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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1914
Page
12
A German vaudeville artist questions any link between the global dance craze and warfare. He notes tribal dancing precedes conflicts and cites various dances while urging caution against conclusive links. The piece also discusses the wartime view of treaties, arbitration decrees, and the Hague Tribunal under pressure.
The article extols the local rural community as a key unit of progress uniting schools churches and utilities through self government. It argues government rests on citizen action in small groups and highlights the town meeting as a model for national and state governance.
A collection of aphorisms reflecting wartime attitudes and social observations. Quick quips on procrastination, enemies and friends, life insurance agents, young fashion, drinking, work, and money, all in a light cynicism tone.
Washington officials foresee a postwar drop in immigration followed by a surge of displaced Europeans seeking safety and opportunity. The piece argues new views on American citizenship, stressing binding oath, loyalty, and full civic responsibilities for new citizens.
Officials with the United States Department of Agriculture tested parcels post for marketing eggs and found it highly satisfactory. They shipped 466 lots totaling 9,131 eggs with only 827 broken on arrival, or 3.5 percent. Maine farmers report extensive use of parcels post to sell produce directly to consumers, boosting farmer earnings as middlemen are cut out.
The column critiques Governor Blease’s Senate loss in South Carolina and lampoons wartime politics. It notes a Southwest writer praising mint medicinally, recalls Kaiser’s cautions, Swiss alpine laws, and Cossack victory echoes. It cites Mann on the Hague and Underwood salaries of absentees, then mocks a lunch hour and price cuts due to bristle shortages.
T G Pownall urges Allegany County residents and road authorities to organize a mass meeting in Cumberland to repair earth roads from Cumberland to Keyser at $25 per mile. He notes 600 miles needing work, a $40,000 annual fund, and argues repairs will boost farm values and local trade, not graft.
A light column of humorous quips and gibes. Readers meet a swell hotel priced high in a playful verse, plus clipped jokes about finances, travel, etiquette, and social mores. The humor riffs on trust prices postcards and a stubborn view of marriage and money.
A collage quotes editorials from major papers on Atlantic City as a military base, sugar as a heart tonic, royal blasphemy in gold, US consumers versus European producers, Zeppelins over cities, and tariffs during stress criticizing special interests. The items show editorial voices across Bow Wave themes.
The piece argues silo backed prosperity needs community spirit in rural districts. It criticizes unsuited business laws for farmers, calls for cooperative laws and better market access, highlights farm tenancy as a major national threat, and urges tenant and laborer property access and lower interest rates. It stresses coordinated farming, marketing reforms, and balanced food production nationwide.
A historical critique argues Americans trade birthright for foreign titles. It cites exports totaling over 50 million dollars in cattle and products and similar sums by heiresses buying European titles, suggesting domestic wealth drains to Europe without need for treaties or tariffs. It notes 18 million dollars in lumber exports and comparable American tourism spending in Europe, praising American enterprises and warning of cultural and economic leakage.
R. D. Wilmoth of Elkins departed this week for Whitewright Texas to teach English and direct athletics at Carlisle Military Institute. He is the son of Stewart Wilmoth and a graduate of Davis & Elkins College last spring.
Heavy rain limited peach shipments though most Elberta crop is picked and Smocks nearly ready. South Branch daily totals: 28 cars on Monday, 25 Tuesday, 16 Wednesday, 22 Thursday, 21 Friday, 22 Saturday, 3 Sunday, totaling 132 cars.
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