16 Nov 1914
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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1914
Page
1
Paris reports on the Yser front from Nieupoort to Dixmude where French forces repelled German crossings and artillery duels. A German regiment south of Bixschoote was destroyed, and several near Ypres were repulsed as the French offensive regained positions.
Amsterdam dispatch reports French prisoners in Zossen near Berlin publish a weekly French language paper Le Heraut The Herald The paper aims to ease longing for home with humane humor and includes an advertisement page featuring a former fur trader as editor and market notes lamenting beer shortages for war prisoners The item notes telepathic world connection claimed by the paper ASIS
The administration ticket of the National Woman's Suffrage Association led by Dr. Anna Shaw of New York was elected president at the Nashville convention held November 16.
A compact reflection on delay as a peril and the itch to act as a self undoing, quoting Robert Louis Stevenson’s meditation on action and consequence.
Washington November 16 Secretary McAdoo announced the formal order making the twelve Federal Reserve banks ready for business The move marks the start of the nation’s new currency system Paul M Warburg called the development a Fourth of July moment in U S economic life
Paris reports artists face wartime hardship as martial law bites. A baritone from the Opera Comique drives a taxi while others seek menial work. street singing dwindles as crowds restrict performances. A Belgian trooper and an Algerian rifleman appear in a music hall tableau amid censorship. The piece continues on Page Four.
Premier Asquith informed the House of Commons that the war costs Britain between four and five million dollars daily. He requested the honor credit in the sum of a billion and a quarter dollars, describing it as the greatest demand yet made for material resources.
In a darkness halted ten inning game Corona and Arlington both posted eight runs. New Corona pitcher McConnell pitched well in his first local appearance while Arlington ace Harback, nicknamed Lizzie, worked for the visitors. The lineups featured Wells, Gooch, Trujillo, Shapel, Fannin, Anderson, Stewart, Grow and McConnell for Corona and Callahan, Overman, Callack, Watkins, Davis, Lynch, Harrison for Arlington.
A brief notice notes the proverb The cat in gloves catches no mice as a reflection on careful action. It cites Poor Richard's Almanac as the source of the adage highlighting frugality prudence and practical effort.
Ninety three tramps in a westward march were jailed in San Bernardino after commandeering a Salt Lake Railroad train. They ordered the engineer to take them to Los Angeles from their desert position and a posse awaited the Sal Lake line as the train arrived.
Fruits and vegetables form a portion of the exhibits at Oceanside's annual chrysanthemum show, adding a homegrown display to the floral competition.
Corona residents show strong enthusiasm for Clean-Up Week from November 16 to 21. The Civic Committee of the W I C with city trustees reports lively school cooperation, with pupils volunteering and will have their names published. Vacant lots are being plowed and rubbish cleared to beautify the city for visitors.
An exhibition at the Leipzig International Book Fair draws many Berlin residents. The wartime display, kept open after the fair, features foreign papers with false reports, Russian proclamations from occupied cities, battlefront letters and postcards, a Belgian aeroplane section, uniforms, projectiles, captured weapons and flags, and a knout from a Cossack.
Colonel George W. Goethals files his annual Panama Canal report to Secretary Garrison detailing earth slide battles, Zone governance, fortifications, and cost figures. The canal’s total expenditure reaches 3538 559 049 69 including over 12 million for fortifications and progress on gun and mortar batteries and redoubts completed by year end.
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