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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1914
Page
3
Selected editorials discuss the European war moment, a August shortfall exceeding ten million dollars, and President Wilson's calm message to Congress backing a new tax. They note political risk but favor maintaining credit and paying the bill. The page also quotes war related editorials from major papers, reflecting public sentiment and historical views.
The 1915 Chile trade total reached 265 million with imports at 120 million and exports at 145 million. US gains on UK and Germany noted as Panama Canal opens new business. textile and mineral products show bidding grounds for American manufacturers to increase share.
The textile division of the United States National Museum in Washington has installed pure dyed taffetas showing reproductions of ancient Mexican designs printed on fabrics. The pieces feature symbols from Aztec and Pueblo art, including a rattle snake emblem and a Navajo rug motif with zig zag stripes, highlighting American heritage and the call to "see America first."
Frostburg mayoral stance hinges on council support while calls for Commerce Day rise. C and W bonds should be sold to local residents. American heiress ends engagement with an earl. Barrett O’Hara attacks Sullivan over campaign funds. Clergyman in London likens the Kaiser to Satan. Wilson plans no autumn stump tour. Bryan drops grape juice. Stimson calls Kaiser a great noise. Windsor orders Kaiser banner removed. Public service concerns in Allegany County linger as weather cools and German war news worries Paris.
President Wilson urges a joint session of Congress to approve an additional internal tax revenue of 100 million dollars to cover wartime needs amid reduced customs receipts and mounting costs. The call frames the measure as an emergency response to fiscal strain caused by the war.
Michael Fields aged 101 died Tuesday in Charleston. He leaves 18 children and 58 grandchildren, reflecting a long life and extensive descendants.
The second annual Fair of the Agricultural Association of Garrett County will be held in Oakland on Sept 59 Oct 1 and 2. The event will include West Virginia and Pennsylvania exhibitors, balloons, parachute drops, a 35 piece band, parades for autos and livestock, a school rally, and free attractions across three days. Special low round trip tickets will be offered by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Cumberland and Grafton and intermediate points.
Judge W L Lee at a special circuit term appoints Frank Cunningham of Pittsburgh receiver of the Sewell Lumber Company with a 100000 dollar bond. The action, filed by F R Babcock of Pittsburgh, aims to conserve assets of the company which runs mills in the Sewell mountain district with a Landisburg plant and a railroad to Sewell. Colonel R M Smith remains resident manager and will be kept on as operating manager.
District Attorney S W Walker reports the U S Circuit Court of Appeals sustained Judge Dayton in contempt rulings against Meyer Schwarz and Oraul Scoric from the Brooke county labor troubles. Schwarz and Scoric were jailed sixty days after trial in Philippi for violating Dayton injunction, and appealed. Other similar cases from the Colliers strike await circuit court review.
The United States Government will establish a wireless station on Keeney's Knob in Summers County the highest point in West Virginia for telephone communications with New York. It is part of a system linking the metropolis and Cincinnati. Construction starts at once and should finish within a few months.
The Morgan family holds its annual reunion at Loop Park Fairmont West Virginia on September 10 Mayor Anthony Bowen gives the welcome speech with a response by R L Smith Judge F F Morgan delivers the principal address Rufus Morgan of Fairmont presides as association president Mount Zion choir offers selections in the event.
Dr John H. Kelly a leading physician died Tuesday at Parkersburg He served as Baltimore and Ohio Railroad surgeon in the area for years He trained at St Vincents Wheeling Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia and Bellevue New York He is survived by his wife and one daughter.
The excursion season winds down with trips over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Cumberland to Washington and Baltimore scheduled for September 13 and September 27.
A collage of humorous snippets and quips from reader shows, wire jokes, fashion riffs, and domestic witticisms. The piece lampoons court satire, marriage, fashion, Prohibition, cosmetics, and wartime scarcity with puns and cartoonish observations.
A compact timeline notes 1804 priests banished by France, 1829 slave trade debate in France, 1852 Burmese evacuation and Rome burning, 1770 King William of Prussia proposed Emperor of Germany, 1884 Earl of Dufferin named Viceroy of India, and 1904 Russo-Japanese War report of 3000 Russian wounded at Liao Yang with looting by Japanese troops.
Poultney Bigelow born in New York City on September 10 1855. He traveled with parents to Paris in 1861 and to Germany in 1870. After a Yale start in 1872 he sailed around the world before returning to graduate in 1879. He worked with the Herald and Outing and wrote The German Emperor and his Eastern Neighbors The Borderland of Czar and Kaiser and White Man's Africa.
At the Morgantown West Virginia Womans Christian Temperance Union meeting Mrs M K Ridgeway announced that Mrs A C Price who died recently left $20000 unconditionally to the unions building fund. The lot on Fayette Street was secured earlier and subscriptions already pledged plus the Price gift will advance building plans.
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