Travel with trouble at the war front
War front travel by Austro Hungarian authorities provides luxury auto buses for correspondents. The convoy moves slowly via freight and box cars. En route sights include trains of wounded, Russian prisoners, and supplies. A Russian inmate trades a coat button for a cigarette and safely crawls back into his box car. Sleeping arrangements shift from straw to a box car with twelve men keeping the door closed. After 36 hours the convoy has covered about sixty miles and switches to high roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William G. Shepherd
United Press
Mall
New York
Vienna
Bis
John
Hospital Train Visit Describes Cholera Suspect Onboard
A Red Cross doctor guided two soldiers through a well equipped hospital train. They witnessed a cholera suspect carried from the car, sealed with a red sign and fumigated by Austro-Hungarian forces to prevent contagion.
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Red Cross
Chattle Chips Elects Forfar Captain and Darnell Leads Relay
Abbott Forfar chosen captain of the 1915 Chattle football squad after prominent play in multiple sports. Valjean Darnell named captain of the 1915 track team, noted for catcher duties, base stealing, and consistent scoring. expected to anchor the Newark state championship relay with Covert Perry and Riddle. Also notes reunions for classes 1912 13 14 and a joke about a new department in government, plus visitors and homecomings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbott Forfar
Forfar
Valjean Darnell
Chattle
Darnell
Newark
Covert
Perry
Riddle
Sunday Visits and Local Notes from Monmouth County
Long Branch residents shared Sunday visits with relatives on the Monmouth road and in Asbury Park. Local illnesses and the Ocean township meeting on December 28 were noted, with audits and outstanding bills to be addressed. In Charleston a posse hunted Matt Jarell and two others after a deadly shooting in the Cabin Creek district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Cabin Creek
Matt Jarell
Mantz
Askedale
Fifty Ocean Liners Idle From the War
New York December 23. At least fifty giant ocean liners worth about a billion dollars sit idle in American ports due to the European war. The White Star and Hamburg American lines report major sailings cut, with ships tied up in New York, Boston, and Brooklyn. Idle vessels include Kaiser Wilhelm II and Vaterland while crews remain aboard to guard them.
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New York
Atlantic
United States
Boston
Lloyd
White Star Line
Cedric
White Star Dominion Line
Canada
Teutonic
Brooklyn
Vaterland
Hamburg-American Line
Bush Terminal
Hamburg American Line
North German
Lloyd Line
The
Line
Kaiser Wilhelm II
George Washington
Grosser Kurfurst
Friederick der Grosse
Barbarossa
Kronprinzess
Cecilie
Wittekind
Willehad
Koln
Uranium
England
Cunard Line
Government of Great Britain
Funeral of Jacob W Hampton Held After Short Illness
The funeral for Jacob W. Hampton who died at Monmouth Memorial Hospital yesterday morning will be from the Nate residence West End avenue tomorrow at 2 30 PM. Interment in West Long Branch cemetery under William H. Morris Jr funeral director. Mrs Charlotte Ann Magee 79, of 660 Buttonwood avenue, died and her funeral today was at home Rev Charles F McKay officiating. Four children survive Alonzo B Magee of Trenton Elmer E Magee and Mrs Almeta Reynolds of this city and Mrs Irene Brown of Oakhurst. Ruth Huyler of Eatontown sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere at the service. Optimistic Thought Modesty is an ornament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hampton
Jacob W. Hampton
Monmouth Memorial Hospital
Nate
West End Avenue
William H. Morris, Jr
West Long Branch Cemetery
Magee
Charlotte Ann Magee
Buttonwood Avenue
Charles F. McKay
First Baptist Church
Warning Against Using 1915 Auto Markers in New Jersey
Trenton December 23. Motor Vehicles Commissioner Lippincott advises motorists to refrain from using 1915 markers until January 1. Police chiefs are urged to stop drivers using 1915 markers and replace with 1914 marks. arrest only for a second offense of driving without valid markers.
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Trenton
Job H. Lippincott
New Jersey
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E. M. Colton
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Department of Exterior and Interior
Robert Underhill
Syracuse
Carlton L. Clark
Peddie Institute
Hightstown
Oakhurst News
Carrie Olmstead
Jane Brown
Monmouth Road
George and
Frank Hall
Asbury Park
Orion Davison
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RE. P. Davison
Frank Goodwin
Allenwood
George Herbert
Libbie King
Bradley Beach
Thomas Herbert
Rather
Ella Bower
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Sarah Bennett
Poplar
Albert Palmer
West Long Branch
Harry G. van Note
Edward Nixon
Harold van Note
Ocean Township Committee
Harry C. van Note
Grandin van Note
Farmingdale
Mabelle Davis
Steinbach
America
Madame Sans Gene
Lacy
Strinkard
New Hersey
Daily Record
Cook’s Bee Hive Department Store
Cook’s Bee Hive
N. E
Cookman Avenue
Main Street
Asbury Park, N. J
Broadway
N. J
Mathushek Piano CO
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