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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1916
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows a Sunday Telegram masthead era notice with garbled text about subscriptions and distribution. Key readable items mention Clarkabyre WY Va and Central Weal Virwinia, but core details are obscured.
A fragmentary verse urges purpose today amid a blunt vow to aim high. The piece notes The Sunday Telegram will feature complete baseball game accounts all season, promising fine coverage. Fans within a hundred miles of Clarks should subscribe or place orders with newsdealers.
Miss Baldwin shared two student essays, ages 18 and 14, each weaving family history into stories. One child described a flood narrative linked to an ancestor, the other recounted a Wellington era dare linked to Blucher and Waterloo. The pieces showcase strong teaching and the value of composition.
A discussion warns that boys clubs should be educational school adjuncts or closely supervised. Independent clubs risk harming youth unless they foster serious purpose. A wartime memory recalls a high school congress simulating legislation, showing constructive, well trained spirit can create strong positive memories.
The National Audubon Societies warn that modern construction and tree sealing remove nesting sites for chimney swifts and other birds. Tree sealing and cement filling of knot holes, plus altered barns and boxes, deprive birds of shelters in cities and estates. A plan to build city bird havens involves students in hands on projects to help birds while providing vacation work.
The Audubon Society reports cemetery associations in Omaha and other places are turning burial grounds into bird sanctuaries by placing fifty bird boxes. A national booklet on building bird houses is being distributed for fifteen cents in stamps to help youths construct boxes.
Announcement of the first Pan American Child's Congress to study child welfare across family society and state. It will be held in July 1516 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with seven sections on legislation hygiene education and anthropology and large US and Latin American delegations expected.
From a national defense view point rifle training of the unorganized militia is vital. The United States stores 300,000 Krag rifles and 30,000,000 cartridges, to be issued to NRA affiliated clubs for practice. The association seeks to organize civilian rifle clubs, provide forms, and expand marksmanship to ready citizens for war, detailing membership growth and historical incorporation in 1871.
The article urges thrift as wartime duty citing leather and hides shortages. It highlights turning waste into value, collecting paper, and cardboard to aid industry and reduce costs. It emphasizes youth involvement, sacrifice, and practical steps to raise home resources and support national needs.
New York reports a shift from dancing to skating craze with Willan Shing Crow, Billie Dilimore, and Broadway figures facing a winter decline. Notables like Joel, Cutlo Pornarn, and a famed pianist mingle at a Met area venue as hotel patronage shifts uptown.
A garbled collection of theater and newspaper text cites Sanctum Vaudeville items and scattered notices. It mentions travel, prices, columns, and a medical alert about a measles epidemic in West Virginia, urging quarantines and public cooperation to prevent spread.
The item compiles editorials from Bluefield Daily Telegraph Wheeling Intelligencer and Wheeling News on wartime policy and conscription, noting Major General Leonard Wood and disputes over army enlargement. It mentions a Canadian mystery, Villa Badly Treated, and debate on expansion plans, with quotes on public opinion and economic expectations.
Fragmentary item notes a Port expedition at Veal ott with a good result and mentions education costs. Limited readable names and dates prevent fuller context. The piece resembles a clipped newspaper item with garbled OCR.
Avrilik-Or wire liaises with the Cannes government to complete a Kia contract in May. Liam Franklin Willoughby will return to the United States and become a member of the Princeton University faculty. Dr Willoughby formerly served as treasurer of Puerto Rico.
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