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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1914
Page
2
Washington reports that the U S organized militia lags in peace strength and reserve ranks. Of 111,140 armed in 1913, only 66,974 fired ranges in 1912, state to be less than two thirds. Only 42,599 qualified as second class or better, about 48 percent of rifle armed personnel.
Mrs Hoppenrath of Berlin writes her youngest son Rudolph in South Norwalk Conn to come home and fight for Germany after losing two sons in the war and having a brother imprisoned in England.
Futurist art influence reaches the front as German sharpshooters paint on their bullet proof shields. They decorate with cubist designs in futurist colors to hamper recognition by enemies.
Manufacturer sale offers this mahogany 8-note player piano with exceptional value. Part of a multi item listing with prices from 1,150 down to 288 dollars and a notice to read page three for full particulars.
A broad page item list reports arrests for operating punch boards at cigar stands, a university wedding, currency and labor notes, ferry and road works, school assemblies, and local court actions. Other entries note a dress theft acquittal, a city worker hurt, a suit for sidewalk injury, and a murder-robbery investigation among various regional items across Washington and Oregon.
Vienna reports Archduke Eugene has taken command of Austrian forces in Serbia after Potiorek’s defeat. The statement says Austrian troops withdrew due to immense difficulties, denying being broken and noting losses of men and matériel as exaggerated by Servian reports.
Archie Long was buried 130 hours under rock and gravel in a 20 foot deep hole and saved by rescuers. He remains under doctor care and may recover. Otto Chappell died at the scene. The two men fell into the shaft while a government employee dug it for testing.
Capt Townsend F. Dodd piloted Burgess tractor No 28 with Lieut Shepley W. Fitzgerald as observer to victory in the third annual Mackay trophy contest. Dodd logged three hours and three minutes against high winds, locating enemy troops marching toward Encanto and La Mesa after a 200 mile flight from Los Angeles.
London dispatch reports Archduke Leopold Salvator visiting a field hospital where a corporal bears five shrapnel splinters in the head and lost his left arm in a battlefield self amputation with a pocket knife. The archduke notes the patient’s good humor.
Paris dispatch reports a wartime New Year feast for German soldiers in the French trenches. The war minister ordered a dinner menu that includes a bottle of champagne for every four soldiers along with ham sausages apples and oranges.
Austrian batteries have sunk one Allied submarine, according to German newspapers. The exact location of the incident was not stated.
James Gordon Bennett, editor and globe trotter, undertook a recent flying trip from Paria where he lives to New York where he earns his living. He is known as a prominent newspaperman and spokesperson in his public life.
A woman recounts marital strife and a breakup triggered by nagging and temper. The husband withdraws during storms of fault and she recalls a quarrel ending with a tossed candy box as he returns late from work. The tale reflects on sacrifice and temper in marriage.
The article recounts a personal interview with the Kaiser during wartime service at the front. It describes his routine and discipline as he participates in a timber-sawing task to stay fit.
Correspondent reports the Kaiser appears aged with white hair and a thinner face yet remains upright and thoughtful. He resides in a small private house near the crown prince’s headquarters and resumes wood sawing daily as exercise, then rests and ponders.
Select your piano with free delivery and start payments in January or February. For full particulars, read page 3 of this paper.
Official notice reports 64 percent of French wounded back at the front before December 12 while only 2 percent died. An advertisement touts Poley Cathartic Tablets for cleansing the system and relieving constipation, claiming no griping and a steady liver, sold by Bartell's Drug Stores.
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