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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1906
Page
3
An ad promotes a clairvoyant at Still Here of Clarksburg who reveals name age and occupation, offers private insight into life and relationships, not a palmist, with a proposed visit window from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sundays 2 to 8 p.m. Fee fifty cents.
Beautiful lots available under perpetual care at Greenlawn Cemetery. Inquiries at the main entrance request information on Iota and prices. contact P. H. Koblegard president T. J. Lynch secretary L. Leo Farley superintendent at the grounds.
The Telegraph relays the state rules for teachers certification exams issued by State Superintendent Thomas C. Miller. It covers sealing of questions, half day openings, enrollment forms, strict timing, prohibitions on communication, a two dollar fee, packaging and mailing procedures, examiner conduct, and the scheduled order and durations for each examination subject across Thursday and Friday sessions.
A playful city circus tease invites audiences to a grand season with lions roaring aerial stunts and trapeze artists. The narrator yearns for joyous crowds, sawdust, and the festive atmosphere of tents, lights, and clowns in a breezy, vintage voice.
Forepaugh Sells presents a two hour circus with two stages three rings and a hippodrome oval. Four hundred performers include forty clowns and riders gyminete aerialists and equilibrists. New to UllA country, elephants hippos polar bears Arctic sea lions Bengal tigers Asiatic lions and giraffes join a vast menagerie. Street parade feature promises novelty and spectacle for the season opener.
Birmingham May 17 Dr John Tigert secretary of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South was reelected bishop on the first ballot. No other bishop was chosen on the first ballot. Seth Ward of Texas was elected bishop on the third ballot. On the first ballot the six highest vote getters were Tigert 100 Kilge 1100 Seth Ward 85 Collis Denny 84 W J McMurray 74 James Atkins 10. Dr Tigert, presumed no secretary of the conference, and Assistant Secretary A F Watkin g was elected secretary. There was no bishop elected on the second ballot.
An OCR fragment references Salve as a remedy for cuts and burns, noting a seller FF. G. Biand. The text appears as a small trade note or advertisement likely from a historical page segment.
B J Hudking D D does all kinds of optical work at 106 Third Street west of the post office. If you want your baby's picture taken bring it to Hoffman's Parsons Sanders store. Text notes indicate a local ad context with shop names and location.
A discussion of how exclamations such as hulloup and a wolf shout may echo ancient phrases. The piece cites The Queen's English and Pearsons Weekly while noting linguistic survivals in Crarmswood Forest Teleastorshire and Slavonic roots behind words like hung and paradise.
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