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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1906
Page
3
A brief note indicates a frenk line of Whitman’s candy has just been received by express at Swager’s Confectionary.
Sunday action sees Clariktiure defeating Benwood with hoped lineups for next Sunday. Will Williams and Bill McLane linked as notables. Penn State-bound Adams departs. Belleforte prep completes for State. Fairmont’s All-Collegians clash noted. Tom Francis disputes recent paper resum.
The Eureka Pipe Line Company filed an application with the Clarksburg West Virginia City Clerk for a franchise to construct and maintain an extension of its telephone and telegraph line along specified streets and alleys. The plan includes building poles and wires to traverse Third Street Traders Alley Second Street and Main Street toward the South Penn Oil Company plant, with placement directed by city authorities to avoid hindrance.
The Eureka Pipe Line Company seeks council approval for a right and franchise to use public streets pending a vote at the October city council meeting. Attorney R G Altizer signs the notice dated September 1906 and calls for ordinance passage as needed. A separate license application for Anthony M Donahue to sell alcohol in Clarksburg is set for hearing September 7, 1906 with Will H Cole clerked notice August 9, 1905.
The Grand hosts vaudeville during the fair with a new program. Headlined by Lewis & Hart in blackface comedy, Love & Bellas singing and dancing, a comic juggler Clem CO Meyer crayon artist, and dancer Gus Smith with illustrated songs.
The management has booked Hon Butler of Wheeling and Walter Pierce of New Castle Pa for a wrestling exhibition. Butler offers a $25 purse if he cannot throw his opponent in twenty minutes. Prices are 15 to 50 cents, with matinees 10c for children and 20c for adults. Promotions also tout Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar for colds and a antiseptic wound cleanser sold by F. G. Bland.
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