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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1914
Page
6
Nearly two hundred responses poured in Saturday for the Cumberland Press Missing Word Contest started last Monday. Entries continue through Thursday with prizes totaling 100 dollars. The contest runs thirteen weeks with weekly advertisement pages and prompts readers nationwide to participate.
More than 2,000 miners gathered in Frostburg to honor Congressman David J. Lewis of Maryland and Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson. Col. Thomas G. Dillon presided as Clayton Parnell urged support for Lewis’s re election and for continued pro President Wilson policies. Lewis lauded Parcel Post gains and his telegraph and telephone bills while contrasting 1907 banking panics with current signals of economic recovery.
In a closing appeal chairman of the labor committee asserts the next House and Senate will be Democratic with a Democratic President. he claims he can better serve labor than opponent Mr. Zihlman and thanks voters for their support while pledging not to betray trust.
The New York Court of Appeals struck down the Tammany Registration law intended to influence rural Republican votes. The piece notes postponed trial of a student in the Archduke Ferdinand case, ongoing debates over prohibition and war era politics, and discussions on curricula changes removing geography until after the European conflict ends.
A clipped coupon ad urges readers to send 10 cents to The Press office to obtain a complete record of facts leading up to the present European war. It warns supply is limited and pressures readers to buy now.
Joe Fogler, a veteran six day rider and multiple winner, will start in the upcoming long grind in Madison Square Garden, New York. He teams with Freddie Hill, returning after last year’s victory with Alfred Goullet.
The Citizens National Bank of Cumberland announces closing for the legal holiday from October 31 to November 3, 1914. W. L. Morgan, cashier.
A large crowd gathered at St Patrick's cemetery to witness Rev E J Wunder bless the parish statue. Holy Name Society members and parochial school children sang, closing with Lead Kindly Light. The 14 foot statue depicts the Son of God atop a pedestal, and the ceremony impressed attendees.
Schedule lists daily trains from Cumberland to Hagerstown Gettysburg Baltimore Philadelphia New York with sleepers to Pittsburgh and westward. departures include 2:10 AM to major cities and 7:15 AM to Durbin and Fea.
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