Markell and Ford Roofing and Hardware Ad
Roofing and spouting repair and painting at reasonable prices. Call 914 for full hardware line including tools paints tinware enamel ware.
18 Jul 1916
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1916
Page
1
Roofing and spouting repair and painting at reasonable prices. Call 914 for full hardware line including tools paints tinware enamel ware.
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Flood waters across North Carolina South Carolina Virginia Tennessee and West Virginia kill nine and leave twenty one missing or unconfirmed as rescues continue. Asheville worst hit with trains halted bridges washed away telegraph crippled and homes lost. Rescue teams save several people trapped in trees while others drifted on rising waters near Biltmore and Hendersonville.
After two people were killed by a shark in Matawan Creek New Jersey efforts to catch the creature intensify. Nets span the water dynamite is used to force the shark upward for shooting. Fishermen are using all means including guards and a hundred dollar reward for each shark captured.
Reported capsizing and bridge destruction left Killian and eleven railway workers missing after a flood. Four Western Union staff also feared lost as the Southern railway bridge near Rock Hill collapsed blocking southbound traffic. Mecklenburg County suffers three bridge losses costing about 150000. Salvage started on other lines. In Norfolk, salvage crews prepared to recover the wrecked collier Hector after a light off Cape Remain. In Pottsville, Harry A. Haas, 29, drowned when his canoe overturned on Lake Benton. He was an Lehigh University graduate and a mechanical engineer with Winchester Repeating Arms in New Haven.
London reports British forces broke a German trench near Pozieres and seized 1500 yards of front near Basentin le Petit wood while pushing east of Longeval. Germans driven from Ovillers and La Boiselle as 600 German casualties noted in shell fre bombardment. French Verdun advances yield three machine guns. Russian reinforcements land in France and prepare to deploy from Brest.
July reports say Russian forces press ahead near the Lower Lip a with captures including 277 officers and 957,000 in cash, plus 24 guns. German lines retreat behind the Lip a southwest. In Baltimore, visitors barred on the merchant submarine Deutschland signaling its imminent departure. The Nolan minimum wage bill for federal workers stalls in Congress. Britain patents replaceable button mounting for pins and brooches.
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