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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1915
Page
9
Reports indicate October freight movement on the Baltimore and Ohio shows a strong rise over last year with New York tonnage up 40 percent and St. Louis about 80 percent. Coal and steel shipments drive the surge as the railroad uses all available cars and external shops for repairs, with new cars due soon.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company will erect a YMCA building at Logan at a cost of 10000 dollars and a roundhouse at 5000 dollars. Construction is to begin at once. Bullish on Consolidation Coal shares, company reports record business.
Selwyn and Company present the melodrama Under Cover a tale of jewel smuggling and a secret service manhunt. A rich Long Island household hosts a tense plot with a forbidden romance and a shocking finale praised by New York Chicago and Boston reviewers as one of the season’s most absorbing stage offerings.
Western Vitagraph director Rollin S. Sturgeon discusses California locations for The Chalice of Courage at Liberty Theatre. He notes cliff and river takes spanning hundreds of miles, with Miss Gonzalez and William Duncan’s rescue amid challenging topography. The program also showcases The Mystery of Eagle's Cliff and Breezy Bill Outcast at the Victoria.
The Victoria Theatre will show An Oriental Spasm featuring George Ovey the funniest man in America in a humorous escapade tomorrow with both afternoon and evening performances. The usual comic tricks and mishaps are expected as the act unfolds on stage.
An advertisement notes a weekly Intaglio-Gravure feature this week showing events after midnight. It highlights a nightly sequence in pictorial form and invites readers to view the series.
New York reports that Julia Arthur now Mrs Benj amin P Cheney Jr of Boston will return to the boards after a 15 year retirement. A Cleveland newspaper man provided the script for Eternal Magdalene prompting her husband to consent to a brief stage appearance for the younger generation.
The fifth NEAL OF THE NAVY installment titled A Message From the Past screens at the Grande Theatre tomorrow with showings in the afternoon and evening. Mrs Hardin and her adopted child are noted in the program context.
Survivors of the Mt Pelee disaster visit Newport to see Neal, a sailor. Annette Sington is attacked by Hernandez and allies who seek a map to Lost Isle and its treasure mine. A mutiny, a shipboard assault, a shark finale, and a rescue by the gunboat Jackson unfold aboard the Coronado in southern waters.
In Wheeling West Virginia on October 25 physicians are mystified by the case of Lilly Melhaney a fourteen year old island girl who falls into trances during which her body is normal except her teeth are closed so tightly they cannot be pried apart stirring agitation among local spiritualists.
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