Local Post Office Receives Change of Address Request
Daily Telegram readers are advised to update their records with the newspaper. The notice requests subscribers notify the office of both old and new addresses to ensure uninterrupted delivery.
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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1915
Page
6
Daily Telegram readers are advised to update their records with the newspaper. The notice requests subscribers notify the office of both old and new addresses to ensure uninterrupted delivery.
Fragmented remarks on Democratic and Republican positions arrive with quotes from leaders like Schiff and Williams. The note contrasts calls for prosperity, economy, and efficiency with party pledges, and recalls 1916 tariff debates amid ongoing political spin.
Woodrow in Indianapolis jokes about a supposed political coup and notes the tariff commission bill creates a tariff commission. He stresses the obscurity of tax making and cites President Wilson on who obscures the process. Also discusses goat hair tariff history under Republican laws and a Payne statistic about goat stock, with Garner of Texas as a Ways and Means member.
In a tax and tariff clash, the Underwood bill faces heavy opposition led by rival advocates. Despite filibuster threats and party bickering, the House passage triggers shifts in farm product taxes and the famed Garner goat becomes a byword for political stalemate. The senate considers amendments as the plot thickens with references to sugar tariffs and protection versus free trade.
In Chioggia, twenty miles south of Venice, a gondola tour reveals a medieval town with a long canal and bustling fishing boats. Sails boast bright heraldic designs, each boat tied to a family and signaling to wives at home. The scene recalls medieval Venice Genoa rivalries and the city’s naval history.
In a fervent mobilization Venice rallys the people amid a Genoa threat. Rich citizens fund churches while the poor enlist. forty aged galleys are repaired and manned. Pacini, freed after defeat, leads a night dash toward Chioggia and captures two Genoese galleys, delaying reinforcements as Venice asserts naval supremacy.
The article notes over a hundred million rabbit skins heading to London fur markets by late July, with Australia supplying many. Rabbit fur, the cheapest fur, is used in lining inner garments and in red felt hats. A rubber foundation method attaches fur to create durable, flexible linings and trims for cheaper wraps, after brushing hairs and embedding fur in ice then applying melted rubber.
A lighthearted piece sketches Prunella's mysterious ailment as a humorous domestic exchange. Mrs Kneesnock and her husband discuss whether green apples or lemonade caused her condition, while their daughter’s antics hint at more mischief than illness.
May 14 highlights show R D Newton visiting Clarksburg. Numerous neighbors and relatives including Heart Swiger Carl Newton Dennison Bramer and Watkins visit Grassrum Brown Misss Pearl Dennison and Gae Dennison travel to see W S Swiger. Several residents like Miss Pearl Newton Mrs Bertha Smith and J K Dennison socialize with kin and friends across nearby towns.
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