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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1915
Page
8
An extended effort by major life insurance companies seeks missing heirs to pay claims totaling millions. Reports detail how 10,000 policies and up to 40,000 potential beneficiaries may exist, with companies using post offices, doctors, families, and detectives to locate claimants.
The New England Elks plan a thirty day westward tour tied to California expositions and a Los Angeles convention in July. The party will move to San Diego on July 15 after the convention, with about 40 000 attending. They depart Connecticut June 39 and visit Niagara Falls and scenic westward stops before a Canadian coast tour.
Reports from Belleaire describe a shipment floated across the Ohio River into West Virginia. Workers used tied kegs dragged by rope to a ferry and pulled them ashore, causing local interest and concerns about safety and road conditions.
The will of Mrs. Mary Romaine Wright directs her Ashland Avenue East Summit house to be kept for her late pets, a colony of dogs and cats, until they seek another home. Her daughter Mrs. Frederick C Kelley is named to oversee the request and carry it out, with specifics disclosed today.
At a city council meeting Malloy Brothers received a thirty year franchise to construct an electric light and power plant near the ice plant in North Weston. Construction will begin soon.
An AP report from Berlin says a graph copy of Goethe's early comedy The Accomplies, written in 1769, was found among an elderly Dresden woman's effects after forty years sealed in her unopened packet. The will names the Goethe Archive in Weimar to receive the manuscript valued at 20,000 marks.
Mine Slavko Groulich, wife of Serbia’s under secretary of foreign affairs, explains the Serbian government to aid the American relief committee. She says Serbia is a limited monarchy with real power in the national assembly, where farmers outnumber other members, and that the cabinet answers to this body. The state funds education, highways, railways, and public utilities, with government boards on private company ventures.
William Washington Cole, veteran circus figure and former Barnum partner, left an estate valued around 5 million dollars. The will provides trust funds for relatives in England Scotland and the United States and leaves 200000 to the residue. More than 190000 is bequeathed to charities hospitals and churches in New York City and elsewhere. Mrs Cole died recently in New York.
Paris dispatch reports Earth upheaval in trench warfare revealing hidden treasures. A French reservist uncovered a bond worth 100000 francs and handed it to a French officer. Coins totaling about 400 francs were also found in a trench at Lai Bossee by an English soldier.
The Poster Advertising Company announces a ban on whiskey and other spirituous liquor displays, excluding beer and wines. The action, decided at a Palm Beach meeting of directors, starts May 31 and ends whiskey advertising in all contracts and displays, affecting 45,000 member cities. A separate item notes West Virginia suffrage amendment campaign to begin at its state convention April 5 and 9.
An Associated Press dispatch from London reports a tattered German flag, the first of its kind displayed publicly, sent to London rifle brigade recruiting headquarters. Corporal Jenkins recalls the flag waved before siege trenches, riddled by bullets, yet the banner remained intact and was seized by Allied troops in a yard amid heavy shelling.
Pittsburg March 27 The Construction Record today announced new structures planned or under way in West Virginia. Listings include a two story frame residence in Clarkeburg, a one story brick church for the First Baptist in Liverpool costing 20000, a two story brick residence in Shinnston, a two story residence in Gratton costing 2500, and a one story brick and stone church for the abbins-Piane savings in DFORTESS bids set for April. A reinforced concrete bridge on Randolphi street is planned, and Wheeling architect Donald Bates Franzheim seeks bids for frame residences.
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