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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1915
Page
6
The column argues that women should spend on clothing to support domestic industry and employment rather than charity. It notes wartime dress trends with kilts tunics straight lines long sleeves high necks and sober colors. Black hats fade to white touches appear on smart hats though brims may return.
A column of kitchen instructions covers onion soup with butter and Parmesan, roast chicken with corn fritters, milk toast, and chocolate glaze. It lists steps for breads, custards, brown betty, macarons with cream and brandy, and a spiced almond biscuit. Recipes emphasize browning, layering, and baking times.
Paris dispatch reports German troops west of the Meuse at St Mihiel cut off from the main east bank force. Allied artillery destroys pontoon bridges as French infantry harass German positions while Austrian offensives press Russians in Galicia to lift the Przemysl siege. British Socialists fear secret diplomacy with the United States, and Russia presses toward Koenigsburg with outposts nearing the city.
Work on the Panama Pacific Exposition exhibit buildings is completed. The steel-frame fireproof palace of Fine Arts, arched and 1,100 feet long, sits on a lagoon west of the main group and is considered the handsomest building. It cost about $500,000.
In Moscow Idaho on January 28 the farmer and his wife attend the University of Idaho annual Farmers and Housekeepers Conference. He will study dairying horticulture poultry and bee raising while she pursues culinary art and meat cutting.
Seattle based firm lands large contract as Russian Consul Dogoraviensky confirms a 15 000 railroad car order. He says this marks the start of broader commercial ties between Russia and the Pacific Northwest.
Catasauqua Pa January 28 announcement says the Russian government placed an order for 1,000,000 horseshoes with a local plant that is operating around the clock.
The funeral of Mrs Mary Madigan aged 37 wife of William I Madigan 406 Arch Street was held Friday morning at St Mary’s Church. She died yesterday at Allegany hospital after a several weeks illness and burial followed at St Peter and Paul’s cemetery. Survived by husband an employee of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in South Cumberland and four children two boys and two girls.
Cumberland enacts strict milk and cream licensing requiring registration of producers and distributors, health board regulation, vehicle and product standards, and penalties for violations. License fees apply per vehicle with annual renewal, and the health officer may condemn noncompliant products. The ordinance takes effect upon passage.
The ordinance empowers the Health Officer to issue notices to occupants of unfit dwellings in Cumberland and require cleaning or eviction. Noncompliance allows the Health Officer to have premises cleaned at owner expense or order vacancy. Violators face fines of at least twenty five dollars. Jan 26-28 City Clerk attest.
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