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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1906
Page
3
The readable text suggests a dubious health claim about a laxative product marketed for women and children with gentle effects preferred to violent purges. It mentions a brand or ingredient vague in garbled form and a passive recommendation.
Local call for hosting visiting Sir Knights and Ladies seeks furnished rooms near town. Earn $1.00 daily per room for accommodations. Also notes optical work by B. J. Huchins at 106 Third Street and baby photos at Hoffman's Pareons Souders store. June 20 type listing.
A feature on a clairvoyant healer who claims to read fortunes by surveying life events. The piece portrays his methods, audience reactions, and the sensational tone of his public demonstrations.
Local notice advertises Prof Richard Bell as a clairvoyant offering insights into life and affairs. He identifies age and occupation at sight and provides guidance on business, moves, positions, speculation, love and domestic matters. Hours 10 am to 8 pm Sundays 8 pm. Fee 50 cents. lady attendant. Smaylm.
Robert Mantell announces an opportunity to see Shakespeare’s Lear in a powerful new production directed by William A. Barr. Mantell, hailed as the greatest Shakespearean delineator, leads a strong company in a sublime performance that critics and the public across the country have endorsed. The massive production is billed as a notable event of the theatre season.
Public notice for a Sunday music event at The Waldo Well featuring an orchestra from 6:30 to 8 p m. Special Sunday menu offered. Advertisement references headaches and Young's Headache Powders, sold at drug stores. Also mentions Sweet Melody Flour and seating.
A receiver reports a car load of locust posts delivered for fencing. The posts are round, split, and sawed from Southern Pine Lumber Co. stock.
Dr R L Jackson establishes veterinary and dental surgery in the city, locating at the livery barn on Second Street run by Orie Myers. Both phones listed, with strong local recommendations noted.
In a marketing notice the text extols Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a safe tonic for overworked and frail women. It touts benefits such as restoring strength, easing nervous exhaustion, improving sleep, and aiding digestion with Pleasant Pellets for stomach liver and bowels.
A notice urges the public to purchase Foley's Honey and Tar from Sturm and Wilton to treat coughs and colds. It announces an Ancient Order of Hibernians meeting at Centennial Hall tomorrow at 1:30 PM and warns against imitations with similar names. The genuine product is in a yellow package and sold by Sturm and Wilson.
An old advertisement cautions that kidney trouble can be insidious and fatal. It urges taking Foley's Kidney Cure at the first signs to correct irregularities and prevent Bright's disease and diabetes, noting Sturm & Wilson as the sellers.
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