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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1914
Page
4
The Cumberland Press backs a Chamber of Commerce plan for a Commercial Day to boost home buying. It urges merchants to join, praises local stores, and argues Cumberland merchants offer fair prices and reliable advertising. It also questions a proposed fare hike on the Cumberland & Westernport Street Railway, noting steady finances and a small wage rise.
The mayor and council approve offering street paving bonds in 100 denominations to Cumberland residents. Weak bond demand is blamed on the European war, but local buyers could finance paving. Baltimore’s prior sale is cited as a model for success with long term bonds seen as solid investments.
The letter argues Yankee diplomacy and open governance prove superior to secret monarchy rule. It asserts free government sustains peace through openness, contrasts armed peace with diplomacy, cites U.S. Mexico relations and Great Lakes treaty, and envisions a world federation guided by republican values. FINLEY C. HENDRICKSON.
A collage of wartime commentary mocks pro and anti ally stances, cites Sherman and Bernstorff, and notes German tactics and homefront anxieties. It touches Paris dye shortages, Dinant shelling, and a vivid logistics detail of feeding and cremating troops with cited newspaper asides.
A collage of playful quips and social jests about vacation, fashion, gossip, and daily life. Snippets include remarks on brain food for anglers, seaside mischief, fashion trends, and witty one liners about relationships and society.
A compilation of editor quotes from papers in Philadelphia Buffalo Providence noting Petrograd war coverage may mirror St Petersburg, Kansas City celebrates a Brazil coffee shipment via New Orleans, and wartime trade shifts hamper Republican political capital and tariff blame.
Dickerson Run reports forty refrigerator cars of peaches and plums loaded at Cumberland for Maryland destined for shipment west. Cumberland fruit sells for twenty to twenty five cents a basket, while here prices range from sixty to ninety cents. Some locals seek two dollars per bushel for home grown peaches.
Key events marked on this date include the 1814 Pittsburg New York battle on Lake Champlain, the 1826 Freemasons’ treatment of William Morgan, Clara Fisher’s 1827 debate, cabinet resignations in 1841, Jenny Lind’s 1850 American debut, the 1857 Mountain Meadows massacre, Fremont’s 1861 proclamation adjustments by Lincoln, Natchez’s 1862 surrender, the 1911 Portugal recognition by major powers, and Mayor Gaynor’s 1913 death aboard the S S Baltic.
Congressman Henry A. Barnhart of Rochester, born September 11 1858 in Twelve Mile Indiana, started as a county surveyor and bought the Rochester Sentinel. He won a vacancy in the Sixtieth Congress and was re elected to the Sixty first through Sixty third Congresses.
London reports Premier Asquith asked Parliament to raise an additional half million troops. He noted 489,000 men had joined since the war began, with 32,240 enlisting in a single day. Reserves were called out leaving about 400,000 with the colors as plans aimed for 1,400,000 total.
The Twice-A-Week American is published Tuesday and Friday with compact week news. It includes special correspondence, entertaining romances, poetry, local matters, and fresh miscellany. An Agriculture Department and reliable Financial and Market Reports are highlighted features.
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