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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1911
Page
4
The Evening Echo reports a peanuts disaster as a five story factory destroys almost 200 000 bushels of peanuts. Producers hold less than five percent of last year's crop, signaling a major shortage. The piece humorously links peanuts to politics and stadium life, noting rising prices threaten circuses and picnics nationwide.
The Pitlshore Dispatch advertises a fresh romance and mystery novel The Professor's Mystery by Wells Hastings and Brien Hooker. Begin Monday May 29 in the Daily Dispatch with breezy prose, promising an unsolved mystery, love story, and vivid settings.
The Tedlammation service highlights government efforts in building the Belle Fourche dam in South Dakota. The project, 200 feet long, 500 feet wide at the base, and 20 feet thick, aims for completion in June.
The piece notes rapid settlement in the Belle Fourche valley after dam pinning and praises land value extraction methods. It cites Wheeling Intelligencer on advertising profits for railroads, especially Pennsylvania, which claims a 48 percent rise in passenger traffic in early 1911. It discusses intercity trolley lines between Clarksburg and Fairmont and promotes boulevards and road improvements to boost local economies.
A proposed cross-county boulevard would link Clarkevurg and Fairmont with a dense urban corridor along the boulevard. It would require shared cost between counties and cities, easing farming marketing, improving living standards, and spurring value while diminishing prejudices against farmers. The article also discusses Henry Clews interpreting the Sherman Act as reflecting common law, and the implications of the Standard Oil ruling, including dissolution and reorganization into independent subsidiaries under reshaped ownership.
The court may be ready to interpret reason six amid debate over constitutional rights and property lists. Chief Justin White signals a careful approach to trust questions, aiming to ease fears of oppression by industrial combinations while upholding anti trust provisions. The decision could shift views on organizational integrity in industry.
A Creston Iowa woman credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with alleviating long standing inflammation and pains. The ad promotes women writing for free confidential health advice and claims years of helping sick women without charge.
Advice urges travelers to carry Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy on journeys as it is portrayed as essential and unavailable on ships or trains. marketed as sold by all dealers.
A fragmented ad describes bonds as certificates promising to pay principal and interest secured by a mortgage. It notes large corporations, fire and life insurers, and banks buy high class bonds to safeguard surplus and urges saving investors to consider an investment with the firm.
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