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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1914
Page
6
An advertisement declares a limited sale of furniture stoves and floor coverings with removals by April 15. It promises extraordinary cash bargains, home delivery to save moving costs, and invites customers to request items not seen. The seller claims profits will be given to customers and states no fair offer will be refused.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad merges Keyser and Cumberland dispatch offices effective at 12:01 this morning, moving all division operations to Cumberland. Several staff losses follow retrenchment, with track labor and telegraph roles reduced. managers announce further cuts and reassignments across departments. A test train on the Connellsville division uses new 770 class Mikado engines to gauge mountain tonnage.
Sanford Florida April 8 The Grand Chapter of Florida Order of the Eastern Star meets here today with Mrs Cora R Frantz past grand matron and right worthy associate grand conductress attending and grand officers in the receiving line at tonight’s reception with attendees from Jacksonville and other areas.
The crop reporting board of the Department of Agriculture estimates winter wheat conditions on April 1 at 95.6 percent of normal. This compares with 91.6 percent in 1918 and 80.5 percent in 1912, with a 1.6 percent decline from December 1, 1913 to April 1, 1914 versus a ten year average drop of 3.5 percent.
Mrs William K Vanderbilt sails today to join her husband in Paris accompanied by her daughter Miss Barbara Rutherford. The family plans to spend most of the summer at a Normandy chateau, per initial reports.
Beautiful felt pennants in sizes for Yale Harvard Princeton Cornell Michigan with proper colors and mascots. Includes streamers and letters. Splendid assortment sent postpaid for 50 cents. Howard Specialty Company Dayton Ohio.
President Wilson yesterday nominated postmasters for Pennsylvania including J A Katerer of Wampum J C McDowell of Rosemont J J Remarty of Bath and J A Cooper of Brockwayville The nominations follow routine federal appointments and local postings.
A blaze in Decatur Illinois destroyed an entire city block in the heart of the business district yesterday causing about 750000 dollars in damage. The origin of the fire remains unknown.
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