Cumberland Press Public Notice Details and Rates
The Cumberland Press lists mailing and delivery terms with post office entry in Cumberland Maryland. It notes second class mail subscription rates, advertising rates on application, and advertising contact details at 109 Baltimore Street with phone numbers 592 and 593. The paper is served daily by carriers and delivery orders are accepted by telephone.
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Cumberland Press
Baltimore Street
United Press
Belgrade
Servia
Berlin
New York
Cumberland Proud Of White Way Parade Progress
The Cumberland civic parade impressed residents as banners highlighted one year's progress. Citizens take pride in city improvements funded by themselves. The piece urges continued paving, pole removal, municipal band support, and broader upgrades to enhance the White Way for the city.
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Cumberland
Baltimore Street
Cumberlander
Wilson's Message to Congress on Pan Americanism and War
The Press presents President Wilson's complete message to Congress, noting Pan Americanism without empire and the emphasis on law liberty and service. It urges readers to study the preparedness section as a major 64th Congress battle looms and preserves the document for reference.
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Wilson
Congress
United States
The Christmas Rush
The Christmas gift habit remains fixed in our customs and brings joy to children. Yet the annual rush over two weeks strains large and small retailers and mail workers with long hours and high stress that could be avoided. Public edification is needed as newspapers address the same issue each year.
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Mail
Express
Decline of the Jitney Signals Transit Shift
The jitney wave is receding as winter nears and public enthusiasm wanes. Disreputable vehicles, discouraged drivers, and tougher local rules curb the craze, likely reducing jitney numbers this spring after a harsh season of repairs and financial losses for electric railway firms.
Congressman Jones Drives Philippine Freedom Effort
Congressman William A. Jones of Virginia, as insular affairs committee chair, will lead this year's push for the Philippine bill to expand Filipino liberty. The measure previously died in the Senate. He plans a Porto Rican bill as well, after it failed to reach the House last session.
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William A. Jones
Virginia
Insular Affairs Committee
House of Representatives
Senate
Jones
House
Christmas Gift Planning Should Be Early
The piece argues that most people delay holiday shopping until mid December causing a rush. It urges readers to maintain gift lists year round, notice suitable articles, and place orders early to spare hard working shoppers and reduce last minute stress. It emphasizes planning before December to ease the season.
Footprints on the sands of time remembered lines
The verse invokesLines Worth Remembering from a poem about great lives inspiring others. Lonefellow references a solitary figure associated with enduring impact and memory.
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Lonefellow
Hugh Mantity's Christmas Gifts in Crane's Pictorial Review
Dr. Frank Crane recounts the Christmas Eve appearance of Hugh Manny on a city street. The eccentric benefactor dispenses symbolic gifts like Education, Love, Faith, Loyalty, Unselfishness, and Common Sense, urging true values over wealth as crowds celebrate with tears and laughter. He exhorts charity and unity before vanishing into an alley.
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Hugh Manity
Frank Crane
Pictorial Review
Hugh
When Your Comrades Fall Dead Around You in Mackensen’s Army
Descriptions from Belgrade and front lines recount fierce fighting as Servians resist invasion. An American war correspondent recalls heavy shelling, multiple wounded, and heroic endurance amid planned forthcoming major battles.
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Mackensen
Cotton famine predicted after the war urges new fields
London reports economist John A. Todd of University College Nottingham warns a worldwide cotton famine will follow the war. He urges Britain to develop cotton fields in India Egypt and the Sudan while noting Russia and Germany have expanded cotton cultivation in the Levant Trans-Caucasia and Turkey.
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John A. Todd
University College
Nottingham
Great Britain
India
Egypt
The
Soudan
Tem
Russia
Turkestan
Trans-Caucasia
Germany
Levant
Peculiar Facts About Well Known People
In Punta Gorda Florida on December 7 ex Governor Gilchrist’s tumble-down frame office displays a Chinese temple scene with three monkeys. One covers eyes one covers ears one covers mouth symbolizing See Hear Speak no Evil as quoted from an inscription.
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Punta Gorda
Fla
Gilchrist
A Bit Of Everything Train And Family Snippet
A fragmented text sketches scenes of a train incident and family dialogue. It includes lines about Peter Land, a ballroom stroll, a wireless signal question, and advice about parenting. The tone mirrors a scattered newspaper page of light humor and domestic quips.
Endless chain joke pokes fun at ailing bill and letter scams
A humor column from Arkansas Democrat reprints scattered quips about a chain letter scam for an old railroad passenger agent. It includes the Yazoo & Mississippi official’s mock calculation of an astronomical sum and doodles about conceit, postage, and social foibles with multiple local remarks and quips.
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Jess Willard
Luke McLuke
Arkansas Democrat
Fort Worth
Texas
C. R. Calvert
Yazoo & Mississippi
Chicago
Johnson Retired Boxer Still Spars in Public
London Oct 29 Jack Johnson the former heavyweight champion remains active in boxing sparring despite retirement. His stage manager appeared in Marylebone police court seeking a summons for assault after an incident linked to a bout in Preston. The magistrate directed the complainant to the Preston court while Johnson handles his own stage management.
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United Press
London
Jack Johnson
Marylebone
Johnson
Preston
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