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...A.E.F.), he had the nerve to write a letter to the then Chief of Staff, detailing what was wrong with the army and what to do about it. Fresh out of the University of Virginia (where he was champion wrestler and orator) he hung out his law shingle at Clarksburg, W. Va., in 1912. By 1917, he was Democratic floor leader of the State's House of Delegates, and was thinking of running for Governor. Back from the War, he went into partnership with seasoned Philip P. Steptoe of Clarksburg, soon was earning $40,000 a year or better...
Hollander Pieter Poth, 53, has been a dairyman all his life. He owns a 300-acre dairy farm two-and-a-half miles out of Clarksburg, W. Va. Dairyman Poth's farm is the largest around Clarksburg, completely equipped, immaculately clean throughout. His 105 cows supply a large part of the milk for Clarksburg's 30,000 people. Last week it was no novelty to Dairyman Poth to see that one of his Holsteins, named Alta Clover, was about to calve. Patting her sleek sides, he guessed that she might even have twins. He penned...
When news of the extraordinary birth reached Clarksburg, busy Dairyman Poth had to stop work to show the sextuplets to scores of visitors. Said he, "I was so completely surprised I could hardly believe my eyes. I didn't think it was possible. I want to raise the heifer calves, but I don't know whether I will raise the bull." He said he valued the mother at $300, the calves at $15 each. However, the whole little herd may be valueless. In multiple mixed births, the calves are usually free-martins (hermaphrodites), useless for milking or breeding...
...prospect of not getting any return on its investment for perhaps ten years. Therefore last spring it made a trade: it gave its holdings of Amalgamated stock plus $270,000 in cash to Amalgamated in exchange for two of Amalgamated's refineries, one at Missoula, Mont., another at Clarksburg, Calif...
Beside a rural filling station six miles west of Clarksburg, W. Va. one day last week, some 200 public officials and plain citizens gathered around a square little building with slanting roof and shiny coat of white & orange paint. A driving windstorm had kept many a countryman from attending the ceremony. A storm of public ridicule had presumably made the State Health Commissioner and an Assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. cancel their scheduled appearances. Occasion was the dedication of the 100,000th sanitary pit privy built by relief workers in West Virginia...