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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1915
Page
4
A fragmented 1915 Sunday Telegram front page item lists editorial room, business office, and subscription rates. It mentions carrier delivery, change of address requirements with signatures, older address data, and postal service notes for Clerksburg West Virginia.
A short reflective piece contrasts love with wealth rank family and friendship. The speaker urges weighing love against worldly values and asserts friendship may balance the beam while love outweighs the world. The quotation credits Sheridan Knowles.
A Lexington leader declares Kentucky a queer state blaming local soil climate and moisture for the people’s development and wealth. He mocks wealth pursuit and praises ease of life, contrasting with political and industrial mismanagement by distant powers and “goths and vandals” from the East.
A call from the National Security League at 31 Pine Street New York proposes a million volunteer workers to back a program for defense reform. The plan seeks waste reduction in military funding a clear policy a stronger navy a mobile regular army better National Guard support and organized reserves. Notable backers include Joseph H Choate Alton B Parker Henry L Stimson J Bernard Walker Benjamin F Tracy and Col William G Church inviting names and funds.
A retired Japanese navy admiral invents a seaworthy inflatable lifeboat made from waterproof treated hashikirazu paper. The craft packs into a cubic foot and remains buoyant if some air pipes are punctured, with potential uses including airplane wing coverings and dirigible balloons.
Farmers who mainly deal in checks can easily keep a clear farm income record. Deposit all money received into the bank to track receipts and guard against unrecorded spending. When drawing checks, ensure the purpose is stated on the check.
The passage explains using a single check book with itemized memoranda for farm expenditures and personal use. It recommends checks for minor cash needs, with memoranda to charge such items to the farm and note produce exchanged for groceries. A large, banker-supplied check book with numbered checks helps keep all accounts in one place.
Harold W. Foght in a United States Bureau of Education bulletin cites 3000 responses showing only 73 teachers live in community provided homes. He argues permanent cottages boost school leadership, community rallying, and stability, urging salaries and laws to fund teacher housing near every school plant.
Harvard president and educators launch Class of 1915 to mobilize six million schoolchildren in America and Europe for relief. A five cent food unit feeds a child for a day. funds from class events and memorials support Children of America's Fund at Oak Hill Newton Center Mass.
South Carolina and Texas join four states without compulsory laws. Texas sets attendance ages eight to fourteen with gradual yearly days in school and penalties, effective September 1, while South Carolina makes the law optional, urging districts to adopt it in 1915-16. Education officials expect influence on other states and longer attendance campaigns.
Former and current State superintendents of education urge a suitable law to enforce compulsory education. They argue for a reform that makes Alabama a producer of wealth through rigid, progressive schooling aligned with the state’s capacity to implement it.
The 1914 secondary metals value excluding gold and iron reached 57,039,706 dollars per J P Dunlop US Geological Survey, down from 1913. The report outlines origins, distribution, and the regional concentration of refining and smelting, with figures for copper lead zinc tin aluminum and notes on export and foreign ore smelting context.
A digest of editorials remarks that Lincoln County should connect Huntington to Charles Town via a state road from Washington west, boosting bonds for road construction and making Lincoln County a desirable region with better access for travelers and goods. References include Lincoln Republican and Parkersburg State Journal opinions on national events and leadership.
A mangled clipping of war poetry uses vivid adjectives to express horror and fear. It lists terms like dreadful terrible ghastly and barbaric while lamenting word repetition. The tone hints at exhausted rhetoric from an era of conflict and propaganda.
Obscure lines speak of a radiant earth and restless nights under many stars. The text blends invented phrasing with dreamlike imagery, conveying a poetic mood without clear narrative or identifiable figures or events.
A collage of century old jokes and wry exchanges from multiple papers. Snatches include a trench remark in New York, a Chicago clerk joke about jobs, a Munich quip, church talk from Mrs Gooding, a Browning magazine gag about sleep talking, and a Kansas City Star line on women’s suffrage.
A short piece argues thrift should be taught early to children to form future savings habits. It cites Comptroller of the Currency data on school savings, noting 210,000 depositors and 161,457.61 in balance, and urges that frugality leads to broader financial success and wealth, quoting Samwise Johnson on frailty of riches and the value of saving.
Early 1840s had a vast wild pigeon roost at Jacob's ruin near Seiem. Birds swarmed in, roosting in marzins as far as acres of trees bent under weight. Neighbors hunted by the thousands, then the flock vanished and is now believed extinct locally.
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