Personal notices and movements around Hanover and vicinity
A flood of brief items records residents visiting kin or relatives from Baltimore to York and Hanover, workers returning from duty, relocations for jobs in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, and civic updates. Many names appear with addresses on Lincoln Way, Hanover Street, and nearby towns, plus registry plans for a draft and local milling plant reactivation.
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Carlisle Street
B. F. Hoffman
Hanover Street
Baltimore
Luther Halick
Palmyra
Emanuel Adams
York
Lewis A. Grove
William Grove
Mary Grove
Bertin Avenue
Aven Timmins
Sioux City
Mt. Rock
U Boat Sinks Tanker Off Virginia Coast
The American steamship O. B. Jennings was sunk about 100 miles off Virginia by a German submarine. Thirty survivors reached Norfolk aboard a naval vessel, while the captain and 13 crewmen remain missing after the attack. Navy patrol boats and seaplanes comb the coast as more details emerge.
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Virginia
O. B. Jennings
Norfolk
Navy Department
Jennings
Standard OH Company
Atlantic
Nova Scotia
U Boats Sink Four Schooners Off Nova Scotia Coast
Four American fishing schooners were sunk by German submarines off Seal Island in Yarmouth county Nova Scotia on Saturday. The Nelson A of Yarmouth N S appears on the sunk list. Crews landed on the coast. one submarine commander boasted of sinking five more schooners from Boston and Gloucester Friday afternoon.
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Nelson A
Yarmouth
North Atlantic
Seal Island
Yarmouth County
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotian
Boston
Gloucester
Collision sinks submarine chaser near Hog Island
The navy department reports submarine chaser No. 187 sunk in a collision off the Virginia coast near Hog Island. All crew members were rescued and saved from the sinking vessel.
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Chacer
Hog Island
Virginia
Navy Department
Mines Sink Two Destroyers
British admiralty reports two British torpedo boat destroyers were sunk by enemy mines on August 2. Official statement lists five officers and ninety two men lost.
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Admiralty
U S Army Orders Swiss Watches for Troops in France
American expeditionary forces headquarters in France ordered one million watches from Swiss firms for use by American troops. The Swiss watch industry has been in a precarious condition.
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U. S. Army
Swiss Watcha
France
French Advance to Lassigny and Oise Ridge Loss
French forces north of the Oise advance toward Lassigny reaching western outskirts and clearing Thiescourt wood while taking Pimprez and Morsain. British Lys thrust reaches Merville, Roye station captured. Mangin’s tenth army completes objectives. French occupy Le Hamel north of Ribecourt gaining about ten miles, with high ground over Oise.
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Oise
Haye
Lassigny
Paris
Thiescourt Wood
Pimprez
Noyon-Compelgne
Soissons
Morsain
Lys Salient
Merville
Paradise
Les Puresbecines
Haig
Roye
Mangin
le Hamel
Ribecourt
Chaulnes
Ose
Aisne
Little River
Round Up Coke Workers in Barrooms at Cambria Mills
A Saturday night labor shortage in Johnstown Ta led to workers being rounded up from barrooms to report for duty at the Cambria coke ovens. Barroom searches secured enough men to enable operation of the ovens, which might have failed without the compelled attendance.
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Barrooma
Cambria Mills
Johnstown
Spain Asserts Rights Over German Shipping
Spain says it will compensate future outrages against Spanish shipping by confiscating a proportional tonnage from German ships interred in Spanish ports. About ninety German steamers are interned in Spain, as the Priorities division of the War Industries Board orders economy in paper use, urging newspapers to cut daily editions by 15 percent and Sunday editions by 20 percent.
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Spain
Germany
Times
Snantanider
War Industries Board
May Have Landed Men Believed Crews Spies
American naval officials concede German U boats off the Atlantic coast may have communicated with shore contacts and possibly landed crew. Navy reports say at least three Deutschland type submarines operated nearby with 17,000 mile range. An officer aboard a steamship allegedly identified a submarine officer in a New York saloon who had boarded off the coast. One submarine bombed and another inactive. allies reportedly destroyed over 200 submarines, with 160 to 180 in commission.
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Haave
Atlantic
Navy Department
China Guards Border as POWs Aiding Bolsheviks Threaten Frontier
Chinese authorities plan border measures as German and Hungarian prisoners of war reportedly join the Red Guard and Bolshevik elements near Trans-Baikal, amid concerns of an invasion of Chinese territory by these combined forces.
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Government of China
Siberian
Red Guard
Bolsheviks
Czecho-Stovaks
trans-Baikal
More Americans at Vladivostok troop arrivals
A second transport carrying American troops arrived at Vladivostok. The ship bearing the first contingent entered the harbor on Thursday. A third troop transport is expected. All troops originated from Manila.
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Vladivostok
Manilla
U boat Sinks Bark Off Virginia Capes
The Norwegian bark Nordhay, 2623 net tons, sailing from Buenos Aires, was sunk by a German submarine about 125 miles off the Virginia capes at noon Saturday. Twenty six crewmen escaped in small boats and were taken to an Atlantic port by an American warship. Authorities did not confirm torpedoing or ramming. Captain Brown commanded the vessel.
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Virginia Capes
Nordhay
Atlantic
Navy Department
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Brown
German press forecasts general retreat on western front
German papers urge a strategic retreat to widen Ludendorff’s maneuver space and seize the initiative on a large scale. They claim Allied successes force a retreat, and that even Austrian reinforcements cannot restore German command. L Homme Libre notes American forces lack the French and British scale.
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West Front
Western Front
Ludendorff
Austria
Marshal Fech
L’homme Libre
M. Clemenceau
Picardy
America
France
May Defers Prohibition Vote In Draft War Bill Standoff
Prohibition leaders in the Senate plan to delay a final vote on wartime prohibition to avoid blocking the man power draft measure. Senator Sheppard of Texas said if the draft cannot pass by Saturday there may be no opposition to shelving the prohibition question.
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Senate
Sheppard
Texas
Meatless Dale in Vienna Ordered for Three Days Weekly
Vienna authorities have ordered three meatless days weekly, based on an official Meapatch from Switzerland. The directive emphasizes dietary shifts and reflects international influence on local meals.
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Vienna
Switzerland
Ship Contracts Let for 33 Wooden Cargo Vessels and Tugs
The Shipping Board announced contracts let for 33 wooden cargo vessels of 3500 deadweight tons each, one wooden barge and three wooden harbor tugs, for the week ending August 10. Eighteen ships will be built by Universal Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas, with the remainder built at Pacific coast yards.
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Shipping Board
Universal Shipbuilding Company
Houston
Tex
Pacific Coast Yards
Jersey mother killed three babies near Pitman New Jersey
Four month old twins Sam and Awurusin Powell drowned in a pump box and four year old James Powell was shot to death on a farm near Pitman New Jersey. The mother, Jared Powell’s wife, was arrested after authorities traced her to Pricietts Pond. The scene suggests an attempt to feign sleep as the family slept in their nightgowns. The father said he left for Philadelphia and found his wife despondent and ill earlier.
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Cora Grove
Mary Grove
Berlin Ave
Baltimore
Ralph Miller
Harrisburg
Lincoln Way
Guy Miller
Chester
Hanover Street
Miller
Hampstead
Edwin Lough
Milton
H. E. Lough
Philadelphia
Mary E. Kurtz
Fr Mahaney
Immaculate Conception Church
Naomi Wolf
York
Clazy Miller
Lewis Groft
Henry
John Adams
Edge Grove
Camp Lee
R. M. Baugher
Gable
Jane McDermitt
Altoona
Mary McDermitt
Qualityville
Annie Diehl
M.D. Diehl
Lingg’s Mill
Hafer Miller
Linecoln Way
Geo. Hewei
West
Livingston Shoe Factory
York Mig. Co
Oliver Wehler
Fd. L. Wehler
East
Pittsburgh
F. Hesse
First Lutheran Church
J A. Foose
West High Street
C. M. Stough
Chestnut Hill
Wimbert Neely
W. W. Neely
New Chester
John
Atlantic Refining Co
Anna Wolf
Wrightsville
Kathryn Winand
Wm A. Feiser
Asbury Park
New York
J.J. Snyder
Admiral Jones
Newport News
Cyprian McSherry
Littlestown
Lillian Speese
C. P. Feiser
East High Street
Jared Powell
Pitman
Shin
Gloucester
Pricietts Pond
Sherif Pedrick
Ion
Woodbury
Sameel
Awurusin
Phex
Éarrie
James Steward Powell
Sinhe
James
Ellison Powell
Leonard Geissel
Jacob Powell
2 Dead in Camp Fight at Camp Merritt New Jersey
Camp MerTritt New Jersey authorities investigate a riot amid conflicting reports of two Black soldiers killed and eight injured in clashes with military police. Witnesses describe a fight between a Black trooper and a white sergeant. infantry units and reinforcements were deployed as shots were fired.
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Camp Mer* Tritt
N. J
Richard Cleveland Named For Officer Training
Richard Folsome Cleveland age 61 of former President Cleveland has completed preliminary training and left for the Boston navy yard for Quantico Virginia to enter the officers training school with the Marine Corps.
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Richard Cleveland
Richard Folsome Cleveland
President Cleveland
Boston Navy Yard
Quantico
Marine Corpa
Ship Torpedoed Off New York By German Submarines
German submarines sank the Norwegian freighter Sohumerstad about forty five miles from New York near Vive Island. The 8875 ton vessel, on ballast from Berwen to New York, went down around dawn with crew of thirty one saved by a passing ship. Built in 1906 at Newcastle England, owned by A S Klageness & Co.
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New York
Sohumerstad
Vive Island
Bottene
Craser
San Diego
Sonmerstad
Shiping Board
Berwen
Norway
Hansen
Newcastle
England
A. S. Klageness & Co
Fatal shooting in woods ends life of Posse member
John Strasser age forty five of Normont near Williamsport was killed by neighbor George Derrick during a woodchop posse pursuit at a Lake Mokoma shack. Derrick fired at Joseph Durand after mistaking a flashlight for a revolver. the bullet struck Durand’s arm and then Strasser in the neck.
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John Strasser
Normont
Williamsport
George Derrick
Lake Mokoma
Joseph Durand
Strasser
Derrick
Curand
Food Un 2 Per Cent in Month
Food prices rise 2 percent in the month ending June 15 as overall US food costs climb 66 percent since June 1913. Milk and butter up 45 percent each, eggs 55 percent over five years. last year prices up 7 percent.
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United States
Department of Iabor
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Adams County
New Oxford Milling Co
Mildred Storm
John Storm
McSherrystown
Claude March
Hanover
Stick
U.boat
Lys
China
Jersey
Gora Field
John MacArthur
New England
Davy Department
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
Wilson
Henry P. Davidson
National Woman's Warwork Council
National Council
Woodrow Wilson
War Work Council
Humbert
Nab Hun
Washington
John Yanchus
Newton
Brownsville
Browneville
Frick Coke Company
Yanchus Ja
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