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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1914
Page
4
The article reviews the German onslaught toward Paris in 1914, praising the strategic prowess of the German machine and the rapid advance. It compares the 1914 campaign to 1870 and notes the heavy Allied resistance, while pondering future consequences including Russian advances and Belgian disruption. It emphasizes the scientific approach and foresight of German planning and warns the struggle has only begun.
war items report mixed commentary on Belgian welcome for French Lancers and Allied war impressions. Column shares random vignettes from politics, diplomacy, and public musings including Mason campaign spending, Herrick in Paris, German wireless use, and the outlook of dawn after looming hostilities.
A compact guide to cavalry and artillery terms used in war reporting. It defines units from squadron to army corps, describes gun types and shells, and explains terms such as column, screen, and reconnaissance in force with historical British and French examples.
A collection of editorials and quotes notes political party platforms waring nations and public events including remarks from the Toledo Blade Washington Herald Ohio State Journal and Springfield Republican about campaign heat Christian nations hymn books and a canceled Baltimore address tied to the Star Spangled Banner anniversary.
Editorial voice notes a holiday over and ongoing conflict while recounting a fire at A. A. Sims in Sturgeon Missouri. A negro man reportedly risked entering the burning home to save a watermelon and a brief line references Pike County Missouri as context.
A collage of wry observations on city life and manners. Jokes touch on cabarets and theater, marriage, gender roles, aging and social habits, with playful critiques of propriety and human foibles. The item reads as a light humor column of short quips.
Transfers include Bennett Farrier Leckrone Pa and Ida Pearl Bowman Masontown Pa Samuel Bean Barton and Carrie Moffatt Pekin this county Horace William Tressler and Hazel Gertrude Dimond Greensburg Pa George Harold Porter and Eleanor Michaels Johnsown Pa Lester Stoughton and Zetta Shupe Apollo Pa Francis Brady Kitzmilerville Md and Annie Beany Curville Junior Eckhart Md Herman Adolph Filsinger and Gladys May Pope Eckhart Md John Henry Meekes and Martha Victoria Johnson Garrett Real Estate Transfers George A Kean to Cumberland Mayor Council right of way sewer 243 George H Spiker to Cumberland land for right of way 60 Allegany County Improvement Co to Frank Boch land in National Highway Addition 10 etc Robert R Henderson to Cumberland parcel on North Lee Street by agreement Continental Trust Co Washington DC to T H McGraw Jr parcel at Green Ridge 10 etc
The funeral for William Pedditt, a moving picture operator, was held this afternoon with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. He died after taking 15 grains of bichloride of mercury Sunday night in a personal crisis after failing to have his wife return home. He died Sunday morning at his mother’s home, 423 Race street, leaving a wife and his mother. fourteen white and two colored were counted among attendees.
In police court Magistrate Heck heard nineteen arrests from Labor Day. A mixed group appeared as a colored man and a white man shared the name Charles Wright before the court, resolved when the colored man explained a mistaken identity. Most defendants faced drunkenness and disorderly conduct charges. William Eaton stood separate on a concealed weapon warrant.
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