Home Coming Over and County Happenings in Fredericktown
The weekly chronicle celebrates the Key Centennial and festive events across Middletown Emmitsburg and Braddock, noting parades concerts and church services. It recalls Barbara Fritchie flags electricity on Main Street and praises returning tourists while urging continued town pride and preparation for the county fair.
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Frederick Key
Key
Lezard
Baltimore
Middletown
Braddock Hills
Emmitsburg
Brunswick
Europe
America
Barbara Fritchie
Uncle Salter
Barbara
General Von Hoetzendorf's Son Reported Killed
A dispatch from Galicia confirms the son of Austrian General Von Hoetzendorf was killed in the battle of Rava Russka. He served as a lieutenant in the Fifteenth Dragoons.
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Berlin
Galicia
von Hoetzendorf
Rava Russka
Fifteenth Dragoons
Allies Repulse German Attack on Front near Verdun
World War I battlefield bulletin reports the Allied forces repelling German attacks along the Oise to Meuse line. It notes slow German advances, a failed Verdun sortie, fierce fighting across the front, and the death of General Bataille. Also, a German aide to the Crown Prince Von Medel is reported killed at the Aisne.
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Berlin
Oise
Meuse
Verdun
Bordeaux
Exchange Telegraph Company
Bataille
Wedige von Medel
Frederick William
the Aisne
Legal to Censor Wireless Declared Legal
Washington reports Attorney General Gregory says federal censorship of wireless messages is legal as announced by Secretary Daniels. Tokio dispatch claims the German cruiser Emden sank five British steamers off India's coast with passengers saved. Chicago noting a domestic tragedy as Mrs Noort's tea provokes husband to kill then kill himself based on a Baltimore American quote.
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Washington
Sept
Gregory
Daniels
Tokio
Emden
India
Chicago
Marie Noort
Shackleton Off For Pole Journey To Antarctic Circle
London dated Sept 1 reports Sir Ernest Shackleton and the Prize Antarctic expedition split into two groups. One party led by Shackleton sails to South America while the other heads toward the Ross Sea from New Zealand. Shackleton hopes to rendezvous with the Ross Sea contingent in April next year, aiming to meet by March 1916.
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South America
Antarctic Circle
London
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Atatraue Arctic Expedition
South Polar Region
Roes Sea
New Zealand
Antarctic
Taxmania
St Ernest
Roe Sea
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May Jane
Mredericktown
Temple of Justice
Niagara
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Hanover
Hagerstown
Maryland
Convent
Hood College
Sons of
Sonadab
College Park
Braddock
Brust
Ray Robre
Old Fredericktown
Mary Jane
Kankakee
Nellie Clark
Rome
Tribuna
Ruesians
Petrograd
Paris
Odessa
Havas
Constantinople
St. Petersburg
Baltimore American
Shackleton
Pole
Tels
Huesta
Spain
Ebert Hardware Co
Frederick Gas and Electric Dept
Hagerstown and Frederick Railway Co
East
Patrick Street
Birely’s
Robert A. Kemp
3. M. Birely
Alwaaye
Schooler Barery
South Mester
John S. Newman
Jas. E. Doll
Harry J. Kefauver
Colege Park
Frederick
Fredericktonians
the Armory
Rockwell Terrace
Edward L. Williams
Sales College Park
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