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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1914
Page
3
A ceremonial exhortation on patriotism urging citizens to cherish and weave the flag into daily life as a symbol of national pride and unity. The text emphasizes emotional attachment to the home and country.
The Cumberland Press offers a fast color 5x8 flag with 48 stars to regular subscribers at 98 cents, two new stars for New Mexico and Arizona, plus two coupons from consecutive issues. Non subscribers can join for 1.25 dollars to receive the paper for one month and the flag, with extra postage for out-of-town readers.
An article outlines practical guidance for managing summer influenza in women, stressing accurate temperature testing, rest, warmth, and careful feeding. It covers remedies from hot mustard baths and bed rest to nourishing diets, throat care, and simple measures to relieve catarrh and bronchial symptoms while stressing isolation to prevent spread.
The west end of the Erie Canal from Clyde to Buffalo opened today with over 100 loaded canal boats waiting to enter. Earlier in May the east end from Albany to Clyde opened, enabling boats to travel a shorter water route. In sections where two paths are removed by the barge canal, tugs tow boats while mules are retained where paths remain, at State expense.
Instructions for veal potpie with tomato salad and rhubarb jelly, plus sponge cake. Recipe covers meat prep from rump or shoulder, browning, simmering with onions and tomatoes, adding potatoes, thickening gravy, and baking in a biscuit crust. Desserts describe rhubarb jelly and a lemon-flavored sponge cake with detailed beating steps.
The International City Planning Congress in Toronto began a three day session under patronage of the Duke of Connaught. Delegates from major U S cities attend with tours of harbor and city planned. Key topics include municipal financing and planning, subway and open cut impacts, and protecting residential districts. Exhibits feature maps designs from Canada the United States and Europe.
A special committee of the Cornell University board of trustees will approve a final plan at today’s meeting. The report will decide whether the business side is replaced by a city manager like Dayton Ohio or retained with revisions.
In a Saturday night farce at the Honest Man, Jasper Meliaby and Simon discover a ticking device in the smoke room, believed to be a suffragette bomb. After missteps and a cautious bucket evacuation, the device is dumped in a yard amid a growing crowd, only to reveal a prank clock left by Lanny Mawdsley, ending the scare with comic relief.
Delegates from across Tennessee gather in Nashville for a Democratic convention to adopt a platform for the general election. Focus centers on law enforcement and the removal bill, with Republicans opposing and predicting that a hawkish line could shift the race.
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