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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1916
Page
6
St Marys Catholic Church at East Third and G streets lists Father Thomas Quain as pastor. Low mass at 7 am, second mass at 9 30 am, Benediction at 7 30 pm.
Seventh-day Adventist chapel at First and E streets holds Sabbath school at 2 with Clara Benson as superintendent and a 3 o'clock Sabbath service. Wednesday prayer meeting at 8 led by E L MacLafferty. St Paul’s Lutheran Church at First and E offers 11 a m Germany service officiated by Rev Amos Minneman. The Scandinavian M E Church at Market and L lists morning 11 and evening 8 services, 10 o'clock Sunday school led by I J Rigstad, with Young People's meeting Tuesday 8 and Thursday prayer meeting 8 led by Rev H Ernest Anderson.
The First Christian Church at Third and L streets posts a morning service at 11:00 with no evening service. Sunday school begins at 10:00 led by superintendent E F Clare and Elder Edwin G Clark.
The Christian Science church on First Street near Broadway offers Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. and morning service at 11:00 a.m. Sunday evening service at 8:00 p.m. is a repeat of the morning. Wednesday services at 8:00 p.m. Reading room at 517 Finch building open daily 12 to 5 except Sunday and Wednesday 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays 12 to 5 p.m.
Local churches list Sunday and evening services with times and leaders. St Andrew's hosts musical evening service led by Rev F F W Greene. Norwegian Lutheran led by A Wold. Trinity M E with Rev C W Mc Laughlin. Congregational under W T Randolph. First Presbyterian with Rev T H Simpson. Swedish Mission led by Rev John J Huleen. Sunday schools noted at each site.
A wartime summary lists Allied air fleets dropping 10 000 pounds of explosives at Zeebrugge with 650 casualties. Zeppelins raid Scottish and English coasts with over 100 casualties. June reports 27 air combats on the British front. July notes German bombs on Lure, France, and French raids on Ham and Les Moines.
A chronology of German submarine actions and U S responses from Feb 1915 to Mar 1916 detailing ship sinkings including Lusitania, Arabic, Sussex and others, with American casualties and diplomatic notes. The list notes Germany's war declaration against waters near the British Isles and successive American warnings and protests.
A dated timeline of World War I events from September 1914 to January 1915 covering Austrian invasion of Servia Turkish war declarations and battles on Gallipoli Salonika and Mesopotamia. It notes British advances and retreats including Kut el Amara and Suvia Bay actions with Austro German Bulgarian forces advancing in Serbia and along the Caucasus.
Allied forces evacuated the Gal Hipoli peninsula and moved ships and ground troops to Saloniki. Austrian forces seized Cetinje and Montenegro capitulated to Austria. Russians captured Erzerum and Trebizond. British failed to relieve Kut el Amara after heavy losses and were forced to surrender Kut el Amara with about 10,000 troops. Bulgar troops invaded Greece toward Salonik with Allied concerns rising.
A terse sequence of naval actions from 1914 to 1916 notes bombardments and ship losses across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Key events include Emden’s destruction, British assaults on Dardanelles, German and Italian ships sunk, and a major Skagerrak battle with heavy losses and a suggestive draw.
Italian offensives push on multiple fronts including Trentino Isonzo and Goritz fronts. In 1916 operations see advances, repulses and heavy bombardments with Austrians counterattacks and prisoner gains.
A partial roundup notes Japanese landings in China and siege outcomes in Tsingtao, Britain’s naval zones and Suez attacks, German warfare policy shifts, U.S. protests over British orders in council, ship seizures and captures including Appam and Deutschland, plus Kitchener’s death and Greece’s demobilization.
In New Zealand a pair of prospectors crossed a stream mouth and both sank into quicksand. One escaped but the other was pulled under. Recovering the body revealed sand deeply laden with gold, yielding about $1,500 per ton.
Readable excerpts describe a Kyoto temple Buddhist image with legends of divine favor and miraculous acts. Other notes discuss cinema technique where a performer appears in two roles by blanking and rewinding film to show separate parts.
The piece explains shellac mixtures to refresh straw hats with shellac and alcohol and notes a medieval belief about witches turning into cats. It recalls a miller’s helper fearing a cat that hid a witch in Grimalkin form and links to Petronius werewolf lore. The humor strip ends with a quip about earning money from a husband’s pockets.
The piece praises Arabic for its poetic imagery and links nature to heritage, noting terms for seasons. It then quotes James McNeill Whistler on friendship and enemies, saying he values enemies for keeping him active and challenged.
An old advertisement touts Kick apoo Worm Killer as a pleasant candy for children. It claims the relief comes quickly from a dosage of one half to one lozenge and urges mothers to keep a box on hand for 25 cents at druggists.
A chemistry lecturer cites a dog protecting coal from weight loss as practical chemistry. A University of Washington professor argues higher mathematics builds undivided attention, exact definition, and deductive reasoning in School Science and Mathematics.
A theorist muses on Napoleon under modern warfare and art. A connoisseur notes it is hard to say but art would relish his era. The piece closes with a note on Moscow and the Kolokol the world’s largest bell weighing about 200 tons.
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