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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1915
Page
10
Health officials urge immediate action to kill flies due to disease transfer from infested spittle and secretions. The article notes flies breed in manure and garbage, contaminate food, and call for screened rooms, proper waste disposal, regular manure turnover, and use of flypaper or swatters to prevent illness and deaths in homes.
At the San Diego exposition grounds on March 5 the Fourth United States Marines led a field day with centipede races and tiger-tamers, while sailors, French marines, First cavalry, and Thirteenth Artillery showcased drills. A dramatic rescue drill by caralermen impressed all. The event featured monkey drills without saddles and drew crowds to the-garrisoned Balboa Park display, with plans for a repeat later in the year as the armada sails to California fairs.
In a quarrel linked to a scorched dinner, Patterson Bozzo and his wife Queeta of Haledon split their home with her on one side and him on the other. Married since 1893, they faced hardship after the 1913 silk strike as she kept working while he lost his job. The dispute led to divorce proceedings, with Bozzo described as an unemployed husband who once cooked meals. Amid court-style testimonies, the tale notes she warned him to improve or part ways, ending with her departure from the home.
A DallasTex exterminator secured a Texas contest by killing 4071 rats, setting a record for the statewide competition held on March 22. The winner demonstrated rapid trapping methods and credited his persistence and local community support.
Miss Ethel M. Smith representing the National American Woman Suffrage Association opened headquarters in Chicago for the June 6-9 suffrage workers conference. The national board convened to discuss state and federal work problems and coordination.
Representatives from 18 countries in the Americas meet in Washington for a six day Pan American Financial Conference to discuss transportation commerce and finance amid the European war. More than 200 U S bankers and business leaders invited. President Wilson Bryan McAdoo and others to attend sessions.
A Washington banquet honors visiting officials as delegates plan a multi city tour from Annapolis to Buffalo and Boston then New York, Chicago and Detroit with stops in Philadelphia Pittsburg St Louis and Niagara Falls. The record notes a confrontation at a Women’s meeting where Mrs Robinson asserts herself on the floor.
A transient farmhand named Albert James Bourne is revealed as the heir to a $7,000,000 fortune left by an uncle who died in Melbourne Australia. After searches across seven states Bourne was found on a Lincoln farm in Nebraska or nearby area. He had stayed in a St Joseph Missouri hospital paying a dollar weekly for board. He is described as Irish and in his fifties. Delegates will stay in New York on June 1 and 15.
Cumberland Me May 22 William A McDade a retired Baltimore and Ohio engineer received a gold medal from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at the national convention in Cleveland. Grand Chief Warren S Stone pinned the token. McDade, born in Frederick, began as a fireman and rose to engineer on several rails. He joined B&O thirty years ago and recently retired after forty-five years in service. He has never injured anyone in his long career and honors his family and the railroad.
Citizens of Dilton and nearby towns witnessed a major blaze along the Cimarron River where a shoreline bend formed a lake. The fire burned for hours, sending a column of smoke high above the town, with notices reaching Murdoch twenty miles away.
In Chicago on May 22 a group of 100 society women pledged to patrol alleys on Thirtyfirst Street to catch owners who leave limousines in view. Armed with pocket flashlights and cameras they will photograph and identify offenders as they move to curb gossip and disorder. Mrs. J Ellsworth Gross serves as temporary committee chair.
Pendleton Oregon May 22 R F Kirkpatrick a prominent rancher and claimant for the mayor’s chair on the Uumrmulta Indian reservation is directing his farming hands in a diligent search for buried treasure sparked by an ill narrating Kiowa woman. She says about nineteen years ago she hid a large amount of stolen silver near her tepee two feet deep with a string to mark the spot, but the string rotted away and she now forgets the exact location.
A fragment discusses memorized rents and gown figures as a man could cut measurements for two suitor cities, implying a matchmaking or measurement task with historical attire references. Named entities are unclear due to illegible OCR, but themes involve gowns and suiters.
Passage describes historical trade and conflict along the Columbia with early 19th century traders, noting how horses, beef, and goods circulated. It covers perils and profits of Indigenous access to firearms, horses, and trade with Fraser and Spokane regions, and references figures like Ross-Cox and Whitman era posts.
Kansas City May 2 A laborer attempted to mail his 46 pound child by parcel post arguing the boy would be sent to his grandparents in Poplar Blam. Postmaster Collins refused noting parcel post limits. The man left with the child, remarking parcel post isn’t as advertised.
In Orange New Jersey, a man named Holinko attacked nurse John Corbey after drinking water during an operation. He fled to a high elm tree, was later found at a West Orange home at 4 am claiming robbery and beating. He was returned to Orange Memorial Hospital for treatment as surgeons planned to operate.
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