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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1916
Page
4
The Cumberland Press publishes daily except Sundays from 109 Baltimore Street Cumberland Maryland. Subscription rates by mail or carrier are five dollars in advance per month. Advertising rates on application. Orders for delivery received by telephone.
President Wilson designates a Jewish Relief Day to solicit funds for war victims. New York has contributed heavily and Cumberland is urged to match proportion. The appeal emphasizes the vast hunger and cold facing 700,000 Jews, urging immediate donations even as the full scale remains hard to grasp. Burns celebrations in America honor poet Robert Burns with Scottish traditions and festivities across the week.
Editorial urges Pan American push to define and honor international law among 21 republics. It argues the Declaration of the Rights of Nations, adopted by the American Institute of International Law, provides a foundational framework of liberty independence equality and justice to guide Americas and influence Europe over time.
A fragmentary item notes a Burns birthday celebration in Lonaconine and mentions a gala event tied to Robert Burns with a Scots heritage theme. The text references calendars and a thatched cottage setting, suggesting a traditional gathering.
A New York lawyer named Estabrook or similar runs for President on a paid-reading-notice platform and quips that he sometimes imagines the office peering in through the window, a nod to human self deception.
A February contest entry from Pictorial Review is quoted praising a successful marriage as the prize winning letter. The brief note highlights the value of marriage or business harmony as a key ideal, reflecting period social views.
Old Bingsmith holds a fortune with palaces mills and a cat business. A thirty eight year old businesswoman reflects on happiness independence and missed marriage choosing poverty over security. She dreams of a future alone pondering the life that might have been.
A jumble of historical facts and quotes covers topics from U.S. production of electrical steel and Benicia arsenal to a rebuke of wealth and taxes, with personal reflections on marriage, work, and women’s roles, ending with remarks on tax burden and rich enjoyment.
The article highlights Maddalena Casulana as the first woman composer born before 1540, notes women as street car conductors across England excluding London, mentions Mrs Bila D. Rowland of Zillah Washington as a top apple grower, reports Russian allowances for women in certain universities, identifies Philaletha Michelsen of San Francisco as California’s sole criminal law specialist attorney, and notes Rev Gertrude von Petzold’s career move from England to an assistant pastor role in Berlin after leaving the UU ministry.
A jumble of quips and notices from a newspaper fragment includes a marble Venus incident with Mr Nooty, comments on gowns, and a joke about calves. It mentions Vin Lynn Manda Lynn of Omaha seeking entry to a club orchestra and a remark on streetcars missing from the Farr street area.
John Mansfield in Atlantic Monthly explores life as a salt water system held by restless cells. The piece reflects on conscious origin and purpose, noting the self as a patient observer of its own microcosm. The poem contemplates tides, celestial movements, and the sea of air shaping existence.
A collage of quips and fragments touching on rumor slander prohibition and oddities. Mentions Dr Mary E Pennington tax men and a desert bottle story with ironic twists. Notes about Prohibition convention prep Taft and military training in colleges offered in a brisk miscellany tone.
A string of fragmented lines from a 1910s era paper mixes verse quips jokes and brief captions. It references a company in distress overheard by a young woman and includes pun riddles humorous dialogue and fragmented phrasing amid light social observations.
A collection of quips and notes on jokes and oddities including Luke McLuke on a woolless Congo sheep and Messmer on sun or moon bets. Other items poke fun at witticisms, misheard sayings, and whimsical observations about manners, animals, and everyday life.
Wisconsin Republicans meet in Madison to select a slate of delegates for the Republican national convention. Indiana's Charles W. Fairbanks is invited to speak at a Lincoln Day banquet in St Paul next month. Missouri's former governor Herbert S. Hadley returns to New Mexico for health, making a Senate bid unlikely. Kansas candidate Dr Eva Harding outlines a platform including nationwide suffrage prohibition and mothers pensions. Texas figure Horace Chilton supporters push for Supreme Court appointment. Dr Joseph France of Baltimore seeks Maryland Senate nomination.
Miss Corrinne Strass of Ewing street returns from Chicago where she visited her husband in Ohio for the year 1916. The piece notes shifting views on fashion and a rise in popular topics like Damaged Cards and Havelock Ellis.
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