Forces clash as mines and trench charges unfold on front
Paris dispatch reports mining by both sides near Meaumetz Achicourt and in the Selle forest. French artillery quiets German positions along the Aisne Rheims and recaptures ground in the Argonne. French gains include a hill seizure and new roads to Steinbach.
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Paris
Meaumetz
Achicourt
Parvillera
Selle Forest
Aisne
Rheims
Perthes
Argonne
Woevre
Steinbach
Mexican Generals Busy Fighting Delay Peage Conference
Washington dispatches report Mexican generals are too occupied with fighting to attend peace talks. After postponing the January 2 conference, a new session may be delayed as Villa and Zapata must remain in the field amid battles near Teapa and along the Vera Cruz front. Carranza forces push toward Mexico City as Obregon reports advances against Zapata and Villa forces.
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Washington, D. C
Gutierrez
Villa
Zapata
Arranza
Teapico
Vera Cruz
Obregon
Zapatiatas
Villuistan
Aveblo
Alost
Var Cruz
Aeek
Carapler
Aplizuco
México
Carranza
Teplice
Mexico City
Washington
DD. C
Apam
Constitutional Lat
Austrian War Office Admits Defeat in Carpathians
Paris reports the Austro Hungarian command acknowledges Russian forces have captured four Carpathian passes and routed Austrian troops. Refugees flee toward Budapest as Russia appears to focus main assault on Austria. In the Caucasus, fighting continues with Turks losing more casualties than Russians. The Russian war office claims repulsed minor German attacks along the Vistula and Bzurs rivers.
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Paris
Carpathia
Caucasia
Carpathian
Austria
Caucasus
Russian War Office
Vistula
Bzurs
England to Deploy Six More Armies in Large Conflict
London reports an army order issued last night detailing a further development of the force. Six new armies will be formed, each typically comprising three army corps, extending the regular army structure amid the ongoing conflict.
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England
London
Physician gets 12 to 15 years in pen
Middlebury Vermont January 2 Dr Don A Bisbee Bristol druggist was sentenced to 12 to 15 years after being convicted of manslaughter for selling liquor containing denatured alcohol that caused several deaths He admitted illegal sales but claimed ignorance of the poison presence Also note Supreme Court Marshal dead in Washington John Montgomery Wright died at his home He had served as marshal since 1888
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Middlebury
Don A. Bisbee
Bristol
Bisbee
Supreme Court
Washington, D. C
John Montgomery Wright
United States Supreme Court
War era ad teases ad rates at Cumberland Press
A fragmented advertisement from the Cumberland Press promotes wartime reading and notes a pricing line of ten cents. The clipped text hints at paid notices and newspaper office language, with stray phrases like Advertisement and 1-4.
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Cumberland Iess
Expert Says Streams Could Light Farrs Farm House
State College expert R A Blassingame of the Pennsylvania State College faculty told farmers at the tenth annual Farmers Week convention that small streams could power lighting by harnessing waste water and converting it into illuminating current. He urged each farmer to build a dam and direct wheel to generate electricity, favoring water power over batteries for steady glow. For an eight room house he estimated an isolated plant at about 390 dollars.
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State College
Evers
Pennsyvania
Pennsylvania State College
Ing
Bilasingame
Robbery Nets $1,200 In Cash and Stamps at Post Office
A horse with bloodhounds traced two men who broke a gate at Flushing Ohio post office to Piedmont where the robbers boarded a freight train and escaped with about 1200 dollars in cash and stamps and a registered vial.
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St. Clairsville
Ohio
Flushing
Piedmont
Submarine sinks Formidable off Portmouth with heavy casualties
Paris reports the British battleship Formidable torpedoed by a German submarine off Portamouth. The casualty list includes 16 midshipmen. About 150 of 750 crew were saved, 890 rescued by a light cruiser and 70 by a Tor Bay trawler during a severe storm.
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Paris
Portamouth
Tor Bay
Will Would Repay Fraud Against U S
Denver January 2 United States District Attorney Harry B Tedrow was ordered to appear before Judge Rothgerber to show cause why the government should recover 3500 from Rufus Potato Clark estate Clark died four years ago leaving 100600 plus assets most to a religious mission in Africa A clause directs executor to pay 38500 to the U S for a past undisclosed embezzlement The bequest to the church faces dispute over legality Potato nickname originated from distributing potatoes after the 1871 Chicago fire
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Denver
United States
Harry B. Tedrow
Iran
Rothgerber
Rufus
Clark
Africa
Mark
Colorado
Chicago
Lives Four Weeks With Broken Neck
John Melt a 46 year old Homestead man lies paralyzed below the neck in West Penn hospital. He has lived over four weeks after a broken neck suffered in a fall near Hays embankment, with doctors saying he has little time left.
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Pittsburgh
John Melt
Homestead
West Penn Hospital
Felt
Hays
Paris Engulfed in Vast Entrenched Defensive Ring
London reports Paris now center of an immense entrenched camp with a 60 mile diameter and 200 mile circumference built by 5,000 volunteers from the General Confederation of Workers and Belgian refugees. Front lines feature trench networks, subterranean galleries, zero-exposure rearguard supply, observation posts, and fortified emplacements.
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Paris
London
General Confederation of Workers
Willard to Attend Cumberland Chamber Banquet
President Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will keynote the Cumberland Chamber of Commerce banquet at the Windsor Hotel next Monday evening. Secretary Blake announced a telegram from Daniel Willard indicating his plan to attend, after canceling a New York engagement. Mayors and officials from Petersburg Romney Frostburg Hagerstown Keyser Midland Mt Savage and Bedford plan to attend.
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Wpanie Willard
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Cumberland Chamber of Commercce
Windsor Hotel
Philip W. Blake
Baltimore
Cumberland
Daniel Willard
Willard
Blake
New York
Ohio
BR. Henderson
Toledo
Edward Q
Thomas
Chamber of Commerce
Thomas G. Pownall
Koon
Fred Sloan
Brown
Peterspurg
Moorefield
Romney
Stern
Frostburg
J. McPherson Scott
Hagerstown
Booster Club of
Piedmont
Keyser
Midland
Mt. Savage
Bedford
Bryan endorses state level action for prohibition
Secretary of State Bryan favors concentrating on state action rather than immediate national prohibition. He notes growing sentiment against the saloon and argues local self government has little respect from liquor interests, urging focus on ripe states while leaving national policy open.
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Topeka
Kan
Bryan
Hlon G. Borton
Intercollegiate Prohibition Association
No Pennsylvanian Passengers Killed on 1914 Rail Runs
Philadelphia report states that of 18.8 million passengers carried on the Pennsylvania system in 1914 none were killed in a train accident. Lines east of Pittsburgh carried 311.7 million passengers in the period with no fatalities, while four of seven years 1908 1910 1913 and 1914 also saw zero train accident deaths.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Woman to Observe 100th Anniversary
Latrobe Pennsylvania January 2 Mrs Hannah S Dial at her Jacobs Creek home will celebrate her one hundredth birthday tomorrow Born January 3 1814 she is the oldest woman in Westmoreland county A daughter of Robert and Hannah Donnelly Slemmons her father a Revolutionary War soldier fought Indians and once was captured He is said to have returned after being thought dead She has been a widow for 65 years since Isaac Dial drowned Their family recipe for long life is to stay busy work outdoors live simply and keep an interest in life and current events.
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Latrobe
Hannah _ S&S. Dial
Jacobs Creek
Scottdata
Mre Dial
Westmoreland County
Robert
Hannah Donnelly Slemmons
Baltimore and Ohio to Begin Low Grade Cut Between Cumbo and Harpers Ferry
A Martinsburg report says the Baltimore and Ohio railroad will start work on a long proposed low grade cut out between Cumbo and Harpers Ferry, with operations set to begin by April 1. Purchases of land have been made in Ferkeley and Jefferson counties as agents arrange right of way gaps. The route would run from the Cumbo yard east end to the northern Jefferson county area, crossing the Williamsport turnpike near Pedington.
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Martinsburg
W Va
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Cumbo
Harpers Ferry
Baltimore and Ohio
Ferkeley
Jefferson
Cumbo Yard
Jefferson County
Williamsport
Pedington
Chancellor’s Son Killed in Action in Poland
Berlin reports the eldest son of Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the imperial chancellor, was killed in action in Poland on December 9. A prior claim that he was wounded and captured is described as erroneous by the Lokal Anzeiger.
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Berlin
London
Lokal Analeger
von Bethmanneilellweg
Poland
Bank Cashier Held in Vault as $4,000 Is Taken
Neelyville Missouri January 2 a masked bandit surprised W A Walker cashier of the Bank of Neelyville and forced him into a vault escaping with four thousand dollars in cash local police search for the suspect
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Neelyville
W. A. Walker
Bank of
Tinplate Mills to Run Full Capacity
Farrell Pa January 2 Announcement that starting next Monday the American Sheet and Tinplate Company will operate its Farrell tinplate plant at full capacity after weeks of running 15 of 20 hot mills. It is expected that all mills will reach normal capacity by midmonth.
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Farrell
American Sheet & Tinplate Company
British Seize Mr Lance’s Jamaica Property
Mr and Mrs Herman Lange of New York stay with Mrs Sarah E W Butler in Columbia street before returning to New York. Lange owns large plantations near Kingston Jamaica that have been seized by the British government. He hopes to recover his property after the War.
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MR. Lance
Jamaica
Herman Lange
New York
York
Lange
Priest Suffocated and Housekeeper Cremated in Incendiary Fire
In Cleveland on January 1 the Rev. Stephen Malara pastor of St. John's Greek Catholic church died of suffocation and housekeeper Mrs. Anna Fedor perished in a parish house fire on Scoville Avenue. Police label the blaze incendiary.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Stephen Malara
St. John’s Greek Catholic Church
Anna Fedor
Scoville Avenue
Happy New Year At Eagles Home Celebration
Frank W. Leidinger played Santa Claus at the Eagles home holiday event for hundreds of children. A Christmas tree loaded with toys stood in the first floor big room as Santa appeared on a braced express wagon drawn by a dozen boys. Children drew numbers to match tree prizes and each received a toy with candies and oranges, while the Boys' Band supplied music. The Eagles held their annual holiday dance that evening with many couples in attendance.
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Frank W. Leidinger
Santa Claus
Eagles
Santa
Adv in Press Columns Promises Good Results
The notice suggests trying an advertisement in the want columns of The Press to attract favorable outcomes. It emphasizes potential gains from placing ads and aligns with local newspaper practice.
Rail routes rejected in ICC ruling on freight handling
Washington on January 2 the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled against New York Philadelphia and Cincinnati team owners associations contending railroads separated freight at stations to aid drivers saying the methods were reasonable.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Wilson Would Name Strike Mediators In Labor Dispute
Washington on January 2 reports that President Wilson would name mediators to aid the Ohio coal strike. The commission would include representatives from mining and other fields to help resolve the stalemate.
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Washington
Jan
Wilson
Ohio
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