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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1915
Page
9
McMullen Bros advertise ladies fine tailored skirts sold at less than material cost. Made of serge gabardine white serge with black hair line and cream serge, trimmed with self covered buttons. Regularly four dollars, now 1.98 each.
Wheeling West Virginia June 4 Herbert Hunter a Linsly Institute graduate will join the New York Giants in Pittsburgh on June 17. He has been notified a contract is on the way from New York and expects to sign. Hunter, 19, of Boston, played first base and outfield for Linsly and finished the scholastic season at first with a .572 batting average.
The player posts a fielding average of .993 and is noted for speed on the bases. He can fill any of the outfield positions and contributes strong defensive coverage alongside base running acumen.
Boiling beef 11 12 cents per pound. chuck steak and roast 16 cents. Vegetables and fruits listed with 3 cans for 25 cents. Radishes onions lettuce berries and more among medium prices. Trading stamps offered with prompt delivery. Phone 1839. Ju.4-11.
Local ad announces a Saturday sale featuring items like Fancy flour at 10¢ and corn at 3 for 25¢ New sale includes peas 2 for 15¢ Good Family Soap 6 for 50c olives 10¢ raisins and a full line of green goods Corner Fayette and Chase Streets contact Aaron & Fisher Advertisement Ju 4 11
In London at Christies a Stradivarius once owned by Lord Newlands sold for 19 500 dollars the highest auction price ever. Lady Wernher bought it for 12 500 dollars to aid the Red Cross with a second sale yielding 7 000 dollars. Kubelik paid 50 000 dollars for his Haddock Stradivarius in a private sale. Also in London two wounded soldier brothers later reunited after being treated apart in Northern France and now recover together ready to return to the front.
San Francisco June 4 two hundred of the fastest trotters and pacers on the coast are housed at the exposition track for the summer season of light harness racing under Panama Exposition management. Thirty three events totaling 113000 dollars will be decided in eleven days. The highlight includes the 20000 2:10 trot and the 20000 2:06 pace concluding on June 19.
An advertisement promotes paper rolls priced at 2 to 5 cents per roll with a strong line of golds at 5 cents. It claims savings on any grade of paper and directs readers to Eylers at 30 N Centre St for purchases.
London reports a Picardy astrologer, Kaya Andra, foresees dark fates for Kaiser Wilhelm and Emperor Franz Joseph. The 1915-16 horoscope predicts exile for the Kaiser and a blood revolution ending Francis Joseph’s throne, with June to December 1915 marked for reverses.
A goodly number gathered at City Hall at two this afternoon to organize a Sheep Growers Association in Allegany County. County Agent John McGill Jr. called the meeting. officers and by laws will be adopted. State agent G H Alford of College Park Md will visit Oakland June 10 to confer with county commissioners about placing a county farm agent there and will be hosted by John McGill Jr. on June 11.
Bridgeport reports saloonkeepers from Bridgeport Bellaire and Martins Ferry assert they may operate in West Virginia under the Yost law after a U S supreme court decree in Rossi of Lowellville Ohio case Rossi sold liquor across the Ohio Pennsylvania line Rossi fined 500 dollars and costs and ordered to seven months in Allegheny county workhouse Pennsylvania courts denied the claim but the federal court upheld it asserting Ohio license permits interstate liquor business
Mrs Edward Harris Sr was reelected president of the Just Government League of Allegany County at the annual meeting in City Hall Last night. Officers include Isabel Wheeler first vice president Anne Sloan second vice president Barney Stinner secretary treasurer Gerrit Smith corresponding secretary. Board members listed and plans discussed for a county hike around June 25 with Maryland organizers Lola Carson Trax attending.
On Saturday June 5 McMullen Bros will run a 10 to 11 o clock sale with items including ladies aprons skirts and caps for 75c ladies gauze lisle vests at 2 for 25c and 1200 yards of 32 inch white goods at 8 12c. No phone orders filled.
Italian reservists are among passengers booked on the Cymbrie departing Boston for Naples. The line bars visitors from dock enclosure before the vessel sails under a new company rule.
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