A General Survey of the War Tuesday to Thursday
War news recounts the Hampshire sinking with Earl Kitchener aboard west of the Orkneys. British and German clashes intensify in Flanders and Ypres while Verdun area sees French repulse of German attacks. Russian offensives progress toward the Romanian border with prisoners counted at 49,000. Berlin claims naval victory and losses at Jutland. Rome and Vienna report shifting fronts and Austrian checks in multiple theaters.
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Earl Kitchener
Hampshire
Russia
Orkney Islands
Flanders
London
Paris
Meuse
Verdun
Petrograd
Fort Vaux
French War Office
Ypres
William
Wilhelmshaven
North Sea
Britain
Vienna
Rome
Eastern Front Breaks for Ninety Four Miles
Advices to the Russian embassy at Rome say the Austrian eastern front has been broken for ninety four miles and to a depth of thirty seven and a half miles. Russians prisoners total fifty five thousand. Allies seize virtual control of Greece and vow to enforce treaties. Salonika governance is set and Greek vessels are barred from port as Greek army demobilizes. General Joffre meets in London for a war council amid French front clashes near the Meuse.
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Rome
Greece
Salonika
Meuse
Thiaumont Farm
Joffre
London
Russian Advance Splits German Austrian Forces In East
Petrograd reports 97 officers and 5500 men captured. The Principe Umberto torpedoed with 1000 troops aboard. feared heavy losses. Meuse sees heavy artillery on both sides and a lull in infantry attacks per French war office.
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Petrograd
Meuse
War Office
Russian and German War Losses Reported Amid Frontline Actions
The official Russian statement says 409 officers and 35,000 men captured in Volhynia and Galicia with 30 guns and vast booty seized. Techilskyn’s forces in Czernowitz area claim 18,006 prisoners. Czarist troops total about 108,000 prisoners to date. Verdun defense reports say German attacks on Hill 304 were repulsed. The Italian cabinet resigns after a budget vote defeat. British figures place German losses at 2,924,586 with 734,412 killed.
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Volhynia
Galicia
Techilskyn
Czernowitz
Bukowina
Verdun
Chamber of Deputies
Navy Aviator Killed On Santa Rosa Island
Lieutenant Richard C. Saufley, a Navy aviator, died when his aircraft crashed on Santa Rosa Island in Pensacola, Florida. The incident ended his service in the aviation squadron and prompted a naval mourning period.
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Navy
Richard C. Saufley
Santa Rosa Island
Pensacola
Pia
Woman 75 Killed by Train Near Hagerstown
Mrs Emma Collins, seventy five, was killed when she stepped in front of a Baltimore and Ohio freight at Hyattaville near Hagerstown Maryland. The incident happened in the twilight hours and authorities are investigating the scene for details.
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Emma Collins
Baltimore & Ohio Freih
Hyattaville
Hagerstown
Marriages of local residents reported in multiple towns
A sequence of marriages is listed including Correne Deatrick and Jay Bringman in Elkton Maryland who moved to Kansas City for Bringman’s chemistry position. Elizabeth Sanders and J Edw Gray wed in Littlestown. Earl Long and Beatrice Noel married in Mt Jay township. Earl Barker and Anns Konicke wed in Schenectady. Eliza McKinney and Willis Sterner joined in Gettysburg. M Faith Bucher and Larry Hartzell wed near Mt Pleasant. Keith Irone and Minnie Redding united in Baltimore.
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Correne Deatrick
John W. Deatrick
Piglerville
Jay W. Bringman
W. If Bringiman
Gettysburg
Gettysburg College
Elkton
Kansas City
Bringman
Earl T. Long
Aug. Long
Littlestown
Beatrice J. Noel
Nathaniel Noel
Mt. Jay Township
St. Paul’s Parsonage
John Jay Aili
Keith A. ‘Irone
Minnie M. Redding
Baltimore
G. Ziegler
Jacob A. Prone
Emer Redding
Hanover
City Council Proceedings 1916 Fresh Drainage and Repairs
Regular session notes extensive street and water repairs, including grading Pleasant street but not paving, tile drainage for Eagle alley, repairs on South Peters street, and stand pipe cleaning. Enters bids for envelopes. discusses junk sale and gas pump offers. Gettysburg College trustees consider drill petition and new history instructor. railroad routes eyed for shorter west to New York lines.
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Burgess Vummer
Livingston
Pleasant Street
Little
Taughinbaugh
Kohr
Keeny
Tle
Eagle Hotel
Hoffman
Eagle Alley
Hagle Hotel
South Peters Street
Cagle Hotel
Dixon
Kepner
Melhorn
Keeney
Wagner
Gettysburg College Board of Trustees
Norman J. Wickey
Littlestown
College
Seminary
Wickey
Harvard
Philadelphia and
Reading
Maryland
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Special Parke Stamp Day Deals Promised
Consumers can fill stamp books by purchasing Parke products including coffee cocoa vanilla rice and baking powder with stamps offered per item. The program lists exact stamp counts for each Parke item and encourages buying tea coffee baking powder extracts to earn stamps.
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Parke
York region notes meteor fire and local events
A meteor explosion near York West End caused heat damage to 30 feet of lawn and shrubbery, with Gustav Br. Brostrum cited as York Mig Co chief electrical engineer. The Delaware County Grand Jury indicted William H. Haris for killing William Campbell in Leiperville. State fairs drew 2,004,326 attendees, York Fair led with 210,000, Hanover about 60,000. cancer patient Samuel McKee, 102, discharged after radium treatment. Hay crop outlook improves statewide.
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West End
York
Gustav BR. Brostrum
York Mig. Co
Delaware County Grand Jury
William H. Haris
William Campbell
Leiperville
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
York County Agricultural Society
Hanover
Hanover Agricultural Society
Samuel McKee
Tidioute
Kane Summit Hospital
Kane
Neehee
Ayes
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Lutsk
Nothymia
Berlin
Lalzok
Rostock
Jutland
Fort van
Elizabeth
John J. Sanders
Near Taneytown
J. Edw. Gray
Anna Gray
St. Aloysius Hore
Fr. O'Callaghan
Earl RB. Barker
Elmer Barker
East Berlin
Anns Konicke
Schenectady, N. Y
J.B. Baker
St. James’ Lutheran Parsonage
Eliza A. McKinney
Bendersville
Willis ,E. Sterner
M. Faith Bucher
Larry C. Hartzell
Cashtown
M. B. McLaughlin
Council Proceedings
Sale
Frederick Street
Hanover, Pa
Wfme
J.P. Rickrodes Store
New Oxford, Pa
Bull Durham
North Carolina
Durham
U.S
Eee
Adreso
THE
American Tobacco CO
Lee
P. Ets Eb Small CO
Yorkware
L.&m
Prowell
Mid-Nummer Millinery
Penn
Abraham Roth
Sabbottstown
Busingaa
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