17 Oct 1916
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1916
Page
1
The Fredericktown Savings Institution urges boys and girls to have their own bank accounts as an object lesson in thrift. It notes that starting early leads to long term benefits and that a bank account arms savers against poverty in old age. The institution welcomes systematic savers.
London reports renewed heavy fighting on the Somme with French advances near Sailly Saillisel along the Bapaume road. German counterattacks were repulsed with heavy losses as British and French troops press to enclose Thiepval and Saarbrucken redoubts.
A rallying cry urges voters to blame saloons for social ills and to choose between supporting liquor traffic or protecting families. The speaker highlights cemeteries almshouses and prisons as the saloon’s legacy and warns a vote for liquor harms boys and mothers.
Reports from London and Berlin describe Austro German forces thrusting into Romania near Bukarest and along the Transylvanian frontier. Rumanian resistance is shown at Rucaru and Tolges with captured troops, while King Ferdinand visits Dobruja amid strategic tensions. British and French actions on Struma and near Thiepval mark continued heavy fighting with numerous German prisoners and significant Allied gains.
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