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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1908
Page
5
Advance style for autumn offers satin and fall hats priced from 3.50 to 6.50. Those seeking fashion vanguard should view the new collection as selections sell quickly. Buy a Gage or Castle hat, top-notch fashionable headgear, and be a Gage woman with prices from the base to any mark you choose.
New tailored fall suits feature close fitting collars concave shoulders and hand blocked busts with self conforming waist lines and Directoire models. Prices range from 25.00 to 30.00 and women are invited to view today.
An advertisement lists electrical items and prices including lava head lighting products and wire supports. It mentions branded names such as Eagle No. 1 wireless and Special double fire proof lava covered wire. Details show multiple price points and descriptive terms for consumer lamps and wiring.
Birthday celebration at Mr and Mrs 3 R Guin's home honors Miss Yonda Guin on her fourteenth birthday. Guests include Lyla Smith Francis Robinson and Bonale Orr of Fairmont. A cake, punch and ice cream are served and a contest awards prizes for attendees. A farewell reception for Rev James P Plummer is planned at the Walls home on Chestnut Street.
The Mt. Zion Baptist Church and Trinity Memorial M E Church announce large open air gospel meetings at Gypsy chestnut grove on Sunday September 20 and 27. Services start 11 AM with preaching by distinguished pastors and a 2:30 PM Sunday school rally in a 1000 seat tent. A chorus of fifty will sing and meals will be provided for travelers. Leaders promise orderly conduct and expect wide participation by northern West Virginia colored churches. Executive committee names listed.
Grace Spry aged 26 a stenographer committed death by her own action at her uncle s home in Newport Kentucky by swallowing morphite today. She came here from Portsmouth five years ago. Her parents still reside there. For some time she had been melancholy due to overwork.
Mian Margaret Trunk of North View went to Fairmont to attend the Btales Normal school, according to the readable OCR fragment.
Hatice submits an application to the County Court of Harrison County urging action by the Clarksburg Guns and Security Company and corporation. The filing appears to request consideration on a matter tied to the company and county authorities in West Virginia.
On September 24 1908 the Harrison County court plans to grant Clarksville Gag Wiectrie Company a franchise to lay and maintain poles wires and related electrical apparatus along roads bridges and grounds for public and private use in the county. The franchise will authorize transmission of electrical current and the construction and operation of electrical facilities for public and private consumption.
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