Marion County Agriculture on Upgrade Under Farm Agent Smith
The state department of agriculture reports Marion county agriculture has stopped declining and begun to upgrade. County Farm Agent H. L. Smith is credited as the principal driver of the improved conditions, with his work praised as invaluable to both farm owners and town residents dependent on farms for food. The West Virginian notes ongoing positive change and anticipates future surveys will reflect a distinctly different farming outlook.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Ture
Marion County
H. L.ith
International affairs warn end of strict isolation
The piece notes that before the war Europe broke the idea of splendid isolation. Students of world politics warned the United States that no nation can remain apart as steamships wireless telegraphy and global trade bind powers. Americans debated entering political treaties to preserve balance of power and avoid being drawn into a great war.
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Nu Europe
United States
United Tates
International affairs take center stage in Wilson era outlook
The piece notes a shift in Washington's attitude toward world affairs, citing Senator William J. Stone's St Louis speech urging proactive U.S. involvement. It argues for thinking nationally before globally, linking peace efforts to domestic governance and warning against retreat into isolation.
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Washington
William J. Stone
Missouri
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
League
St. Louis
Stone
Europe
Wilson
United States
Christmas club lure and price fixers blamed in papers
The clippings mock Christmas savings schemes and warn of butter price fixers being hauled over the coals. Jokes target Secretary McAdoo as Wilson successor talk plus a fatal shooting incident at Monongah and a note on no peace prizes for 1915 and 1916.
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Connellsville Courier
McAdoo
Wilson
Shifield Telegraph
Pred Shaver
Monongah
Hoy Christner
Clarksburg
Henry Wheeling Register
Pord
Ruff Stuff. Red Ruff Stuff. The Times obituary note.
The Times reports the author of Hot Time is dead and died yesterday, with confusion over dates and a detective. references a rival claim about Joe Mills, a girl suing for 100000, and light gossip about love letters and odors of liquor. The piece laments rising paper costs and jokes about calendars and weather rumors.
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the Times
Joe Mills
Old Town
Fairmont
Office Robbed and Twilight Sleep Films Shown in Worthington
The Worthington office of A. L., Anderson & Bros., railroad contractors, was entered Monday night with about three hundred canceled checks, a pass book, and two acid bottles removed. Twilight Sleep films were displayed at Lyric Theatre with crowding for ladies but poor turnout for the men show. Fred A. Kunz relocated to the Melntire property in Grant district last week. Thomas Ray Dille, Morgantown, West Virginia Grand Chancellor, visited Evergreen Lodge No 14 with delegation. Several visitors attended. other personals include Worry D. Burton and Ben Fox of Monongah, James W. Tetrick of Enterprise, JD, Victor and Howard Shaver, J. C. Miller, Aubra R. Smith, and Henry Feldman.
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A. L
Anderson & Bros
Thomas Ray Dille
Morgantown
West Virginia
Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Evergreen Lodge
Worry D. Burton
Ben Fox
Monongah
P. Lodge
Jas. W.tetrick
Enterprise
Jd, Victor
Howard Shaver
Wyatt
Wedner Uy
A Night Out Delayed by a Busy Street Watch
A man anxiously checks his watch on Busy Street hoping to keep a new date. Three weeks later he still wonders why the promised meeting time slipped away as the clock dragged on.
West Virginia News Bits Mixed Local Items
A collage of brief notices recounts Mina Atkinson's thrill ride with a pilot, a boy named John Lester McDonald battling fractures and chickenpox, Sheriff Sweeney halting delinquent tax sales by seized funds, Governor Hatfield’s rise at Proctor Coal Co. meetings, moonshine lore in Sewell Mountain, and Wellsburg’s Betty the champion turkey hen with a prolific egg record.
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Lawrence Pettibon
Wellsburg
Betty
C. M Marquis
Rea. Pa
Time seeker in crowd and the doc’s hopeful line
A fragmented passage shows a man seeking the time amid a crowd. The doctor comments that he still has a chance, suggesting a recovery in a year or two enough to attend the dance.
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Doci
Aint Nature Wonderful and Prisoners in a Mix
A garbled clipping mentions Villa bandits with disguises and a washed face scheme. It cites a movie actor receiving a haircut and a New York magistrate’s remark to Israel Sideman ordering jail time, with Sideman choosing July.
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Jast
Cornell
Israel Sideman
Sideman
Jul
Bear displayed in store window at Wheeling
A large bear killed last winter is shown in a Wheel ing store window. The pelt is draped in Tug on the floor as an exhibit by Stare and Thomas of Wheeling, who also report daily egg collection and a total of 129 eggs by December 7. The event highlights West Virginia’s notable wildlife display amid winter weather reports.
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Stare & Thomas
West Viteinia
Wheeling New Day
Iil
Hesesty
Cheat River
Cheat Mountain
Bruins
Mr. Dick
Mountain hunter slays famed Cheat Mountain bear trophy recovered
West Virginia farmers report on Brooke county corn contest profits with Cassius Councilman leading at 86 bushels and Willan McFadden clearing 53.15 dollars on 70 bushels. Gist and Joseph Gist yield high costs per bushel while workers track every hour and fertilizer used.
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Cassius
Joseph Gist
Willan McFadden
Buffalo Valley
Gist
Sill
Brooke County Agricultural
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