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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1914
Page
15
The store showcases summer fashion with models in peacock blue lighter blue Labrador blue navy and wisteria and cornflower greens and blacks. Thirty young women will pay 35 to 55 dollars for a handsome suit. Sizes 14 16 and 18 are available.
A social diary spans women’s temperance club reports at St Paula Church and county institute planning at First Presbyterian. It notes a Trojan Club dance at the Masonic temple, an orchestra dance for the Clarksbury team, a Northview wedding, and upcoming meetings to select delegates. Local residents and visitors are listed with several acknowledgments of travel and hosting at hotels and homes.
A London dispatch reports Bedouin native surgeons in the Algerian hinterland conducting field operations without anesthesia or modern instruments. The piece notes improvised tools and traditional methods used to treat injuries and illnesses under harsh conditions. The report highlights resourcefulness and the enduring role of indigenous healing practices amid colonial expansion.
A report describes eight tribal surgeons sharing crude but effective instruments. Trepanning is common due to stone-throwing fights. anesthesia is unknown and pain is undervalued. A boy underwent a 15 day skull operation with a successful recovery amid claims of 200 cures for various diseases and early artificial limbs.
Mrs M Barrick will be at her Fourth Street studio on May 10 and May 13, 1912 to take autings for those seeking photographs of the higher order. Appointments are requested.
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