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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1914
Page
4
The Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research says preliminary results show the pneumonia serum method lowers mortality. It plans patient treatment in its hospital but limits supply and warns doctors to confirm the disease type before widespread use.
A Pittsburg Post editorial blasts General Benevides for executing 200 Federals near Torreon. It condemns prisoner mass killings as barbaric and accuses Villa and Carranza of complicity, warning of reciprocal retaliation and wider war crimes.
Lieutenant Commander Charles P. Huff U S N was found guilty by court martial of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman after he assaulted J P Kiesacker during a tango with Huff's wife. Friends claim the incident was framed to remove Huff as inspector of ordnance for strict contracting scrutiny.
A Cumberland reader urges the Ministerial Association and Board of Trade to oppose a bill in Annapolis. He argues against restricting marriage, noting the financial benefit to the city from couples traveling to Cumberland to wed and calling for united action to defeat the measure.
New York announces a rest room for hundreds of women city workers at the Municipal Building with an in-house restaurant and light lunches. Miss Gertrude Becks of the Federation aided the committee in planning with a first aid trained supervisor to be on duty.
Washington Lunch Room is known for its Sunday dinners with a turkey menu highlighted for tomorrow. A 50 cent advertisement notes the meal offerings.
Announcement urges readers to attend the Livérty Theater performance at 3 p m on Sunday. No additional details on program or participants are provided in the readable text.
Efforts to engage boys in churchwork peak with a large gathering in Germantown on March 29. Rev. Charles Wesley Burns will deliver the principal address on how boys can aid Christianizing the world and support their churches.
John McCormack, famed Irish tenor, will sing in Brooklyn tomorrow due to an early London engagement and late Easter. He has previously performed in Brooklyn on Easter Sunday, but this year travel changes necessitated the shift.
A collection of brief items touches on Messina tremors and postmaster ethics, Cuba and Venezuela politics, weather contrasts, and lynching history. It notes a Chicago man returning found money, Coxey’s army, Chinese laborers, and disputes over libel, dances, and street cleaning. Also reports Hungarian peasant art exhibits in New York and an Allied Artists show.
Advertisement for a Sunday turkey dinner at the Washington Lunch Room offering a meal for 50 cents. The notice invites diners to pass time with a simple, affordable meal.
A free Bible lecture is scheduled at the Liberty Theatre this Sunday at 3 p.m. The event invites the public to attend and discuss scriptural topics in a community setting.
Long article argues New York State Barge Canal nearing completion with far greater benefits than the Panama Canal. It covers length as 540 miles, cost about 130 million, total lift 525 feet, and potential freight-rate shifts from rail to barge. It cites improved ore delivery and a 20 million population reach, plus engineering praise.
Cornelia Ga March 28 A convention of apple growers opens with debate on key issues including Senator Hoke Smiths measure to appropriate 100000 to develop the Georgia apple industry.
Heavy rains amounting to cloud bursts disrupt railroad traffic in Eastern Texas. The International and Great Northern cotton belt and Southern Pacific Railroads report extensive damage with washouts and tracks under water across most sections of the rain swept district.
A collage of jokes and bright anecdotes on fashion biases, gender norms, and urban life. Commentaries riff on openwork stockings, anger and sugar, matrimony advice, court cases, and everyday foibles from a woman’s hat to a rush for fresh air ending with a call for modest dress.
On March 29 in history several events unfolded: 1461 the Battle of Tawton influenced the fate of York and Lancaster. 1672 the Test Act required officials to take Anglican communion. 1675 Indians attacked Providence. 1797 Mohawks relinquished New York land claims. 1814 the American sloop Essex fell to British forces. 1815 Bonaparte ended the slave trade in French territories. 1902 Roosevelt pressed irrigation veto threats. 1910 State Senator Allds found guilty of bribery by the New York Senate.
A strike in Lowell Massachusetts cotton mills was declared in 1908, leaving twenty thousand operators unemployed as production halted and workers walked off the job. The event marks a major disruption in industrial labor during that period.
Ex Congressman William Allen Cullep of Vincennes born March 29 in Knox County Indiana. He attended Hanover College and Vincennes University, taught, studied law, and began practice in 1880. He served as prosecuting attorney 1883 to 1886 and was Indiana legislator in 1881 and 1893, later leading Ways and Means and chairing resolutions as a Democratic leader. He served in the Sixty first and Sixty second Congresses.
John Tyler born March 29 1790 in Greenway Virginia to English parents. He studied at William and Mary Class of 1807, practiced law in Williamsburg, married Letitia Christian in 1813, had seven children, and became the 10th U.S. president serving 61 at inauguration in 1841 and finishing Harrison term. He died January 17 1862 in Richmond Virginia and is buried at Hollywood Cemetery. He was an Episcopalian.
Detroit marchers prepare to travel to Washington to oppose tariffs by Eastern railroads setting five cents a ton with a $2 minimum per car for spotting on private sidetracks. The proposed fee would cost Detroit shippers about 2 million dollars yearly.
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