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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1914
Page
4
The article urges sensible winter dress stressing breathable undergarments and outerwear for indoor workers and cold outdoor transitions. It also reports the Federal Reserve Banks opening in twelve cities with expectations to stabilize currency and prevent panic while clarifying commercial paper and aiding banks and communities nationwide.
Wisconsin guide John Benham of Iron county produced a sleeping pellet for capturing a deer for a game preserve. He had a druggist mix gum arabic flour paste and opium, causing the deer to sleep then be boxed. The method may draw Hague attention on humane pursuit and boxing of prisoners.
A column of editorials echoes wartime ironies from Europe and calls for bread not weapons. Humorous quips toucher domestic policy, weathering storms, and civic mood as cities face political and economic pressures.
Members of the Executive Committee of the American Women's War Relief Fund in London, photographed at St Pancras, London. Seated: Mrs. Lewis Harcourt secretary, Lady Randolph Churchill chairing Hospital Committee, Mrs. John Astor vice president, Lady Paget president, Duchess of Marlborough, Lady Lowther. Standing left to right: Mr. Paris organizing manager, Mrs. Bryant Owen treasurer and secretary of Economic Relief, Walter S. N. Byrne treasurer, Lady Henry clothing chair, Mrs. Robert Strawbridge Collection chair, and Mrs. Walter Burne.
Editorial sparks urge charity at home while noting war costs and high prices. The piece jokes about naval war, sleep habits of Napoleon, and the Christmas rush as readers face a modern sea front and rising tensions abroad.
A Springfield Republican line warns that dangerous currents pose a deadly menace to peaceful shipping, suggesting unseen forces capriciously guide vessels and threaten maritime safety.
The seventh arrest in the Waingold crime ring was Morris A Gellis who was taken to Baltimore and charged with receiving stolen goods before a U S Commissioner. His confession is claimed to implicate others in a wide interstate scheme spanning Baltimore Cleveland and Cumberland. The case has tied the Waingolds to multiple cities and a large copper theft tied to a shipment from El Paso Texas to Canton Maryland.
A collage of humorous maxims and quips on marriage, money, and men. Observations range from fond parenthood to politics, noting the vanity of some, the value of plain cooking, and the quirks of social life.
A general business conference runs in Memphis from today through tomorrow focusing on developing trade, especially Mississippi Valley Gulf States and Central West exports. Delegates from Southern and Southwestern states attend, with a Chicago delegation of twenty detailing Central and South American markets and trade links. The event aims to counter wartime trade disruptions and may lead to a permanent regional trade organization with agents in the Americas.
A lecture by Rev. Richard Schmidt of Washington DC titled A Trip Through the father land In Time of War was postponed from last night to Friday night at 8 o'clock at St. Luke's Church on Bedford Street.
The annual meeting at Columbia University explores The Revision of the State Constitution. Senator Root presides at tonight's dinner and delivers a talk on The Relation of State Constitutional Provisions to the Federal Constitution. Speakers include Meyer Mitchell Frank J. Goodnow Frederick C. Howe and Henry L. Stimson.
The annual gathering of the Vocational Art and Industrial Federation begins in Chicago today and runs through the 21st. Delegates from every state attend, united in efforts to improve general conditions through their work.
Fragmentary text notes an item dated Sunday in Cumberland area with names Barton Piedmont Medman and Louaconing. The source is garbled and lacks clear events or outcomes.
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