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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1915
Page
4
The Cumberland Press announces subscription rates and contact details for advertising and delivery. It lists mail and carrier rates, a Baltimore street address, phone numbers, and an invitation to place delivery orders by telephone.
On January 26 1915 city officials noted intolerable heating conditions at the police station risking carbon monoxide poisoning of thirty eight sleepers found in a stupor. Opening windows risks freezing while closing invites deadly gas. remedy is a new heating system estimated at 150 dollars and council ordered immediate installation.
The National Sculpture Society calls for restraint in war, urging warring nations to spare works of art and preserve monuments for the world. They publish headlines stressing that destroying masterpieces shames the destroyer and art should survive for archaeology and reverence.
Florence Reed to star under David Belasco. William Norris in new sketch The Lavender Lady. Marcus Loew to open a 600000 pound vaudeville house in Minneapolis. Lou Tetlegen in A Charming Fellow. Sam Adams to feature in Winter Garden review. Ann Murdock stars in A Girl of Today. Louis Mann leads The Bubble. Marshall P Wilder, famed entertainer, dies after fortune. Baltimore opens vaudeville theatre roof garden and dancing pavilion. Gertrude Vanderbilt and John Parks to support Annette Kellerman in The Model Girl. The Bijou Theatre NY fading after Adonis run. The Revolt resumes tour with a noted actress. Cecil Cunningham marries Jean Havez. Mrs Patrick Campbell tours Pygmalion in NY before returning to England. The Hooking of Sandy by Graham Moffat coming to NY. Village Blacksmith sketch slated by Hart Hobart Herbert. The Lady of the Lake musical review in Chicago spring. Raymond Hitchcock renews contract with Cohan Harris and will star in new musical. Joseph Santley to present elaborate musical review at Garrick Theatre Chicago.
A mid winter parade drew a splendid crowd as the band dressed like German Uhlans, Mayor Koon's auto party, and Captain J Philip Roman on horseback topped the event along with a striking red fire. The piece discusses blame for railroad street blockades as a delicate issue needing broad city and regional consideration.
Rt Rev Arthur F W Ingram, chaplain to the London Rifle Brigade, born in Worcestershire 57 years ago. Prince August Wilhelm, son of the German Emperor, born 28 years ago. George T Oliver, US Senator from Pennsylvania, born in Ireland 67 years ago. Franz Kneisel, violinist, born in Roumania 50 years ago. Samuel Hopkins Adams, author, born in Dunkirk New York 44 years ago. Rt Rev Daniel S Tuttle, 78 years. George Shiras Jr, ex Supreme Court justice, born Pittsburgh 63 years. Frank O Lowden, ex Illinois congressman, born Sunrise City Minnesota 54 years. Alston Ellis, president Ohio University, born Kenton County Kentucky 68 years. John A Falconer, Washington Congressman, born Ontario Canada 46 years. James C McLaughlin, Michigan Congressman, born Beardstown Illinois 67 years.
Miss Nona McAdoo and Miss Katherine Britton, society figures in Washington, plan to become volunteer nurses with allied forces. They have trained in Washington hospitals and may sail with Lady Hope Nelson to a nursing station in London, possibly February 9 aboard the Lusitania.
Constantinople dispatch says England may protect the Caliphate by transferring it from Constantinople to Cairo if Turkey loses the war. Turks fear Cairo would become the new seat of Islam under British protection, with Egypt's center of learning and influence boosting the Caliphate's prestige. The piece weighs political motives, Mohammedan unity, and England’s position amid Turkey’s war with the Allies.
The piece argues that Russia and France each rule about 120 million Mohammedans and that Britain could secure peace for their domains through friendly ties with the Caliphate. It suggests England’s influence would stabilize its status, while warning of Turkish sentiment in Constantinople shifting toward bargaining rather than loss amid the war.
Paris dispatch reports French shells destroying German pontoons across the Meuse at Mihiel. German gunners failed to silence French batteries. additional French guns brought into position. Shells hit St Mihiel causing German losses. No major changes elsewhere in twenty four hours, war office notes.
Paris January 26 King Albert of Belgium received a telegram from Pope Benedict in reply to the dispute between Cardinal Mercier and Belgian authorities. The pope expresses gratitude for the telegram and says the news caused grief but that he has fulfilled his duty in this matter.
Miss Eliza Gray a 34 year old graduate nurse died Saturday in Teapole West Virginia from typhoid pneumonia contracted while caring for a patient. She leaves parents two brothers and a sister. She graduated from Clarksburg hospital.
A collage of humorous, observational quips about honesty, money, fashion, marriage, aging, and social norms. The bits reference Willie-Paw, Philip Roose, a Grand Rapids saloon, fashion critiques, Sunday joy rides, and everyday ironies about work, bills, and relationships.
The Journal clarifies Edgar Hancock’s gunshot injury was not at the Olney sanitarium but in the iliolumbar region near the fourth lumbar vertebra. The bullet damaged the crest of the ilium and hepatic region, missing other viscera, and the sanitarium remained unharmed.
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