Biggest Money Makers of the Age Promoted by Cumberland Company
The International Couplers Company promotes a train pipe coupling device tested between Cumberland and Baltimore on Western Maryland trains. The company, California incorporated for one million dollars, asserts nine inventions will prevent derailments, save steam, and bring large stockholder returns. stock offered at five dollars per share at 121 Baltimore Street, Cumberland.
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Cumberland
Baltimore
Maryland
California
Germany Imposes Heavy Belgium Taxes in War Strain
A Brussels message says the German governor of Brabant called financiers to demand Belgium pay 85 million francs monthly for German troops and an additional 375 million francs war levy as penalty for neutrality violations. The sums total a substantial burden on Belgium amid ongoing hostilities.
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Amsterdam
London
Brussels
Handelebald
Brabant
Belgeium
Belgium
Germany
Special sale on ladies' suits by McMullen Bros
Wednesday morning McMullen Bros will begin a special sale of ladies suits. Every suit in the store will be in this sale and you will find values without precedent. The suits are the pick of 1914 fall and winter garments.
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Maryland
McMullen Bros
Britain's First Envoy to Vatican Named
Sir Henry Howard, formerly British minister to The Hague, is appointed envoy from England to the Holy See in Rome. He is a known figure in the United States, having served as attache at the British legation in Washington in the early 1850s and married Miss Decelhter of the late George W. He goes to Rome as a senior diplomatic envoy marking a major European political shift.
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Sir Henry Howard
Hague
Engle
Holy See
Rome
Sir Howard
United States
Washington
Decel Hter
George W. He Oes
Woles
No White Flowers Until Atrocity Avenged
Vienna December 1 The three children of Archduke Francis Ferdinand heirs to the Austrian throne visit their parents tombs at Atstetten Lower Austria placing wreaths of blood red flowers They will not lay white flowers on the graves until the Sarajevo crime is avenged by Servia.
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Vienna
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Sarajevo
Atstetten
Lower Austria
Servia
Serbians Enlist Women and Youth as War Losses Rise
From Vienna via Berlin and Amsterdam, dispatches report heavy Servian casualties along the Kolubara river forcing recruitment of women and old men. Field Marshal Potiorek notes many women among dead and says Serbians enlist aging men to defend positions with tenacity.
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Vienna
Berlin
Amsterdam
Potiorek
Kolubara
Mothers Thank Judge for Pension Plan Spread
Thousands of mothers of dependent children praise Judge Henry Neil of Chicago for promoting a mothers pension plan that distributed 5 million dollars across nineteen states this year. The scheme helps mothers keep their children at home and has been adopted by eighteen additional states since 1911.
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Henry Neil
Chicago
Fleets Gather in South Atlantic as War Feared
Reports from Montevideo confirm German fleet presence in the South Atlantic near the River Plata. Rumors of a powerful English fleet rise as British shipping interruptions and German merchant outfitting appear to corroborate the approach. The Sierra Cordoba and Nora are loading coal and provisions. Ship sailings from Montevideo and Santos are suspended.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
South Atlantic
River
Plata
Patagonia
Sierra Cordoba
Santos
Arrival on October 22 at Tem eriffe Canary Islands
Warships of California from San Francisco reported sighting three Japanese and one British warship and two Japanese colliers off Magdalena bay lower California last Monday. The Aztec freighter, now in port from Iquique, Chile, confirmed the sighting.
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San Francisco
Magdalena Bay
Lower California
Iquique
Chile
Redmond Rumor of Army Commission Circulates
In Parliament circles a rumor says John Redmond Irish Nationalist leader has taken a commission in the English Army and will soon go to the front.
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London
Navy
John Redmond
John T. Dixon Dies, Former Local Merchant
The body of John T. Dixon who died Thursday last in a Minnesota sanitarium was sent through Cumberland yesterday to Baltimore. Dixon once operated in this city beginning in 1872 with the canal supply firm Dixon, Sheridan & Houck, partners J Holmes Houck and the late Captain John Sheridan. They bought the business from the late Malcolm Sinclair and Andrew Spier of Sinclair & Spier. In later years of his life.
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John T. Dixon
Minnesota
Cumberland
Katimore
Dixon
Dixon, Sheridan & Houck
Wig
J. Holmes Houck
Queen City
John Sheridan
Malcolm Sinclair
Andrew Spier
Sinclair & Spier
Lumberman Dixon of Ronceverte Dies Survived by Family
Mr. Dixon of Ronceverte Virginia and Elizabeth Teena was engaged in the lumber business. He is survived by his wife two sons and a daughter. Mrs. Dixon was Miss Helen Mc Cleary and sister of Mrs. D Harry Schleigh of the Windsor Hotel.
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Dixon
Helen McCleary
D. Harry Schleigh
Windsor Hotel
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International Couplers
the International Coupiers Company
Baltimore Street
Cumberland, Md
Wolford
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Mcmullens
Britain
Vatican
Krupp
Essen
S, Atlantic
Temeriffe
Canary Islands
Warships of California
Redmond
Frederick’s
W. F. Frederick Piano
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