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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1915
Page
4
Local newspaper announces subscription and advertising terms for The Cumberland Press in Cumberland Maryland. Rates include 8.00 per year in advance and 25 cents, with delivery by telephone orders available and office at 109 Baltimore Street with phone numbers 592 and 593.
A town paper urges mutual respect between townsfolk and farmers visiting the community. It stresses farmers as essential partners and urges residents to welcome them warmly, building a united rural town and prosperous countryside. The column also titled A World in Pawn questions postwar debt and the threat of global financial bondage.
Capt Turner testified that six of twenty five boilers were out of commission lowering speed to save operating costs. Company officials note speed reductions could not have prevented the torpedo strike, while a seaman in the crow’s nest says even full speed could not have saved the ship. The discussion highlights uncertainties in this unique maritime disaster.
Captain Turner notes the Lusitania listed within ten seconds of the torpedo strike making it impossible to stand on deck. He adds lifeboats were not efficiently handled and a ready provision of rafts was lacking for a ship of its size and crew. The investigation feeds a belief that the liner failed to take every precaution.
An Atlanta man admitted to City Detention Hospital five years ago as incurable recovered against doctors. He refused to leave when discharged, threatening self harm. Compromise arranged: he is released to work and kept on the payroll at ten dollars weekly.
A compact chronicle marks key anniversaries from 1815 Napoleon's abdication after Waterloo to 1890 Brazil's new constitution signed by President de Fonseca. It also notes 1840 US military divisions at Jefferson Barracks Missouri and Elizabethtown New Jersey, 1865 Prussia joins the Geneva Convention, protecting Red Cross workers.
Reminder of historic jubilees as Princess Beatrice, Duke of Grafton, actress Fannie Ward, June Van Buskirk, Martin Harvey, Sir H Rider Haggard, Frank H Damrosch, and Robert S Lovett mark birthdays on this date with places of birth including Madrid St. Louis Pleasant View W V Essex England Breslau Germany Norfolk England and New York.
The article reviews Washingtons Farewell Address as a flexible guide to national policy. It outlines five sections from his stance on a single presidency to warnings against partisanship, religion, learning, and public credit, and stresses independence from foreign powers to avoid imperial entanglements.
Associate Justice William R. Day is lauded as a proud grandfather in Washington while his grandson Rufus Spalding Day Jr. dreams of law. The piece debates Washington's Farewell Address on alliances, neutrality, and preserving Monroe Doctrine power amid European balance of power concerns.
A collage of quips and jokes from the Press readers column. The piece blends humorous maxims about love, marriage, manners, and daily life with satirical jabs at prohibition and modern habits, including references to Anthony Comstock and social norms. The tone mirrors a late 19th or early 20th century broadside of witticisms and pithy observations.
In today’s notes a trio of birthday anniversaries is noted. The Harri man group of railroads is credited with a key figure born at San Jacinto Texas 55 years ago. Richard E Sloan ex governor of Arizona born in Prebleounty Ohio 58 years ago. Henry T Oxnard pioneer beet sugar industry born Marseilles France 55 years ago.
A historical anecdote contrasts Themistocles offering to build a town with modern politicians who talk but cannot construct. The speaker urges leaders to value practical nation building over power and rhetoric, insisting that the true measure of statesmanship lies in plow and hammer.
An advertisement offers wall paper at 2 3 4 and 6 cents per roll with a good line of golds at 6 cents. It claims savings on any grade of paper and directs readers to Eylere at 30 North Centre Street.
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