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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1915
Page
19
A jumble of rental notices and sales offers from a historic classifieds page. Items include rooms for rent with housekeeping, furnished and unfurnished options, proximity to post offices, loan offers for housing, and several farm and real estate ads. Names, streets, and specific terms vary, with some entries indicating contact methods and locations.
Fragmented ad listing various items for sale including Griffiths Roots and Herbs claims, generators, a loan offering, a Domson unmoving picture machine, a four horsepower engine and dynamo, a store front frost including frame, and window or storm doors. It references contact names and locations but details are garbled.
Classified item describes room vacancies with rates and contact details. Notes include rent for five and four room options, mentions Williams Hardware Co and Union National Bank Building, and various partial addresses and phone hints. Includes housekeeping and front for tenants and miscellaneous names.
A jumble of early 20th century classifieds lists wanted boarders a home cook and salespersons. It includes real estate mentions Gordon and Kidd Real Estate and scattered advertisements for groceries hardware and miscellaneous services. The text also contains notices and business names with partial addresses and phone cues.
A tan purse containing $19 is missing after a Sunday morning theft between Clacksboro and Haywood on the interurban line. Telegram office offers a $10 reward for return, with contact from Delar am omee. Also note a fire case and local notices about metal roofing and galvanized products from a North Sheth street firm.
Eight building lots are for sale this week at bargain prices. Adjacent to Norwood and See, the plots sit near a developing area with value prospects. Each lot is priced at 30 200, promising potential buyers competitive land equity.
In Shinnston on June 20 two Sunday school classes from the Christian church competed for the past three months. The larger group won a picnic at Sapp Grove, with about fifty six present. Transportation to and from the grounds was by automobile, and the Elks sponsored the event. Local residents include A. Q. Fortney of Worthington visiting, Mrs. E. M. Roberts and family in town, Mrs. W. Clyde Wyatt visiting relatives in Glenville, and Miss Lyda Clemons of South Carolina visiting.
Weston hosts a July 3 event with new amphitheatre seating and a large program of harness and stock car races. Attractions include a 10:30 start, multiple half-mile heats, a 75 purse pace, a 50 purse dash, and a 10 mile motorcycle race. Refreshments and continuous concerts accompany the day, with ample transportation from Weston and Jane Lew.
A crowded social page lists a June 20 dinner hosted by Mrs. L Megson on Howard Street honoring Miss Krobme and Joie Til of Clarksburg. Attendees include Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Robme, Miss Doudé Daeg, Debma, Miss Than, and Pearl Peel. Tenney family visitors and Barbour county residents are noted along with a baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. A G Love. Several guests visit, traveling to Marion and Den Kirk, with mentions of Rev A M Hammond preaching at the Methodist Episcopal Church theater. Work progresses on a new switch near the ballpark by Monongahela Traction Co. Geraldine Sisger, Loretta Joyce visit Clarksbury, and several baptisms take place at the West Fork river stove.
The fragment describes a cottage dwelling with slate roof and cabinets in the rooms. It mentions a price around 560 dollars and references porches and room features, noting three and four year terms or balances. This OCR provides limited readable details on property features and pricing.
Vacant lot on Hedge Street in Harrison Addition offered for sale with terms negotiable. Real estate listing notes potential for a two home site and invites inquiries from interested buyers.
Fragmented post notes report visitors in Morgantown and Norwood as families travel for visits. Mentions of Lester Perine Clarence and Sara with scattered names. A Limbo baseball team beat Broadoaks 6 to 4 at Union Park Saturday. Over 50 000 live trees to be planted on 15 000 acres of land near Marysville California.
PHEASANT Welch and Fullerton, druggists, announce delivery service to all parts of the city ensuring residents can obtain medicines and necessities conveniently from their local chemists.
Fragmented OCR notes describe a four room house on Oakson Street with a bath and close proximity to a scope location. The text mentions a price term finished and glaze rot, unclear but suggests sale or listing details in a local housing snippet.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions intermediate points, a 9:00 time, “Testor and intermediste-poinhe 12:00 cal,” and notes on reasonable rates and care in handling. Mentions HONONGAT ELAN WATLEY TEAC H TIAN COMPANYS and shippers in a garbled context.
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