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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1916
Page
3
A local advert announces Macy and Weiss filing cabinets desks and office furniture in every style including roll and flat top desks. Rugs Linoleum mat racks and coat hangers are showcased with a prompt to see the full line.
Coffey and Rosier wed in Oakland Maryland their quiet ceremony celebrated after they slipped away due to youth objections. Nelle Virginia Rosier is the eldest daughter of Joseph Rosier Fairmont State Normal president. Also Thomas M Hickey and Eva B Arnold wed at the First Methodist Episcopal parsonage with plans to reside in Fairmont. Harry H Fisher and Edna S Cramer married at the parsonage and will live in Fairmont.
Winter meeting of the Northwestern Convocation of the Diocese of West Virginia to be held at Christ Episcopal church Fairmont Wednesday and Thursday. Services include Holy Eucharist sermons by Rev. R. E. L. Strider Dudley Bougher Rev. Dr. Moore Arch Deacon Chrisman and children’s missionary. luncheons planned at parish house both days.
Swiss authorities handle daily mail between prisoners of war and families across England Germany France Turkey Austria Japan in a vast humanitarian effort. The program, run without charge, uses a large post office complex and gymnasium space to sort and route letters, with Germany adopting new paper bags and rope substitutes for efficiency noted by officials.
Incomplete text shows scattered foreign words and possible proper nouns like Lasnier John M Mayhew Heer rifle bars and La Gripen but no coherent event or clear facts emerge from the readable fragments.
Traction Company axpiety cars leave Clarksburg for Mt Clare Verjon Skinnston Fairciont Fairview Farmington Mannington and intermediate points daily except Sunday. Shipments for Mannington and intermediate points must be in station by 9:00 am. Fairview and intermediate points out later than 11:00 am. Weaton and intermediate pO not no 12,00 4.
A wartime bulletin recounts postal workers handling soldier mail, gifts, and funds. It notes paper rope substitutes, urgent sorting, and the emotional burden of unreadable decodes. It highlights a mother’s mistaken decoding of a French word and the immense daily flow of letters and money orders to prisoners and soldiers across Europe.
A prior decade of facial skin trouble ended after trying many treatments. The narrator describes pimples spreading on the face, severe itching and burning, and embarrassed social moments until relief came with a remedy named in the account. The piece reads as a personal health anecdote from a period newspaper.
Fragmentary record notes large expenditures and fines as part of wartime finance. Mentions 210 million and 4 million figures with references to obedience and various kinds of costs. Lacks coherent subjects or dates, but signals policy measures and revenue needs during wartime.
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