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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1915
Page
12
A 1915 style column urges using meals to promote women’s suffrage in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Scott lauds suffrage campaigns and proposes yellow color cues at breakfast and lunch, with named recipes and menus designed to persuade men at home and in social settings.
In Cleveland D June 5 a patrolman Paul Mettel of eleven years was blamed after a girl Sylveta Knighton aged about seven wandered off during a movie. The child awakened alone as night closed in and was eventually found after her parents urged action. Mettel testified he advised calling the theater owner and offered aid.
A botany feature likens the crimson rambler to a social climber, noting its habit of climbing arbours and walls in bloom. It thrives in sun with two hours daily, bears small crimson clusters, lasts into early July, and can reach ten to fifteen feet in a season, the growth speed compared to an army in Europe.
Elwood Ind June 5 After William Gannaway a local contractor had procured a license to marry Lillian Brack he learned that his wife whom he had been separated from for twelve years and told had obtained a divorce from him had never secured a decree.
HUME Mo June 15 It is a custom of the Chinese to pay all their debts on New Year s day and start the year with a clean slate The people of Hume believe that to be a good plan and conducive to a more neighborly feeling so the present week has been set aside here as par up week During this time everybody is expected to pay all debts return everything they have borrowed and in general square up every account that is outstanding against them It is hoped that paying up will extend beyond the commercial side and result in the settlement of all personal differences and a general reconciliation of those who have been at odds
Thomas H. Ransom marks forty-one years in the barbering trade at a single shop in Millersburg Pennsylvania. He stands as the village’s oldest barber, noting countless faces shaved and stories shared over the decades. June milestone noted.
Shinnston, June 5. Ground was broken this week for a 12¢ news moving picture theater to be run by Mrs. Isaac Peters. The building will stand on Pike Street beside the Farmers Bank. Local social notes record visits and gatherings among residents including Eva Thompson, Miss Lydie Clemens, and several others, with reports of visitors from Salem, Williamsburg Iowa, and Fairmont.
A woodpecker family bird dubbed a flicker takes to tolling the burglar alarm at the First National Bank in Wrightsville. The bird's first pecks sparked neighborhood fuss as it learned the bell sound from an insect on the surface.
A British daye report notes a wireless detonation claim drawn up in Sheerness harbor alleging more than 300 deaths. It cites Italian experiments showing a properly tuned charge could be exploded wirelessly from a short distance. If secretly placed in a magazine, all contents could be destroyed.
June 5, Richwood report: The Cherry River and Southern Railroad Co. won a court decision in chambers by Judge Fisher against Gauley Coal Land Co. to condemn land for a rail line along Gauley River from Curtin Brooksville to Anglin’s Creek Greenbrier county. Condemnation will start, enabling urgent construction. Principal stockholders listed. local officials and citizens noted. Also details on school election, candidates Echols and McClang, and local crop concerns due to wet weather.
Evansville June 5. In Hatfield Indiana a religious group known as the Holy Rollers were attacked as a mob of men and boys pelted their street services with dozens of eggs. The meeting broke up and the leader appealed for permission to carry a revolver to continue the meetings.
Twenty five members of Baker high school's domestic department baked over 1000 doughnuts and handed them out as gifts. Eighteen girls prepared the dough and cut pastries for three hours while six served the crowd that praised the treats and asked for more.
In Topeka Kansas on June 5 a golf related incident is noted with S C Pettit involved and a teene or teenie off moment mentioned during play. The terse item records a minor mishap linked to a golfer named Pettit.
The Meuse relief plan, with the cooperative Charpentiers de Sone, pushes rapid construction of temporary barracks, stores, and stables for returning soldiers. The mutual society, capital 135,000 francs, has grown to 5,060,000 francs in wages, paying widows of mobilized members and continuing wartime support as war slows building.
Vienna June 5 One of the most distinguished prisoners is the son of the late Count Tolstoi captured by Austrian and Hungarian forces. He escaped in the Carpathians, was retaken after reaching Trieste, and the tunnel he used was about twelve yards long. Tolstoi and his brothers fought for Russia despite their fathers’ antiwar stance.
Correspondent reports forts along the land side show repairs and heavy guns mounted. Yet at the eastern defenses Japanese forces are destroying concrete shelters. A new section near the harbor is under consideration for quartering, with a small harbor area used by Japanese fishing boats.
Moscow reports that bans on vodka and intoxicating drinks have sharply reduced pawnshop business. Despite high clothing costs and wartime strain, municipal pawnshops struggle to fit demand. Paris dispatch notes total news and economic impact.
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