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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1914
Page
6
Shieery buyers announce a large slipper sale with many styles and sizes for men women and children. Prices range from under a dollar to around two dollars with felt felt lined moccasins and fancy trim options included.
A local shoe listing offers boys' footwear in multiple styles and sizes with prices ranging from 98 cents to 2.50 dollars. The ad highlights Elk and Tan Elk button and high top models, some with buckles, and notes serviceable options in all sizes up to 13.
The Women’s Corner urges morning shopping to avoid crowds and delays as Christmas buys fill the season. It offers a baby gift list including shoes, bootees, stockings, a wicker bassinet, scales, and card cases, plus tips on careful needlework and neat finishing touches.
Domestic science notes split between tomato cocktails and Creole chicken pie. Includes step by step prep for tomato cocktails with onions and peppers and a Creole chicken pie method using rice boiling, chicken, and cheese spread balls. Also lists American salad and garnishing ideas with lettuce and beet leaves.
Carlton Ten Eyck notes New York’s police and firemen inspire admiration for their physical prowess and public service. The piece highlights winter firefighting, police pursuit of murder suspects, and the Fire Prevention Bureau idea to charge owners for fire suppression costs when premises fail safety laws.
A public reform proposal urges prioritizing fire prevention over suppression and criticizes New York City’s police staffing. The plan cites far lower officer ratios than London Paris Chicago and Philadelphia and notes large shifts in police posts to bolster districts amid rising robberies and gun violence.
The S. T. Little Jewelry Company advertises S. & Ho-Green Trading Stamps on all cash purchases. Laser prices range from ten cents to five hundred dollars at both stores.
Train times announced for Cumberland departures including 2 10 A M sleeper to Philadelphia and New York, 8 17 A M to Pittsburgh, 7 00 A M to Pittsburgh and West via Elkins and Belington, 7 15 A M to Hagerstown and Baltimore, 1 40 P M Baltimore Express to Hancock and beyond, 4 15 P M Frostburg Meyersdale to Pittsburgh and West, and nightly routes to Davis and West with intermediate points listed.
Fragmentary notice shows Cumberland Haye Hart and Savage at Piedmort Robertson Genoese manages. The text appearsOCR garbled and references an 1913-era railroad context with a managerial name.
Edwin J. Roberts transfers property in Westernport to Amanda F. Hamilton for 1600. Sylvester Emerick transfers land in Ellerslie to J. Carl Smith for 1. Charles Alick acquires Westernport property from Thomas Constello for 800. John P. Rose conveys parcel at Barton to Hugh Gattens for 750.
The 8.7 Little Jewelry Company offers 8 and WM Green Trading Stamps on all cash purchases from ten cents to five hundred dollars at both stores. Advertisement shows details and eligible amounts.
The 8S. T. Little Jewelry Company advertises S. H. Green stamps on all cash sales from 1 cent to 500 dollars at both stores. The notice highlights the promotion titled Dels-5t.
In Allegany County Maryland sheriff sale of Green Ridge Poultry Company assets levied under a writ of fieri facias from H Buchannon & Sons Company. Items include a four room frame house furniture lamps canned goods cooking gear incubators chicken houses with twenty one stalls each and 150 white Orpington chickens. Sale on the premises about two miles from Green Ridge Station along the Western Maryland Railway.
On Tuesday December 22, 1924 at ten o'clock a.m. the Green Ridge Poultry Company Incorporated interest in described property will be sold for cash. Sheriff Harry Irvine will conduct the sale per the order of seizure and related terms. Dell-td
Eight hundred delegates from across the United States attend the St. Louis Foreign Trade Convention. They focus on extending American trade to South America and the West Indies, noting European war as a barrier and highlighting Mississippi artery plans from a Memphis convention.
Under the auspices of the National cce Trade Council, with James Farrell of United States Steel as president, the plan and scope committee includes Sam D. Capen of St Louis KE, A. S. Clarke of Lackawanna Steel New York, P. A. S. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine New York, Fairfax Harrison of Southern Railway Washington, D. C., and John D. Ryan of Amalgamated Copper New York. The convention will be in session two days.
An advertisement from Deer promotes artificial designs for cemetery decorations at Rupperts. It highlights decorative options and sale timing for memorial setups.
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