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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1915
Page
4
The Cumberland Press Inc publishes daily except Sundays. Postage rates show 3.00 in advance and 25 cents per month. Delivery by carriers and telephone orders for service are available.
The article notes Allegany County with 5 percent of Maryland’s population accounts for 16 percent of typhoid cases. Dr. Riley urges county physicians and health officials to reduce spread via water, food, fingers, and flies, citing Cumberland and Preston County as examples of improved control and road improvements boosting tourism.
The Preston County and Garrett County districts will vote on good roads bonds December 7. If approved, Maryland’s state highway to Oakland could extend westward about thirty miles, eventually linking into a cross continental system. The decision holds wide appeal for improving regional transportation and economic prospects.
Washington November 15. Federal Reserve officials voiced satisfaction with the boards work over the past year and forecast further benefits. Highlights include curbing financial panic, admitting state banks to the system, standardizing paper and trade documents, cashing out warehouse legislation support, granting fiduciary powers to national banks, aiding the cotton south, and establishing the clearing system and gold settlement fund in Washington. They note broad bank compliance with new loan collateral standards and plan open market bill purchases and foreign finance expansion after the European war ends.
The article argues for ventilated classrooms as a health measure and discusses the Federal Reserve Act's early implementation. It notes air quality, the role of open air schooling, and how bank reserves and discount rates were set to stabilize banks during wartime, including coverage of regional reserve banks and the expansion of national banks.
Twenty eight contemporary novelists named their six favorite English novels. Vanity Fair tops with fourteen votes, half the total. The Scarlet Letter and David Copperfield tie for third with seven votes each, the only American novel to gain more than one vote, while modern works by Mrs. Deland Wells Galsworthy Tarkington appear among the up to date favorites.
A collage of jokes, mini columns, and light verse. Snippets include a would be poet asking about training, family quips, a Scottish mention, and humorous observations on weather, marriage, editing, and daily life.
Three negroes John Wright Sam Couch and West Story are scheduled to be hanged at sunrise after testimony showed each shot a man in a gun dispute. Also noted American events include Washingtons colonial ball at an exposition and a disaster readiness program in Minneapolis. Oil paintings stolen in El Paso are sought by U S officials amid wartime opera and probation conference planned in Albany New York.
One year ago today on Nov 15 1914 fighting along the Yser was limited to artillery exchanges due to floods. A German regiment was destroyed south of Bixschoote Belgium. Russians advanced on Cracow as Austrians resumed bombardment of Belgrade. Germans claimed victory in the great battle of Wieolawek Russian Poland.
Marie of Portugal born in Lisben 26 years ago to Vincent Astor. Grand Duchess Oige, daughter of the Russian czar, 20 years old. James O Neill, Kilkenny born actor, 66 years since birth. Bertha Galland, Wilkes Barre actress, 39 years. Gerhart Hauptmann, Silesia poet dramatist, 63. Louis F Post, Vienna New Jersey, 66. James Wood Morrison, Mattoon actor, 27. Patrick Kagan, Boston NL pitcher, Blanchard Iowa, 31.
One Hundred Years Ago Today 1815 Stephen Heard Georgia governor died in Wilkes county born in Ireland 1781. Seventy five Years Ago Today 1840 George Morris twenty years a leading professor at the University of Michigan born Norwich Vermont died Ann Arbor Michigan March 23 1889. Fifty Years Ago Today 1865 telegraph to Topeka consecration of Rev Robert Harper Clarkson first Episcopal missionary bishop of Nebraska. Twenty five Years Ago Today 1890 first Congress of the Republic of Brazil met Daniel B Fayerweather New York merchant died in New York City born Stepney Connecticut 1821.
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