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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1914
Page
2
Washington reports show a mix of international and domestic actions. Vessels transferred to American registry include 54 former British, five German, and three Belgian ships. President Wilson backs mobilizing credit to aid southern cotton growers. River and harbor funds set aside for Missouri River work.
The twenty eighth annual convention opens in New York. Other news notes include a fatal collision of two Texas interurbans near Sherman injuring forty, with two men killed.
Reports from the era describe the Prince of Wales relief fund reaching 15 million dollars, dysentery among Austrian troops in Bohemia and Moravia, and China protesting Japanese occupancy without seeking battle. Other items note Britain sinking a German torpedo boat destroyer, Japanese forces in Yap, and various moves by Russia Britain France and Germany on fronts and diplomacy. Western Australia leads in gold and pearls, while Triple Entente powers seek Dardanelles reopening and Dalmatian waters mined.
Paris reports Sunday bombardment by two German aviators dropping twenty bombs across multiple quarters. Four civilians killed and twenty injured, twelve women. Antwerp fined £20,000,000 sterling by Germany. British brigades with Belgian forces fought at Antwerp and Ostend. retreat completed. Eastern fronts see heavy fighting and shifting German Russian advances. Romanian king’s death raises war stance questions.
A Providence reader testifies to recovery after displacement and postnatal weakness. She credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with relief from inflammation and nervous prostration following heavy lifting after childbirth. She urges other women with similar troubles to try the medicine.
Advert shows Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a thorough cure for constipation and a favorite family laxative. Ady.
A dialogue shows a penny activates a quinine capsule from a new slot machine at the station while residents praise public improvements. The scene captures urban anticipation and municipal developments as reported by the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
In a brief dialogue a judge notes Tess cried during a moving picture while Jess says it was a moving picture. The exchange reads like a light courtroom gag from a film page.
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