New Year Celebrations Attract Crowds Across Town
Crowds gathered late to welcome 1915 with street dancing and celebrations. The Boys' Band played as bells and noise makers marked the stroke of midnight. Knights of Columbus held a grand dance in their new hall with Kaplan's Orchestra from Frostburg. other events included Moose Club and Arbutus Club dances and a German Maennerchor reception.
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Knights of Columbus
George's Creek
Kaplan
Frostburg
Moose
Arbutus Club
Great Press Contest returns to partial word challenge
The December 24 issue notes the ninth instalment with the missing word ind ividuality from H Jammer and Son and encomiums from L Kimes and Bro between specified words. It states three more days remain of the feature and thirteen instalments remain.
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H. Jammer & Son
L. Kimes
Belgium to prove another Loraine says socialist leader
London reports Me Emile Vandervelde, Belgian socialist and labor head, warns that annexation by Germany would show Belgium as another Loraine akin to a truculent Finland. He calls for fighting to a finish, defending national autonomy and opposing peace at any price.
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Belgium
London
Associated Press
Germany
Finland
Emile Vandervelde
M. Vandervelde
King Alert
Ter
Carranza Troops March on Mexico City Amid Battles
Washington dispatches report Carranza forces began a march toward Mexico City from Vera Cruz with Generals Coss and Alvarado leading the advance. Bloodshed greets New Year as battles flare at Monterey and clashes continue near Tampico, Torreon, and Tuxpan. A peace convention called by Provisional President Gutierrez was set for today but may be postponed.
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Washington
Carranzas
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Villistas
Tampico
Torreon
Tuxpani
Cutierrez
Soighary Event at Calvary Church
Calvary Evangelical church hosts a Mission Band program featuring voluntaries, songs, and numerous recitations. Readers include Mattie Smith, Helen Hardy, Edith Bennan, Gladys Feller, and others with items like My Wish and I and Work for the Master.
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Calvary Church
Calvary Evangelical Church
Mission Band
All Hail the Power
Oscar Sisk
Hank You Heavenly Father
Mattie Smith
Helen Hardy
Edith Bennan
Gladys Feller
Paul England
Elizabeth Bitner
Hattie Fisher
Mary
Pearl Fulder
Sophia Berpmiai
Leva Norris
Recitation of Goodnight by Clara Smith
Clara Smith offers a recitation and sings a benediction titled Reapers in a Goodnight closing moment for the program.
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Clara Smith
Passengers Safe for Six Years on B&O Rail Lines
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad safety report for 1914 shows no passenger deaths on its lines in six years. Employee deaths and injuries dropped by 88 and 1,698 respectively for the just-completed year compared with 1913. Divisional and general safety committees praise the progress, with Cumberland division noted for further improvements expected next year.
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General Safety Committee
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Cumberland
Walton T Rucker Weds Miss Bery Armentrout in Elkins
Walton T Rucker of Glasgow Virginia married Miss Bery Armentrout of Elkins at the bride’s parents home on Second Street Elkins. Rev F H Barron officiated using an Episcopal ceremony with Dr Barron and best man Frank Rucker. Daisy Armentrout served as maid of honor. The bride entered with her father S Armentrout.
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Walton T. Rucker
Glasgow
Virginia
Bery
Armentrout of
Elkins
Second
F. H. Barron
Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church
Barron
Frank Rucker
Daisy Armentrout
S. Armentrout
Maryland Coal Company plans Tyson seam plant in Maryland
The Maryland Coal Co. announces a new Tyson seam mining plant at Lenaconing Maryland with electric mines and a tipple capacity of 1 000 tons daily. The firm will also explore the fire clay seam for potential full development.
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The
Maryland Coal Co
Lenaconing
George's Creek
Tyson
Tyson Col
Maryland
Associated Properties
West Virginia
Maryland Conl Company
Wendel
W. Va
Scottdale Machine & Mfe. Co
Scottdale
A. F. West
Baltimore
Coal Trade Journal
Germans Massing for Another Drive to Seacoast
Paris reports German gains in the Argonne described as violent fighting. Gains reach 50 yards at points as French counterattacks aim to regain lost ground. From sea to Rheims heavy cannonading continues. Germans believed massing for another seacoast thrust. French offensives persist near Verdun. Meuse and Moselle artillery duels continue with six German assaults repulsed. French airmen bomb German airship hangars at Arnaville.
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Paris
Argonne
Rheims
Verdun
Meuse
Moselle
Metz
Chorus Girl Had Baby Found In Hotels In Hagerstown
Police traced Evelyn Walker 26 of Washington after a newborn girl was found on the Dagmar hotel stairway. She admitted giving birth Tuesday afternoon in the Clarion hotel roof garden and placing the infant in the Dagmar window before hospitalizing both mother and child.
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Hagerstown
Dagmar
Clarion
D. W. Doub
Tuond
Academy of Music
Zarrow
American Girl Musical Company
Evelyn Walker
Washington
Hotel Clarion
Simmons Stuiber Nuptials At Mechanic Street Home
Mrs Adelaide Marion Simmons and George Albert Stuiber wed at 9 30 PM in the groom's brother Mari Stuiber's home 264 North Mechanic Street. Rev M L Enders officiated and the ring ceremony was used. Attendants were William Rice and Miss Mary Dawson.
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Adelaide Marion Simmons
George Albert Stuiber
Mari] Stuiber
North
Mechanic Street
M. L. Enders
St. Paul's English Lutheran Church
William Rice
Mary Dawson
New Year's Greeting From Britain's Poet Laureate
Poem by Dr. Robert Bridges written for the United Press on the eve of 1914. The lines urge peace and liberty, urging united hopes to bind war in the coming year and to cherish art and human kindness.
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The
United Press
Great Britain
Canada
Robert Bridges
United States of America
London
England
Britain
Hell
Martinsburg Shops To Resume Monday
Martinsburg West Virginia reports that B and O shops will resume operations next Monday January 4 after weeks of idleness. Repair work has reached a stage allowing recall of machinists and ongoing full time work in the frog department. Yard crews are cleaning snow refuse and repairing tracks as orders on file promise continued employment for all.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Shops Close Affect Men as Holiday Season Brings Hope
When shops closed many men lost work and the holidays heightened the impact. However there now appears to be better times ahead, for which all are glad.
Ice Storage by Baltimore and Ohio at Brunswick
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad continued storing ice at Brunswick. Twenty cars of Mountain Lake Park ice arrived and were kept in the railroad ice house. Five thousand tons will be stored in the new ice house and one thousand in the old house undergoing overhaul. W. B. Shannon, transfer agent, supervises the work.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Brunswick
Mountain Lake Park
W. B. Shannon
Transfer Ag
Easton Ledger Sold to Local Buyer Bateman
Easton Md Jan 1 The Easton Ledger has been purchased by Henry E Bateman a young Easton man who will assume the editorial chair tomorrow The paper will continue to be run in the interest of the people both politically and otherwise
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Crisfield
Princess Anne
Crisfield News Publishing Company
Wth
Crisfield News
A. Wellington Tawes
William F. Hall
William E. Dough
Easton, Md
Easton Ledger
Henry E. Bateman
Easton
Try a cent a word ad in The Press for your wants
A short, dated ad request noting that readers can place want ads at a rate of one cent per word in The Press. The fragment implies a simple classifieds pitch inviting submissions.
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Arranza
Tucker
Armentrout
Baltimore Street
Maryland Coal Company
Seacoast
Arnaville
Stuiber
Wiil
Union Street
Cumberland,Md
Mazda
Rush Lane
Edison Electric Illuminating Co
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