German Air Attack On Verdun Reported As Prisoners Fall
Verdun, a French fortress on the Meuse, endured a German air raid and fort bombardment. The downed aircrafts crew were captured, one German pilot showing heavy bullet damage. Reports say Belfort areas suffered fire and shock, and German forces near Array pressed toward the coast.
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Paris
Verdun
Meuse
Belfort
Thann
Cernay
Zeebrugge
Berlin
Great Britain
Ireland
English Channel
Russians and Germans Lock West of Warsaw
Dispatches from Petrograd report seven divisions of Hindenburg’s army delivering massed frontal attacks against Russian earthworks west of Warsaw as fifty thousand fresh German troops arrive. The Russians reportedly repelled center assaults, captured NUMIN, while German sources claim Russian withdrawals in the Carpathians. Turk attempts on the Suez canal and surrounding fronts met with heavy losses as British forces held positions near El Kantara.
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New Hindenburg
Slayers of Francis Ferdinand Put to Death at Sarajevo
A Berlin dispatch reports that three of the men who killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand were executed in the Sarajevo fortress. Veljko Dubrilovic Micko Jovanovic and Danelo Ilic were put to death, while two others received life and twenty year terms. Gavrilo Princip received twenty years due to youth.
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Francis Ferdinand
Sarajevo
Amsterdam
London
Berlin
Bosnia
Veljko Dubrilovic
Micko Jovanovic
Danelo Ihiic
Jakov Zilovic
Nedjo Kerovic
Gavrio Prinzip
Srehduke
Sarejevo
Two Chinamen Pay Death Penalty in Sing Sing Today
Ossining N Y February 5 Eng Hing and Lee Dock Chinese hatchet men paid the penalty for murdering one of their countrymen in New York Chinatown by electrocution in the Sing Sing electric chair. They are the first Chinese to pay the death penalty in this state.
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Ossining
N. Y
Eng Hing
Lee Dock
New York
Sing Sing
New Eight Cylinder Cadillac Shown in Cumberland
The eight cylinder Cadillac exhibits at Glisan's Garage on Baltimore and Liberty streets drawing crowds. Auto experts call the model the sensations of the age and the Cadillac Company notes it as the only eight cylinder car, with testimonials praising it as the sweetest running car in the world.
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Cumberland
Glisan
Baltimore
Liberty Street
Aew
Cadillac Company
T J C Williams Named Maryland Orator for San Francisco
Judge Thomas J C Williams of the Baltimore Juvenile Court was chosen as Maryland Day State Orator for the Pacific Panama Exposition in San Francisco. The Maryland Commission selected him along with noted officials for the March 20 event and a March 8 rail departure.
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Thomas J. C. Williams
Baltimore
Maryland
San Francisco
Maryland Commission
Carville D. Benson
R. A. McCormick
Henry Fr. Baker
Murray Vandiver
James McC. Trippe
Judge Williams
Camden Station
Pacific Coast
The
Baltimore Sun
Henry Williams
Ferdinand Williams
Congress Fails to Override President on Immigration Bill
Washington February 5 The House failed to override President Wilson's veto on the immigration bill. Of 399 voting members 261 sought to override, 136 supported the President, and two were present. Majority Leader Underwood argued for the override amid a day of debate. Congressman David J. Lewis voted for the measure.
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Washington
Wilson
House
Underwood
David J. Lewis
Wheelwright denies sensational changes at Consolidation Coal
J. H. Wheelwright of Consolidation Coal Co returns to Baltimore from New York and says stockholders will not see board changes at the March 17 meeting. He asserts the present management remains and that no new money will fund unusual moves, highlighting Kentucky Elk Horn deposits as more valuable than the entire capitalization.
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J. H. Wheelwright
Conse Dation Coal Company
Baltimore
New York
Dirtors
Eantime
Wheelwright
Consolidation Coal Company
John D. Rockefeller
Elk Horn
Kentucky
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Cleveland Eyes Warensville Farm For Scientific Farming
A plan in Cleveland to use 2000 acres of Warrensville Farm for scientific farming aims to train prisoners and tramp labor in crop trial plots. The project would segment land into forty acre plots with expert records from seed to harvest, aligning with a potential merger of Western Reserve University and Case School into a municipal university offering agricultural science.
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Cleveland
Warrensville Farm
Western Reserve University
Case School of Applied Science
Young Buffalo traveling man dies on street corner
John Lynett Boyle 21 of Buffalo New York a traveling representative for Foster Milburn Co died suddenly this morning at the corner of First Street and Virginia Avenue after collapsing while observing two men handing out advertising. He carried a memorandum noting notify Martin Landon at the Queen City Hotel. Medical examiner cites heart dilation as cause.
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John Lynett Boyle
Buffalo
N. Y
First Street
Virginia Avenue
Boyle
Foster, Milburn Co
Queens City
Grafton
Martin W. Landon
Martin Landon
Queen City
Maxim celebrated on seventy fifth birthday in London
Sir Hiram S. Maxim, noted inventor of American birth and British subject since 1899, is celebrated in London on his seventy fifth birthday. He has shaped ordnance and aviation and built a vast weapons works in Holborn before retiring to focus on war aeroplanes.
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London
Hiram S. Maxim
Hiram
Ince
New England
Sangerville
United States
England
America
Maxim
Holborn
Vickers, Sons and Maxim
Legion of Honor
Bellevere youth wed in Cumberland after eloping
Amelia Lampus, 18, daughter of William Lampus of 1607 Antrim Street Bellevue, and Charlie Stringer, of Hope Road Northside, secretly married in Cumberland, Maryland after telling her mother she would attend a theatre with friends. They returned home yesterday and were forgiven by their parents. Stringer’s mother was a Northside grocery clerk.
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Pittsburgh
Amelia Lampus
William Lampus
Antrim Street
Bellevue
Charlies M Stringer
Hope Road
Northside
Cumberland
Stringer
Prize for Best Verse Contest Announced
The Cumberland Press announces a weekly verse contest starting February 8 with a one dollar prize for the best verse each week. Open to all amateur poets of Cumberland and surrounding areas in Maryland West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Full details to be published in tomorrow's issue.
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Cumberland Press
Cumberland
George’s Creek
Maryland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Identity of man who hanged himself at Brunswick Hotel
Police near identification of the unknown man found dead in a Brunswick Hotel room. A woman in South Cumberland claims to know him, with a photo and says the name Higgins, mother in Rock Cave West Virginia. Coroner ruled no inquest needed. Arrangements to notify mother and bring her to Rock Creek.
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Brunswick Hotel
J. F. Wilson
Hancock, Ma
South Cumberland
Butler Morgue
Higgins
Rock Cave
Upshur County
W. Va
Elking
Rock
Fisenhawer
Betz
Lfe
William H. Shaw
Three Women Murdered by Sledge Hammer Attack
In Salamanca New York on February 5 three women were found dead at 75 Atlantic Street. Victims Lizzie Drake Irene Spencer and her daughter Gertrude Spencer all age 65 85 and 85 were battered in their bedrooms. An Italian boarder who stayed at the Sipencer home fled after the killings. no theft evident and motive unclear.
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Salamanca
N. Y
Lizzie Drake
Irene Spencer
Gertrude Spencer
Atlantic Street
Sipencer
Conditions Found In Four Rooms On Lena Street
A noon inspection by Chief Eisenbauer Health Officer Colton and Commissioner Schriver of an old Lena Street school house found four colored families living there in crowded, unsanitary conditions. The building is a story and a half with no ventilation and holes in the floor, a red hot stove in a corner, and children nearby.
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Eisenbauer
Colton
Schriver
Lena Street
Sachs
Wonca
Thomas Street
Unsanitary House On Thomas Street Declared Dangerous
A house on Thomas Street near the south Cumberland side of the subs way is described as filthy and in immediate need of repair. Conditions are labeled the most dangerous for occupants and passersby.
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Thomas Street
Cumberland
Prominent Chicago Businessman Edward Tilden Dies at 60
Chicago February 5 Edward Tilden a noted packer banker and prominent Democrat died at his home this morning He was sixty years old His death marks the loss of a leading Chicago business figure and political supporter.
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Edward Tilden, Packer
Guiney
Grace Revival Sermon by Rev Dr Joseph Dawson at Grace Church
Rev Dr Joseph Dawson of Centre Street M E Church preached at the Grace Church revival. The report notes several versions of the sermon and the event altar.
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Grace Revival
Joseph Dawson
Centre Street
M. E
Grace Church
Ward Family Travels After Funeral in Glen Savage
Commissioner and Mrs. Ward M. Eichelberger returned from Glen Savage Pennsylvania after attending the funeral of Mrs. Eichelberger’s father Conrad Bruck. Wallace Ward travels to Gorda Florida to be Hobart Townsend's guest for a month as he considers locating there.
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Ward M. Eichelberger
Glen Savage
Conrad Bruck
Wallace Ward
Gorda
Florida
Hobart Townsend
Ward
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Seattle
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T. J. C. Williams
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