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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1915
Page
10
Advertisers claim sigmantic values and constant low prices at United with every man paying the lowest price here, avoiding higher prices elsewhere and the perception of marked down figures.
Harrisburg report discusses how vacations serve both mind and body. Dr Samuel G Mixon urges sensible planning, noting city dwellers may benefit from country life or camps, while rural residents gain from occasional out-of-town escape to refresh the mind and spark new ideas.
Quincy July 417 A contract of a 760 ton submarine for the Spanish navy has been closed by Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation. Construction will begin at once. The submarine will run eighteen knots on the surface and eleven knots submerged. It will have directive torpedo tubes and rapid fire guns and will match the type being built for the United States Navy.
ALGONA Wis July 17 Held by one foot in a loose half hitch in the rope Harry Braun working for Fred Wulf on the smoke stack job at the Veneer plant was hoisted eighty feet in the air and dangled there for several minutes before brought back to earth unharmed. The stack nearly ninety feet high is being built with rope and pulleys by a horse. Braun’s duty was to keep the top supplied with concrete and drive the horse. He hooked a bucket of cement and the knot tightened as the pull increased, jerking him from his feet into a perilous position.
Hudsondale Pa July 17 Thomas Boyce a wealthy bachelor has drawn over a thousand proposals from women nationwide since a report said he was in the market for a wife. A Missouri girl named Xemenia Zyx now Burke altered the story and changed the situation.
A distant town celebrates a unique built to order community center for farmers. Under F Houston guidance, it aims to offer wholesome entertainment and practical farming education. Three years into operation, Houston dividing 10,000 acres across 32 farms into a tenant system with each partner managed by card index records and monthly audits.
Fragmentary text cites Houston and Mary Hellman praising a broad reform movement. It mentions Houstonia's 290 buildings, hogs, and a road project. The tone emphasizes educating and enlightening people as core aims and notes Hellman as an enthusiastic supporter.
Health To Tungstown reports Miss Elizabeth McKenna, a singer, recovered her voice after surgeons removed two small wires from her neck. Specialists nationwide had treated her for over a year. X rays located the wire that had lodged in her throat after an atomizer use in darkness.
Sunbury, Pa July 17 The pastor of St. John’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Sunbury placed a number of fans in his church to combat the devil’s use of fans for worldly amusement. The move drew a crowded attendance at services as he argued that if the devil fans people to his depths then the church should fan them to heaven.
G Fred Mertz Albert Fleischman and Albert F Mertz residents of Chestnut and South Sixth streets in Teutons Reading file against Parish Manufacturing Company alleging day and night operation including Sundays produces excessive noise. They seek an injunction claiming health harm and property value loss.
In Hilliard near Betz John Williams found a large female raccoon with a litter of kittens inside his home after it entered through an open door. The animal, which chased away the mother cat, nursed the kittens and the person injured by a sting learned the raccoon plans to stay if no harm comes to her brood. The raccoon appears content and neutral in its strange domestic arrangement.
In Williamsport Pennsylvania on July 17 Robert Bastian, sixteen, reeled in a twelve inch trout at Roaring Run creek. A rattlesnake lay beside a rock and a big black bear charged from bushes as he fled, dropping rod and trout. He ran over a mile to safety, with locals unsure if he was pursued by a rogue animal or a frightened jackrabbit.
Rey Pigmell aged six died in hospital after being struck by a bat during a local game in London Ontario. Report notes the accident occurred during a national nonleague event drawing players from across the country.
In a discussion of West Virginia’s deer status, J A Vigpesny defends the state as the best east of the Rockies while noting past lax laws allowed heavy deer slaughter. Timbering and brush have reduced visibility, yet deer numbers surge in Randolph Webster Hardy Grant Nicholas and other counties. Open seasons remain limited but growing populations attract hunters from near and far.
Four decades ago the Stiles family owned Thrall district lands in Williamson county Texas now central to a burgeoning oil region. The widow Mrs Stiles and her two sons have since collected roughly 240000 in cash, bonds and royalties from oil strikes and land trades as fortunes grew with the Spindletop era and subsequent discoveries.
Turtle Dalton, 62, July 17, discovers water bill higher than plant and private mill capacity. A turtle is found inside the meter, flailing to escape, turning the wheel and prompting water users in Dalton to demand meter inspections for turtles.
Frantic pursuit of a runaway calf around St. S. Duntley’s Cypress ranch ends with a barn fire. A lantern tipped, six tons of hay and four tons of beet pulp burned, two cows and two calves saved. Losses total about 400 dollars with 225 dollars insured.
Louis Repetti, 60, a wealthy commission man, sues over twelve potatoes traded for $7 amid a double counterfeited box scheme. He says two countrymen deposited securities in boxes that looked alike, and when he opened his box he found only potatoes. One man named Hicci remains at large as police pursue the case.
Nye Oberg, Riverside high school student, forged Mid West Peace Society letters to enter an international debate in Kansas City. He triggered fund subscriptions for a trip, forced Principal Hugh Law to resign, went to Kansas City as a hero, claimed victory over 36 contestants, bought and engraved a saving cup, and was banqueted by the Riverside Peace Society before confessing. Law was vindicated.
In Canton on July 11 a new company begins commercial production of soil activating germs. The firm uses a chemical process to create beneficial microbes that mimic natural germination helping alfalfa soybeans cowpeas and clover establish fields. Germs are produced from earth taken from old fields and will be sold commercially.
Gypsum Kansas July 17 Fourteen years ago farmer Charles Milleson paid harvest hands ten dollars and believed he had been robbed. Recently Mrs Milleson found an old pocketbook in a worn pocket that preserved the missing ten dollars amidst the folded bills, protected by the leather.
Miss Martha Lock, a hotel maid, was sitting on a mattress on a veranda railing sixteen feet above a gravel driveway when she toppled. The incident occurred at Peter hotel in Hartford Connecticut on July 17. The faulty railing and precarious position led to the fatal fall. The investigation seeks to determine if safety violations or structural issues contributed to the accident.
Philadelphia health director Dr Ziegler warns of cancer tolls detailing 1002 deaths in city last year and over 205 daily nationwide. He describes early signs including skin growths indigestion weight loss and unusual bleeding and urges early medical exams and surgical treatment for visible tumors to prevent spread, noting medicines rarely cure cancer.
In Coln University Pennsylvania a bar shoe on a horse owned by Smith Ho Webb triggers tensions as a horse with a motor whes is tied to a suspected riot risk. A local boy Warren Wright faces charges of slander and circulating false reports linked to chicken theft and neighborly disputes. Court action follows amid district attorney orders and a Kennith Squire transfer to jail and detention.
Berry growers in Lagrange Kentucky harvest the crop with the largest patch in the South, forty acres, supplying the first shipment to Louisville. About one hundred pickers are needed daily. The Elorado variety yields firm, well colored berries superior to Western crops. Lexington experiment station visitors observed blooms, while Washington experts have since visited.
Willian Mundt of Micatas presented five pelts at the Spokane auditor's office and claimed his method of suspending a carcass above traps lures coyotes. He said the coyotes gaze upward and ignore the ground, allowing the trap to seize them as the law closes in.
John Harley, a Piute Indian known for farming success, purchased an automobile for daily trips from his Diamond Valley ranch to town to sell produce. Hawley bought the machine two weeks ago and expected quick returns, reflecting Harley’s rise as a car owning trader in the district.
A scrambled early notice outlines a New York forest restoration effort by Boy Scouts with aims to reforest denuded land. The project seeks cooperation from scout masters, municipal authorities, and state agencies to establish new tree planting along roadsides and public lands.
In Wisconsin on July 17 a car racing accident near North [location unclear] killed Lerane Bebroedar, 13, and seriously injured Howey and Holfeen, 15, when the auto turned over. The crash details and exact site are blurred in the OCR.
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