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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1913
Page
8
Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap claim instant relief for itching, dermatitis, ringworm, and pimples. The ad promises a generous trial and notes physicians have prescribed Resinol for eighteen years, with mail order options from Baltimore, Maryland.
Bangor Pa parent praises Saxo Salve for his teen son’s yearlong skin eruption. He reports healing after weeks of use and urges others to try the remedy. The ad claims relief for eczema poison ivy barber’s itch ringworm and tetter with guarantee money back.
A stray OCR fragment notes another home addition and a growing count of masked households in the city, implying a rising trend in private mind reading or surveillance practices within local households.
The report outlines Gatun dam spillway regulation to store water for losses, raising the lake during the wet season from elevation 86 to 87 over Wi square miles, and lowering to about 32 or five feet over 14 square miles in dry periods. It notes canal traffic capacity, ship clearances, and the Gatun Wire backup. A high power wireless station near San Pablo is planned at 110 feet elevation to send messages up to 8,000 miles.
Fragmentary text notes excavating work at the Culebra Cut with reference to Odulvak, Josieas, and dam related minds. The passage suggests focus on the excavation phase and the surrounding water issues during canal construction.
Historical notes describe the Culebra Cut during the Panama Canal project with figures on cost estimates, shovel operations, and daily labor. It details steam shovel use, continuous workday and night shifts, and the immense tonnage blasted. Major totals cited include hundreds of millions in yards removed and thousands of workers in action.
In police court this morning eight offenders faced charges of drunkenness. Two men were sent to jail for three days while six others were released without further penalty.
Governor Hatfield after a conference with J A Viquesney announces a state initiative to guard forests. Five lookout stations will be built with field glasses and fire equipment, linked by telephone, with watchmen during danger season. Target counties include Greenbrier Pocahontas Randolph Webster Nicholas Braxton Tucker Pendleton Grant Hardy Hampshire Mineral Preston. West Virginia watersheds provide major river origins and freight on Monongahela and Ohio. Fire losses in 1908 totaled 5 097 825 dollars from 710 fires burning 1 708 530 acres.
Advertisement style copy lists women’s knit underwear and related items with prices. Features cotton Union suits at 75 cents, Italian silk bloomers at 3.25, Venetian silk vests at 2.25, pink white or black options, and children’s white cotton vests around 50 cents.
The advertisement lists negligees and petticoats from Boggs & Buxl Pit Pittsburgh. Prices include $2.50 for Morning Dress chambray and similar silk items priced at $2.60. Also offered are crepe negligees in floral designs and silk petticoats in various colors.
The document details historic fire counts and timber losses from 1908 to 1912, with costs to extinguish and acres burned. It cites national and state roles in funding fire prevention, noting a federal appropriation and the need for state adoption of a protection system. The forecasted program, approved by Governor Hatfield, estimates costs through July 1, 1915 for lookout stations, lines, tools, and staffing. a total of about 10,300 dollars before mid-1915.
D A Shitery died Tuesday in a local hospital after a stabbing at Industrial Sunday afternoon, allegedly by John Cross. The body will be shipped Thursday to Masontown for funeral and burial in the family plot. Three hundred workers on the New York east side form a union to lift shoe prices.
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