24 Dec 1914
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1914
Page
1
Regular quality Wash Silk samples priced at $2.00 Organele Waist 98c Embroidered White Flowers in Back and Front in Xmas boxes $1.50 Linen Waists 50c Best Linen tailored style with belt Wool Sweaters all colors sizes Lat ies Sweaters $1.98 worth $3.00 Very heavy weave new collar Boys and Girls Wool Sweaters $8 worth $1.50 Red and Blue sweaters 49c For Men Boys and Girls.
A shop advertises baby astrachan coats at 1 75 with blue and brown options and black plush collars, silk plush coats at 5 00, white infant coats at 8 00, and heavy gingham dresses. It promotes wool coats with silk Venetian lining, sweaters, shirts, socks, suspenders, gloves, and other apparel with prices ranging from a few cents to several dollars to attract shoppers.
Ladies' house dresses priced at 98c for sizes up to 14 years with a belt and gray herringbone design. Boys' overcoats $1.98 for sizes 4 to 10. Military collars in blue and brown. Percale and gingham house dresses described as sewed right and cut full, like home made.
Russian War Office reports heavy fighting along the Pilica river between Lodz and Opoczno as Germans push toward Warsaw. Soukhomlinoff warns Berlin exaggerations mask only partial German gains while asserting Russian and allied forces have driven back the invaders on several fronts from Lodz to Galicia and southern Poland.
The Women's Emergency Corps reports a gift of clothing from New Zealand via the high commissioner to aid London's poor. The eighteen packed cases contain wearables rated for use by those in need, reflecting wartime charity across seas.
The report describes heavy fighting along the rivan bank with German troops mowed down and drowned as pontoons fail. About 2000 bodies were found along the eastern riverbank while Russians captured nine undamaged guns from the first crossing unit. Russian forces move toward Cracow from north and east amid an apparent major action in southwestern Poland near Cracow. Vienna notes renewed Galicia offensive with losses on the lower Dunajec. Elsewhere in East Prussia Germans retreat from Nerdenburg to Soldau and Lautenburg as they gain footing on the Dzura and reach Rawka near Bolimow. German forces push east along a line from near Piotrkow to the Nida, occupying stretches from Grybow to Smigrod and Sanok in Galicia.
Ten houses burned to the ground at MacDonaldson in Somerset County as water failed. Miners fought flames by shoveling snow on the buildings, but the effort proved largely ineffective and most residents lost their possessions while 100 people were affected. Turks Invade Egypt as Turkish frontier crosses into Barp tian region. Russian night attacks east of Koeprikje repelled in official report from Constantinople.
London dispatch reports renewed heavy fighting as Allied forces press toward German lines from Yser to Arras. British and French troops advance in Belgium and the Argonne forest, blowing mines and taking portions of trenches near Boureuilles and Beausejour while repelling counterattacks. The Meuse and upper Alsace theaters show no major incidents.
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