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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1915
Page
4
The Sunday Telegram of Clarksburg West Virginia prints a brief notice section detailing subscription changes and address updates. It notes mailing address requirements and signatures for changes, reflecting typical newspaper boilerplate in a 1935 era publication.
A Morning Motto presents love as the weapon Omnipotence reserved to conquer hardened hearts. It contrasts love with reason fear and future interest, noting love as a sun melting winter and a soft slumber that defeats the stubborn. The passage reflects on the universal reach of love across humanity.
An early WV agricultural note explains soil needs before fertilizer purchases. It cites Morgantown experiments since 1900 and outlines five key nutrients — lime stone, organic matter, nitrogen, potash, and phosphoric acid — whose depletion lowers crop yields.
The article advocates writing a meal plan in advance to save time and ensure variety. With pencil and paper, better results come than hurried thoughts before cooking. A planned black and white schedule reduces repetition and increases satisfaction from deliberate effort.
A large group of teachers from high schools and common schools plan to attend summer school at West Virginia University starting June 21 to study agriculture. The program includes crops soils animal husbandry entomology horticulture farm management plus general elementary agriculture and nature study to improve teaching methods for the next school year.
The article highlights US scientists who pioneered insect transmission research. It credits Theobald Smith for Texas fever ticks and notes later contributions by Reid, Lazear, Agramonte, Ricketts, King, McCimt ic, Anderson, Goldberger, Wilder, McCoy, and Mitzmann. It emphasizes applying these findings to control various diseases.
The article notes that measures based on vector roles have greatly reduced infection areas for Texas fever in cattle and diminished yellow fever fears. It highlights rodent and flea control for plague, and cites American investigations on insect transmission of typhus to argue disease terror will fade as transmission methods become clear. The Journal of the American Medical Association is cited on progress.
Ten West Virginia counties will host girls garden and canning clubs with county leaders this year. The Morgantown conference outlined plans as Miss Mary Creswell and Miss Ola Powell of Washington DC and Miss Sadie R. Guseman of West Virginia shared methods for growing, canning, and marketing tomatoes and garden products. The program, supported by state law enabling partial salary funding for club leaders, is expanding incomes in rural areas and boosting local canning, marketing, and home nutrition.
The Department of Agriculture gathers data to estimate total U S road mileage and highway value. About 15 000 inquiry blanks have been sent to state commissions to collect county road class mileage, tax rates, road spending, officials, and bond details. It notes wide variance in per square mile road density, cites international comparisons, and plans yearly follow ups to study durability and economy for engineers and agricultural interests.
The Wheeling News reports that women allegedly bought and sold votes in a Paris municipal election. Accused women demand an immediate trial, proving men financed the scheme under false names while the women deny any participation. The outcome and actions against conspirators are not yet decided.
The piece surveys mixed opinions from Parkersburg and Huntington about suffrage, prohibition, and related reforms. It notes reformers discrediting opposing voters, praises the courage of accused women, mentions Alaska’s wet dry vote talk, criticizes radium water schemes, and cites court debates on debt and interstate liquor cases while observers in Marietta stay curious.
A recent Chicago meeting advances a permanent Lincoln Highway beautification plan in Illinois. Attendees included Lincoln Highway committee chair Mr Jensen, Prof Wilhelm Miller, engineer Philip Moreska, and Mrs Irwin. The plan envisions new fountains and tree planting along the corridor, with Mr EH Prost Chicago parks forester coordinating city work and Mrs Carl Parker noted as widow of the Los Angeles financier.
The article argues the church is not disintegrating nor religion decaying. It cites Christianity’s past recoveries through adaptation, claiming the living Christ endures in human affairs. It urges clarity that failure lies only in clinging to worldly crowns rather than pursuing divine love in service.
A fragmented listing of events in Clarksburg with Orpheum theater showcases including The Fairy and the Waif starring Mary Win ter and The Man Who...'s, plus Borson and Tennast at Providence intended era. It also notes a baseball game West Virginia University against Wesleyan at Union Park and a West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association annual convention in late June under Moose, Norwood.
An odd exchange at Cardiff Western Mall involves a visitor conversing with a patient and a doctor about remedies and payments. The dialogue touches on edy, notes, and a remark about promaine for a recognized epicure. A Cleveland Pitan Dealer reference appears in the text.
Miss Grace Murphy of Greensboro Alabama visits Christian Hemmic and draws attention in The Opium Pipe for her striking beauty.
An incomplete OCR note shows a fond minded employee of a French business house writing to a London client about sending mail to London Germany. It reached its destination here but via the London post the Allemagne was underlined and endorsed in red pencil Not yet.
In the tropics the medicines most used include quinine, castor oil, tincture of trom, opium, and brandy. The list reflects common remedies listed in medical notes of the era, indicating emphasis on antiparasitic, laxative, sedative, and stimulant preparations.
The Cleveland Automobile Club reports rising interest in Lincoln Highway touring for 1918. Secretary Fred F. Caley estimates at least 19 percent of motorists on the coast trip will use the Lincoln Highway, with expectations of better roads and accommodations in the West. Early long distance travel has begun, with several cars passing through the city in a single day.
From Haymonds History the tale of John Reynolds bringing the first wagon to Harrison County is recounted. He bought 300 acres along West Fork river near Clarksburg in 1793, welcomed by neighbors who helped pull the wagon through a river and hill, and aided the new settlers who moved into a log cabin built the next day. Mrs Reynolds initially feared Indians but was reassured by neighbors who shared meat and labor.
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