Protest Filed Over Cumberland Bond Sale by Local Banks
Balti more banks Nelson Cook & Co Townsend Scott & Co and Iker Watts & Co protest that the city of Cumberland bonds should have gone to the local combination rather than Alexander Brown & Sons and seek injunctive relief. The dispute centers on bids 99.31 and 99.256 with Brown offering 1 per bond above the high bid while others protest an illegal conditional award and readvertisement. Local attorneys Benj A Richmond and Robert W McMichael represent the protesters amid a tense financial dispute.
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Baltimore
Nelson, Cook & Co
Townsend, Scott & Co
Iker, Watts & Co
Benj. A. Richmond
Robert W. McMichael
Alexander Brown & Sons
San Today
Cumberland
Brown
Baker, Watts & Co
Townsend Scott & Son
Hambleton 'S Co
J. S. Wilson, Jr., & Co
Strother, Brogden & Co
Alexander Brown & Long
Young Injured In Elevator Improves At Hospital
Frank Young and a carpenter were injured in an elevator mishap at Fred Braals' Sons Storage Plant Mechanic Street. Young has neck and shoulder strains and is improving at Western Maryland Hospital.
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Frank Young
Pear Alley
Fred Braals’ Sons
Mechanic Street
Western Maryland Hospital
Young
Thomas W. Koon
Inter State Doctors Offer Free Treatment to Suffering Patients
Inter State Doctors at Cumberland Medical Institute offer free consultation examination and treatment until January 25th with medicines only at cost. Hundreds have been treated in a 150 mile radius and many ailments are listed as curable under their system. Regular hours remain 9 am to 12, 1:30 to 5 pm, evenings 7 to 8. Sundays 9 to 12.
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Cumberland Medical Institute
North Liberty St
Missing Words Contest Notices Across Pages Three and Four
The report details missing words in ads and notices dated December 29. On page three the word Efficient appeared between most and in in The Hat Shop ad. On page four the word Acknowledgments appeared between extend and for in C L Betz Frostburg ad.
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C. L. Betz
Frostburg
Struck by bottle on porch during theft at Virginia Avenue
Eva Siebert, staying at 235 Virginia Avenue, was struck twice by beer bottles hurled by an unknown man on the porch last night. He had been stealing beer from the refrigerator, and a bottle struck her head. Police are investigating amid prior thefts of meat and vegetables from the fridge.
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Peter H. Mouse
Virginia Avenue
Eva Siebert
Bulgarian envoy's wife a U S woman headline
Mme Panareteff, wife of Bulgaria's new minister to the United States, is an American by birth. Formerly Miss Lydia Gile of Andover Massachusetts she met Panareteff while he taught at Roberts College in Constantinople where she was a teacher in an American school.
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Mme
Panareteff
United States
Lydia Gile
Andover
Mass
Constantinople
Roberts College
Stork Nets A Trio Of New Year Babies At Long Run
Long Run residents welcomed new arrivals as the Elk Inter Mountain notes a 3 pound boy at Martin Thomas, a 10 pound girl with Harrison and Mrs Shockey, a 9 pound boy at Charlie Shockey, and an 8 pound girl for Mrs Huffman. The column humorously warns the stork may overstock the country.
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Elkins Inter-Mountain
Stork
Martin Thomas
Harrison Shockey
Predicting Protestant Denomination Unity in Early Union
Bishop Oldham of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Connellsville, Pa, predicted an early union of Protestant denominations. Speaking on the European war and its impact on Christianity, he said unity is coming as surely as common sense dominates religious life, though he quipped it could occur if older laymen and clergymen were removed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connellsville
Oldham
Methodist Episcopal Church
Last legal hanging in Pennsylvania carried out in Fayette County
Uniontown reports the final execution in the state as Ken Isaih Croson, a Black man, was hanged at the Fayette County courthouse for the January 3, 1913 murder of Henry Brooks. The piece notes retroruction replacing the gallows.
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Pennsylvania
Uniontown
Fayette County
Ken Isaih Croson
Henry Brooks
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Mtrup
Charles Snow
Warrior Mountain Orchard Company
Green Ridge
Western Maryland
John W. Hoyle
Homer Street
L. Owens
Amanda Dashiell
N. Potomac St
Hagerstown, Md
U.S
Mme. Panareteff
Long, W, VA
Methol
Shirey & Hawkins
Baltimore St
South
L. W. Bufard
South Centre Street
J. H. Holzshu & Co
Insurance
Bondina
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Agency For Service
Cyril BI
Geare
Seaver & Geare
Walsh Building Telephone
Cumberland, Md
Steinway
J. FE
Waesel
Baltimore St. Cumberland, MD
Trans-Atlantic Steamship Agency
Flurshutz
North Centre Street
Habig Brothers
Centre St
Habig & Stegmaier
Plendid
Moose Home
Moryland Ave
Cowi Third National Bank Bldg. Bonding
Zihlman
Rhone
Fred. Merten
Desales Glick Press
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Harbaughs Circulating
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Cumpbprland Laundry
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Mz Tre Sf
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