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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1910
Page
1
Nov 29 from Metronlean Russia reports sudden storm in Caspian Sea. A landing craft with 200 Persian dock workers broke moorings and was swept away. Rescue attempts failed and all hope for saving the men was abandoned.
The general Sunday school rally in the city shifts to Thursday afternoon and evening at First Methodist Church due to a correction. Program highlights include a devotional service led by Miss Martha V. Graham an address on Sunday School Management in relation to evangelism by Mr Hugh Cork and a night service with local leadership and the Graded Lessons and Parents Problems discussions.
Washington November 29 1911 President Tat informed cabinet officers that after scrutinizing final drafts and estimates from government departments for the fiscal year beginning July 7 4911 there must be further deeper cuts and they will not proceed in their present form.
A new well on the J Droore farm near Rock Camp in Metricante county is flowing about 20 barrels per hour. The Moore farm wells lie in what is called gam territory with potential extension to the southwest. Nearby Dom dome sand development on the Dennl zox Run lies one and half miles southwest, with the nearest air production to the Gordon sand field.
Advices from Tejuchalga report Atlantis ports of Honduras and Comayagua captured by revolutionists under former President Manuel Bonilla. Government forces sent to retake the territory joined the enemy. Bonilla is credited with leading the revolutionaries in Honduras and is said to be in this city.
Report lists oil production in the Dety field’s No 1 and No 200 wells, with 230 barrels daily on J B Thompson farm and 100 or more barrels daily from other wells in the district. Notable operators include South Penn Oil Co No 4X, Phile Gorphta Co No 7, and Graves & Parish No 2 Thompson bette, with outputs ranging around 100 to 260 barrels per day.
A. Sm. Huresy of Sujorm visited the city today seeking bids on a pumpkin crop. Details about a hectare of round plots and related terms appeared in the fragmented OCR text, noting a price and quantity associated with the pumpkin sale.
The West Virginia Mine Association scheduled its annual meeting for Friday morning December 16 at the New Willard hotel in Washington D C. President Williams N Page will open with an address followed by talks from EB W Parker Charles R Townsend FR Wad Neigh Nell Robinson and John Laing among others.
Louisville Kentucky November 29 Husing Ropke today pled guilty to five counts charging embezzlement of funds from the Fidelity Trust Company total defalcation 1 429 000 He received a prison sentence of ten to eighteen years in the penitentiary
Justice C H Gordon recognizes George C McKinley of the graded school staff in Adameron. He appeared at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening to answer a charge involving a pupil Kenneth Bocco aged 14. The campintas well made by the minth er or the toy.
Construction on the city water works and sewer system advances rapidly with a one million gallon reservoir nearly finished the filtration plant and intake basin in the West Fork river nearly complete and large diameter mains installed boosting water pressure and reliability for residents.
A Monday night meeting at the First Baptist church drew many parents and teachers. Mrs. Mary Ke Tent a of Chicago Illinois lectured on The Responsibility and Cooperation of Parents and Teachers. Ex Senator A K Thorn spoke on education and guiding children with teacher parental cooperation. An open discussion followed. An account of Mr Thorn s address appears in another column.
Mrs Sallie Glenn of Newark arrived in the city Monday evening to visit Mire Busan J Odeo who is seriously ill with pneumonia. Odeo's condition is not improving.
A fragmented OCR snippet hints at a public or cultural headline with unusual phrasing. The readable bits reference a "big-eyed" motif and a potential figure or event named Tapliga or similar, suggesting a feature on a prominent persona or art movement. Further details are unclear in the fragment.
An agricultural exhibit will be held in Fortington on Wednesday Thursday and Friday with a packed program. Evening lectures cover education and agricultural problems including presentations by P Shawkey and Prof GAL Lue and a round table discussion on garden ing and pipe dodging. The event features judging of vegetables poultry and various exhibits with a Friday basket ball game as part of the program.
WMRASEPORT Ky Nov 29 The third conference of governors opens this afternoon. Governor Willson will welcome the chief executives with Rhode Island Governor Pothier replying. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey will speak on the conference’s possibilities.
A blast ripped through a block on Elizabeth Street in the East Side today wrecking five stores and destroying 500 tenement house windows. Despite thousands of foreign visitors being displaced by the shock, no serious injuries were reported.
The Union prayer meeting at the First Methodist Episcopal Church promises to be a major religious event tomorrow night at 7:20. Ministers, Sunday school workers and others will join in, with music, as the public is invited. The gathering prepares for the city church census on Thursday morning. PRERLESS TO. FE mine Poorlnancwieiow Glare, Com pany. will resume operations shortsview, Phurday, Deschition- .
In Charleston or Glen Elk, Charles A Lewis, a Glen Elk merchant, faces a criminal court trial over alleged theft of wool from the Lowndes woolhouse. Baltimore experts and railroad officials testified on handwriting and shipment records as the defense readies its case tomorrow.
Clarkshire Ministers Association elected Swell as president Oldaker as vice president and Flanagan as secretary for the next six months at a Monday meeting. No treasurer was chosen. Meetings move to morning on the second and fourth Mondays. An invitation was extended to clergy from neighboring towns to join the union. Rev T S Wile to present a paper at the next gathering.
A threatened typhoid outbreak caused Washington University to shut down during Christmas. Students from the city, including Robert Hood and Earle Drummond, may return tonight or tomorrow. Virginia Military Institute also closed for unrelated reasons, with five cadets affected by conjunctivitis.
Increases are noted for Maryland and Nebraska with figures cited from 1900 era sources. The text references 204 450 for Maryland and mentions Nebraska population figures around 1 098 214 with year 1900 context. Names such as Fred Bartlet and Mannington appear in fragmented form.
Crowded city schools host an evening reading program at 7720 Weloek First Methodist Smutten. Catherine Ridgeway leads a varied selection of readings aimed at providing engaging ideas and color, with a modest admission to cover costs.
A partial record outlines public school enrollment, staffing totals, and room usage. It lists central and Pierpont schools, noting enrolment figures, teachers, regular rooms, and improvised spaces, with focus on average students per room and capacity considerations. The fragment references a meeting and remarks by a board president.
Henry Sprouse of Weaton faces transfer to a new federal court in Parkershoro as a charge is preferred again. A.C. Bloore and United Swips official Somer posted a $500 bond, with Morst as surety, amid questions over a wholesale business and unclear real estate.
In Justice WP Camp's court Tuesday evening a feud between two Black women on Montivelio avante was recounted. One woman testified Trippin struck the other with a bucket, breaking pieces of her bonnet. The defendant was cleared of assault charges as the judge dismissed the case against the Tripday Woman.
The annual West Virginia Brewers Association convention will be held in Parkersburg beginning Tuesday December 13 and continuing the next day at the Chancellor Hotel. Included are banquet, speeches, and entertainment with about 200 cuts noted. Attendees from Ohio Indiana Kentucky and Pennsylvania join Parkersburg members and local members for the event. Behn Dunkin of Bridgeport dies a city writer.
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