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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1914
Page
4
The piece critiques President Wilson's address as a prologue to two key topics economy and national defense. It notes vague defense plans, lack of concrete manpower and fleet details, and calls for rail rate relief as crucial for revival, urging Congress action and an end to complacency.
The Kansas City postmaster appointment drew fire as the pick favored familiarity over merit. Critics from the St. Louis Republic called the reasoning crass and political. The piece notes ongoing debates over federal reserve notes and ore-driven inflation signals from the New York World.
A collage of wartime musings and news notes includes calls for peace, warnings of battles ahead, and references to Italy possibly joining the Allies. It cites a German naval critic, Secretary Daniels’s stance on anti war songs, and mentions robbery myths in New York. Also references Moses rocks and old commandments.
A collection of editors remarks and quotes across newspapers. It highlights criticism of central authority, Yuan Shikai’s wealth expurgations, Taft’s Toledo encounter, a Columbus Dispatch joke, and General Carranza’s distrust of his generals reflecting early 20th century press humor and political tension.
A misc article notes a figure with homicidal tendencies on the gridiron, Rockefeller Foundation gifts totaling 270 000 for New York’s poor and Louisiana land for migratory birds, and a Washington report on the skunk as a catapult pest. It also mentions a New York divorce case where a man claims he married his housekeeper out of sympathy amid chronic toothache.
Sir Gilbert Parker appeals to America to aid the destitute Belgians urging food now to spare lives amid starvation exceeding battlefield deaths. He calls for generous contributions to relief efforts.
New Haven report states Winchester Arms Company issued a formal denial of a German ambassador’s claim that it received an order for 20,000 riot guns and 60,000,000 buckshot cartridges from the English government. The firm says no such order exists and none is expected from any government involved in the European war.
Paris reports that Emperor Nicholas I has returned a French flag captured from Trasnev firemen in 1870. The banner, found in the officers’ mess of the Eleventh Prussian Dragoons at Lick East Prussia, was handed to the French embassy in Petrograd.
John Mack, sentenced to one to 20 years for blowing a safe at Brailey, escaped from Wauseon jail last night by filing off three bars. He flashed a gun as his sister and three friends exited, prompting the turnkey to flee. Mack is a Toledo man.
A collage of quips and light essays on law money marriage and everyday life. Humorous lines poke at lawyers millionaires fear foibles and social mores while snippets reference Mrs Van Wombat and a platonic affection with wry mischief.
A three day Illinois women conference opened at the Congress hotel with over 1000 expected attendees to draft a legislative program. Lieutenant Governor Barrat O'Hara chairs the state welfare commission and urges reforms including a minimum wage for women an eight hour day vocational education and abolition of fines on vice victims. He says the meeting signals a new era where officials seek guidance from such conferences.
London reports Earl Annesley and Lt Beevor were killed after disappearing on a continent flight. They were shot on November 6 while traveling over Ostend. Francis Annesley, sixth Earl of Annesley, was born 1884 and leaves no issue. Cousin Walter Beresford Annesley to succeed.
Ten Rhodes scholars departed to Belgian districts under the American relief commission to distribute supplies. Cardinal Mercer urged priests to assist as six thousand tons of wheat, enough for about two and a half days for Liege, was sent and due within 48 hours. Captain Lucy denied German interference with American aid plans.
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