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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1916
Page
4
The Sunday Telegram provides the Clarksburg West Virginia edition notice of address changes and subscription rates. It notes postal handling and Associated Press affiliation while urging readers to report changes promptly to ensure delivery. The fragment references business office timing and subscription pricing in a wartime era style of the paper.
A compact quotation from Richard Le Gallienne. It notes that those buried are once pompous and boastful, as living people often are. The verse laments complacent vanity and the inevitability of death.
A palm leaf Bible, a New Testament claimed to be among the oldest extant, has arrived in Portland Oregon via Ault Syth formerly of New York. The relic, over 350 years in his family, is written on palm leaf pages with Egyptian Arabic script. Surname Byth records note ancestors were missionaries and obtained the book in Egypt, passing it down through generations.
US Geological Survey reports remarkably preserved leaf impressions from extinct ash oak beech and hickory alongside present day species in gulf-adjacent states. Leaves decayed, but impressions survived in soft clay. Mats remained intact in stagnant water before burial by silt and clay.
Supreme court syllabus holds a coal company liable if it knowingly allows employees to ride coal cars and fails to keep tracks and cars reasonably safe. The master remains responsible during transit to and from work, even with warning notices. If injury results from the wreck caused by fast speed and unsafe road, the master is liable. damages $2,500 affirmed.
A New York Mail column explores marriage to telephone operators, arguing they are robustly healthy, alert, level headed, amiable, and well groomed. It claims about eighty percent are attractive and pleasant, presenting a playful case for this unconventional idea.
A Chicago News item relays a clerk's demonstration of a new British alarm watch with a luminous dial. The device rings for a full minute, guiding punctuality for appointments, banquets, and social events, appealing to businesspeople and society alike.
The annual report of the chief of the Bureau of Entomology shows insulating the hive bottom is crucial for outdoor wintering. Experiments with insulated hives indicate significant heat loss from unprotected bottoms and substantial gains from insulating bottoms, leading to recommendations to build insulated hives.
An entomologist reports insulation material choice in hives is of minor importance. A 1915 trial packed a colony with sixteen inches of sawdust, recording winter temperatures and summer growth. Results showed the colony warm and healthy, suggesting beekeepers need not fear excessive insulation any season.
The National Council of Teachers of English wrapped a three day session at the Astor hotel in New York with sectional meetings and papers on English teaching problems. A New York high school teacher described clashes among authorities over teaching methods and aims and the strain of conforming to requirements. A suffrage speaker noted education broadening her view while a physician spoke on Anglo Saxon in Middle English and a scientist presented X ray aided speech studies with tongue positioning insights.
A Sing Sing prisoner offers a gripping view on crime in cinema after a National Board of Review screening of Blind Justice. He asserts that exposure to crime on screen helps inmates grasp the gravity of criminal acts and reinforces a social view against wrongdoing, arguing censorship would have kept them from such insight.
The federal children's bureau chief Miss C Lathrop releases the fourth annual report noting industrial conditions link to child welfare from babyhood to adolescence. Infant mortality in Manchester shows higher death rates when fathers earn less, and maternal mortality remains high despite advances. The study urges better living conditions, maternal instruction, supervision before birth, and adequate rest and food. The report also covers child labor laws, employment certificates in New York, and a push for national studies on dependency and child protection.
New York reporter Tommy Grant and Chief Detective Cadogan chase a barrel murder at the House of Three Deuces. A bean trail leads to a gunman known as the Wolf, Lupo, who dies in a fall while the girl Tia Da Cappo is rescued after a tense rooftop fight.
December 9 in New York Fred C Kelly Washington correspondent seen in the city before winter work at the capital. He recalls Dayton Xenia days and recalls asking if two clog dancers would appear at services. Fontain Fox the cartoonist features, and a Yonkers man linked to Hard Boiled Egg incident.
The piece sketches brief vignettes from city life mentioning Walter St. Denis of the Globe, actor Leo Donnely, and Oscar Hamerstein in front of the Metropolitan. It notes Donnely’s quip, St. Denis’s egg and ham exchange, and reflects on Hamerstein’s era decribed as grand opera in America and London with public praise and future attention.
In Harrisburg the health commissioner Dr Samuel G Dixon warns men five feet eight or under and forty years old with a forty inch waist to seek expert advice. He links fitness to mental alertness and cautions that overweight reflects poor appetite exercise and diet, urging action before liver and kidneys suffer and health declines.
In New York on December 9 Beatrice Baker, 16, was severely burned when a gas heater set fire to her film gown during a photo session at photographer C. B. Dahlgren's studio in Weehawken New Jersey. Dahlgren wrapped his coat around her and smothered most of the flames but sparks reignited as she fled, leading to severe injuries.
Des Moines Iowa December ruling cites a Davenport barber case against a barbers union. Attorneys claim shaving is a labor necessity and the state cannot deny a man the privilege afforded a mule. The brief argues if a man may carry a mule on Sunday he may have his head carried in a manner of speaking.
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