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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1915
Page
3
The Cumberland Press records publication details including address 109 Baltimore Street and phone numbers 592 and 693. It notes daily carrier delivery and advance subscription rates of 95.00 yearly with options for mail or carrier service and advertising rates on application.
A 1915 Cumberland newspaper letter urges establishing a girls home due to central location and influx from surrounding regions. A separate Washington report warns dogs can spread animal diseases including foot and mouth, hydatid cysts, and rabies, advising strict leashing and proper feeding to protect livestock and human health.
A Press article argues dogs act as disease carriers to stock, highlighting harm to sheep and the challenge of sheep-raising where dogs roam. The piece, supported by the Department of Agriculture, notes a Dog Law proposed for the state legislature.
The Safety First Society interprets a New York Court of Appeals decision saying a pedestrian must use sight while crossing streets. It notes drivers share fault but urges pedestrians to stay observant and avoid heedlessness amid urban traffic.
New York theater news covers B Ay Sothern joining the Mayors committee for Shakespeare’s death centennial pageant and Hugo Mackaye’s historical pageant plan. It notes Hobson's Choice success at the Comedy and Oliver Morosco's plan to adapt Ann for Los Angeles. Maude Adams starry Christmas offering, deaths of Waller Willard and Willard, plus Faslanding list of stage figures and the memorial service for Charles Klein.
Mrs M L Friend argues for a civic project to establish a home for dependent girls in Cumberland. She describes city life as exposing young women to vice and poverty and urges the Civic Club to back a shelter led by a compassionate, educated woman, offering guidance, Christian influence, and a safe, supportive environment to resist temptation.
A collage of quips poems and snippets from multiple papers includes jokes about luxury with four cents to spend, a kitten romance, prudish remarks about a battleship, and verses on work food and luck. Names and places appear in scattered lines from Cincinnati Enquirer Columbia State Zanesville Signal St Louis and Coldwater.
A U S Bureau of Education bulletin notes forty states have taken legal steps to safeguard school sanitation, with wide variation in fire safety, water supply, site proximity to nuisances, exits, fire drills, and disinfection rules. Nineteen states limit sites near liquor venues and vice, a revolt against the drinking cup spreads, and standards for ventilation remain uneven.
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