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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1915
Page
4
The Cumberland Press publishes daily except Sunday from 109 Baltimore Street Cumberland. Subscription rates are 8.00 per year in advance or 0.65 per month. Advertising rates available on request. Telephone orders for daily delivery accepted.
A playful note from September 25 1915 promotes a candidate event with the line Meet Me at the Fair as the slogan. The writer encourages public attendance to hear the candidates and implies strong patronage for the event.
The second circus of the season arrives today drawing crowds with youth, life, and romance. The tented show offers irresistible spectacle and a bright summer signoff to Cumberland residents as public interest grows. The Bureau of Statistics and Information is expected to respond soon to recent legal questions.
A citywide alert warns residents to guard valuables as pickpockets adapt to crowds at circuses and fairs. Experts note new schemes include accomplices posing as helpful aiders on streetcars and trains, asking people to be cautious and suspicious of strangers offering assistance. The Boston Transcript references Mr. Bryan and Mr. Lansing in a brief note about state desks, signaling heightened vigilance.
The poem portrays a world where cars control daily life from farmers to students and teachers. It notes lawyers, storekeepers, and coaches adopting motor travel while others like tramps struggle under financial strain. The piece culminates with a Piedmont West Virginia setting and a social panorama of motoring influence.
Theatre critics survey New York season offerings with Marie Tempest in Rosalind and Barrie’s new The Bargain. notes on Drury Lane Stolen Orders revival, Light comedies, dramas, musical pieces, and forthcoming productions from Feb to November including Princess Pat and Just Girls.
George A. Martin mocks Consuls Brissel Marsh and Honey with jesting tales from Bagdad Hillah and Ottawa Ottawa streetcars. The piece jokes about brick making from Nebuchadnezzar gardens hair houses and clocks on trams while lampooning Spanish wine measures.
A long discussion on fee-splitting among doctors explains signs of this practice, how patients can choose operators, and why reforms rely on public knowledge. It urges consulting medical directories, hospital affiliations, and professional societies, while emphasizing patient education as the ultimate solution.
A light verse mocks a gabby Smithers figure who talks loudly and prides himself on boasting. The quip frames him as not a musician though he constantly blows his own horn.
A fragmentary historical note discusses Roman reactions as barbarians approach Rome and the collapse of old orders. It references a review by a Genga Democrat on world conditions, noting dissolution of nations and Greece’s fate as context.
The text reflects on past fall of Persia and Spain, England and Germany shaping the future, and the inevitability that nations rise and fall. It argues humanity surpasses any single nation, that time serves people, and that even a century of upheaval won’t end the race. The closing line warns about concrete and wood blocks.
A collage of quips and cartoons from press readers including jokes about debts, marriages, mice, rats, and mosquitoes. Names such as Lizzie Sprinkles and Vilhjalm ar Stefansson appear amid brief notes and quoted exchanges.
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