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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1914
Page
4
The notice lists subscription rates by carrier and mail with monthly and yearly prices. It includes a change of address instruction and states that communications sent to the paper will not be acknowledged.
An Evening Eeho offers lively wit while a Fourth of July celebration at the fair grounds and a Lincoln Chautauqua on Central school grounds promise both entertainment and education. The Wheelite Register touts administration victories amid Democratic opposition to Wilson policy. A proposed bill to prohibit high officials from hiring relatives is seen as political theater by the public.
The Telegram endorses ex Chief John B. Conlon of New York for urging Clarksburg to adopt Croker’s safety recommendations. Conlon’s career includes lifesaving medals and key rescues, with praise from the Humane Society and empresses, underscoring his authority on firefighting standards and public safety.
An editorial from a Springfield farm and national farm paper advocates Canada’s campaign to provide universal access to books via a two cent per person postal library system. It argues such a network would rival city libraries, open global literary treasures, and boost reading, education, and citizenship in rural America.
The fragment suggests that the crop will be the most satisfactory for silage and will grow well. It emphasizes favorable prospects for silage quality and harvest potential based on the context of the discussion.
Editors warn of an imminent business shift as President Wilson signals upcoming changes. The sentiment cites a declared war on the rooster in Ohio by the agricultural bureau, noting a bleak outlook for a promising year.
A letter to the National Geographic Society outlines the arduous work of Egyptian excavations. Workers endure dust, heavy machinery, and meticulous sifting to save fragile relics, as floods threaten temples and papyrus stores.
Senator Vardaman warns of President Wilson's perversity and possible iniquity over free tolls, risking his political future. A Boston physician claims a cure for chinkenness, urging West Virginians to pursue abstinence. John Patton repays a loan forty years after leaving Newbury for the West in 1874, while boats and autos replace older rocking methods amid daily accidents.
A frustrated young man declares he will go to war after a failed marriage proposal. He rushes through quiet streets to a cinema showing “our boys in action” at Vera Cruz, bravely paying to watch the moving pictures and insisting on serving.
The Insurance Co-Operative pursues a country wide advertising campaign to explain why life insurance is needed. Local life agents will be primed to harvest premiums after the newspaper ads. The strategy mirrors tactics any large interest could employ.
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