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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1916
Page
23
A jagged OCR page lists multiple classified lines: sale notices for small machines and vehicles, workshop items, furniture and upholstering services, and personal notices including farewells and messages. Names such as Munson and Remington appear amid addresses like 464 Chapel Avenue and Irwin Building, with scattered dates and prices.
April 22 report describes Annie Laurie Portgang departing Cleveland toward Decatur Alabama with her mother El ton Portgang. Neighbors note her blue hair ribbons and demure attire as she marched north holding a small tug and wearing a dark white shirt a blue coat and high slack shoes. Mrs Wortgang and her husband, formerly of Erming, accompany her.
Fragmentary listing mentions food properties and an Easter observance guiding readers to consider staying at home. It hints at property choices and personal plans but lacks clear details, dates, or named entities to anchor a fuller item.
Farm property describes a large lot with 13 rooms and two small houses near the city limit, with a good state of cultivation and finished interiors. Trade suggested for city property, asking price 3600 on terms. Another listing notes a ten room brick house on Pike Street with bath and back porches, priced at 8500 with balance over two or three years.
Listings detail several properties for sale including a seven foot house on Broaddis Addition Gallage Street with bath bunk room and outbuildings for 4600 on terms. Also a five room cottage with water and chicken house and many vacant lots on Milford Stealey Euclid Huckt Simpson Main Buckhannon Dalay Pili and Angiofay Lona with varied sizes and prices from 350 to 2100 and terms structured as down payment and yearly payments.
Orchard street listing describes a five room bougalow with bath and amenities at set prices. The ad highlights immediate availability and asks potential buyers to visit the location for the showing.
Vacant lot and five room cottage advertised on two parcels on East End street. Price listed as 1950 dollars with potential private sale terms noted. Poorly legible OCR yields unclear details but indicates a small urban dwelling offering and boundary lot description.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Wat Tony, Hays, Mulenas, and a price 82990. It references a street, a phone, and several unclear names and places. The readable content is sparse, with no clear event or outcome to summarize.
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