before departure so he can be home by July 4.
Washington dispatch reports discouraging rumors about Congressman Hughes health from a New York resort where he rests for a cure. He appeared robust to bystanders, yet friends fear a lengthy absence from Congress after a prior breakdown forced him to seek a climate thought to aid recovery.
Burglars carried out two break ins near Mt Clare Sunday night. Bloodhounds followed traces to Byron station and into a coal mine before losing the scent, with suspects possibly boarding a train or street car. At F. J. Cunningham’s home they stole 125 dollars from a coat, wine and milk from the cellar, and at John Wine’s home they took 35 dollars.
May 6. Hott man Post of the Grand Army of the Republic plans another mammoth Memorial Day celebration in Morgantown appoints Col. Williams as grand marshal and Cramer as parade grand marshal with W. H. Hall as assistant marshal for the street pageant.
Reuben W. Small, longtime Berkeley County contractor and farmer and Confederate veteran, dies at his Martinsburg home at age 76. He served in Company E, Second Virginia Infantry, part of the Stonewall brigade. Survived by his widow and five children.
Andrew Jones a prominent First ward resident and Civil War veteran died of pneumonia at the age of 69 in FAMAMONT. He lived a long life of community service and was admired by neighbors and local organizations.
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