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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1916
Page
15
The notice stresses fair dealing and reliable supply for customers. It asserts the store’s purpose to serve business, comparing its stability to the unshaken Pyramid of Cheops and urging buyers to speak up if dissatisfied. The message emphasizes honesty and safe conduct in purchases.
The New Home Machine features a ball bearing drive wheel and rebuilt woodwork with four drawers and a large center drawer. It is automatic with the head aligning when the belt is engaged into sewing position and the top table leaf is lifted. Builders emphasize durability and minimal repairs, claiming simplicity as the key talking point.
The Bethel Guild of Christ Episcopal Church plans a Tuesday evening meeting with Mrs. Wright-Harding. Eleanor Haymond Blackford and James Edwin Watson Jr. announce their Parkersburg wedding on June 14 at the Parkersburg Country Club with a large bridal party including Catherine Berry Campbell as maid of honor and many attendants from Parkersburg, Fairmont, Denison, and beyond. Also listed are flower girls, best men, and various relatives. The Civic Club holds its annual business meeting at Christ Episcopal parish house with reports and officer elections. J. Carl Vance and wife occupy the Seuntry Club summer home. The Missionary Society of Dutch Street United Brethren meets Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. Russell Fest’s home. members are urged to attend.
An advertisement details private dancing lessons by Mr Healy of New York City at the Waldo Hotel. Ms Mirabeth Thompson is listed as contact. hours are 1 to 8 with regular Charvox for adults and a high school senior program.
Mrs John I Rubl travels to New York. Dr and Mrs Percy Goff stay with Mr and Mrs James M Duncan in Parkersburg. Numerous local visitors and residents depart for trips or attend events including Ringling Brothers show. Mentions of residents from Webster Springs Buckhannon Huntington Wheeling Fairmont and Parkersburg visiting or traveling.
Announcement states latent dances will be demonstrated for Assembly Club members at the Masonic Temple by J Ay Healy and Mary Elizabeth Thompson. Demonstration postponed, no auction or club sale. An event update mentions a County Club on May 20 with a dance demonstration for members only.
Dr H Alon Whisler attended a visit by James Liin of Charleston president of the state board of control on Monday at the venue.
A quirky domestic page offers an omelet recipe mixing peas cheese and pepper with a peas or canned green garnish, and a rubber repair method using black dress braid for patching tears with a buttonhole stitch.
Fragmentary text shows a church linked effort with the Woman's Christian Association building a rest area and bungalow for employed women. Describes a club space with books, tables, piano, sewing machines, a kitchen and rest room. mentions injuries and a community site in a cramped, damaged report.
The article notes a YWCA house warming on May 18 in its new building. It highlights a missed provision for changing water in the swimming tanks and a bronze tablet presentation by an exposition director. Mint Hitgabath Dodge accepted the tablet and gave an address, followed by a reception.
Joseph Neenan of Cleveland president of the National Window Glass Workers Association and H I Moor of Pittsburgh met with workers and manufacturers. West Virginia manufacturers pledged to contribute their share to complete orders as a blast furnaces set to run next Saturday.
The Clarkebute Tripure Water Company promotes a process that boils impurities from water at 219 degrees, leaving purified air and mineral content settled. The method vents noxious gases and returns heated air to the system, claiming a pure, non contaminated output. A sample bottle can be obtained from the Clarkaburg Water Company of Clarksburg.
Borlin reports that about three thousand newspapers and periodicals across Germany have ceased business since the war began due to financial difficulties. The Imperial portal district notes 56 publications stopped since January 1, 2016, averaging more than three a day.
Tokyo reports a bank reduces interest and discount rate by one fifth of a unit, cut applied to lending facilities as part of efforts to ease industrial expansion and stimulate growth. The move follows a broader policy shift to ease credit conditions amid economic fluctuations.
The Vitaphone phonograph is presented as a newly constructed perfected instrument appealing to all temperaments and musical tastes. Demonstration today on the basement floor showcases its merits.
An early article explains that natural tone arises from wood rather than metal. The Vitaphone uses a solid wood tone arm carved from aged violin wood, a stationary sound box, and a patented process to harden the wood fibers for a lifelike voice recording with natural life tone.
An administrator qualified Monday to manage the estate of Gali Nichdixe Hond with a bond set at 700 dollars. Appraisers were appointed to assess the property and assets involved in the settlement.
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