22 Aug 1914
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1914
Page
1
Disjointed OCR fragment references Roma olive trade and territory, mentioning Feunon ware and two nearby items. The legible bits offer no clear event date or named entities beyond scattered place and product terms, limiting meaningful summary without further context.
Reported Belgian defense claims deny the fall of Namur and Liege as war in Europe intensifies. Japan signals readiness to join Allies, while Tokyo and Berlin await the Kaiser’s reply to German demands. Ambassadors coordinate next steps as tensions rise over Belgian neutrality and potential war with Japan.
London reports growing consternation as German forces near the British shoreline threaten bomb attacks by Zeppelins. Ostend may have influenced this plan, with London and allied sources noting Germany could redeploy troops to counter Russian advances. The German War Office mobilizes the local home guard, dubbed Landanien.
Aug. 22 Dearborn in a Stutz and Fontaine in a Doser Went rowring over the starting line at 11 this morning for the Hin National Trophy win. Seventy six other drivers followed. Winbarl was injured later in the eleventh lap when his car rolled. An ambulance carried him to hospital. Injuries not learned.
James Drake and a companion drove into the city from Beaverdam seeking his son Frank aged 15 and a neighborhood friend Nell Shreve who had allegedly run away. They searched for hours with no trace found. one boy reportedly carried fourteen to fifteen dollars, the other less. Drake later faced city authorities and then continued toward his destination.
Dr Frank V GunBaulua, pastor and lecturer, spoke on War Against War at the Corry Ghautana gua before about 2,000 in a big tent. He urged mil itary power be subordinated to civil authority and warned against armaments fueling false patriotism. The program included choral singing and a reading of America, with audience participation. He contrasted Britain and the United States current militarism and noted the need for peace through disarmament and reform.
Belgian refugees pour into Holland amid rumors of German atrocities as Brussels protests against a wartime tax and Belgium completes troop concentration around Antwerp. Paris reports German offensives in Lorraine and Namur siege claims, with Austrian reinforcements aiding the offensive in the frontier region. Serbia claims twenty five thousand casualties and prisoners inflicted on Austria in two weeks.
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