Daylight Service for Brunswick Soon
Harpers Ferry Electric Light and Power crews, led by Beck, advance daylight service work in Brunswick by stringing three new lines from Potomac avenue to Third and High streets. Indications point to a deal with the B and O Railroad for current, with three phase lines used on a single phase system. Timeframe forecasts September 1 as the deadline for full operation, though meter installations for remaining roughly 100 services may delay completion.
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Harpers Ferry
Bready
Light Company
Jefferson Grange Picnic Brings Grange Patrons Together
Jefferson Grange held its fifth annual picnic Saturday in Roy Zimmerman’s woods near Jefferson with patrons from Adamstown and Middletown attending. The program opened at 2 15 with welcomes and talks on temperance and health, featuring Prof. John Johns and Miss Emily Ebner, plus remarks by Rev. Guy Doty. Quick Use of Fists Saves Beating. A Brunswick man fended off two attackers with swift punches after being confronted near Moore’s livery stable, escaping unharmed. Road work on Lovettsville road delayed by a broken stone crusher, though grading near Brunswick improves the rough stretch of the improved section.
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Jefferson
Roy Zimmerman
Adamstown
Middletown
Howard Fawley
Grange
William Doty
Jefferson Grange
John Johns
New Windsor College
Oscar Remsberg
University of Wisconsin
Remsberg
Frown
Kispangle
Grangers
College Park
Emily Ebner
Edda Kelier
Guy Doty
Ohio
W. R. Hanen
Brunswick
Moore's
Mr. Hanen
Lovettsville
Sloan's Liniment Promises Quick Rheumatism Relief
A testimonial touts Sloan's Liniment as a cure for rheumatism neuralgia and related pains. The ad claims a 25 cent bottle soothes sore stiff joints and brings welcome relief, urging readers to try it now.
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Sloan's
Dent
Koo
Science guides army feeding with garrison ration details
An official describes how science increases dietary efficiency for soldiers. The garrison ration totals 4.5 pounds daily with beef flour beans potatoes prunes coffee sugar milk and minor items. Substitutions include mutton bacon canned meat rice hominy tea or fruit preserves.
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United States Commissary General’s Office
War Department
Torresdale
Rover
Flood devastates Cabin Creek valley in West Virginia
A cloudburst in the Cabin Creek valley caused property losses exceeding 1 million dollars. Communication with the stricken area was difficult as lines went down. at least 160 people were reported dead or missing though confirmations were pending. Six railroad bridges were washed out and tracks swept away in places. Railroads including Chesapeake and Ohio and Kanawha and Michigan suffered heavy damage.
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Huntington
W. Va
Cabin Creek Valley
Eskdale
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Kanawha
Michigan
Killed by Lightning Near Hightstown Farm
Joseph Dey was killed by lightning while working on a brother’s farm near Hightstown N C on August 1. The fatal strike occurred during farm duties as residents warned to watch the weather.
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Hightstown
N. C
Joseph Dey
Germans Again Take Thiaumont Near Verdun In 120 Hours
London reports the shell wrecked Thiaumont work northeast of Verdun has again changed hands, a sixth time in 120 hours, after powerful German assaults. The Paris war office confirms the gain while French forces held outer sections, with Fleury seeing some progress. Simultaneous German offensives on the Somme and Verdun areas included a trench breakthrough near Hem, later repelled, and a bayonet defense ending in German withdrawal. The Somme advance north of Pozieres was also announced.
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London
Thiaumont
Verdun
Paris
Somme
Hem
Teutons
Lihons-Chaulnes
Pozieres
War Office
Russians Press On in Galicia Near Stanislau Advance
War office reports Russians occupy Tysmbalisa on the Vorone river in Galicia. They push northward toward Stanislau along the Kolomea railroad, six miles from the Austro Hungarian base. Austro Hungarian and German forces counterattack from Trumach Ottynia but fail to hold. Stanislau lies seventy five miles southeast of Lemberg. on August 7 Letchiteky’s army took 7400 prisoners including 3500 Germans and sixty three machine guns.
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Dniester
Petrograd
War Office
Tysmbalisa
Galicia
Vorone
Kolomea
Stanislau
Trumach-Ottynia
Border conference named by president to resolve disputes
Washington Aug 10 secretary Lane and Justice Brandies named to joint international commission to seek a solution of border disputes and improve U S Mexico relations. Lane will head the American commission with Justice Brandies and a third member to be announced. Time and place of the conference to be decided. Rushes into river and drowns in Conshohocken Pa Aug 19 Steve Pulinski, fleeing his home, dived into the Schuylkill River near the dam and drowned his wife witnessed the scene.
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Lane
Justice Brandigs
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Conshohocken
West Conshohocken
Steve Pulinski
Schuylkill River
Oxide Iron Ore Vein Found Near Oil City Pa
A vein of oxide iron ore six to eight feet thick was discovered in Venango County near Oil City. Shipments of ore will be made. The vein yields yellow ochre and Venetian red ores and contains a large percentage for mineral paint.
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Oil City
Venango County
British Airmen Raid Brussels
British naval aeroplanes attacked Brussels vicinity in an air raid. Eight bombs were dropped on an airship shed near the city as announced by the war office.
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Brussels
London
War Office
Old Newark papers found in colonial column reveal 1830s events
Dean E Laurence Smith uncovered eight century old papers inside a colonial column near the Newark dormitory site. The volumes include Wilmington Gazette and Watchman 1832, Hoxton Investigator 1832, Boston Daily Globe 1833, Boston Trumpet and Universalist Magazine 1833, and New England Patrodium 1833. One issue prints Andrew Jacksons inaugural address for a second term and mentions Daniel Webster as Jacksons successor candidate. A white shark attack report is also included.
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Newark
Del
Cearly
Dean E. Laurence Smith
Uid
Wiknington, Gazette and Watchman
Hoxton Investigator
Boston Daily Globe
Boston Trumpet and Universalist Magazine
New England Patrodium
Boston
Andrew Jackson
Daniel Webster
Jackson
Explosion in Cellar at West Chester Drug Store
A lighted match ignited chemicals in a cellar at William A. Pierce’s drug store in West Chester, destroying merchandise and burning Harold Biddle who escaped after his coat was burned. Firemen battled the blaze as patrons at a nearby Birth of a Nation showing helped prevent a panic.
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Lay
West Chester
William A. Pierce
Harold Biddle
Pierce
Nervice
Varnish Stain Color Line Offers Various Cans
Advertisement lists stain colors including Cherry Mahogany Walnut Dark Oak and Light Oak with pint and quart pricing. Describes cans from 1 to 2 pints, with prices at 12 cents for pint cans and 20 cents for pint, and 3 cents for quart sans.
Floor Stain in Multiple Colors 12 Gallon Cans
Floor stain offered in Cherry Mahogany Walnut Dark Oak and Light Oak finishes. Available in gallon cans at 1.25 dollars per gallon, with 12 gallon quantity implied. Limited details on brand, availability, or store location.
Zeppelins Kill 6 Hurt 17 on English Scottish Coasts
London reports German airship raids on England east coast and Scotland southeast coast result in six deaths and seventeen injuries. Official notes say ships dropped explosive and incendiary bombs on coastal towns, with no military damage noted. About seven to ten Zeppelins participated, with 160 bombs dropped and twenty three casualties cited in later updates.
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London
England
Scotland
War
Ofics
War Office
Bremen to land at Connecticut port as U-boat traffic grows
New London Connecticut reports that the German submarine Bremen is due at the port any time. Eastern Forwarding, the American arm of the submarine merchant line, has leased a one year space on the state pier for a large warehouse making New London a principal American terminal. A Berlin report suggesting Bremen was sunk is not confirmed with the Swiss Tageblatt calling it only probable due to machinery failure.
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Bremen
Connecticut
New London
Conn
Eastern
New State Pier
London
United States
Tageblatt
Herne
Switzerland
Turke Recapture Bitlis From Russians
Constantinople reports Turkish forces recaptured Bitlis and Mush from Russian control. The Armenian residents are mentioned in the dispatch as part of the region’s occupancy. Official confirmation followed initial reports of shifts in territorial control amid the ongoing conflict.
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Bitlis
Constantinople
Mush
Giica
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