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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1916
Page
13
The Fairmont charter dispute is slated for a federal court hearing in Martinsburg on December 16 before Judges Dayton Prichard and Woods. Also noted are obituaries from Columbus and Fairmont with local service details, plus community news on a Thanksgiving service, football crowds, and area education visits.
December 6 1916 was designated National Medical Examination Day by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis to urge everyone to visit a family physician for a complete physical. Early detection can curb tuberculosis and other diseases while cancer risks stress the need for regular screenings and preventative care. The Harrison County medical society endorsed periodic thorough medical exams at its November meeting.
The Hutchinson Coal Company opens a large mine two miles west of Lumberport tapping Pittsburg coal while a second Clarksburg area mine near Weston road expands operations to under two hundred acres. Prominent citizen A B Fleming remains home ill with a severe cold, possible pneumonia. Local society notes list visitors, lectures, dances, and guests from Wheeling, Charleston, Morgantown, and nearby towns, including Mrs. Stone’s trip from Lovington and a camp Kanawha reunion voyage home of Captain Mason and Miss Mason.
San Francisco police battered into a Chinese quarter residence and freed four girls aged nine to sixteen. Two suspects, Lee Sue Chung and Lee Shee, were arrested and charged with keeping a disreputable house. The raid followed alleged slavery conditions in the house.
Obituary notices report the death of Mrs. Jotiza Caplinger at her brother Lloyd Caplinger’s home in Elkins following illness, with survivors listed including two brothers and five sisters. Other items recount a musical at Mrs. Boyd Wens’s home, Thanksgiving fair proceeds exceeding 700 dollars for a local Catholic church, several local weddings at the Methodist parsonage, a minstrel star’s marriage in Detroit, a surprise party for a birthday, and a wide array of social visits and holiday travels among Elkins residents and nearby towns.
In Edinburgh a Will contest over John Galt of Glasgow surfaces a striking tale of growing shipping wealth since 1914. Galt died December 1914, with estate valued at just over 400000 dollars, yet legal disputes among heirs have seen the property rise to more than a million dollars by the final hearing.
The Associated Press reports Russia completes a vast bridge over the Amur river in southeastern Siberia. The structure, over a mile and a half long, connects rail lines enabling through connection to Vladivostok entirely on Russian territory. A parallel route through Manchuria offers a more direct option.
A Burke's Drug Store endorsement from Col L Holden touts Nerv-Worth for 25 years of sour stomach. After a half bottle, sourness faded and eating improved. Holden claims relief from stomach woes, nervous headaches, indigestion, and run-down feelings, with a money-back offer if it fails.
A fragment reports a guest, her brother Richard Chaffey, Herman G Johnson and family celebrating Thanksgiving day in Fairmont. Details are unclear about motives or injuries but the scene suggests a gathering interrupted by an incident.
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