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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1915
Page
22
Old time New England tips suggest reducing potato use as sprouts appear and green flavors warn against sprouted spuds. Rice and hominy replace potatoes for weeks until prices drop and new potatoes return, while noting nutrition and storage facts from a Berlin medical journal and European experiences.
In a National Geographic Society communication William Joseph Showalter outlines Europe's strained North Sea fisheries. He notes vast embargoes and mine barriers shrinking fish yields, leaving Britain and Germany highly dependent on North Sea stocks while millions of fishermen face unemployment and consumers face dwindling supplies.
In New York on March 27 Alston Curtin,16, and Grace Bowles,15, both from Washington DC, planned to elope but failed to marry. They ran away after meeting Grace on the street, borrowed $14, and traveled to New York hoping to wed later. Travelers Aid Society intervened while they awaited a Rochester contact.
SPRINGFIELD, Nass, Mar 27 The death of Miss Florestine Albertine Beaudoin whose body was found in Williamstown Saturday night reveals she had masqueraded as a man for four years. She lived with her sister Mrs Mary La Chapelle and as Albert Beaudoin worked in the Holyoke paper mills. The motive suggested was to earn more money for herself and her widowed sister. Death attributed to heart trouble.
York March 22 The American woman cheats herself of youth with thick coats of cheap rouge and powder compounded of strong chemicals with corsets laced too tightly with shoes half a size too small and four inches too high in the heel causing harm to health and beauty The piece argues such vanity is self destructive and promotes better care.
Richwood plans a three story brick Odd Fellows hall at the joint Yeo corner of Oakland avenue and Maint street, with $7,000 in ten year six percent bonds authorized. If sold, construction will start this spring along with nearby business projects. The town anticipates revival as lumber and labor move in, smallpox cases decline, and local officials push progress and better weather boosts commerce.
Salem residents may vote on a city proposal to raise twenty cents to pave and link Main Street east to the county macadam road beyond Bristol. If approved, the project would create a permanent year round road from Industrial to near Bristol, four miles long, with county work urged to finish macadamizing Bristol to Wolf.
The West Virginia Suffrage Association inaugurates its state campaign in Parkerburg with a meeting at Fairmont Hotel followed by a banquet at the Hotel Manney. The convention will be in Marion county court house. a second day covers executive committee plans. National advocates of equal suffrage will stump the state. leaders predict no let up until the 1916 election. Mrs J Gale Jobert of Parkersburg chairs the state group and plans for the Fairmont event.
The Swedesboro Glenshaw Glass plant will reopen April 1. Fostoria Glass in Moundsville buys a 150 horsepower gas engine. Gill Brothers Toronto plant adds a gloryhole and runs at full capacity. Travis Glass Weston and Clarksburg plants operate steadily, with multiple tanks and machines in blast. Carr-Lowrey Baltimore to restart idle furnace in ten days. Lafayette Clarksburg reports sixteen years in operation and fires blocked. Peerless Clarksburg shows first interruption. West Fork and Tuna Glass plants maintain multiple machines, with one 24 blower tank in hand factory. Clarion Pa. wWerney Bond eye uninterrupted July run. refugee Belgians plan a $30,000 window glass factory near Farmington. Preston Silica Sand sale to Maier & Brothers for $7500 approved. Rochester plant faces material shortages. Hockstrasser to head new 36 blower Clarkburg window factory in Clarksburg. Adamston plant prep for operation. $20,000 stock additions at Mound City Glass. Cumberland Chamber arranges $39,000 glass factory financing. Monongah and West Virginia plants expand with new tanks and facilities.
A large parade led by naval and Marine units will open the San Diego exposition field day on May 3. The program includes track events, trench digging drills, and various demonstrations by Marines, guardsmen, and visiting dignitaries including Admiral Dewey and Admiral Uria of Japan, with ships and spars displayed for the sail in and boxing contests.
Fragmentary OCR text suggests an ownership or purchase note involving local newspaper elements, mentioning KeYser Fayette Journal and Charleston Daily. Details are damaged, but imply a sale or transfer of interest and editor changes. Further readable context is needed for precise, named entities and dates.
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