Germans Launch Broad Offensive on Western Front
Dispatch from London and Cape Town report German forces shifting to a wide attack from Nieuport to Arras. Ostend evacuated, Blankenberghe men ordered from the coast. Lille evacuated and reoccupied by Allies. Bavarian troops retreat, British advance in center, intense fighting across La Bassee to Bethune. Martial law declared in southern Rhodesia amid Boer revolt.
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London
Daily Mail
Rotterdam
Ostend
Zeebrugges
Blankenberghe
FE. M. Am’ Tt
The
Times
France
Lille
West Flanders
Yser
Nieuport
Dixmude
la Bassee
Arras
Bethune
Cape Town
8. A
Southern Rhodesia
New State Compensation Law Takes Effect Tonight
At midnight the compensation act becomes law requiring every employer to insure workers in hazardous jobs. The law, Chapter 00, Acts of 1914, sets fines for noncompliance and outlines benefits for temporary and permanent disability, death, and dependents. It covers injuries and deaths in railways, street railways, and related hazardous employments with schedules of weekly caps and maximum totals.
Tax mix up on liquors and liqueurs causes dealer worry
Internal Revenue Service notice misprinted liquors where liqueurs should appear in tax rates. Local office explains the error copied from Baltimore. dealers relieved after correction. Webster's definition of liqueur noted.
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Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue Office
Baltimore
Halloween disturbance ends with shooting in Egypt section
Louis Fant forfeited a 26 bond after firing through a party wall to quell a Halloween dance in a double house in the Egypt section. A couple was struck by plaster but no serious injuries reported. Fant was arrested, bonded, and failed to appear leading to forfeiture.
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Louis Fant
Egypt
Fanti
Fanth
Bond
Mack Uses Waivers On Three A's Star Pitchers
Philadelphia October 31 The Athletics plan to release three star pitchers Coombs Bender and Plank after Connie Mack requested waivers on the trio.
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Philadelphia
Athletics
Coombs
Bender
Plank
Connie Mack
Jare
Mack
Roosevelt Warns of Real Danger to American Ports
In Princeton Theodore Roosevelt warns that American ports face real danger from foreign powers. He cites plans to seize and ransom key cities, pressing the need to strengthen defense and deter possible invasions. He argues treaties are fragile and urges decisive action to secure national rights and safety.
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Princeton
N. J
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
San Francisco
Standard Oil Indicted in New Jersey Gas War Case
Hudson Grand Jury returns indictments against Standard Oil Co of New Jersey and Gulf Refining Co after a summer gasoline war that cut prices from twenty to nine cents. Charges allege violation of New Jersey’s Seven Sisters law. Notices will be served on local company representatives.
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Jersey City
N. J
Standard Oil Co
Hudson Grand Jury
Standard of Co. of New Jersey
Gulf Refiring Co
New Jersey
Missing Word Contest Engages Cumberland Press Readers
A Cumberland Press contest asks readers to find missing words in 13 weeks of advertisements. Hundreds have already answered, with prizes including 190 dollars in gold. Contest runs through next Thursday, encouraging readers to mark submissions For the Contest Editor.
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Cumberland Press
Cumberland
Maryland
Baltimore City
German Spy Carl Lody Goes on Trial in London
A court martial at Middlesex Guild Hall convened to try Carl Hans Lody alias Charles A Inglis on espionage charges. The German subject, who posed as an American tourist, allegedly sent letters from Edinburgh and other cities to Berlin detailing British defenses and locations during wartime. The trial adjourned after testimony and defense requested withholding certain case details.
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London
England
Lord Cheylesmore
Middlesex Guild Hall
Westminster Abbey
Carl Hans Lody
Charles A. Inglis
Lofty Hall
Vistagiio
The
Nolforn
Archibald H. Bodkin
Snd
Edinburgh
Liverpool
Dublin
Berlin
Lody
Cased
New York
Queen's Ferry
Forth
French loan may spark German and Austrian credits in US
New York bankers report a $10 million loan to France will be used to pay for American goods and will not involve gold shipment. The move fuels expectations that Germany and Austria will seek similar loans in the United States to finance cotton and other imports. German interests are said to have built large credits here, estimated at $50 to $75 million.
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New York
France
Germany
Austria
United States
Wall Street
National City Bank
Head Shaved Man Keeps Hat In Theatre Disorder
Charles and Benjamin Weingold and Bessie Collins face police court Monday on disorderly conduct charges after they refused to leave a theatre. One Weingold refused to remove his hat saying shaving his head made him prone to cold, prompting a manager’s insistence and alleged abuse.
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Charles
Benjamin Weingold
Bessie Collins
Weingold Brothers
St Philips Chapel Sunday Schedule Noted
St Philips Chapel lists Sunday School at 7 30 p m and Evening Service at 9 45 a m with a Monday service noted.
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St. Philips’ S Chapel
Hagerstown Suffers Second Fire At Lumber Yard
A morning blaze at H L Coffman & Co lumber yards in Hagerstown destroyed $3000 to $4000 worth of lumber and a car of dressed lumber. The Cumberland Valley Railroad site near the Moller Organ works saw winds push flames toward the organ factory, saved by a pump and a favorable wind. Sparks from a locomotive are blamed for igniting dry grass and the fire caused brief widespread alarm.
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Hagers
Cumberland Valley
Moller Organ Works
Lumber Company
Organ Works
Get Wise Read You About The Advertisement
Fragmentary notice references a Cumberland advertisement and price details. Readers are urged to book something at ten cents in a press office listing.
Frostburg Hallowe'en Celebration Draws Masses
Frostburg held a grand Hallowe'en parade with 300 masqueraders 50 decorated cars six Scout squads 1500 schoolchildren and the Frostburg City Band. Thousands from Frostburg Cumberland and Georges Creek watched the procession from Beall High School to the main streets. Awards went to Miss May Haskep Miss Bertha Yan and others for costumes with prizes totaling several dollars.
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Hallowe'en
Boy Scouts
Prestburg
Maryland
Frostburg
Cumberland
Georges Creek
Hallowe’en
Eckhart
Barton
Grantsville
R. Chester Portmess
John Widener
Charles Widener
Beall Street
Beall Hardware Company
LT. Ritter
Elizabeth King
Punt Davis
Walter Lloyd
Welch Hill
Beall High School
W. S. Nicholson
Train derailment injures forty near Alford
A Delaware and Lacawanna passenger train overturned twice after hitting a broken rail near Alford, sending forty people aboard to spill into a creek below. Twenty were injured, none killed, as the corkscrew plunge down a fifty foot bank left cars submerged in the water.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Delaware and Lacawanna
Alford
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Gary
E. H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
American Iron and Steel Institute
Amerigan
Standard Oil
U. S
Travi
Jonn W. Lee
Country
Hagerstown
May Haskep
Bertha Yan
Dreaved
Jude
Maid
Frank
Revinson
George Folk
Nellie MacFarlane
James MacFarlane
Datgab Thomas
J.J. Donion
Owen
Paul Hitchins
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