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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1903
Page
3
Local notices list people coming and going across cities. Names include Peteetote, Miss Young, Chorpening, E Stringer Bognes, Charles Horter, Charles Ogilen, Dr Harper, J. R. Wanl, TT Davia, Mlle Flanigan, J. Walter Osler, F C Moore, K Kesaleras, M Wirtson, Miss Daisy Harrison, and many others. Travel to Parkerburg, Salem, Baltimore, Columbus, and Washington noted along with medical and real estate mentions.
An excerpt from Lowell Horn in Horses Nine recounts a chaotic homeward trip after a fire and the driver’s indifference. The narrative blends comic and perilous moments with a later medical ad for Chanteclair Stomach and Liver Tablets, featuring Jonz Run and a Minnesotan reader.
A curious monument stands over the grave of William H. Relebtor at Mount Hope cemetery in Logansport Indiana. The piece depicts him in old attire on a rainy day, with a theft of his photograph replicated in marble. The statue, valued around five dollars, is part of a larger, startling memorial effort. Also advertised are Len E. Sweating’s claims for electric Bitters and their benefits for digestive and kidney ailments, with testimonials from Yon Meboopany.
A fragmented historical-odd piece blends references to Hannibal at Zama and Mithridates with garbled dialogue and stray modern ad phrases. The passage shifts between ancient warfare notions and contemporary shop talk, ending with a generic catalog note for a remedy.
A fragmented essay links the abuse of society to reformers and satire from ancient to modern times. It then shifts to a note on musk origins, detailing musk deer, musk oil, and substitutes including musk plant blossoms, the musk bean, and bloodroot as odor sources for perfumery.
Fragmented clippings discuss instinctive fear of death in birds, a canary experiment, and reactions of surviving birds. Also includes humorous vignettes about siblings and sleep on trains, plus short quips about umbrellas, widowhood, wallpaper, and local ads for Beuchler's barware and Stout's hotel ware at Pike Street.
In New York a chance meeting with Ward Granger who once courted a woman ends in a stark portrait of a failed marriage. The narrator recalls Granger’s collapse into disability and bitterness after a life wrecked by a doomed union, and an awkward, lasting distance between former lovers.
Viomas B. Seely offers for sale 22 shares at 10 dollars each in the Clarksburg Ice and Storage Company and stock in the Clarksburg Industrial Company.
Real estate notices offer a six room cottage on a 135 foot lot with fine well water and gas at 1800 on Waldeck street Broad Oaks. Also two 50 foot front lots on Carr Avenue at 1200, four 46 foot front lots on Cat Avenue at 550 each, two Northview lots on Pride Ave 30 by 820 feet at 350 each. A prime 50 by 175 foot lot on Pike street for business or home, a Sumner Street lot at 1000 in Sumner Addition, and other bargains for building sites.
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