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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1915
Page
9
West Virginia unveils an omnibus corporate tax bill taxing net income of corporations with sections on exemptions for certain entities, reporting requirements, penalties for false returns, and rates. The measure estimates $1.25 million from the tax and outlines per capita projections and funding needs for 1916 including school and state expenditures.
The article outlines tax plans by class and sector including industrial and manufacturing oil firms taxed at half a percent totaling 425000, coal firms 13000, miscellaneous 190000, mercantile 30000. overall tax 425000 with a projected charter tax increase around 300000 annually. It explains how the direct levy will affect property values and yearly payments, with examples showing a $10000 farm or home owner paying about four dollars this year and rising to under ten cents on average in four years as appropriations are restored.
In Huntington on June 5 a bald headed club forms around Dr. John H Steenbergen who has cured his baldness. Members will go hatless as part of a system to restore hair by exposing the scalp to air when possible. The doctor notes hats hasten hair loss and that air is essential for regrowth while wearing a hat protects the scalp from air.
In Cambridge on June 5 a curious bet centers on the Boston Braves sailing to Philadelphia and back. Jarvis and Fred Wood wager Lucy Lee the big mud turtle and a guardian. if the Braves win the bunting Wood loses $100, while Jarvis must walk the distance. Lucy Lee is to ramble two miles in every five while carried for the remaining miles.
June 1 report notes English business leaders aim to boost hiring. Several firms endorse an incentive plan offering employees one day off for each candidate they persuade to apply, highlighting a drive to expand labor recruitment.
The Bulletin becomes a two page weekly effort by the jitney association to spur interest in the business and inform the public of its activities. William A Wholler edits with Richard Costello George V Young and J H J Quigley Costello aiding as organizers. the paper vows to oppose any hindrance to jitney business.
Philadelphia June 5 A paroled prisoner Frank Seaton aged 52 from Joliet Illinois faces a life sentence after an indeterminate one to twenty year burglary term. Seaton, who disappeared six years ago, was found in Coatesville intoxicated and handed to police. Illinois parole officials decided he must now complete seventeen years of his sentence.
Al Jennings, once a notorious train robber, was baptized in Glendale by Rev. John H. Troy after conversion. Jennings said the experience cleared doubts and left him feeling like a new man and certain his life would change for the better following the lecture he delivered.
Everson woman Josephine Szmania files capias against Sizmund Rogorowsky for alleged breach of promise after claiming a January agreement to marry with a June 10 1914 wedding planned at the Polish church Everson. Damages sought are 5000 with 1000 bail set.
Newport England June 5 A British admiralty order bans women aboard warships after a torpedo mishap on a destroyer. A gunnery mishap saw a charge deployed by surprise, firing underwater and smashing a pier wall instead of the Italian steamship, drenching bystanders and prompting warnings about further gatherings.
Washington June 5 Acting Secretary Byron R Newton issued an order directing Treasury Department staff under Secretary McAdoo to settle personal and family expenses or leave. The directive states the department will not be an agency to collect debts contracted by its employees and that employees may be dismissed for persistent refusal or habitual neglect to pay necessary expenses.
In Fort Collins on June 5 a chicken thief raided roosts across the city. Two women claimed one brood as their own after the birds zigzagged back to their yards, a test that showed the hens recognizing familiar territory and fences, puzzling authorities.
In Connellsville Pennsylvania a woman identified as Mrs Frank Fornwalt walked in her sleep from Wheeler to Hill Grove cemetery two miles away where she decorated her husband’s grave. Afterward she returned to the Watson home near the cemetery and spent the day tending the graves before continuing her routine sleepwalking.
Correspondence from Panama reports a surge in nitrate shipments from Chile to the United States since the start of the European War. From Sept 15 to March 21, about 257,461 canal tons moved via Balboa and Cristobal. In March alone, 112,025 canal tons passed, with 97,287 tons destined for the United States, and nearly half handled by American ships.
In Belfast linen factories, women are paid extremely low wages. A half-penny or one cent per hour is cited for clipping threads on embroidered cushions. Piece work governs pay, with a farthing for two dozen stitches and a dozen taking thirty minutes. The same firms, among Belfast’s largest, employ these workers.
In Cleveland on June 5 Fred C. Lewis told Common Pleas Judge George L. Phillips that his main complaint was Hannah Lewis reading in bed until late at night and repeatedly turning the light on and off. The judge found the reason minor but kept the case under advisement.
A petition circulated in North Highland Avenue seeks to ban early Sunday bells from St. Andrew's Episcopal Church at North Euclid and Hampton streets. Neighbors object to the loud mournful toll at 3 AM and influence the pastor, Rev. Alexander Vance, amid concerns the sound resembles a funeral rite and disturbs sleepers.
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