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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1914
Page
7
London reports from Paris that insurance estimates place Reims damage at 200 million dollars after a month of bombardment. Over twelve hundred civilians killed and about one quarter of the city’s buildings destroyed including the cathedral. Forty thousand residents remain in cellars among the ruins.
Berne reports 500000 unemployed in Germany with unions noting 200 to 300 applicants per 100 openings in major cities like Berlin Breslau and Hanover. Bremen Hamburg show 350 per 100, Leipsic 492, Dresden 629, nine other cities 160 to 200 per 100 jobs.
A Paris dispatch to Corriere Della Sera describes a German battery trapped in a swamp near Esternay and Sezanna. Isolated, the crew fought singlehanded against French forces until ammunition ran out, with the wounded or dead burying the men beneath mud and trees to save the guns.
Paris reports Count de Chambrun, husband of Clara Longworth, directing artillery at their family chateau near St Mihiel. He writes of firing on the chateau as German forces hold the area after a six week struggle.
The British Medical Journal reports the War Office has named Sir John Rose Bradford Sir Wilmot Herringham and Sir Almroth Wright consulting physicians with the expeditionary force in France. Field Marshal Earl Kitchener forms a special army sanitary committee to guide troop health policy. Sir John Sloggett will coordinate Army Medical Service with St John Ambulance and the Red Cross as chief commissioner.
A regional note promotes dairy farming that keeps skim milk on the farm and uses it to raise young stock and sell pork and poultry products. It emphasizes integrated farming and value from on site processing and storage.
A humorous piece on amateur photography during Lent contrasts with formal legal notices from Warren County Pennsylvania. The notice section lists numerous estate accounts filed with the Orphans Court and the Register, plus sheriff service of a mortgage satisfaction petition.
An application will be made to the Governor of Pennsylvania the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Banking on December 21 1914 by F E Mertzel W E Rice William R Dawson F A Shaw and J L Hunter under the 1876 Act for incorporation and regulation of banks of discount and deposit to form the State Bank of Tidioute in Tidioute Warren County with capital of 50000 dollars. Solicitors Alexander & Clark announce dates Sep 17 to Dec 17 for publication.
Administration notice announces that Hilda Gaete of Sugar Grove Warren County Pa applied for letters of administration on Gust D. Johnson deceased. It directs debtors to pay promptly and creditors to present claims duly authenticated for settlement. The notice is dated September 15 1914 and signed by attorneys Ote 16 1.
Edward J. Ehrhardt administrator announces letters granted for the late William Ehrhardt of Warren Borough Warren County Pa The estate requires all debts to be paid and claims to be presented for settlement before the court October 12 1914.
Letters testamentary on the estate of Mary J. McChesney of Deerfield Township Warren County Pa. require all claims and will to be presented to the undersigned for settlement by November 2 1914.
Rome reports Luigi Barzini notes German discipline in Chambry fighting. A rear-guard detail fired to the last, bayonets stabbed, rifles broken, and uniforms identifying ranks while dead soldiers lay in a row with knapsacks and parade readiness. The scene recalls a grim, punctuated close to the engagement.
Notice is given that the account of Lavette Thompson as Administrator c t a of the Last Will and Testament of Joseph Dale Thompson has been filed and confirmed. The Orphans Court of Warren County will hear Lavette Thompsons discharge on December 7, 1914 at 10 a.m. All interested parties may attend.
Notice states S A Whipple S G Perry J L Verdon and B B Stroud will apply to the Pennsylvania Governor on December 1 1914 for a charter under the 1874 act to operate produce oil petroleum and natural gas and to sell transport and ship the same with all rights privileges and benefits conferred. E H Beshlin solicitor. Warren Mail notices dated Nov 5 12 19 26 41.
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