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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1915
Page
9
Advertisement notes a special stamp sale offering stamps with purchases: 50c baking powder, 1 lb tea, 1 lb Ambrosa coffee, extract, 3 lbs rice, shaker salt, spice, and more. Phone number 1062 K. advertised by Aldvertisement. fb-19-1t.
Special prices on tomatoes beans peaches raisins and apples. Meats include boiling beef chuck roast pork chops pork sausage and prime rib roast with canned goods like corn tomatoes pumpkins and pineapple. Trading stamps and prompt city delivery via Footman and Welsh Pure Food Store and A J Stegmaier's Meat Market.
Dressed meats and poultry offered at Higam B Wolfe's Meat Market located at 45 North Liberty Street. Advertisement appears in the February 19 issue.
Thos J Gurley and Son Grocery at 52 N Center St advertises eggs at 30c a dozen, cream corn 80c per dozen cans, brown sugar, canned delicacies, fancy basins, and a full line of fresh vegetables with dressed chicken. phone 330.
An advertisement for the Washington Lunch Room highlights oysters on the half shell shad broiled live and smoked brook trout. It proclaims Cumberland's sole restaurant offering these delicacies with seasonal specials and a vivid sales line.
Tomorrow sale lists boiling beef at 10 cents per pound and hams at 16 cents per pound. Other cuts are offered at reduced prices. The ad places the market at 43 N Center Street near Baltimore Avenue, with M. L. Stegmaier as advertiser.
General William Crozier chief of the War Department Bureau of Ordnance receives many congratulations in Washington on his sixtieth birthday. A West Point 1876 graduate from Ohio, he is a leading ordnance expert and helped invent the disappearing gun carriage now adopted by major nations.
Oklahoma passes a strict oil conservation bill aimed at stopping crude removal during demand and price dips. The Corporation Commission will set oil prices using an average retail value of refined by products minus refining and transport costs. Commissioner George Henshaw cited Prairie Oil Company profits of 40 million dollars in 1914 as context for the measure.
Illustrations of British and German submarines are being sent to captains of merchant ships to prevent friendly fire. Amid calls to empower skippers to take offensive action, the Dutch ship Laertes warns against convoying ships without escorts. Dutch authorities urge captains to halt at sight of a submarine and provide all requested information.
Local merchants in Cumberland advertise greatly reduced foodstuffs for Saturday sales. The Cumberland Press highlights bargains across leading shops, noting higher European war costs elsewhere but claiming fair, steady prices locally. Shoppers urged to buy tomorrow and save, with specials promoted on the newspaper’s back page.
Dr M Bates Stephens State Superintendent of Public Instruction calls a meeting of county superintendents for March 4. Topics include building support for good schools state uniformity in pupil reports and promotions and training teachers without normal schools. Superintendent Edwards will attend. The National Education Association meets in Cincinnati February 22 to 26.
United Press notes sugar supplies in France stabilized after panic about shortages. Prices rose from seven to 11 cents a pound, with German occupation reducing beet seed sources and limiting planting to about 100,000 hectares. Russia supplied seeds, government relief cut duties, but reliance on foreign sources remains for beet sugar.
London viewers report a young officer about to go to the front is measured for a new outfit. The tailor, owed money, jokes about the German advance saying he sees the Germans have had a check. The officer then draws his checkbook and pays.
An advertisement for DRINKX GERMAN BEER promotes a war book priced at 10 cents. The Cumberland Press office is the distribution point. The fragment suggests sponsored messaging typical of wartime publicity.
John E Taylor of Frostburg resigns after ten years as Cumberland and Westernport Electric Railway superintendent and accepts a post with Cumberland Electric Railway and Edison Electric Illuminating Company. W W Lowe succeeds him. Taylor is praised for public trust and will oversee expanded electric power developments.
McKinley Chapter No 12 Order of the Eastern Star celebrates its charter anniversary next Monday with reception entertainment and dance for members and friends. Featured performers include Ruth Rosenbaum Carlton Reuschlein Vivian Beall and May Reid. Arrangements chaired by William P. Rizer with several officers and members listed. The Masonic Temple Association hosts its regular monthly dance tonight at the temple.
W. D. Boyce, an American publisher arriving on the Lusitania, testified that very American passengers approved raising the American flag on the ship. He said the flag protected citizens, mail, and merchandise as well as England.
A Baltimore and Ohio Rail station at Camden-on-Gauley south of Grafton was blown Saturday night, yielding money. The act went undetected until the next day due to the remote location. Police searched the area. two men were arrested and detained in Webster County Jail. One suspect is described as a one legged cripple from Sutton, West Virginia.
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