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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1914
Page
5
Philadelphia maintains pressure in a tense third game as Murphy and Colins drive scoring, while Boston counterattacks with Gowdy’s homer. Dense play-by-play covers multiple innings with errors and steals shaping the affair.
A surprise party was held at 37 Elm Street in honor of Charles Van Horn who recently returned from the Philippines after three years in the U S Army. Guests included Lydia Pettingall Dorothy Dean Helen Bear Blanche Curtis Cecilia Mills Margaret Allen Hazel Allen Regina Borgman Minnie Atwell Lawrence Leasure Jess Easton Thos Thompson John Pettingall David Allen Michael Ruben Harry Cutter Casey Jones Mabel Van Horn Marie Alice Ishmeal Van Horn. Music, games, and refreshments followed.
Public Service Commission bulletins announce rate reductions benefiting Frederick city and county. Cement from Union Bridge to Taneytown drops 50 cents per ton. Ice from Brunswick to Knoxville falls 60 cents per ton. Lime and ground limestone from Hagerstown and Frederick lines to Fulton Walbrook and others drop $1 per net ton. Through transfer charges apply between Baltimore and Ohio and Hagerstown lines with a max 10 cents per hundredweight.
Chicago reporters say Charles Herbert a wealthy Pittsburgh resident disappeared Oct. 7 after coming to Chicago to meet Joseph Phillips about a business matter. His nephew J. E. St. Clair told Captain Halpin that Herbert aged 59 carried a large sum of money and may have fallen victim to foul play.
Frederick mourns the sudden death of Arthur Potts from angina pectoris at his home. He was in his eightieth year, survived by a widow, three daughters Louisa Cornelia and Annie R Potts and one son Richard Potts, and descended from Francis Scott Key.
Mrs Stella Atkinson aged 29 wife of Lawrence Atkinson a miner at Midland in this county died early this afternoon at Allegany Hospital after an operation. She had been in the hospital two weeks. her husband and six children survive.
Russian reports claim Russian success against Germans in East Prussia with ongoing artillery clashes on the Vistula. German moves threaten Sandomierz and Warsaw as Russians strike north of the capital. German efforts to reach Brussels countered by Allied relief forces. Italy plans to withdraw troops from Tripoli and Cyrenaica, replacing them with a newly formed volunteer corps as war prep continues.
Col W W Crosby, former state road engineer, filed a City Council report recommending brick paving for most of 33 streets at an estimated 2400000 dollars. The list includes Brick on Beall Allegany Chase Cumberland Johnson Knox Shriver Linden Baltimore and others. asphalt options and sheet asphalt noted as substitutes. Several council actions followed, including sewer extension, street sign limits, and requests for repaving and permits amid funding constraints.
Marriage licenses issued include Michael William Hrntz and Anna Hellen Sable of Braddock Pa Jennie Twigg Long and Edith Brinkman Westernport Md John Henry Beals Meyersdale Pa and Velma Idela Gnagey Garrett Pa Thomas Roy Smith LaVale Md and Helen Elizabeth Barton Pinto Md Madison Porter Jeffries and Marie Sharretts both Cumberland Md Ignate Michelese and Margareta Leon both Johnstown Pa Walter Daniel Mont Mt Savage and Grace Miller Allegany Mines Md Joseph Arnone and Antonia Bisignino Morantown Md Harmon Sampson Porter Barton Md and Elsie Ellen Michael Westernport Roscoe Conkling Bowser Bakers Summit Pa and Mary Emma Reighard New Enterprise Pa
Eugene W. Hartung and co plaintiffs sue Home Furniture Co at the U S Court seeking adjudication of bankruptcy. Home Furniture recently deeded trust to George Eppler as trustee. Dayton Farris, B O Lineman, hospitalized for a broken leg after a telegraph wire bale rolled down a hill crushed his leg near Martinsburg West Virginia. I S Landstreet elected chairman of the New York Dock Company board effective November 1 with William E Halm named president.
Equity court in Allegany County Maryland orders Katie Clark to publish notice in four weekly issues. Defendant Bernard A Clark must appear by November 26 to show cause why a divorce a vinculo matrimonii and child custody decree should not be granted. Court clerk Lloyd L Shaffer signs.
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