Rail gains shown in B and O annual report
Cumberland notes strong showing by Baltimore and Ohio railroad in the past year. Net earnings rose by over three million, up about 15 percent, with emphasis on improvements on the Cumberland division and the Magnolia cut-off. Daniel Willard, president, praised management. The Queen City scribes plan their first regular meeting tomorrow night at the Daily News.
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Cumberland
Magnolia
Queen City
Daily News
Advertising Edict Repeats Power Of Print In Towns
In a Chatham Courier essay, the non advertising merchant is urged to use printers ink to win patronage. The piece contrasts mail order houses using ads with local merchants who neglect local newspaper space and warns that city department stores profit from advertising, drawing customers from smaller towns.
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Chatham
N. Y
Grandma on the train in Oklahoma tale of a kind traveler
An unnamed narrator recalls Grandma, a poor, weathered woman from Oklahoma with a hospitalized granddaughter in an iron leg brace traveling by rail to an unknown destination. She speaks gently to a porter, accepts help, and travels with quiet resilience despite hardship, leaving without a goodbye as the train moves on.
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Turkey
Austria
Greece
Saloniki
Bulgaria
Balkan
Balkans
Serbia
Macedonia
England
Russia
Constantinople
Dardanelles
Venizelos
Constantine
Kansas City
Oklahoma
Grandma
Bits of Punchline Parodies and Prose Fragments
A collage of jokes verses and letters sketches lampooning daily life and manners. Snippets from a columnist column share quips about luck crime finances and social mores with humorous asides and mock letters from readers across various towns and readers’ concerns.
The School as Community Center
Edward J. Ward promoted the schoolhouse as a social center in Rochester New York then worked with Wisconsin’s university extension plan and influenced legislation in seven states. He will join the U S Bureau of Education to promote the schoolhouse as a community forum for adults and children, moving from city to nation.
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Edward J. Ward
Rochester
N. Y
Wisconsin
United States Bureau of Education
Aeroplane Fund Boosts Militia Aviation Programs
The Aero Club of America created a national aeroplane fund to build aviation corps for the militia. Twenty states have started aviation units with both land and water militia support. New York and Rhode Island each received nearly $20 000 to launch their programs. Glen H. Curtiss christened a flying boat donated by the fund to the New York naval militia, an event Governor Whitman hailed as a sign of public support for national welfare and defenses akin to the Plattsburg camps.
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National Aeroplane Fund
Aero Club of America
New York
Rhode Island
Naval Militia of New York
Glen H. Curtiss
Whitman
Plattsburg
Political Mild and Personal Snippets from an Early 1900s Page
Notes include Henry Gassaway Davis turning 92 and Idaho Senator Borah predicting Justice Hughes as next Republican presidential candidate. Lincoln Day dinner set for February 12 in Kansas City by Missouri Young Republicans. Ernest M. Pollard open to Republican nomination for governor. The rest features comic quips about manners debtors creditors and superstitions.
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Borah
Idaho
Justice Hughes
Association of Young Republicans of Missouri
Kansas City
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the Cumberland Press Inc
Cumberland, Md
Cumberland Press
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Maryland
Promntes
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Ohio
Maryland Corporation
Daniel Willard
Feryone
Sofia
Bucharest
Athens
O, Lear
Paris
Vienna
Rome
Rumania
Germany
Stanovic
Dore
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Istria
Cretia
Ferdinand
Romania
Tainty
Transylvanian Alps
Tyrol
Bessarabia
Poland
Bukarest
Italy
Bratianu
Belgium
Cyprus
McCuaig
Travel
Bossie
Luke
Claude Bossie
Omaha, Neb
National Association of Milk and Dairy Inspectors
Omaha
H. E. Flew
Wayland
Club
Aviation Corps
Seco
Milt
Milton Heneyes
Georgetown
Charles Kress
Peter Wiggle
la Rue
J. FS
Ida
Luke MecLuke
Dub
Jack
Ana
Hissey Faucett
Huntsville
Alabama
Specia
Luke MelLuke
Joe Miller
Luke McLuke
Care Chief of Police
Enquirer
Henry Gassaway Davis
Ernest M. Pollard
Nebraska
Hassenpfeffer
Farses
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