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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1915
Page
1
The Fredericktown Savings Institution promotes a savings plan to fund dream vacations. Start September 18 and save weekly for 40 weeks. Earn 3 percent interest on the total when the fund matures. Visit the bank to begin before the September 18 deadline.
A spectacular blaze on the Boardwalk between Pennsylvania and Madison avenues swept the Riddle Block and threatened the Strand and Seaside hotels and the Steeplechase Pier. About 20,000 onlookers watched as three alarms brought full resort fire forces to battle the fire and evacuate guests. Firemen saved Haddon Hall and assisted others, with some guests escaping from a restaurant by rope and ladder.
A perfect dynamo that could also function as an electric motor was recently shown to French scientists. It weighed scarcely a fifth of an ounce, highlighting its remarkable efficiency and compact design.
A Sofia despatch says War Minister General Fiche has resigned due to illness and General Jecof succeeds him signaling Bulgaria’s prep for hostilities. 150,000 Bulgarian troops are on the Turkish frontier as King Ferdinand inspects. Athens reports Venizelos may form a war cabinet and agrees entente talks. Rumors persist of a Bulgarian-Serbian Macedonian compromise and Bulgaria joining the Entente.
Paris August 21 official war office report says German forces take exceedingly heavy losses while trying to regain positions at Linge and Schratazmaennele in the Vosges. French troops hold firm at the points retaken earlier in the week.
A German submarine halted near Norwegian territorial waters as the mail steamship Irma neared Jaeterens Reef from Newcastle to Stavanger. Norwegian torpedo boats arrived after shots were fired across the bow, warning the submarine to depart. it withdrew without further interference.
In Marietta a large oak tree two miles from town guards Leo M. Frank’s dangling body found Tuesday. Watchmen shield the site from souvenir seekers and a concrete wall surrounds the tree. Owner W J Free preserves it and reportedly refused a $200 offer. A Georgian inventor touts a self lubricating hammock hook to quiet the talk.
State Department reports eight Americans unaccounted for after the White Star liner Arabic was torpedoed by a German submarine. Officials note conflicting lists, with five passengers and twenty five crew members lost, and praise the crew, especially engineers, for heroism during the sinking near Queenstown.
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