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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1915
Page
7
The Altoona and Harrisburg line reports October 1915 as a new peak for freight with 204,803 loaded and empty cars moved, averaging 6,609 per day. Compared to September, October rose by 19,281 cars, with coal and other goods driving demand.
The Pennsylvania railroad lines east of Pittsburgh earned a net of 7,282,021 for September, the largest in company history, with gross earnings of 20,817,361. August and October 1913 had slightly higher gross figures. September gains rose nearly 1.5 million over the prior year, due to heavy eastern traffic from shipments for European wartime needs.
Salt water flows from a well drilled for the Glass Brick Company in Huntington West Virginia confirming a salt bed beneath the city. Chemists note the area sits above a salt formation and preparations begin to exploit the salt resource on a large scale. The salt deposits are believed linked to the Pomeroy salt formation in Ohio.
Mrs. Alice Adams received $1000 from a Somerset County jury as compensation for her husband’s death in a store basement, alleged to be caused by negligence of United Light Heat and Power. The case arose in Somerset on November 2, with the victim named Kantner.
Fairmont region readies for a busy summer as railroads add coal cars. B&O buys 2,000 hoppers and Cambria Steel to build 1,000 more, Western Maryland adds 2,000, Monongahela Railroad active, signaling large output from Consolidation Coal plants at Helens Run and Wyat.
E. E. Alton, general foreman, announces a backlog due to a lack of available workers at the Cleveland & Pittsburgh division shops in Wellsville Ohio. He says more than 100 workers could be put on full schedules, as traffic in the division is the heaviest in its history, driving shop workload higher.
In Altoona Pennsylvania suffragists pulled down their large banner from the Commerce building after a conflict between city sign rules. The banner had been placed across the front of the building but a metal sign rule led to enforcement by the milk inspector following a dispute between the building inspector and police. A crowd gathered as the banner came down.
Mrs J G Baker of Cumberland via Frostburg Lonaconing Westernport and Oakland reports her husband long troubled by catarrh has improved after taking Tanlac the so called Master Medicine now sold at Lichtenstein's 61 Baltimore Frostburg Koupe's Campbell Pauls Gander's Pharmacies with mail order available at $1 per bottle or three for 2.75 six for 5.0
Charleston W Va November 2 Former Circuit Judge John W Mason of Fairmont was named by Governor Hatfield to succeed Ira E Robinson who resigned on the state supreme court of appeals Mason a Civil War veteran taught school and helped in Morgantown Academy now WVU He was chairman of the Republican state committee 1872 to 1876 and on the Republican national committee 1876 to 1888 He later served as commissioner of internal revenue and three years as circuit judge He will retire from the debt commission immediately.
J H Dailey offers business plumbing heating and gas fitting estimates at 267 North Centre Street. Phone number 497. Dated April 9 with 1f indication.
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