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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1916
Page
9
A famous guerrilla figure is reported seriously ill as researchers reveal a vast undersea desert in the Southern Pacific. The area shows no plant or animal life across its expanse, puzzling scientists.
A vintage advertisement touts Madame Madelia’s tonic as an ancient scientific remedy for dandruff scalp diseases and hair loss. It promises soft luxurious hair and displays a demonstration of very long hair achieved with the product. The week’s offer is one 1,00 bottle.
A patchwork of humorous snippets from various papers recounts quirky quotes, small-town misprints, and odd happenings. Readers laugh at a turkey feast served by Hew It’s Tural Improvement Society, a stove caution from benzine, and playful mispronunciations.
The Great Spiegel lectures on hygiene and proper body care reveal his broad knowledge and audience command. Hix hosts a lively program with a band concert and a fire show. Live beavers and performing logs generate excitement as the show starts promptly at 7:34 p.m.
Washington May 13 colonial Dablan reports a proposed encampment for General Pershing's punitive expedition in Mexico centers on a prosperous Mormon settlement in the Colonias Grandes valley 160 miles south of El Paso on the Rio Grande. The region yields extensive relics from a prehistoric race including burials and cave dwellings with preserved mummies. The area offers rich earthware and pottery, and local hunting prospects are noted, while Apache history and tribal guarding are described.
The county farm meeting in rison County, presided by the county agent, praised ensilage and turnout on rye, with plans for soybeans and alfalfa. Farmers including Hinkle, Davison, Hudkins, Lawson, Lynch, Bartlett, Loudin, Stewart, Maxwell, Post, Ruckman, Bhuttlesworth and Martin discuss silos, barns, seed beds, and soil improvements while inviting more members to join pasture improvement and August reseeding efforts. Local auto sale ad noted.
The table lists dairy cows in the Central West Virginia Cow Tenting Association that produced over forty pounds of butterfat or 1,000 pounds of milk in the 30 days ending April 30, 1916. Data compiled by J. B. Bupler & Bonn, Clarksburg.
An Arc , Paris May 13. Adjutant Urban Guignand of the French flying corps is cited in the orders of the day after he took part in fourteen air combats, fighting alone twenty six German machines with five forced to the ground. He himself had to land hastily on February 21 and 22 but saved himself by landing on a pilot.
A fragment notes a hummingbird being only slightly larger than a bumble bee when stripped of feathers. It also states Japan's foreign trade last year showed a large export surplus, highlighting an unprecedented balance in favor of exports.
Hong Kong May 13 Siamese cabinet meeting at Phrapatoom led by King Vajiravudh to abolish licensed gambling entirely. The plan allows licensed houses to operate for one year before permanent closure as the balance of the present fiscal year remains large.
An auction style note offers a car at a low price from Auto Exchange at the corner of Ststh e street and Tradern alley with two phone numbers. The text is fragmentary and interspersed with unrelated phrases about coughs and politics, lacking clear, coherent details.
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