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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1914
Page
3
A column mocks wartime coverage and press influence as editors urge restraint while chasing news from the Mexico conflict. It notes Huerta Villa Carranza tensions and references McAdoo’s Washington move impacting the cabinet.
A column reviews Elinor Glynn’s guide for young women leaving school urging marriage as the aim and outlining graceful behavior, modesty, and refined manners. It notes Dr John J VanHorn’s sentencing for morphine sales, suffrage slide lectures, and domestic relations commentary on marriage, tolerance, and home stability.
The United States weighs swift action as mediation by Brazil Argentina and Chile stalls over Huerta. If Huerta resists, force may be used to remove him and protect Americans amid a perceived reign of terror in Mexico City. The note warns no delay and no sparring for time in pursuit of peace.
The piece profiles Senator John Downey Works of California opposing further reprisals in Mexico and proposing the President accept Huerta's apology. It notes his Christian Scientist beliefs, anti capital punishment stance, and past service as a Union soldier. It comments on perceived conflict between his pacifist faith and patriotism.
The piece notes Ulysses S. Grant born April 27 1822 in Ohio. He entered West Point at seventeen and, after four years, became a second lieutenant. He served bravely in the Mexican War and earned the rank of captain before marriage.
The narrative traces Ulysses S. Grant's move to Illinois with his family, Civil War service from Colonel to Brigadier General, and two presidential terms from 1869 to 1877 as a Republican. It notes his July 1885 death and burial in a Riverside Drive tomb in New York, marking him as the eighteenth U.S. president.
On this date in history Robert Prescott was named Governor of Canada in 1797. In 1829 the pope restored to Jewish and Christian dissenters in Rome the privileges they had lost under the previous pope. In 1856 the treaty of peace between England and France was ratified.
Turkey and Russia ended the Crimean War. In 1908 Matanzas Cuba was bombarded. In 1918 an Austrian naval division with 10 000 men aimed to occupy Montenegrin ports and march on Cettinje.
On Tuesday May 5 twenty five wagons will collect rubbish at no cost to residents in district one bounded by Baltimore street Wills Creek city boundary and a McKaigs Hill extension. The campaign is organized by the Chamber of Commerce Civic Club Associated Charities Police Fire department Boys Scouts and National Guard with Mary Mee Cormick Rose Porter Oscar Eyeman and Dr T R Palmer coordinating.
A mix of humorous vignettes and opinions from a bygone era. Jokes on politics romance fashion and social habits blend with quips about elections courting and public life in a lighthearted column. Notable lines poke at politicians advertisers and stage life.
Gov. Hatfield vetoes plan to mobilize the West Virginia National Guard at Terra Alta for Mexican service. The veto shifts the camp site to Parkersburg or Charleston, halting Terra Alta preparations including water system piping.
The weekend honor list for La Salle Institute was read at the school. Class leaders include John Barrett Richard McMullen George Reinhard Albert Sell Emmett Moran Harry Ways George Billing Theodore Stegmaier. Second place honors go to Leon Grant William Glick Pausten May Carl Schleuss Joseph Malloy Dewarren Donahoe Harry Cline. Other honorees include Ralph Sell Harold Getty Jame Schriver John Boyle Edward Grant William Blaut Edwin Dilger Francis Peddicord James Lee Francis Appold Galloway Wetzel.
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