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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1914
Page
4
Cumberland Maryland voices a stance against candidates with blemished reputations. The statement advocates decency, family honor, and public scrutiny, urging leaders to uphold the best in life or face retirement from favor. Dated March 12, 1914.
Senator Maloy introduces a misdemeanor bill with fines up to 100 dollars for publishing deceptive ads about merchandise quality or sale terms. The Cumberland Press supports the measure, urging honest advertising and calling for its passage and gubernatorial approval.
In the national art gallery May Richardson slashed Velasquez Rokeby Venus valued at half a million dollars. She claims the act as protest against government actions toward Mrs Pankhurst and vows to starve herself again. Officials condemn the violence and question laws punishing female political crimes.
The Saturday Evening Post praises Congressman David J. Lewis as Digissimus for his work on Parcel Post and government ownership of telegraph and telephone lines. The article notes his facts and figures on express rates and how they challenged express companies, reflecting Western Maryland pride in his national influence.
The Cumberland Press asks subscribers to notify the office of any late or irregular delivery. It aims to publish news promptly and have papers reach homes before supper. Readers are urged to complain so the paper can assess and improve carrier service. The Press office is open each evening.
A xeystal rough column riffing on war talk weather and politics. It notes Governor Johnson’s San Francisco move and hints at tariff fights while lampooning recruiting officers and even mentions Kipling. It closes with spring signs and curious lines about asparagus caskets and parcel post funerals.
A collection of cartoons and jokes from the press pages features poems about fashion and mischief, quips on politics and society, and wry captions about daily life. Included are humorous lines about dress, love, divorce, bureaucracy, and current events, with many references to notable figures and places of the era.
An essay discusses the belief that wine benefits old age, recounting a physician who drank a small claret daily then stopped and found pain and stiffness receded. It offers dietary regimens, exercise, baths, and targeted cures for gout and cramps, including leeches, tonics, and home remedies.
A reader challenges the suffrage opponent noting women face punishment under laws they helped shape. The letter argues women deserve protection and the vote as a safeguard, cites Margaret Haley and Chicago tax cases, and condemns male–made laws and unequal funding for schools and public services. It urges dress rehearsal of women's influence through ballots.
Prof. Thomas J. Calloway of Washington D C will lecture this evening at the Metropolitan A M E Church on Lincoln in Maryland. Supper will be served by the Sunday School Board under Mrs Octavia Fisher and Rev J D Jackson.
General Superintendent Blaser returned to Baltimore this morning on train No. 40 after spending yesterday at Keyser to review important company business.
Our Daily Menu features baked halibut steaks delicately flavored and satisfying. Beets with sour sauce may replace salad, and molasses cake pleases. The recipe outlines sour sauce with beet water, butter, flour, vinegar, cream, sugar, salt, and pepper.
Two halibut steaks are washed and dried then filled with a stuffing of crumbs butter onion juice parsley cayenne pepper black pepper nutmeg and salt. The stuffed steak is baked in a pan with butter pieces until golden brown in about thirty minutes.
Instructional note on cooking beets. Wash beets and boil until tender, drain and reserve half a cup of the cooking water, then plunge into cold water to cool.
Cut squash into two inch cubes and remove seeds. Place in a dripping pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and add half a teaspoon each of molasses and melted butter per piece. Bake fifty minutes in a moderate oven, covered for the first half hour, and serve in the shell.
Molasses two cupfuls sour milk half cupful pastry flour two and a half cupfuls soda one teaspoonful cream of tartar two teaspoonfuls eggs one ginger two teaspoonfuls cinnamon one teaspoonful butter one teaspoonful. Add soda and cream of tartar to molasses and beaten egg and milk. Spices sifted with flour. Beat well and bake moderate oven thirty minutes or until done.
A humorous observed exchange in a city street narrates a self-styled Observant Fellow and reporter discussing colds and snuff. The Fellow links sneezing, snuff use, and comic confusion, delivering a rambling dialogue about cold varieties and human wit.
Help wanted advertisement seeking agents to handle and deliver The Press in towns across West Virginia and Western Maryland. Includes description of Johnson's line and direct-from-manufacturer patents. Contact N. Mechanic Street Cumberland for particulars during March 10 31.
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