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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1915
Page
20
The article reports widespread moonshine activity in Georgia and the surrounding region, noting many moonshiners imprisoned or awaiting trial. It quotes witnesses and judges, discusses government crackdowns, and highlights personal motives and hardships driving illicit distilling.
Philadelphia records fashion expert notes a shift to straight hair bands and United States hair. Demand grows as short styles fade, while debate over sources, bleaching, and racialized hair descriptions reflects broader beauty industry practices.
The first Belgian flag brought to Berlin for display in the Zenghans military museum has arrived. The silk banner bears black, yellow and red with a gold fringe and is mounted on a pole. A caption notes the flag’s entry into the collection amid the exhibition of war trophies.
St Paul Minn March 27 James J Hill ex president of Great Northern Railway testified before Senate and House transportation committees predicting an early end to the European war. He warned if the war ends this year wheat may fall to 70 cents a bushel in 1915 16 saying European creditors will seek money in the United States pushing interest rates up and then after the turmoil ends large European crops will depress prices here. He added he would not be surprised to see farm wheat at 70 cents per bushel in 1916.
Rotterdam March 27. Brus sels a supply of English newspapers, smuggled across the border amid German import bans, was curtailed by the death of a daring Belgian who for weeks moved about 200 copies daily. He had linked with a Bavarian contact, but recent changes closed his routes, ending the year’s papers trade.
A historical sketch outlines Levi Shinn and family’s move to Harrison county Virginia in the 1770s 1780s and other frontier figures like Judge John G Jackson Colonel Benjamin Wilson and Thomas Bartlett. It details land grants suits public service roles and frontier enterprises along the Monongahela Valley with notes on families and settlements near Clarksburg and Buckhannon and the West Fork river.
In Binghamton New York on March 27 an early warm spell damaged 25 acres of winter wheat near Glen Aubrey as grasshoppers swarmed the field. Farmer Jacob Smithers reports tops eaten and sprouts ruined while the insects, large and active, appeared to have wintered under fertilizer in a newly seeded meadow.
MASSILLON March 27 After over a century the Navarre village pump on the square has been removed to make way for an ornamental iron fountain fed by the municipal system. Patrons protest that village water is purer for drinking though the old well provided a cool supply. Rochester Square merchants plan an rival fountain as farmers complain about pumping water for horses and radiators.
London dispatch notes James Slim a Jamaica born pure negro enlists as private in the Coldstream Guards marking a democratic wartime shift. Slim previously served with the French Foreign Legion in France, was wounded, and sought to join Kitchener’s new army before enrollment at Windsor reserve battalion.
NEW YORK, Mar. 27. Siss Annie S Peck, famed mountain climber, Advocates thrift and proves it possible to live in New York on twenty five cents daily. She cites simple menus using nuts vegetables and evaporated milk while avoiding excess meat. Her weekly plan includes steak and potatoes at 20 cents, roast pork salad 5 cents, codfish balls, oysters and chocolate. Peck’s regimen sustains her health and enables climbs to greater heights than many men.
Stock holders in Charleston ratified the merger of National City Bank with Charleston National Bank. On March 31 the National City Bank will move from its current quarters into the premises now occupied by Charleston National Bank in Charleston.
Charleston March 27 Leroy H H Griffith and Mason Grinstead, both inmates of the state penitentiary for embezzlement, were pardoned by Governor Hatfield. Each man hails from Kanawha County.
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