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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1915
Page
4
The Cumberland Press notes Cumberland has many qualified men for governor's staff and cites numerous suggested names from readers. The item also includes publication details and delivery notices for the Cumberland, Maryland paper dated Tuesday, November 9, 1915.
A Cumberland editorial discusses John Hopkins President Dr. Goodnow's idea that a city's unique challenges arise from geography and local conditions. It notes Cumberland's railroad significance, calls for leveraging advantages via the Chamber of Commerce, and predicts Allegany County leaning Republican.
John J. Carty of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company says Chicago subscribers could talk to Paris London Peking Sydney and other cities without changing equipment via wireless trunk lines connected by towers. The system would publicize messages but enable global voice communication for travelers at the Great White Way opening as Allegany prepares for visiting outsiders.
The commentary argues that delaying the Russian duma signals disbanding popular representation and could trigger a wide revolt. It criticizes Czarist policy, highlights food prices and mass exoduses, and portrays Grand Duke Nicholas’s rule as failing.
Rev. James R. Cox of Epiphany Catholic Church Pittsburgh writes to the Allegheny county Woman Suffrage party asserting that Catholic doctrine does not oppose equal franchise. He notes many Catholics support suffrage and that voting rights arise from individual qualifications, not church doctrine.
Frederick Funston, famed commander along the Mexican border, marks his 50th birthday. The Ohio-born Kansas-raised general rose from Iola teacher to brigadier general, led forces in the Philippines, captured Aguinaldo, and later held key posts from Tampa to Vancouver, Alaska, and Fort Leavenworth. He has been active in the Mexican situation since April of the previous year.
A collage of light verse and jokes about hair loss, fashion, library lunches, music, and misheard phrases. It includes a shop clerk mixing up paint numbers, a shoe store past, a mock serious quiz on phrenology terms, and a boastful ancestry gag.
A collage of opinion and anecdotes traces social quirks from pockets for women to filibustering era history and campus gossip. It cites a Kansas City reporter, a Cuban insurgent tale, and editors in Nebraska while echoing satirical quips about gender roles and public life.
Minister Whitlock returns home from Europe due to nervous strain while envoys and consuls face overload. Belgian minister endures the heaviest pressure, and a vacation away from the war zone is urged. The week highlights a detective tale, Behind the Bolted Dogs 3.
The editor explains this week why the column cannot provide a simple path to wealth. He outlines limits of advice, cautions about hype, and invites readers to consider practical steps and steady effort.
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