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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1916
Page
24
The text praises specialization by citing workers such as a tailor who sewed 75,000 coats and a person who laid out 90,000 suits, arguing that experts achieve unmatched proficiency. It contrasts traditional tailoring with modern wireless telegraphy, claiming broad expertise outpaces general effort in garment work.
Huntington dispatch notes W F Hite Republican U S Senate candidate returns from ten day eastern and northern tour to broad support. Reported gains include Kanawha hopefuls and county committee interest as Lilly campaign falters and Robinson gains with dignified platform in contrast.
In a University of Minnesota class on elementary economics the question of a suitable income for marriage was debated. Most women preferred at least $1,200 yearly, with two of the three open to $1,000. Ruth Dampier of St Paul said she would not object to $800 if other conditions were right.
Plans are underway for a British empire fair to be held in London next year. It aims to be the largest of its kind, with exhibits from nearly every industry. The exhibition building will cost about 1,000,000 dollars, spanning 610000 square feet, and stall frontages will run about twelve miles with room for enlargement.
In Fairmont on Friday evening State Road Engineer A. D. Williams spoke to voters and taxpayers in Paw Paw district Marion County about the good roads bond issue. Nearby districts like Lincoln County consider similar bonds. Also noted are the Fairmont Country Club meeting with retiring governors George T. Watson Robert T. Cunningham and T. S. Brett reelected for three years. Marion County court named registrars for forty seven precincts for the June primary. Evangelist Dr. J. M. Mahood from Sioux City Ia secured to lead a three week union revival by the First Methodist Episcopal church along with the Methodist Protestant and Southern Methodist churches.
John Watson Foster former secretary of state under Harrison and father in law of Lansing has been awarded the Order of the Golden Grain by the Chinese emperor for services to the Chinese government. Foster served in the U S diplomatic service and participated in peace talks with Japan. He is eighty years old. The article also notes local social and business items including a birthday party for Miss Florence Hawfler, a deserter from the U S Army was arrested, a man named Thomas Ford was taken to Columbus, and various local business developments and social visits.
General Leonard Wood requests a war department battalion of field artillery for April at Fort Oglethorpe Civilian Camp Chattanooga Tennessee with one battery to stay for spring and summer The move aims to enhance training value and attract recruits as rookies practice with big guns under camp supervision.
Pittsburg March 11. Building operations in West Virginia are reported by the Construction Record. Morgantown plans include a two and a half story brick residence and garage for James H. Smith at 615 Grand Street, with designs by Janssen and Abbott of Pittsburg. West Liberty designs a $60,000 high school by FR. OF. Faris with associates M. L. Wells. Walkersburg bids close this week for a Market Street theater addition for Star and Bijou, costing $8,000. Huntington plans a church and parish house costing $50,000 by J E. N. Alger, with a Baptist church and school room at Twelfth Street and Fifth Avenue estimated at $6,000. W. Phellis’s firm bids on a $25,000 two and a half story brick residence. J. W. Lawton to have a two story brick residence at $8,000 with plans by E. N. Alger. Kellepoint bids on a one story brick church at about $12,000 with plans by Paul Egan. Charleston project awards Abbott Brothers a $50,000 three story hospital addition for St Francis on Laidley Avenue. The Board plans a two story grade school at $35,000 with details yet undecided and architect unspecified.
In Montgomery county, a bloodthirsty and elusive night raider stalks Moreland township. For weeks the animal has attacked and killed pigs, outsmarting hunters and eluding dogs. One farmer claims a daylight encounter with a snarling creature, while experts say tracks resemble a mountain lion.
Philadelphia residents report nightly cat gatherings between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets, roofs and fences hosting a lively migration that ends as mysteriously as it began, prompting residents to shield windows with last summer screens and milky refusals. Nearby military notes describe a three-battery artillery battalion with 513 enlisted men and nine officers, training at Chickamauga and Fort Oglethorpe beginning April 3, with Lt Col H. T. Allen and W. J. Bass in Nashville to recruit defenses.
The article promotes Clarksburns trade board support, citing broad advertising reach in 25 publications with millions in circulation. It highlights land development, factory incentives, job growth, and a local payroll, plus transportation improvements, rate readjustments, streetcar and telegraph service enhancements, and the Business Men’s Bureau and agricultural bureau aiding the community.
A California Supreme Court opinion by Justice Henshaw holds that a 19 year old is still youth and deserves protection in workplace safety. The ruling upholds a $4,000 damages award to Maud Guyer of Los Angeles, injured in a laundry mangle. Employers must guard youth against its own shortcomings and focus risks on machines lacking guards. Russians show greater typhus resistance than Germans.
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