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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1916
Page
4
The Cumberland Press publishes daily except Sunday with a 3.00 annual subscription in advance and monthly rates. Advertising inquiries, delivery orders, and communications should be sent to 109 Baltimore Street Cumberland Md with phone numbers 692 and 593.
The Press discusses Finley Hendrickson's plea for rational preparedness and Wilson's possible stance. It also reports on Josiah Thompson of Uniontown facing creditors, a committee formed to manage assets, and plans to finance debts to avoid sales. A Taft-linked as‑yet disavowed relief committee member deplores using aid to back Allies, urging neutrality.
London readers enjoy a rhymed account of the Fifth Army assault after Festubert by the Strathcona Horse, a Canadian dismounted unit. The poem notes a friendly fire blunder against Canadian engineers and cites the joke of Machonniche’s dismounted Horse as a source of meat punning among soldiers.
L Herrick former Ambassador to France resigns as vice member of the National Allied Committee with headquarters in This action challenges recent issuance or actions by the secretary and relates to the organization’s oversight and leadership disputes.
Captain von Rintelen, ally of the German emperor and once in the United States, is confined with other officers in a Leicestershire mansion. He is alleged to have funded pro German propaganda, a nationwide US ammunition strike plot, and a Huerta backed Mexican counter revolution. He traveled widely, including New York, and was involved in urging Huerta to return to the Americas. He left the US on a forged passport after capture by British authorities.
The poem mocks patriotic boilerplate as Henry Ford ships a peaceful fleet and a white dove, contrasting past and present notions of national pride. The column shifts to New York theatre prosperity, listing stars like Ethel Barrymore, Grace George, and Otis Skinner, and noting a record January for performances and rehearsals.
The Riverside Clipper features jokes, social banter, and film scoops. It mentions Joe Rossi's Minnesota hunting trip, warden Sanders preparing a prisoner roundup booklet, cabbage weights near eighteen pounds, and gossip about Miss Mary Miles Minter and Lionel Barrymore film projects.
A local voice across the way agrees with the president that raising the national debt now is unwise. She notes the ease of funding via government bonds and mirrors public concerns about spending.
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