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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1914
Page
4
Sunday evening in Riverside Park drew over a thousand listeners to a Cumberland Concert Band performance under Prof. L. D. McCauley. The piece calls for a subscription drive to fund library needs and director compensation, ensuring free concerts throughout the summer with community donations.
The St Paul Railroad orders 600 freight cars on the Pacific Coast. Henry C ok may retire from the Pennsylvania Board soon. The California railroad Commission requires the Pullman Company to fix multiple service conditions within 30 days. Inter state Commerce Commission sets new rates for fresh meat and packing-house products from Austin to Chicago. Missouri Southern Railroad asks Missouri Supreme Court to force higher rates than statute allows. Illinois Central plans a Chicago hospital costing about 460000000 to aid employees and passengers. Ralph Peters presents a formal railroad mail pay recommendation to Congress stating delays harm railroads and urging a definite system.
Mr and Mrs A Herbert Griffith of Cincinnati announce the engagement of their eldest daughter Ethel Isabelle to Calvin Fisher Rawlins of Bellevue Kentucky. Rawlins is the son of the late William H Rawlins and a Kentucky State graduate now employed as designer for the Newsted Jewelry Company of Cincinnati. The wedding is planned for early fall. Miss Griffith lived here years ago when her father was engineer in charge of the B and O Viaduct reconstruction.
New York May 12. Com H. C. Stickney inspector of Vera Cruz port and customs finds proof that the San Juan de Ulloa fortress jailed inmates in waterlogged dungeons and tiny cells with torture devices still in evidence. The piece notes Spaniards’ brutal legacy and cites a crusade by East Side youths to wipe out gangs drugs and disreputable resorts in the city.
SHODHHS and allied groups vow to combat city evils. They report exposing disorderly houses and stuss dens since the Rosenthal murder and promise further cleanup. Merchants protest a fragmented city inspection system and urge creation of a Building Inspection Board to consolidate duties under Mayor Mitchell.
A humorous verse on Wouter Van Twiller and lawyers judging by books and weight, noting how modern jurists rely on neat accuracy including misplaced commas and crossed t s to reach flawless justice. The Docket stresses our laughter at the shift from bookish method to precise typography in legal reasoning.
A collage of remarks on Maas and Funston, Becker seeking a new venue, and weak weather signals. Notes on July 10 adjournment, Queen Eleanora delaying U S trip, and Roosevelt haste home. Britain’s Panama exhibit promise, US battleship support, and mosquito nets to Vera Cruz. Comments on vice elimination, Villa’s alliance stance, Consul Carother’s war reporting, and Mexican politics. End with carnations for mothers and Mexican lighthouses on the west coast.
A quirky excerpt notes a mariner alert light, questions about Hperta cutting light bills, and a senator denouncing free seed distributions as a cheap political ploy. It mockingly cites Jersey dairy workers told to speak kindly to cows, as cursing allegedly reduces milk, and imagines vacuum cleaning hens.
Vital statistics for Cumberland Maryland show births outnumber deaths by eight for the week ending May 9 1914. Listed are fifteen births including girls and boys to several couples and a separate toll of seven deaths with ages from 2 to 69 years.
In Martinsburg West Virginia the Republicans won a sweeping municipal victory for the first time in a decade defeating Democrats by over 100 in four wards. Mayor elect Thomas M Turner led Republicans by 486 over Herbert Alexander Democrat. Council results followed with wins in wards two to four and one independent and socialist vote totals reported. Seventy five percent of registered voters participated.
Ex senator William Alden Smith of Grand Rapids was born in Dowagiac Michigan on May 12 1859. He grew up in Grand Rapids and began as a page in the Michigan House of Representatives in 1879. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1883, practiced, and entered national politics. He was elected to the Fifty fourth and all subsequent Congresses through the Sixtieth and to the US Senate in 1907 to succeed R A Alger, serving until March 8 1918.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Pacific releases a folder describing next year’s Panama-Pacific and Panama-California Expositions. It features a large relief map of the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains and showcases the San Francisco and San Diego Bay districts.
A collage of quips and jokes: playful lines from Tommy Smith to Nat Goodwin about money, sanitation, pets, uniforms, love, and social quirks. Brief vignettes mix Bart jokes, theater salary, and marriage notes with light satirical tone. The piece roams topics from bull fighting to lemon damages and urban life.
The piece notes Methodist Episcopal leaders backing Wilson on Mexico and Yuan Shikai facing a financial crunch in China. It cites British and Canadian Orangemen on Ulster defense, Ottawa officials mulling a criminal code commission, and 10 000 Greeks seeking US army entry to fight Huerta. Other items cover Albania language policy, Maurice Francis Egan denying mediation influence, Pennsylvania Democrats primaries, Swedish women voters tax disqualifications, Rev Alfred Young claiming Pancho Villa as his brother, and Katherine Davis’s rival Mile. Gal Tier as inspector general.
The record notes key events including Brazil banning new slave imports after 1829, U S Congress approving 59000 troops for the Mexican War in 1846, a San Juan bombardment by Admiral Sampson’s fleet in 1898, the launch of battleship Florida in 1910, and 42 English speaking delegates attending the International Peace Conference in Washington in 1918.
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