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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1916
Page
4
The piece argues dye production lag is not a national calamity and Germany’s cheap dyes delayed American industry, urging patience as work continues to build domestic capacity. It then notes dramatic advances in aviation, from early risky flights to improved aircraft, engines, and war routes despite ongoing dangers.
Merchants once organized long runs of roadside signs to advertise goods. With spring campaigns fading, many regions stop the practice as signs weather poorly, offend residents, and invite vandalism. Laws and associations curb or wreck roadside boards, since townspeople favor open country views over commercial display.
Washington feb 23 The push for stronger defense shifts toward compulsory training for citizens with a planned education campaign to win support. About 30 000 volunteers are already pledged for Platteburg camps next year and leaders hope to swell that number by a calculated rise. Wilson supports parts of the Continental Army concept but remains open to opposing views while federalizing the national guard faces criticism over pay and state control.
The Cumberland Press reports on Western Front aviation from Oct 1 1915 to Jan 31 1916. French lost 17 and British 13 airplanes. Germans suffered 31. British flew over 1,200 sorties, sometimes 170 in a day, with 65 French machines in one raid. crews faced few casualties and the future of peaceful aviation, including transatlantic travel, appears promising.
Walt Mason reflects on time passing through the seasons and shifts to a financial essay praising the Federal Reserve System. He argues that member banks convert good notes into Federal Reserve notes backed by gold, ensuring safer currency and preventing panics.
A fragmented humor page mixes verses and quips on social manners work life and vanity. It jests at public norms lamp wicks and smoking cures and features lines about meetings politics and everyday foibles with playful dialect and irony.
Advocates of preparedness point to the Federal Reserve Banking System as proof of preparedness benefits in business. They cite mobilization of the nation’s credit after World War I transforming savings into national financial defense. William P. Malburn describes the service rendered by the system.
The text lists varied figures from 19th and 20th century events. It mentions London’s square mile value at 1.259 billion dollars, Delmonico dining car origin in 1868, English court punishments, monarchs valets, a giant flagstaff gifted to Kew Gardens, wartime sock and shirt production, Russian confiscation plans in Finland and the Caucasus, and Canadian Army Transport Service deployments across the Atlantic with nurses and horses.
A local observer notes that formal schooling alone does not guarantee future achievement. She argues the shy, bookish student is not necessarily the most successful in later life, urging a broader view of talents and experiences.
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