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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1914
Page
1
Allied French and British assaults on the German line weaken while German offensives gain strength across multiple fronts. Berlin reports Craonne and Betheny captured and French lines extending from Alsace to Argonne, with winter campaigns anticipated.
From behind Allied lines in France on September 22 a London Daily Telegraph special describes a plainside littered with hundreds of dead. Uniforms, weapons, and bayonets mark the furious assault as French and German soldiers lie facedown, their bodies aligned toward the enemy in a grim tableau of courage and slaughter.
Police Commissioner Hum melshime swore a warrant before States Commissioner Anderson for the arrest of William W. Brown president of the Daily News Publishing Co and editor of the Daily News for alleged violation of federal statute in publishing an itinerary doctor advertisement not marked as advertisement. The law imposes fines from 50 to 500 dollars and requires sworn publication of newspaper ownership twice yearly. Deputy Marshal Jacob D. George received the warrant.
The Allegany County Christian Endeavor Union executive committee met at the First Methodist Protestant Church Bedford Street and set October 15 and 16 for the county convention at St Pauls Lutheran Church Frostburg. Alfred D S Day of Baltimore, president of the State union, and Rev G I Humphries of Baltimore will speak.
The school commissioners awarded W. J. Morley the contract for a fireproof eight room two story school building on Columbia Street for 29,986 dollars. The bid covers brick tile and concrete construction ground grading and sidewalk work with completion by February 1915. Eight bids were submitted with Banks Construction Company Clarksburg W Va Olin Gerlach Frostburg Enterprise Construction Company Filkins W Va Wright Richardson Co F Mertens' Sons George A Bowman and Holbert Spedden Fairmont W Va among competitors.
The article urges immediate voter registration to gain free admission tickets to November polls and state primaries next year. It warns that delaying to October or beyond may deny access, noting both Republican and Democratic leaders push for early turnout.
A report from Peking dated September 22 states Japan lost a second torpedo boat outside Kiaua Chanu. The vessel was sunk by a German cruiser.
The Carroll Club hosts a regular dance and party in Carroll Hall tonight. Non-members with expiring invitation cards will exchange them for Fall term cards.
T. H. Lightfoot, salesman for the Glisan Garage, departed with two mechanicians for a week of Buick demonstrations across Garrett County Maryland and Mineral and Hampshire counties West Virginia. They will showcase the 1915 C 55, C 37 and C 25 models.
The Masonic Temple Association will hold an autumn dance at the Masonic Temple on Wednesday evening September 30. The grand march will begin at 9 o'clock.
Miss Lucy Burleson daughter of the postmaster general supports Miss Genevieve Clark in a plan for a national cotton bargain week. The proposal calls for American women to adopt American styles and use cotton fabrics in clothing and homes with a nationwide October sale to boost movement and reduce surplus bales with no foreign market.
London dispatches report Russian control in Galicia and their capture of Dobiecko on the San river cutting Przemys from western armies. Dankl’s force retreats toward Cracow as Montenegrins close on Sarajevo, with Austrians abandoning guns and stores as they retreat.
Dallas, a $20 a week clerk, charged with taking $90,000 from L. P. White & Co. of Philadelphia, was struck and killed by an elevated train in Norristown while en route to court.
President Wilson thanked Congress for the sympathy resolutions upon Mrs Wilson's death. He said it was gracious and comforting to be thought of in his hour of affliction and praised comradeship in life and national service. He expressed sincere gratitude for the courtesy and thoughtfulness.
A House resolution by Representative Doolittle of Kansas asked the Secretary of Commerce to report all facts on wheat prices paid to Kansas producers, prices for export sales, and methods of price setting. It cites possible antitrust law violations and urges action.
In Washington 16 Democratic senators overturned the rivers and harbors appropriation bill and defeated Senator Burton of Ohio. The Senate 27 to 22 voted to recommit the measure to commerce committees with instructions to substitute a $20,000,000 appropriation for existing waterway projects under defense department supervision.
Telegram from Vladivostok reports Japanese aircraft dropped bombs and destroyed two major forts at Tsing Tau after skies cleared near the harbor. Paris dispatch notes Havas source confirms the claim as of September 22.
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