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M i NiNGs*kJouRNALJ. B. OB Kit, Editor.FKOSTHUKG, MI)...l-KlUn’AKV 12, lsps.“Make No Mistake/*The Cumberland Times argues that “Cumberland is the Logical Place1 tor the location of the Normal School.Cumberland is also “the logical place” for typhoid fever and all other bacterial diseases.If the Time* doesn’t believe this the Journal has lots of Cumberland testimony to that effect.The Times says further :The location of a school is as important as the location of a court-house, a store, or any other public enterprise.The Journal thinks it more important.A court-house or a store supplied with impure water is very bad.Hut a Normal School building, set down in an incubator of bacilli and a nursery of fission-fungus will be for at least eight months in the year a wholesale challenge to the (Trim Reaper to come and do his worst.“Make no mistake,” echoes the Journal, especially the sort that will locate the victimsof Cumberland water underground.I mpnrt ant.The Journal has information from Annapolis this morning to the effect that Cumberland is seeking to have “the State Hoard of Educatiou arbitrate the matter ot location between that place and Frost burg.1’To yieltl to thnt projtonal in to glee up the fight!The true arbiters of the question are the majority of the county'ndelegotion in the Legislature !They are the elect of our people— not ot the State !Let us stick to this !To the Allegany Delegation.As the true arbiters of Normal School location, have you calculated the possible, not to say probable cost of an epidemic of typhoid fever in a , Hfate school iu Cumberland ?How much in loss of time through sickness ?How much in doctors’ bills?How much in funeral erpensen?And there are other’questions.Applied Reason.“There are things in this world more valuable than money, my son.”“I know it. That’s the reason I want money to buy them with.”— Detroit Fra-Prcnn.Comparatively, then, the “tilings’1 are plentiful, “money scarce.’1
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Frostburg Mining Journal
Frostburg, Maryland, US
Sat, Feb 12, 1898
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