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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1916
Page
2
Kent Forbes extols oranges as beauty assets and health boosters noting their laxative effect, skin tone benefits, and voice-cleaning properties for performers. He recommends morning juice with breakfast, plus a diet including toast and butter, eggs, and chocolate for vitality.
A Stuttgart report says Edward Higgins American consul at Stuttgart is under official probe after the Staats Zeitung accused him of unneutral and anti-German remarks. Berlin and Washington officials consider the charges, with Ambassador Gerard authorized to review unofficial claims. No formal charge has yet been filed.
In Washington Jan 12, Warren 5 Young, the man behind the throne at the White House, controls who attends state affairs and diplomatic dinners. At about 60, he manages invitations and exclusions, knowing high society and how to treat them, facing new perplexities at the first Diplomatic dinner for allies and central powers.
Secretary McAdoo told Congress that American diplomatic agents face steep costs and long delays. consuls often travel by wagon or horseback and pay large sums from their own pockets beyond the five cent per mile allowance.
Frederick Dr. Underwood, president of the Erie railroad, enjoys a rural hobby at his summer home in Wauwatosa. He reportedly keeps an exceptionally equipped Whity dairy with music while milking, lace curtains in the barn, and many modern conveniences, reflecting a blend of railroad prominence and agricultural leisure.
Harrisburg January 12 The governor approved the merger of the Pittsburgh Coal Company with the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company with capital stock of eight million dollars. It is described as the largest merger ever authorized in the state.
A letter signed by seven ex presid ents of the American Bar Association urges President Wilson to appoint former President Taft to the U S Supreme Court to succeed Justice Lazar. Signers include J M Dickinson Joseph Choate Elihu Root Everett Wheeler John T Richards and others from New York Chicago Savannah and North Carolina.
Mrs Josephine Lawrence chief of a social service bureau receives letters from readers nationwide asking her to find husbands and wives as she advocates a state marriage bureau.
Daniel F. McMullen, brother of State Comptroller Hugh A. McMullen, declines re election as president of the Fidelity Savings Bank Frostburg and is succeeded by G Dud Hocking who was secretary and treasurer Conrad Hoching becomes cashier and remains on the board with directors Hugh A McMullen Dr W Oliver McLane Peter Jamert Charles F Betz Thomas Gatehouse Albert A Doub G Dud Hocking and Dr I Ll Ritter McMullen remains a director due to health and Cumberland residence limits on duties.
Floyd Garlitz age 22 a miner was killed at 1 pm in the new Detmold mine of the Maryland Coal Co near Lonaconing when a roof rock fell while he placed props. He formerly lived in Westernport Md and had been staying with Martin Eichhorn. It was rumored he planned to marry next week.
In Baltimore two northeastern city priests, Rev. Joseph A. Foley of St. Paul's and Rev. Thomas J. Lennan of St. Andrew's, are seriously ill at St. Joseph's Hospital. Foley suffered a gastric hemorrhage and Lennan is treated for grip that may have become pneumonia.
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