Fredericktown Savings Institution Opens Opportunities
Promoting savings and readiness, the bank urges noncustomers to open an account today. The message emphasizes seizing opportunities and the idea that success comes to those prepared to act.
31 Aug 1916
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1916
Page
1
Promoting savings and readiness, the bank urges noncustomers to open an account today. The message emphasizes seizing opportunities and the idea that success comes to those prepared to act.
A Bucharest dispatch via Rome reports Rumanians with Russians capture main Carpathian passes and breach into Hungary. Rumanian cavalry crosses Rothenthurm pass toward Hermannstadt as Danube towns come under bombardment. Turkey declares war on Romania. King Ferdinand moves to front to command operations.
Senator J. W. Kern serves as floor leader and adds support from Wilson era allies. The political maneuver signals shifts in party leadership as key figures rally around policy priorities and legislative strategy.
Robert Fay, a former German army officer convicted of neutrality violations, and fellow prisoner William Knobloch escaped from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary while assigned to electrical work. Guards notified. Fay believed to have funds and may avoid capture. Warden Zerbst pledged exhaustive search.
Washington reports twenty eight coast artillery companies about six thousand men on border duty are to be sent back to posts in eastern and western departments. Over ten thousand National Guardsmen will take their places, restoring order in the mobile army. Mrs William McAdoo, wife of the treasury secretary and President Wilson’s daughter, at Spring Lake, J, with typhoid fever, rests easily and steadily improves per Surgeon General Schauffler.
Washington August 31 President Wilson moves to avert a railway walkout by urging postponement of the strike order until Congress acts. Labor leaders insist only a satisfactory settlement can avert the strike while drafts of Wilsons proposals await committee action. Both sides prepare for a possible Monday morning walkout amid efforts to delay and avert the disruption.
Ten workers were injured when a derrick toppled during excavation under the Reading railway elevated tracks at Emerald street and Lehigh avenue in Philadelphia. Four men were badly scalded and in serious condition at Episcopal Hospital, while six others were treated and sent home. Thirty-five workers were present in the 100 foot wide trench when the derrick fell, overturning a boiler and showering scalding water and steam. No explosion occurred. Police and patrol wagons transported the injured. one laborer alerted authorities. The cause of the derrick toppling remains unexplained.
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