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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1915
Page
6
New York fashion notes herald the cloche as the spring silhouette with bell shaped skirts and high hems. Designers feature Nile green faille, scalloped hems, peplums, monkey jackets, and revived Oxfords in bold color and refined fabrics.
New York audiences will see Emma Trentini and Clifton Crawford in The Peach Girl at the Forty fourth Street Theatre opening Monday. Virginia Fox Brooks debuts in The Adventure of Lady Ursula at the Maxine Elliott Theatre with Phyllis Neilson Terry. Edith Taliaferro and others premiere in A Breath of Old Virginia at Vendville. Various productions including Baron De Gink, The New Snyrock, It Pays to Advertise, and Doctor’s Dilemma will run across major houses with star appearances and new Americanized operettas.
Fairmont West Virginia February 27 A special grand jury met all day probing the Farmington mine strike riot in which a police officer was fatally wounded. About 85 men, many foreigners, are jailed as witnesses. Tensions ease but talk of an early compromise persists with rifles seen and warrants served. Deputy Sheriff Thomas Buckley is seriously injured.
Noted industrial leaders gathered in Pittsburgh to dedicate a new building for the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research and School of Specific Industries at the University of Pittsburgh. The facility, funded by Andrew and Richard Mellon, promotes industrial problem solving and new product development under an industrial fellowship system. Chancellor McCormick presided. Dr. Rossiter W. Raymond delivered the principal address.
Returning leave times listed as every hour on the half hour from 6 30 A M to 11 30 P M with additional departures from Cumberland at 4 30 P M and 5 30 P M and from Frostburg at 4 30 P M.
Ohio civic and business groups conferred on stricter supervision of motion picture shows. Proposals include a traveling executive secretary to enforce the censorship law and giving city authorities authority to penalize exhibitors for screening films approved by the state.
Unemployed need not apply but employed persons can earn $29 to $85 monthly extra money without interfering with work. No selling or canvassing required, no investment. Send details to The Silver Mirror Co. Inc. at 123 W Madison St, Chicago Ill.
A late night car leaving Cumberland at 11 P M will be held to serve theatre patrons and will connect with the Frostburg service for Lonaconing.
The 20 percent reduction on all work is extended through March 15 at Miller's Dye Works located at the corner of Little Frederick and Mechanic Street. Phone 1246. Call for prices. Jan5ly.
Advertisement touts Bock beer as pure and palatable from Cumberland Brewing Company, highlighting quality and taste for consumers.
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