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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1916
Page
17
An automobile from Greater Inman, Mikory tore through a crowd injuring several negro children returning from a school event on Madison Street. One child was critically hurt and transported to College Hospital. The incident disrupted a campaign rally with notable figures and mounted guards in the city.
Washington reports support for a daylight saving proposal as a nationwide plan. The measure, backed by health officials, aims to extend evening light to improve public welfare and energy use. Countries such as Austria Hungary and Britain have trialed similar shifts, with mixed savings and logistics noted.
Washington Oct. 28 James Hencher jailed in county jail after cruelty to animals charge and biting the end of a cat tail. Story recounts a rat-throwing incident by local boys leading Hencher to bite the cat tail, leaving a fragment and drawing fines and an old sentence.
Report from Cet. 28 notes AMM youths in a neighborhood scene dealing with exotic reptiles. The piece describes teens and an adult, including Robert Stir, collecting and selling snakes and lizards for payments between two and thirty five dollars. It alleges an uncle arranged the activity, with talk of a psychological motive and a hidden rack of animals. The tale details the reptiles kept near a local area and the broader curiosity of neighbors about the alleged scheme.
Americans describe a large cross border movement from Laredo into Mexico, noting about 400 at Piedras Negras and 900 near Tampico, with further numbers scattered across Sonora and multiple border towns. The report details routes by train and rail lines, reflecting widespread migration tied to the Mexican Revolution and related labor and mining activity.
New Panama port on Mandinga Bay near Colon begins government building on the Abhimte coast about eighty miles from Colon. The harbor offers deep water and is close to a manganese ore mine owned by an American syndicate. A town named Nicacsa will be developed under a government concession granted to an American resident of Colon.
In Ort. 28 Philadelphia a clash erupts as the Millbourne fire department resists a borough council ban on Sunday checker-playing at the firehouse. Fire chief G L Freudvoberger and about half the members resign, citing social and recreational use of the hall as a Sabbath diversion. The controversy centers on the prohibition affecting a popular activity among department members and local social life.
Fragmentary wartime verse and dialogue voice accuse leaders and allies amid Carrizal reports. It portrays a veteran speaker lamenting casualties as soldiers protest unattainable explanations and demand why lives are lost, referencing Washington, Carrizal, and a “higher law.”
The article outlines a plan for nationalization of Great Britain’s coal industry aimed at centralized control of production, distribution, and port shipments. It notes limited profits for coal owners and government authority over shipping and domestic and export use, with emphasis on aligning coal flow to national needs and future policy.
Frustration over a cracked plate led to a dramatic incident at Conway Hall Carlisle where Professor G Lafayette Prim, his mother and daughter present, erupted into a brawl injuring an instructor and others. Police and witnesses report chairs and objects were thrown as blows were exchanged in the dining room over a chipped dish.
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