Weekend Shoe Sale Promises Big Family Savings
Weekly crowd grows as families seize special weekend values in shoes. Prospects point to a strong Friday and Saturday with higher discounts than before. Featured prices include 1.43 and 1.84 dollars.
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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1914
Page
5
Weekly crowd grows as families seize special weekend values in shoes. Prospects point to a strong Friday and Saturday with higher discounts than before. Featured prices include 1.43 and 1.84 dollars.
The article notes the end of the regular theater season in Maryland as managers and actors plan busy schedules into September. It highlights praise for Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus touring locally, a revived New York play A Scrap of Paper with stars John Drew and Ethel Barrymore, and plans for later tours by Sarah Bernhardt and Cosmos Hamilton. It also mentions Trinity School acquiring near six acres from Mrs. Harriman in the Bronx for an athletic field, with potential future use for expansion.
The Maryland Playhouse offers a strong three act bill headlined by Eddie Badger in musical stunts, Emmett and Emmett with Irish songs and a jig, and The Frescotta duo performing a blindfolded stage callout act. A two reel comedy, The Deacon's Courtship, follows alongside unclaimed letters for Cumberland Maryland post office period ending May 11 1914 listing many names.
The Majestic stage hosts A Day in Panama Company with a long vaudeville bill led by Thomas and Newman cabaret, Quigsey and Adair skating skit, and the four Stansells. The Warner feature The Movie Queen with Cinderella themes frames a full evening of song, dance, and humor with daily 2 and 7 o’clock concerts.
Tenac Viar aged 19 of Hagerstown died in Martinsburg West Virginia hospital from hemiplegia believed caused by injuries from an automobile accident at Falling Waters on Wednesday night.
F C Detwiler speaks on Ransom and Restitution this Sunday at 3 p m in the Liberty Theatre. Admission is free and there is no collection.
M J Mullaney proprietor of the Windsor Hotel buys the B Curtis Miller property on McKaig's Hill a half acre improved by a cottage and chicken farm outfit. It is unclear if the chicken enterprise will continue. The two story brick residence on Prospect street Richard D Johnson has been sold to Dr Thomas B Mc Donald who will occupy it with his family.
President Willard of the B and O plans a May 22 dinner at the Maryland Club in Baltimore to honor Carl R. Gray new president of the W M. Estimated attendance is 25 to 30 including prominent railroad men. Also note a Sunday talk on Ransom and Restitution at Liberty Theatre at 3 pm with free seating.
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