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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1916
Page
2
The ad claims humors in the blood cause internal derangements and disease. For forty years Hood's Sarsaparilla has been more successful than others in expelling humors and removing their inward and outward effects. Get Hood's. No other medicine acts like it.
A call for a municipal convention of voters in the town of Great Oaks West Virginia to nominate candidates for municipal offices. The meeting is in the council chamber on Wednesday evening December 29 at 7:30 o'clock with purpose to nominate for the January 7 1817 election. G M Barnett chair of the executive committee. Also mentions a separate entertainment event at the Bijou with competition between The Lumberlane and Spry Barlaw.
Washington dates the first joint effort by a national organization and the government to preserve Sequoia National Park trees. The National Geographic Society helped secure $20,000 to complete a land purchase, enabling protection of the Giant Forest’s 2,000-year-old sequoias amid mounting timber pressures.
In the railway mail pay divisor cases the Chicago and Alton and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroads sought 27 to 35 million dollars for extra mail transportation from 1907 to 1911. The Court of Claims dismissed both suits, ruling against the railroads, which argued the 1907 seven day divisor overstepped congressional authority and that mail carriers should be paid for Sundays. The cases followed years of dispute over how mail pay was calculated and featured former War Secretary Dickinson among counsel.
The Laclede Gas Light Company directors in St. Louis have declared a $1,700,009 extra ten percent dividend on common stock and ordered a ten percent yearly salary bonus for each employee. President C. L. Holman cites unusually profitable 1916 from by products sold for war materials. Japan operates a goldfish farm continuously since 1762.
The roving voyage of a whistling buoy stationed off Nantucket Shoals marks its 1 year 7 months journey with its siren sounding warnings. It traveled at least 2,600 miles across the North Atlantic and is back in service after overhaul in New York. The Marseillaise acknowledged the buoy and its tracking.
In Chicago on December 18 a satirical critique argues that a so called divine right to dominate a wife is a dangerous creed. The piece mocks a 'super creature' man who uses spousal violence as proof of authority, citing Prof. Wilbur Stone and a literary cemetery of thought to expose the absurdity of male domination claims.
Mrs Stone a 26 year old described as a beautiful woman told Judge Charles M Thompson that her belief in a divine bequest shaped her life for six years before she filed for divorce. The court transcript outlines her view of a cruise of fate guiding her marriage.
Evelyn Hansen, seven, daughter of H. O. Hansen captain of the barkentine James Johnson, has lived four years at sea born on the high seas with Sweden in her complexion. She knows ropes, spars, and ship terms and obeys the captain, but despises orders from any other sailor aboard.
The Dead Letter Office recovered more than 2.25 million dollars in checks drafts money orders and valuable papers from undeliverable mail last year. About 10.8 million letters and parcels handled with 1.6 million valuables claimed or destroyed and 41 775 still under investigation. Revenue from recovered items and new rules may make the division self sustaining. Change in handling of parcels will shift from Pittsburg to New York and from Cleveland to Cincinnati.
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