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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1916
Page
2
London reports describe two Zeppelins shot down or forced to land, with one burning and crew captured or killed, while air raids across London and surrounding areas caused 30 deaths and 110 injuries.
A last minute amendment to the Federal Reserve act restricts member banks of the reserve system from accepting drafts or bills of exchange beyond 50 percent of their capital and surplus. The original framing allowed higher acceptances, but a mistake during final sessions tied the banks' hands.
Ottawa reports Sir Thomas White praised the loan result as proof of Canada’s financial strength and indicates plans to secure further dollar credit for imperial purchases of munitions and supplies. He aims to enable allied support across the Atlantic.
British and French forces describe rapid Allied gains in the Somme region. Combles fell to joint assault, with Thiepval and Gueudecourt also captured or pressed, as trenches and fortified positions yielded to Allied artillery and infantry advances.
Reports say King Constantine likely to declare war. Allied air raids kill 139 people this week, 74 in England and 5 in Bucharest, with many injured. Austrians and Germans retreat from Vulcan Szarduk passes in Transylvania. Russians seize Hill No 916 on the Macedonian front and report gains with French British Roumanian Serb forces. Odessa dispatch notes 2000 Russian prisoners taken in Dobrudja. Air superiority of the Allies emphasized.
Chicago flour rose sharply with standard Minnesota patents at 9.10 a barrel, up 33 cents from a year ago. Cheaper bakers grade flour advanced 10 to 15 cents. Bakers threaten price hikes on bread as wholesalers resist profits squeeze. Argentines sail 4000 tons of wheat to New York, first export to U.S. in period.
The Anglo Russian Commission has acquired a controlling interest in Eddystone Ammunition Company, Baldwin Locomotive Works’ big munition maker for the Allies. The Ennte group will keep the name, appoint its own directors, and produce shells only for Great Britain and Russia. The plant at Eddystone, Pa., employed about 5,000 men and held a Russian contract for 2,500,000 shells at an average cost of 15 dollars. Rumors say the takeover followed the firm’s failure to meet the contract and concerns over Russian advances.
China seeks to shift former Japanese trade to the United States. In Washington officials and Chinese representatives aim to minimize ties with Japan and push the transfer with guarded secrecy.
Post Office Department reports postal savings bank deposits in August rose by about 5 million, with another weekly gain over 1.8 million and a monthly increase of 4.016 million for August 1914. Gains were widespread across cities and regions.
Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing is made a Major General by President Wilson, succeeding the late Albert L. Mills. Four Colonels Eben Swift Francis H. French Edwin St John Greble and Charles G Treat are appointed Brigadier Generals to fill forthcoming vacancies and meet the 1916 National Defense Act plan.
Secretary Wilfred Wheeler of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture says fresh eggs should retail at 75 cents a dozen soon. He cites fewer hens, high poultry prices, low egg fertility last spring, and higher costs for feed and labor as causes, with storage limits also contributing to the hike.
Los Angeles reporter Harry Howland penned a story about his intended death by his own action and then carried out the plan, taking poison at his desk in a newspaper office. Grief over his wife and child’s death in Kansas City a year earlier preceded the act.
J C Graveur president of Alhambra Garage Company New York was murdered in the Hotel Walton his wife fatally wounded and she killed herself Mrs J C Ladur of New York is named in the incident.
Woodbury council moves toward a municipal light plant with two and a half years left on the Public Service Electric contract. Consultants will study costs as residents already backed city ownership in a past election. The jitney ordinance was approved, setting auto bus fees at ten dollars annually.
The article recounts the divorce decree ending the McEldowney marriage begun at Princeton and sealed by a clandestine Wilmington wedding, including threats of disinheritance and an 1918 arrest. It also covers Attorney General Wescott ruling on state appointment powers and a contested Pittsburgh case regarding Edward Stover Jr. as publicity agent.
Preparations are complete at a state fish hatchery in Hacketts town for a large distribution of brook and rainbow trout across South Jersey counties starting this week. Nearly 100 automobile truck routes have been set to move fish through Hunterdon Sussex Morris and Warren counties, with trout sizes up to 14 inches. Horseradish, once a weed, becomes a major Delanco Burlington crop and will be shipped in tonnages to come as the Burlington County Farm Bureau flags its fall inspection tour.
Spectator contractor John O Gret ton offered to hire Carl Berner of New York as a worker after Berner was arraigned for stealing a ride on a Pennsylvania Railroad train. The judge considered sentence but Gret ton promised to employ Berner, giving him a job instead of punishment.
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