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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1914
Page
22
Clarksburg council debates Sixth Street bridge design urging no grade crossing citing public safety and taxpayer cost. Call to respect voters will and personal safety amid rail spur changes.
Governor Hatfield designates Sunday May 3 as Rural Church Day urging church members to meet at their congregations. The movement gains support from regional church leaders and ministers nationwide to foster better agriculture roads schools homes and citizenship through Christian service. Bowdoin adopts preceptorial instruction with group conferences replacing quizzes, costing more but promising greater responsibility and learning.
The West Union Record rails at John J. Cornwell Hampshire editor for his critiques of Bryanites and party leadership. It argues Cornwell is being expelled from the moribund wing of the party, praising his stance against windily funded appointees and urging reform before Wilson’s position is harmed. The piece lauds his honesty and courage while ridiculing his expulsion.
Close students and political observers predict a special session of the West Virginia legislature within sixty days. Governor Hatfield is urged to call it to address finances, revenue needs after prohibition, primary election reform, and hydro electric legislation. Legal challenges to the hydro electric act are cited, with firms appealing before the Public Service Commission.
A collection of editorial snippets from West Virginia papers during a Mexican crisis frame editors in Wheeling Charleston Parkersburg and Huntington arguing for political balance wartime zeal or restraint. The pieces reference Governor Colelease Louisiana? and Senator O Gorman alongside calls for party limits and national unity. The tone is urgent and regional pride shines through in long familiar phrases.
Miss Mary Jane Fitz, aged 18, begins duties as Venice Ohio postmistress succeeding Henry Brown. She believes she may be the youngest postmistress in the state.
The piece extols advertisers in this newspaper, praising their faith in themselves and their products. It argues ads cater to readers’ wants, are cleverly written and enjoyable to read, and that advertising serves as a guide to the pleasant road of satisfaction when seeking goods or services.
The Clarksburg schedule lists Prince of Tonight and Within the Law at Robinson Grand theater on Saturdays. Baseball games feature West Virginia University versus West Virginia Wesleyan at Union Park with Cuban Stars versus Clarksburg Pu-W. Va. League on a Thursday. Peg O My Heart screens at Robinson Grand, followed by Ohio Wesleyan versus West Virginia Wesleyan at Union Park.
A witty exchange unfolds as a woman asks a famed detective to explain her husband’s odd antics. He performs a dramatic search through logic and clues from the tale about upstairs stairs, bed, trousers, and shoes. The detective suspects drinking, the tale ends with the woman fainting.
A colorful ad praises Spartan Art Wall Finish for sanitary washable walls and ceilings. It claims the oil paint dries hard and dull, combines calcimine and enamel benefits, provides a velvety elastic finish, and resists cracking or peeling. Southern Pine Lumber Co.
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