28 Jul 1916
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1916
Page
1
The Fredericktown Savings Institution promotes travel by issuing Travelers' Checks in denominations of 10 20 50 100 and 200 dollars. The ad claims the checks are the safest and most satisfactory way to carry funds for vacations across the United States or Canada and invites customers to use the bank for this service and other banking matters.
British Admiral denies a warship entered Chesapeake Bay to watch for the German submarine Deutschland. The Louisiana reports a craft signaling from Lyap Haven Inlet, and officials weigh possible hoax while North Carolina and destroyers stay on neutrality patrol.
A group led by Representative J. Hampton Moore visiting the Chesapeake and Delaware canal tried to view the German submarine Deutschland at its pier in Baltimore. Captain Hinsch refused the sighting saying circumstances render it inadvisable. Overnight reports suggested Deutschland may be held until word on Bremen. Near Drente, Holland, a 1,700 year old petrified woman’s body was excavated.
General E H Plummer, formerly colonel of the 26th Infantry, has been appointed to the General Staff. The change places a veteran field commander in a senior planning and advisory role, reflecting his extended experience and the unit’s historical contribution.
Washington notes object to British blacklisting American firms as an invasion of neutral rights. State Department tabled the note for publication, urging action by Britain. Also reports a White House incident with a Kansas City tailor seeking audience with Wilson and a trainmen strike vote in Missouri.
Petrograd reports 6250 Teutons captured with five kings and twenty-two machine guns. Russian forces advance along the Slonevka and Boldurodka rivers near Brody, threatening the Brody Lemberg line and forcing Austrians toward Lemberg. Engagements continue in Lobuzny and Carpathian passes with Russians nearing the Hungarian frontier.
Edwin H. Hatch a Wall Street broker and bank vice president admits responsibility for the $340,000 irregularity at Mutual Trust in Orange New Jersey. Hatch was arrested in Maplewood while convalescing and Thomas S. Byrne was also arrested. Byrne was released on $25,000 bond. Elopement scandal erupts as Mrs Katherine V. Wylie wins an absolute divorce from Horace Wylie after his European elopement with Eliner M. Hichborn in 1810.
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