All Allies Drive Kaiser Forces Back Over Sixty Five Miles
The Pawxsutawney Spirit reports a grand fair featuring the fastest horses with large purses. Ninety including eighty entries from Erie and other cities arrive by train, bringing dozens of high speed entrants from Chicago Indiana and Pennsylvania towns for the Pennsylvania fair events.
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Erie
Indiana
Chicago
Myersdale
Milfinburg
Bellefonte
Clearfield
Olean
Tiffany
Appello
Johnstown
Altoona
Pittsburgh
Bloomsburg
Half Million Fresh French Troops for Paris Attack
War dispatches from September 14 report Paris forces advancing as French troops, with Field Marshal French at command, press the German rear guard and threaten a push toward Paris. Reports claim German forces retreating northeastward, with heavy losses on both sides and Paris under rising Allied momentum.
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Germany
London
French
Mons
Paris
Faris
Meux
Montmirail
Vitry-Le-Francois
Sermaice-Les-Bains
Marne
Vitry-Le- Francois
More Girls Than Boys Enter State College
State College opens the new semester with freshmen admissions totaling over 600, a larger share of women than men. About 150 were rejected, while two year agricultural enrollment remains around 106. Campus dormitories will be expanded using former faculty residences. horticultural and animal husbandry buildings near completion. Miss Clara Cooperwhert of Winnborne stays with her uncle Richard Airandaele.
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State College
Armsby, Fehr, Hunt and Pattee
Clara Cooperwhert
Winborne
Richard Airandaele
King Alberts Troops Escape German Trap
Antwerp dispatch reports King Albert's Belgian army narrowly avoiding a German trap as they retreat toward Antwerp. The chaotic action included furious exchanges with attackers and a continued withdrawal, while Glück and morale shifts were noted amid the heavy fighting.
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King Albert
Rapchage Found Guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter
In Morrisdale, Mike Rayback was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for killing George Swageres during a July Fourth quarrel on Hawk Run road. The jury cited earlier local killings and sentenced him to consider up to twelve years, with sentencing pending.
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Hawk Ren
Mike Ray
George Swageres
Mortis
Dale
Bali
Rapback
Swageras
Morrisdale
George
Mike
Convention to Meet at Scranton State
A Sunday School convention is planned in Scranton with events on Thursday and Friday. Highlights include a Congress and market for teens, a Parade of $5,050 Teen Age days, and outreach by Rev. Dewey who asks each county to send a teen delegate. Chartiel county youths are invited to contact Rev. Poulsch in New Midport for travel arrangements.
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Pewid
Guy of Scracten
Cs Ceicher
Wideylxunic
Congress
Dewey
Chartiel County
O. B. Poulsch
New Midport
Conference on Better Service at W G Ghier Operators
O Bruce Porter, operating manager of a local telephone firm, holds two conferences with chief operators from Curwensville Gen Campbell M Kaffey and others to improve service. They will inspect a new Clearfield exchange and a modern fireproof building with a common battery system and dine at the Dimeling hotel.
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O. Bruce’ Porter
Uebudtingdon & Utewieu “Reser Phone Company
Curwensville
Gen Campbell
M.kaffey
Philipstarg
Osceols Mills
Clearfield
Dimeling
Wise Old Boston Vindicated by Ecto Speed Claim
The piece discusses Boston streets and a claim about speed on an ecto mobile, noting vindication after a tortuous path of scrutiny. It references Searle Post Intelligence and hints at how it works within city design and enforcement.
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Boston
Searle Post Intelligencer
German Big Guns Attract Interest In American Press
Despatches from the European war describe 15 inch siege guns developed by Germany capable of swift transport on motor trucks. Photographs show Liege and Namur after fort demolitions and explain how upward plunging fire can crumble fortifications. An ex-ordnance officer notes German funds spent on heavy artillery and compares pieces to familiar coastal mortars and canal forts, suggesting no startling novelty.
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New York
Liege
Namur
Europe
Port Arthur
Desperate fighting as Russians crush Austro German armies
Petrograd reports a 18 day battle along the Galicia to Russian Poland line yielding 250000 Austrian prisoners. Russians claim decisive victory with Austro German forces routed from Kraenik Tomaszow Lemberg and beyond. Large numbers of guns captured as the Austrians retreat across the Sar River.
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International News Service
Petrograd
War Office
Healier
Galicia
Opole
Russian Poland
San
Sakhomlinoff
Ruzsky
Silesia
Berlin
Tomas
Russian
Poland
Austrian Poland
Kraenik
Tomaszow
Lemberg
Austria
Sar
Stough Campaign Opens in DuBois Tabernacle
Dr. Henry W. Stough launched his evangelistic campaign in DuBois, delivering morning and evening sermons in the large tabernacle and urging prayer against evil while warning of gangsters aiming at him. Large crowds heard Stough and Prof. Spooner sing as he vowed unprecedented work this week.
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Stough
DuBois
Henry" W. Stough
Bois
Dr. Stough
Bi Stough
Prof
Spooner
Change in DuBois Courier Ownership and Editorship
This morning's issue reports Ezra S. Gray retires after years as editor and is replaced by William B. Rees, a DuBois newspaperman. E W Gray remains business manager as a company reorganizes to emphasize Republican principles in the paper's future.
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DuBois Courier
Ezra S. Gray
Courier
William B. Rees
DuBois
E. W. Gray
Tinue
Boss
Mrs Anna Keeler Seeks County Reward in Murder Case
The sem in civil court opened with Mrs Anna Keeler suing Clearfield County to collect the reward offered for the capture of her husband John C Keeler, executed for the murder of Joseph Roeegsner. Mrs Keeler contends she persuaded her husband to surrender. W o Swoope represents her, Harry Boulton for the county commissioners.
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Anna Keeler
Clearfield
John C. Keeler
Joseph Roeegsner
Keeler
Half Million Russians Landed on French Soil
Antwerp dispatch reports a Russian army of about 200,000 moving southeast from Ostend to strike the German right wing. Other sources claim reinforcements totaling near half a million have landed at Ostend Havre and Bonionge, marking a major Allied influx on Belgian soil.
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France
Antwerp
Ostend
Eixenener
Havre
Bonionge
Appoints Widow of Gov Hastings to Rome Post
Governor Tener appoints Mrs Davie Z Hastings of Bethlehem to a Rome for women post in WS industrial affairs, marking a notable cabinet reshuffle. The selection highlights Hastings's ties to state governance and supports efforts in regional industry development.
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Gov. Hastings
Tener
Davie Z. Hastings
Betlefon 32
WS Industrial
Rome
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