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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1916
Page
10
The ad emphasizes variety and volume of assortments in Harrison and nearby counties with low prices and liberal payment terms. It highlights friendly courteous service as the main draw, inviting readers to become customers and friends of the store.
Mrs. Annie Scotty of the Philadelphia North American promotes free use of fruit syrups. She lists currant, raspberry, strawberry and blackberry syrups, with recipe ideas for desserts and beverages, including lemon and orange syrups, and notes syrups simplify hot weather meals and canning.
In Italy, forests along the Apennines supply fir oak and sycamore for barracks trenches and railways. American pitch pine imports surged, but freight costs spiked, with a cargo value rising from 1,000 feet at the wharf before the war to about 4,600 feet now.
In Roomville Indiana on July 1 the Rees Inn notes Indiana hens have shipped $11,000 worth of eggs and butter to allied forces. The eggs were hard boiled and prepared for the long journey as part of the wartime support.
Paris July 15 French scientists after extended study on postwar occupations for blinded soldiers say wireless telegraph operators suit them best. They urge reserving this field for the blind, arguing heightened touch and hearing make them ideal. They claim a blind operator could also steer ships in fog, combining roles of wireless operator and sound detector.
In Washington on July 15 a surgeon noted U.S. Marines suffer fewer foot troubles on long hikes when they sprinkle powder into their socks or soap their stockings before marches. In the Haitian campaign marines often faced thirty mile climbs on rugged roads with little blistering. A separate July 15 report from Findlay Ohio recounts Warren Dice of Pleasant township struck by lightning while sitting under a tree his umbrella’s steel conducting the shock burning his shoulder arm and feet as nails in his shoes caused blistering.
London notes government considers using temporary living quarters in large houses to shelter thousands of women employed in munition factories and city business. Urged by elites, the plan aims to lease rooms or convert big homes into hotels or shared accommodations to ease housing scarcity and rising living costs. Moving-piette houses or action rooms discussed as alternatives.
Training camp for citizen volunteers of the United States Marine Corps opens at Landadon e Pa a suburb of Philadelphia on July 21 for six weeks. The course lasts three weeks with options to extend over weekends or continue into a second period. Marines recruiting stations across the country will enroll volunteers.
Mrs Mills living on a farm twelve miles southwest of Independence was gored by a bull while gathering ties in a pasture. She suffered five broken ribs an eye injuries a crushed ear and internal injuries. She recalled nearly stopping the animal by seizing its nostrils.
At the Westchester Kennel Club annual show Cedar Bambino a Brussels Griffon valued at 15 000 dollars battled a Great Dane weighing over 10 pounds. Cedar Bambino owned by Mrs Peter Ceider of Sunnymede is praised as a prime example of the breed. The Dane snapped at the Griffon forcing a change in the outcome. Ceider held out for 31500 dollars for the winning dog.
Joseph Sabagh of this city sues his wife's parents for damages claiming they blocked his wife from going to Bremen Indiana to start a home and prevented her from living with him. The suit seeks one thousand dollars in damages and pledges that the wife is devoted to him despite the interference.
Li Yuan-hung assumes the presidency following Yuan Shikai with a brief mandate urging unity and adherence to law to stabilize the republic. He mourns Yuan Shikai’s death and asks officials and the public to support the consolidation of a constitutionally administered state while others remain at their posts to aid in administrative measures.
Mrs Sophia Wiseski aged 35 of Bayonne New Jersey and her four year old daughter Sophie were sent to jail by Recorder William J Cain after failing to send the girl to school. The recorder warned he would jail them until the child attended regularly. Several mothers were fined ten cents for each day their children were absent without good reason. State education board penalizes the Ta yonne board for days lost by pupils.
Calif July 18 The king of Imelina faces loss as his admiralty enforces a fruit embargo. Santa Clara’s canning firm cannot ship Sutter county clingstone peaches to England for the royal household. Royal buyers forbid other packings, ending years of direct shipments. The embargo cuts royal access to preferred supplies and halts familiar shipments.
In July at Fast Orange New Jersey Mrs. Caroline Streit found a marriage license showing her daughter’s marriage to Lewis B Mills, a former boarder. Mrs Mills had kept the union secret for three years, saying it was her own business. Neither had disclosed the marriage during that time.
A jumble of names and offices appears, listing lawyers, doctors, and a dentist with room numbers and floor levels. The legible entries include Neff & Lohm and Keely & Co on various floors, plus W H Taylor, Dr F S Linger, Dr J E Wilson, and R R Wilson among others.
Philadelphia’s Hugh O Donnell outs a half century driving street cars on Market Street to Haddington. He claims no passenger injury in 44 years of operation and recalls guiding riders to Baldwin Locomotive works. He estimates 75 miles daily and 4 million miles driven in traction days.
Charles E Hughes, Republican presidential nominee, greeted two young men who entered his Bridgehampton drawing room July 15 while he read. They apologized after recognizing him, boasting of a cigarette car magazine moment before. Hughes calmly asked them to finish and depart.
The American soccer team plans to sail for Norway on July 24 but final arrangements are unsettled. Personnel may change since all players must be American citizens and eligible for duty with state militia before sailing given active duty preparations at the Mexican border.
Reports from cities hosting big league games on Independence Day indicate attendance approaching 200000. Afterward, officials said the gatherings included political discussions and revealed they were not Republicans.
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