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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1916
Page
6
In a rambling parlor scene, old Ivan Greenlaw and others discuss a one-eyed man at a poker table. Accusations, loyalties, and threats of violence surface as the group debates vice, courage, and the looming possibility of armed conflict over a contested game and its players.
Receipts and price movements across commodities and livestock markets. Wheat prices fluctuated with shifts in futures, pork details show July figures, and cattle and sheep offerings varied by grade and region. Wholesale dairy and thorougbred poultry prices also appeared, with notes on demand and market tone across several cities.
New York trading shows a muted session with deal activity near minimal levels. Leaders include United States Steel Mercantile Marine Mexican Petroleum and several equipment and industrial stocks accounting for over half of the market movements.
The piece notes high demand for raw paper amid scarce imports. It cites President T. S. Shonts and the American Paper crisis as households hoard scrap, rail cars haul discarded papers, and impressions like eight thousand dollars annual revenue from flint paper. It ends warning of financial precarity for enlisted guards and families.
A messy, fragmented report traces political maneuvering around the West Virginia delegation and national appointments. It notes Mr Quick’s position with Democrats of West Virginia and critiques Senate power games, Maine and New York trade views, and Wilson era political dynamics with sparse clarity and loaded rhetoric.
Chicago July 20 Carl Cohn of hsmy will be most cautious swimmer near Diversey Bosch for rest of season. He started swimming, dove deep and grasped what he thought was a pier post and pulled toward the surface. Miss May Hrou was attached to what Colin mistook for a post, and the scream frightened him. In the suburbs Ty described the event at police court. He claimed a twisted out scene and saw what he thought a limb, then believed it a pier post and discovered its true nature.
Nora Watkins faced an examining trial before County Judge Hammond on murder charges for the death of her infant. The infant’s body was found in a rain barrel at the Barbourville home where she had stayed a week. Coroner J F Dover reported the child was born alive about ten to twelve hours prior and drowned.
In San Francisco July 29 Foster Clark testified his wife Mrs George C Clark aimed to dress in fashion and spent beyond their fifty dollar weekly allowance. Clark an expert accountant said she left for New York after arguing over funds and he had not heard from her in three years. Judge Flood granted an interlocutory decree.
The passage describes how public opinion and politicians in Washington view Woodrow Wilton as a volatile figure whose stances shift with the mood of the nation. It portrays him as a supreme yet unstable political actor who is seen as a master of changing positions to align with current currents.
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