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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1913
Page
3
A vintage advertisement touts Hay’s Hair Health as restoring grey hair to natural color instantly. The copy offers a money back guarantee after a trial and bundled items including Harfink Soap, with discounts and free offers to attract buyers.
The Bijou this week offers new reels including rock breaking and a stylish goddess act with hypnotism from Gilbert. Special Friday features a “Girl Spy in Mexico” plus Bunny Anderson and Flora Finch on today’s bill. News notes report Milton and Sargent Aborn named managing directors for the opera season at the Century Theater in New York.
The Bijou theater on Main Street is receiving extensive improvements. An addition will add 112 seats, bringing total capacity to 550. Upgrades include new lighting with a $1,000 mirror screen, enhanced ventilating and exhaust systems, and an enlarged operating booth, all aimed at safer, cleaner, more comfortable viewing.
Maj G W Ruthers of Parkersburg praised the local recruiting station for its work. He visited this week and passed favorable on the enlistment of James B Belcher Millard F Moore and Louis H Bean of Richwood, sending them to Columbus Ohio for assignment to coast artillery.
A fragment notes the nearing completion of a tunnel beneath the Pyrenees for a France to Spain railway project. The text mentions a total length around five miles and the work’s progress toward connecting the two nations by rail.
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