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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1915
Page
4
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The piece likens shifting views to trees along a sunlit avenue, starting wide apart and meeting as travelers advance. It suggests that misperceptions fuel enmities, which can be tempered or intensified by strength or temperance over time.
The Newark News contrasts two groups on a liner deck with two American girls and a man talking, and two English girls listening. It says American women would value freedom if they saw European sisters in captivity, while American men would appreciate citizen rights if they saw European masters.
A historical meditation on devotion to duty. It recalls Prince William of Orange's defiant oath against treason, Spain's later hire of an assassin, and a French soldier in 1750 who sacrificed himself to save thousands. The piece extols unwavering truth, righteousness, and heroic character that outlasts lifetimes.
The Ohio State Journal notes Brown President Faunce received an LL D from Amherst and praised a liberal education as the outpouring of a full personality. He said Amherst, a living organism, fosters growth free of prejudice, stressing education as developing the whole self.
A health department survey from July 1914 to April 1915 measured 10000 New York school children asking for working papers. Among boys, national stocks show weight ranges from 102.44 pounds for English, Scotch or Irish to 108.12 for Russian Polish or Bohemian, with a composite 105.71 pounds. Heights show German boys tallest at 62.39 inches and composite 61.35 inches.
The text notes that girls were taller but lighter on average than boys, with the Russian Polish and Bohemian girls identified as the tallest and the German girls as the heaviest among the groups.
The Boston Work-Horse Relief Association urges careful care during heat. Load lightly and drive slowly. provide shade. water often in small quantities. sponge and wash harness marks, eyes, nose, mouth, and dock. use vinegar water and avoid overwatering when idle. give a bran mash with saltpetre on Saturday night. avoid a horse hat except a canopy top hat. keep a wet sponge on the head and feed light as needed. if overheated, move to shade, remove tack, rinse mouth, sponge, cool with cold water or ice, and offer aromatic spirits of ammonia or sweet spirits of nitre in water. offer oats with bran or oatmeal gruel if off feed. monitor for heat stroke signs. if hot at night, tie outside to cool under bedding.
The 1915 opening saw slack cement demand and a 1914 output decline per E F Burchard USGS with prices easing. By mid 1915 production improved in many mills though first half lacked clear gains. Local conditions vary widely with Gulf and Rocky Mountain states outperforming New York Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia and Michigan amid public works and factory expansion.
The Providence Journal reflects on universal misery as World War I deepens. Unemotional, practical men feel sadness and disillusion as war’s toll spreads from Europe to daily life in America. Families, workers, and travelers bear the emotional wounds while sorrow and despair cross the ocean seeking solace in prayer and memory.
The piece contrasts Cyrus’s careful thrift with John Wanamaker’s humble start. It notes thrift as a self-made virtue, detailing Cyrus’s early wealth from family farms and Wanamaker’s Civil War era beginnings. Wanamaker builds a clothing business, avoids excess, and handles many tasks himself before expanding to thousands of employees.
A reflective verse fragment speaks of a soul seeking comfort in God amid world sorrow and death. The speaker notes the harsh discord of life and the need for divine solace that cannot be found in daily breath.
New York reports Diamond Jim Brady accompanies Jean Schwartz and Roszika Dolly toward the California fair, with restaurants warned to stock up for a famed feeder. Anecdotes recount Brady’s easy life and jokes about acting roles, while other Broadway figures and performers are noted in a lively, era-tinged panorama.
Greater Point Pleasant men and editors herald a bright future as the city debuts under progress. The Huntington Herald Dispatch notes wider development across the south and southwest with resumed projects including a bridge to connect Burlington and Nashville, Chattanooga and St Louis railways costing about 3 500 000. Parkersburg Sentinel reports The Sunday Creek Coal Company will close most Ohio mines and move to West Virginia, citing WV coal supremacy as firmly established.
West Virginians show lively interest in Speaker Cisterx daughter’s wedding as the bride’s father and groom both hail from West Virginia. The Morrell sisters duet and Charles Herberg played selections on the graphophone. The evening remained pleasant. A False Charge claims Billy Sunday’s originality cannot be denied as no one imitates him.
A collage of humorous dialogue and street banter from newspapers including the Houston Post and London Tit Bites. It features snippets about accidents caused by reading safety signs, practical college curricula with bridge and moving picture acting, a joke about spoiled meat from a prize launch, Shakespeare’s language, neighbors with a new dog, and conversational gags about packing trunks and manners.
A concise district report argues that prohibition yields fewer crimes, more families thriving, and improved finances. It credits artisans and professionals for disciplined effort, claiming greater happiness, optimism, and general wellbeing as alcohol restrictions take effect.
In Silverton near Cincinnati nine year old Ralph Orntendorph died from a bullet wound believed self inflicted. He was found in his aunt and uncle’s bedroom with a pistol nearby after fetching a revolver from under a pillow following dinner. He had been ordered to bed for misbehavior or planned to bathe, with conflicting family accounts.
Beheaded seven year old Leroy Shumaker body found dangling from a Sunbury train engine after it entered Lewiston depot. Engineer William Stealy reports the head and shoulders appeared above cross ties at High Bridge before the train crossed. Authorities dragged the creek for the head while searchers sought Joe Longenatre who fled to nearby woods.
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