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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1915
Page
4
The Cumberland Press notes celebrations around the Great White Way opening and wartime home-front efforts. Patriotic women are urged to coordinate knitwork for soldiers, with mittens and mufflers emphasized as winter approaches.
In Boston, November 12, a group of attractive student dancers from across the United States retreat from cold North Hemisphere pines to steam heated studios. Under Miss Marie Ware Laughton’s direction they study arythmics in relation to drama, moving from Grecian robes to indoor rehearsal to avoid rheumatism.
New York theater news notes Leo Ditrichstein back in town with The Great Lover at the Longacre in a clash with moving pictures. Also new from Eden Philpotts and Hastings at Fulton Thetre Angel in the House and Laurette Taylor’s Chicago tour ahead.
A rough transcription notes what the Lafollette Seamen's Act provides for owners sailors and the public with the commerce department rulings on certain sections of the law incorporated emphasizing how the act shapes maritime governance and responsibilities.
Dr McCuaig records in diary fragments observations and reflections beyond lectures. The piece features a snake encounter described as a moral and natural meditation with vivid imagery and a gentle admonition to leave the creature undisturbed.
The fragmentary text blends jokes about a club auditorium and piano movers from Springfield with stray letters to a fictional Luke McLuke and a Paraguayan sender. It includes quips about French leave and counterfeit bills, plus a cellar paiement line and a mock motivational motto.
December 6 Cumberland scene blends public ceremony with marching bands and hopeful crowds. The excerpt traces a White Way parade led by civic leaders and bands, plus sections of maritime labor reform notes and reflective social maxims about honesty, economy, and public opinion.
A quotation stresses maintaining friendships as life advances. It warns that without making new acquaintances one risks loneliness and emphasizes constant repair of existing ties. John Johnson is attributed to the saying.
Lord Charlemont, 38, eighth viscount of the Irish family, works in a Coalisland munition factory. He started at $6 weekly, now earns from 7 to 17 dollars, and can turn 50 to 150 shells daily. He believes workers of all backgrounds rival skilled labor and supports union joining.
In a reflective note, a woman muses on the absence of postscript lines in telegrams. She contemplates the brevity and formal style of telegraph messages and how extra thoughts often move to later correspondence.
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