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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1914
Page
18
Fresh fish varieties listed including Potomac herring and shad roe with ordering by Monday or Tuesday for Friday delivery. Deliveries occur soon after arrival. Char. H. Griffin at 101 W Main St provides pickup and phone contact 200-1.
A vintage advertisement urges prompt Hyomei inhaler use for catarrh and head colds. It claims no stomach dosing, promotes easy, pleasant relief, and offers refunds through Wells Baymaker Company. Sold by druggists with a complete outfit priced at one dollar.
A dated instruction for assembling a khaki linen blouse pattern labeled No. 5699. It details tucking fronts, shoulder seaming, neck and collar assembly, perforations guiding stitching, edge finishing, sleeve seam closures, and optional cuffs. Sizes 14, 26, 18 and 20 years priced at 15 cents.
Washington April 23 Exhaustive inquiries place lightning beside railroads as a major source of forest fires. Officials say fire prevention efforts raise lightning’s role, noting that any tree can be struck and that dry duff soil often ignites, starting most fires. Dry thunder storms in the Southwest also threaten fires, prompting heightened firefighting readiness until rains arrive.
National Aid Labor Committee declares child labor a social burden in a new exhibit titled The High Cost of Child Labor. It links child labor to accidents deterioration illiteracy moral danger juvenile crime and wasted productivity while outlining societal costs to industry and families.
Owen R. Lovejoy presses for increased federal support for the Federal Children's Bureau as infant mortality and child labor issues overwhelm capacity. He cites 200,000 infant deaths annually and 2,000,000 children at work while Senate action on a proposed $164,000 appropriation lags behind House approval.
Salem report from April 19 notes Haskell Marple a Civil War veteran and railroad man with chin cancer seeks radium treatment in Boston after Johns Hopkins. Friends hope for a permanent cure as his health remains stable. Visitors include John Randolph of Parkersburg, auditor at Parkersburg Iron and Steel Co. Reverend J Wootter returns from Bikini to aid Baptist temple dedication. Harley Bachelor resumes duties at H J Cross store. John Shaughnessy visits from Pittsburgh. A. J. Warner, elderly resident, is ill and resting. Mrs Roscoe Davisson taken to Clarksburg hospital for care.
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