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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1914
Page
3
A gutter child leads a pretend army with a scarlet paper cockade while city families watch in hunger. In a moonlit battlefield, a dying officer clutches a red cockade and recalls his son, echoing the war’s unseen cost.
The article urges the bride to personally oversee valued household items like china linen and silver. It advises rotating linen folding to prevent wear and weekly darning to preserve fabric, plus careful hiring and supervision of a maid for silver care to avoid scratches and tarnish.
Domestic science instructions outline steaming fresh littleneck clams with butter served in shells and broth. accompany with broiled mushrooms on toast German salad and a chocolate pudding. Includes ingredients such as clams mushrooms cabbage beets eggs and gelatin with step by step cooking and folding technique.
A series of marriage notices include Joseph Garrick and Mabel Hamilton of Cumberland Maryland William Harrison Mardis of Seward Pennsylvania and Stella May Baird of Lockport New York and others from Mt. Savage Cumberland Pitcairn Warrendale Martha Furnace Cedarville and Cumberland.
Confederates of Hampshire county at Camn Walter elected officers for the coming year. President W S Welton of Petersburg Grant county. first vice president C G Amstot Burlington. second vice president S I Tharp Romney. third vice president William L Vandegrift Shanks. recording secretary B M Haines. corresponding secretary N M Poling. treasurer S H Williams. chaplain Rev F J Brooke. executive committee William Montgomery Joseph Kelley Henry Heuser Samuel Tharp F M Brown.
The W. H. Fissell Company of New York is awarded the contract to erect the new post office on Penn Square Bedford Pennsylvania for 52800 dollars. Construction will start in about a month.
Local print shop offers to engrave or print visiting cards with period styles. Customers may choose embossed types or inked designs as preferred.
Berkeley Springs West Virginia September 14 B E Dawson Republican candidate for county commissioner sues J T Rankin for 5000 damages over a slanderous statement about alleged misconduct while Dawson served as superintendent of the county almshouse.
Ambrose Breig eight year old son of A J Breig is killed near the cemetery on Winchester road Berkeley Springs when a wagon loaded with empty tomato cans topples and falls, a box dislodging and dragging him from the wagon.
William M. Bruce and others transfer a parcel on Lowell avenue Cumberland to Edgar L. Flury Sr for $5 and John CC Moore and wife transfer a parcel on Browning street Cumberland to John V. Rosenberry for $10.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were paid from this office without dispute. The policyholders claim forty four years of satisfaction from the coverage and claim continued security from the insurer.
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