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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1913
Page
2
A crowd attended the Orpheum opening amid praise for the modern interior and its exhibitor Mr Marke. Attendees noted the program of high class pictures and expressed belief in a bright future for the theater and its showman as a key attraction.
The Odeon theatre offers a lively start to the week with strong singing and dancing by the celebrated McCroy quartet. The second act also pleases with music and clever, well staged numbers.
Wes Kus reports on the American Federation of Catholic sp ereto convention where about 500 delegates meet in the auditorium while some 30,000 Catholics visit. Key topics include religious teaching in public schools and taxing Catholic citizens to fund public schools already supporting parochial schools.
The program features three top Biograph reels including a Noisy Sultorsi farce, a Pathe play Hannigan’s Slarem, and a light comedy about a charming mother, all praised for quality entertainment.
Dominic Ross, a young Italian, is suspected of complicity in a Monongah shooting incident after authorities in Daybury Conn. arrest him. A telegram from Police Chief Harry L. Brooks to Connecticut officials seeks confirmation of the connection to the De Chaver murder case from a year ago.
Monongah officers plan to hold the fugitive after charges in Connecticut are disposed of. Danbury police are asked to cooperate. The man known in Danbury as Vincenzo Capolungo and Vincenzo Grizzlo is reportedly the Monongah fugitive.
Militant suffragists were brought before a London police court and jailed for periods from one week to two months following yesterday’s failed attempt to storm Prime Minister Asquith’s Downing Street residence. Sylvia Pankhurst was not among the prisoners, being taken to Holloway for another sentence. In Washington, Senator Hollis of New Hampshire attacked cotton manufacturers, denying New England discrimination and calling tariff cuts harmful to the textile trade.
Funeral services for Mrs Bengno Marcis aged 18 of Northview will be held at Siers undertaking mortuary chapel at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. She died in a local hospital Sunday night after a few days illness of a complication of diseases. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery.
San Francisco on August 12 saw saloons shut for four hours as the first test of a new state law that authorizes liquor sales between 2 and 6 a.m. The measure became effective at midnight, allowing selling giving or delivering liquor in those hours.
Mrs Wade Carder and children Mary and William of Parkersburg visited Rev and Mrs C W Stephan in Bridgeport. T L Bates of Meadowbrook spent the weekend with daughter Mrs Albert Saurborne. Martha Taylor returned from a year at a Michigan college. Mrs Richard Vasser of Weston visited her parents the J H Saurbornes. Bridgeport and Simpson Creek teams played a game, score 14 to 9 in Bridgeport's favor. Cleon Fitzhugh, traveling salesman, plans a few days with his parents N E Piteburgt and Mrs Piteburgt.
Henry Dietrich, a blooded stock raiser near Hastings on Hudson, found eighteen registered cows dead in a row after a lightning strike hit a barn this morning. The barn itself showed no damage, and all cows within the stalls perished.
George Heatherington aged 11 fell ninety feet from a smokestack he was painting in McKeesport. His back was broken and he was hospitalized in a dying condition.
Mrs. C Hellmuth of Bart A Street reports a 25 year battle with severe eczema on the face. After using Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap she notes rapid relief from itching and eruptions and urges others to try the remedies. Free trials offered by Resinol Department 19 M Baltimore Md.
An old advertisement portrays a desperate homemaker seeking quick results from Easy Task soap to finish house cleaning. It claims Busy Task cleans thoroughly without leaving grease, repels roaches, and promises a sweeter, cleaner home. The copy upholds era notions and touts product efficacy against critters.
An advertisement extols S. S. S for salt rheum eczema scrofula and skin ailments. It claims rapid blood action through vessels and promises safe effective relief with directions to obtain from drugstores and write Swift Specific Co Atlanta GA for guidance.
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