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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1914
Page
4
The piece urges buying at home during the holiday season, praising local merchants and national pride. It contrasts home commerce with mail order houses and cites Chicago housing surveys to call for reform, then notes political critiques of state governance and taxation.
An assortment of editorial snippets notes Miss Pankhurst’s militant suffrage influence, Karenza resignations, Southern congressmen cotton schemes, McKinley prosperity praise, Osler’s knockout in war, and hospitals adopting black operating room attire.
Twotentwenty four days to Christmas urges loyalty to home merchants and early shopping. Reports mention a $15,000,000 will contest in New York and a gunman arrest in the Baff murder case. A Navy secretary peace address and a German submarine mystery mix with sports and legal venue shifts in Albany and Onondaga, New York.
An official Berlin report states Prussians reached the Angrap river in East Prussia 28 miles from the frontier and attacked Darkehmen but were repulsed. South of the Weichsel in Poland German counterattacks against Russians yielded satisfactory results with eighteen cannons and more than 4,500 prisoners captured.
John Leo Hill and Annie Elizabeth Swett of Smoke Run together with John Williams and Minnie Small of Pittsburgh, Pa. Charles Burton Rice of Connellsville and Leora Bell Hunter of Pittsburgh. John Ward Willits of Aspinwall and Nelie Moyer of Ford City, Pa.
Under an Order of the District Court Kaplan Bros bankrupts case, the Trustee GEO Louis Eppler will offer for sale cash at public auction December 9, 1914 at 10:00 A M on the C and P Railroad Siding near the Lutheran Church in Westernport Allegany County Maryland. Described property includes switch ties cross ties piling sticks street car ties mine rails assorted boards saved walnut mine props calls and slabs all lumber piled at the sale site.
Humorous bits and witticisms cover topics from movie stars and Thanksgiving plans to war costs and daily life. The collection includes quips about fashion, finances, marriages, and social manners with playful, era-appropriate banter. Many lines poke at human foibles and social trends.
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