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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1916
Page
2
The article notes frost bites mostly among women due to exposure after leaving heated homes. It cites thin hosiery, turned shoes, and short skirts as causes, recommending snow or ice for inflammation, tallow or Vaseline for skin, antiseptic cotton wrap, and proper shoes for outdoor wear.
The tale traces Silberberg born in Atlanta about 45 years ago, son of a rabbi, who used many names including J C Drayton. He faced repeated convictions from Mexico to Germany, lived a life of gambling and fraud across the United States and Europe, and was involved in schemes from blockading war profits to railroad ventures in Chile.
The article reviews Bert Swor and the All Field Greater Minstrels performing at the Maryland Theatre with a hotel lobby setting and political satire. It notes ticket prices and describes the accompanying act Old Kentucky on tour with high audience appeal and a short gallery of entertainment segments. It also advertises a film feature The Girl and the Game starring Helen Holmes with action and danger themes.
The Victoria Theatre presents The Winning Jump chapter two of The Girl and the Game starring Helen Holmes. The film uses a Signal Film railroad studio with a depot and extensive track layout, including a switch tower and semaphores, showcasing a complete rail operation on stage.
Harry Silberberg once dubbed the Society Wolf reappears in Chicago posing as J J Williams at the Blacktone hotel. Detectives warn he plans to victimize a wealthy New York woman, while Silberberg vanishes again after a brief hotel sighting. A polyglot noted for romances and divorces, he travels the world seeking admiration and profit.
The text describes stormy petrels also called Mother Cary’s chickens. Seafarers say they accompany ships to gather souls of wrecked sailors and serve as signs of approaching storms. The birds are small web-footed seabirds linked to storms rather than warfare.
A long ad lists clearance prices on ladies 50c overgaiters in blue gray brown and red with reduced pricing. It promotes meat and fowl covers, vacuum clothes, ivory soap hammer soap and porcelain gold liniert jars. Curtain scrim in multiple patterns and colors priced at cut rates. Includes a special lot of ladies knit sweater coats previously $5.50 to $6.00 sold as a single garment.
Linen scarves in 45 and 54 inches long and 30x30 inch squares offered in a large variety of patterns. Regularly priced from 1.50 to 2.50, now 95 cents each.
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