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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1914
Page
5
British forces at Ypres repelled a five day German offensive, capturing LangeMark five miles northeast of Ypres. The Bavarian crown prince reportedly wounded as British lines entrenched beyond the village. German attackers pressed to 30 yards of trenches before retreating amid bayonet charges and fierce counterfire.
An advertisement touts Knowlton's Dandeline as stopping hair loss and dandruff within weeks. It claims immediate shine and fullness, with new hair growth starting as fine downy strands, urging readers to buy a 25 cent bottle from drug stores or toilet counters.
Governor Hall warned that if Mississippi attorney general Ross Collins proves his case, he will have some cotton seed oil men striped. Mississippi investigators reportedly have documentary evidence of price manipulation by Louisiana mill men, with possible indictments in multiple states. Standard Oil denies backing any cotton seed oil mills or related concerns.
Kid Williams of Baltimore outpointed Dutch Brandt of Brooklyn in a ten round Brooklyn set. Mike Gibbons of St Paul stopped Billy Maxwell in three rounds. George Chaney of Baltimore won a newspaper decision over Cal Delaney of Cleveland in twelve rounds, with a possible match looming against Johnny Kilbane.
In dim glare of burning bushes the enemy threw down arms and begged mercy but no quarter was given. Bayonet and bullet prevailed as the force drove the foe back on Roulers. A battery and several machine guns were captured and thousands of prisoners taken including a general and several officers.
W. E. Sweet of Fairhope exhibits a single stem cluster weighing eighteen pounds with eighteen grapefruits. Mobile nurserymen and citrus growers say they have never seen so many fruits on one stem. Sweet notes the tree is three years old and this is its first bearing.
County Commissioner S P Gaillard introduced a resolution at a Tuesday board meeting calling on the county engineer to report to the board on the materials used in the contract to improve Spring Hill Avenue west from Catherine Street. He said the purpose is to inform the public why these materials are used and that they are largely sand clay and vise lowmy sand clay obtained at the placer, at little or no cost to the county or property owners.
A Flushing, Holland dispatch to the Mail cites German losses at 16 060 killed and 1 800 wounded on the Nieuwpoort Saintes line with 499 vehicles carrying wounded through Ostend. It notes mines washed ashore near Ostend and German efforts to defend the coast from Ostend to Knocke while redeploying guns and supplies to Zeebrugge and Bruges.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Malines circulates a letter to priests in France Welland and Britain urging their return to parishes with public security guaranteed. He claims their return will encourage Belgian refugees to seek homes again. A new clamp and spring device for home sharpening blades is described.
A Daily Mail Paris dispatch quotes a German order on evading air surveillance. It urges troops to hide in furrows and behind trees, avoid firing and movement when planes are overhead, and stresses rapid, fearless observation to counter French artillery.
Heralded by Europe’s greatest masters as a phenomenal boy pianist of the age. Battle House Auditorium hosts the concert on Tuesday November 3 at 8 15 p m Tickets priced at 1 00 and on sale at Reynalds and Junger Gass Music Stores
A naval dispatch from Belfort reports a German aircraft flew over the Belfort fortress on Friday and released a bomb that landed in Swiss territory. The incident stirred significant irritation toward Germany.
In New York the 107th annual meeting of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite elected M. W. Bayliss of Washington, D C, as sovereign grand commander.
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