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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1915
Page
6
Kansas City police pursue a baffling theft and forgery case involving Laura Catherman alleged to have gained about 8000 dollars. Investigators question dual personality while relatives and detectives seek the missing funds and trace her estranged activity.
In a Baltimore meeting, Consol Coal President Wheelwright said last year earnings reached 2.007 million after expenses and taxes, with a 1.5 million dividend leaving over 500 thousand to surplus. A 7 million two year debenture bond will not affect cash disbursements, aiding development. Shipments for early January totaled 685 thousand tons versus 712 thousand a year earlier, with 1914 year-end output at 10.71 million tons, down 447 thousand from 1913.
The Union Trust Company of Baltimore under John M. Dennis bought 650000 first mortgage 6 percent sinking fund gold bonds of the Maryland Dredging and Contracting Company, secured by the dredging firm assets worth about 2.5 million dollars. The issue is backed by 600000 finest mortgage bonds of the Bowers Southern Dredging Company.
At the Fulton County Pa Game Association sixth annual banquet plans were approved to buy 600 more acres and build a large reservoir for fishing and boating. The group discussed stocking streams with fish and deer, adding 10 deer from Michigan to a preserve near Connellsville, and planting 1000 apple trees plus peach trees grape vines and other fruit. Emory Diehl received a handsome box magazine rifle as caretaker gift.
The Clarksburg branch of Consolidation Coal Company and nearby independents paid workers Saturday with improved totals. Consolidation disbursed about $30,000 for work in the first half of January, while independent firms paid more than usual. February 18 pay is expected to be higher.
Mme Marcheret, age sixty three, is lauded as the war heroine and mayor of Soissons. She faced German invaders and saved the city from sack by taking office, then remained mayor despite ongoing bombardment as English forces drove the Germans from the area.
The James A. Stewart Company of New York won the bid to build a modern fireproof grain elevator for the Western Maryland Railway at Port Covington. Designer Emil Tolyz of St Paul planned the $600,000 structure, intended to mirror large Western grain belt elevators.
Miss Nellie Louise Wilson solicits her future as she leaves Coal & Coke Railway to marry Rev W F Parrish. The ceremony will be at her Cumberland home next week as Parrish travels west in evangelical work. Office staff bid farewell at the station. Parrish is tied to Bromiley Evangelistic work with Frostburg connections.
Milwaukee prepares for the International Custom Cutters Association meeting as a secret style report hints at a simplified evening dress for men after tango trends. The committee will approve a less formal, dressy outfit for dances, aiming to modernize style for the coming year.
Lawrence Kansas February 1 lectures demonstrations and motion pictures will educate merchants at the State university for the second annual short course Experts cover accounting advertising salesmanship cooperation window dressing and other merchandising topics.
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