Zeppelins Raid on English Seacoast Towns Continues
German airship bombardment across Yarmouth King’s Lynn Cromer and surrounding towns killed several civilians and damaged numerous homes. Reports confirm Zeppelins, not Taube planes, carried the bombs, with eight hits in Yarmouth and one in King’s Lynn. Russian and French offensives on multiple fronts also push German lines back toward Thorn and East Prussia, while Paris reports claim progress near Pont a Mousson and in the Argonne.
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King
Krupp
Liege
Namur
Maubeuge
Astley
National Reserve
King’s Lynn
Major Astley
War Office
Yarmouth
Associated Press
Cromer
Sheringham
Deringham
Grimston
Sneltisham
Heacham
Germans Capture Trenches at Notre Dame de Lorette
Paris war office reports a German foothold north of Notre Dame de Lorette was driven out after a counterattack leaving 100+ prisoners. Other actions include Allied repulses near Albert Thiepval La Boisseliere and La Fontaine aux Charmes with continued artillery exchanges from Nieuwport to the Somme and Argonne sectors.
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Paris
Thiepval
Ponta-Mousson
Soissons
Metz
Argonne
Berlin
Alsace
Notre Dame de Lorette
War Office
Albert
la Boisselie
la Fontaine Aux Charmes
Russians Repel German Attacks on Front Lines in Galicia and Vistula
Petrograd reports Jan 19 operations show limited fighting with Germans halted at Rawa and Vitkoritze. Bukovina advance continues with Johaneschti village captured. heavy clashes noted near Radloff, Bodzanow, and Bejournia with German losses.
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Vistula
Warsaw
Nlawa
Konopki
Bodzanow
Bejournia
Dobrza
Vystograd
Vitkovitze
Bzura
German Airships Bombarded Fortified Yarmouth East Coast
Berlin reports from January 19 to 20 that German airships bombarded fortified Yarmouth and other English east coast positions, causing considerable damage. Airships were shelled but returned to base undamaged. The western front saw artillery exchanges with gains at Notre Dame de Lorette and in the Argonne, plus progress in Alsace and the eastern front showing no change.
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Berlin
Sayville
L. I
Yarmouth
London
German War Office
Seacoast
Lys
Notre Dame de Lorette
Arras
Argonne
Sennheim
Cernay
Alsace
Altzstein
Austrian Emperor May Quit Throne
A Rome despatch to Daily News says Emperor Franz Josef will abdicate as Hungary faces secession. Archduke Charles Francis, heir to the throne, is believed to have left Vienna for German headquarters to inform the Kaiser.
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London
Rome
Daily News
Franz Josef
Hungary
Charles Francis
Vienna
German push repelled and trenches held on the Western Front
Troops briefly yielded under shock but recovered to recapture most positions in two counter attacks. At St Hubert Germans mined a northeastern trench projection. defenders filled excavations to deny possession. Northwest of Pont a Mousson in Le Pretre forest we held 100 yards in front of captured trenches amid a successful counter attack. Near Thann artillery battles favored our side.
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Poland
Thorn
East Prussia
Dobryzyn
Lower
Vistula
Mlava
Posen
Warsaw
Silesia
Dobrzyn
Wystograd
St. Hubert
Pont-a-Mousson
le Pretre
Thann
Belcher Dies at 69 A Randolph Businessman and Benefactor
Henry Alder Belcher prominent Randolph and Sandwich figure dies at 69. Born Aug 6, 1844, he started in retail with Jordan Marsh, later ran his own ventures. He served in the Massachusetts House in 1898 99, was a Boylston National Bank director and active in Unitarian and Masonic circles.
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Randolph
Henry Alder Belcher
Randolph and
Sandwich
Stetson High
Jordan Marsh Company
Belcher
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Boylston National Bank
Masons
Captain Cook on Days of Whalers at Harvard Club
Provincetown captain John A. Cook praised Cape Cod and Nantucket seamen for whaling skill and fearlessness. He recounted Arctic voyages, shipwreck rescues, and a cannibal island near Herschel Island, noting Arctic losses and Eskimo aid, with lantern slides and a remark about blonde Eskimo women.
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Provincetown
Nantucket
John A. Cook
Tip
Cape
Harvard Club
Arctic
Captain Cook
Straits of Malacca
Pacific
New Bedford
Cook
Ohio
Herschel Island
School teacher becomes bride in Central Congregational Church
Miss F Mildred Gaillac long a Chelsea Williams School teacher and friend to newsboys married Chester I Pepper MIT son of Mr and Mrs John A Pepper of Chelsea. Rev Willis A Hadley officiated. Double ring ceremony. only relatives and intimate friends present.
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F. Mildred Gaillac
Williams School
Chelsea
Newsboys
Central Congregational Church
Chester I. Pepper
John A. Pepper
State Board of Education
Willis A. Hadley
Daicy of Boston Sentenced in Maine
Arthur Daicy of Boston was sentenced in Rockland Maine to one to four years for the murderous assault on James Simmons, an aged merchant of Friendship. Indictments tied to his prior escapes were not pressed.
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Rockland
Arthur Daicy
Boston
James Simmons
Dr E S Cummings Organist Is Dead Card
Pittsburg January 2 Dr Edward S Cummings aged 92 organist and composer and first organist of the First Congregational Church Worcester Mass when Rev Edward Everett Hale led the church in 1849 died at his daughter's home Mrs Thomas M Finucane in Pittsburg He taught pipe organ and piano in New York for 63 years.
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Pittsburg
Edward §. Cummings
Worcester
Mass
Edward Everett Hale
Thomas M. Finucane
New York
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