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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1915
Page
1
An advertisement from M. T. Engle, Proprietor, promotes the New Buffalo Hotel with a stance that they do not buy based on price, recommendation, or reputation but on personal investigation of absolute superiority. It notes A La Carte service and seafood offerings available all day.
A commercial and savings bank solicitates accounts from banks bankers corporations firms and individuals. It offers 4 percent on time deposits free from taxes and promises prompt accurate and careful handling of all entrusted business.
Desperate German assaults around Les Koes and Calonne trenchs cost heavy losses, with only a precarious foothold on the Verdun front. French artillery blunts attempts to regain positions in Vosges and near the Sonvaux ravine as Meuse heights endure fierce bombardment and limited German gains.
Nine year old John Magyar from Phoenixville July 19 ran two squares with his mangled arm dangling shouting to companions. A passing car stopped him and he was rushed to Phoenixville Hospital where doctors amputated his arm at the shoulder after an accident on Read fog railway near the station.
Bridgeport Conn July 19 Simon Lake inventor and builder of submarines for the United States government expresses satisfaction at tests of the G-3 submarine. The craft demonstrated it can cross the Atlantic, return without stopping, and has a cruising radius of 60000 miles. Lake states the G2 with new engines could perform the same feat if economical. The G2 was built by Lake Torpedo Boat Company of Bridgeport.
Submarine pioneer Simon Lake is set to join Thomas Edison’s Navy board, bringing his expert insights to naval innovation. Lake’s appointment underscores his continuing influence on undersea craft development and defense planning.
Mystery surrounds the Chaloh avenue gate at the York navy yard kept open only to officers and enlisted men and escorted visitors. Rumors of bombs and spies at government reservations circulated, though authorities denied such plots and could not verify sources.
Altoona Pennsylvania July 19. Harry E. Duey thirty five of Tyrone risked his life as front brakeman of a heavy freight train from Snow Shoe when engineer A Rowe spotted a child on the track at Clarence. Duey leaped onto the running board and pulled the boy clear just as the train passed, heroics saved a life.
In Lancaster Pennsylvania on July 19 two year old Paul Shoemaker crawled through high grain toward his harvesting father. The reaper blade severed his left leg and mangled the right hand. The father carried him home where a surgeon pronounced the injuries fatal.
In York Pennsylvania on July 1 Calvin W. Stump an employee at the Pullman Motor Car plant suffered severe burns to his hands and arms. He washed with grease stained cloth and the improvised wash cloth caught fire from gasoline fumes igniting the waste. The blaze caused burns as coworkers aided him in extinguishing the flames. Ruth Wenrich a teen daughter of George Wenrich of this city drowned after sinking in a mud hole at Suatars Creek near Macksville during a bath party and could not be saved.
Leo M. Frank, serving a life term for the Mary Phagan murder, was attacked in his Georgia state prison farm dormitory when asleep. Fellow prisoner William Creen slashed Frank's throat severing the jugular vein. two inmate doctors provided first aid and surgery. Frank, conscious after the operation, expressed fear of death but faith in God, while his wife Mrs. Frank remained composed. The weapon was a hog butcher knife smuggled into the prison.
A Berlin letter reports Kaiser Wilhelm losses around 20 million dollars due to stock depreciation in shipping and manufacturing. Major German beer firms he invested in shut down, and several princes including Bavarian Saxon Württemberg and Baden rulers also suffered heavy losses.
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