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Middletown transcript., 1916-01-01
EAST LASHED
BY WEIRD STORM
Thunder, Lightning, Rain, Hail
and Snow.
GALE OF NINETY MILES
Telegraph Wires Down and Shipping
Badly Damaqed-Ocean Liners
Dropped Anchor Until the
Gale Subsided.

New York.-One of the weirdest
storms the East has seen in many
years-rain, hail and snow, accom-
panied by thunder and lightning and
gale that reached maximum
velocity Of 80 miles-descende from
the northwest early Sunday as the
aftermath of a Christmas fog. 1t in
directly caused seven deaths in this
vicinity, carried down telegraph wires,
damaged shipping, crippled railroad
traffic and caused considerable prop
erty damage.
The phenomenon of thunder and
lightning in the midst of driving
snow awakened New Workers at the
height of the storm about Z o'clock. A
gale from the south, accompanied by
rain, had been blowing during the
night, but the temperature dropped
during the early morning hours, chang
ing the rain to hail and then to snow.
The local Weather Bureau reported a
total precipitation of So inches, of
which 28 was snow.
The wind shifted to the northwest
and increased in violence, reaching its
90-mile intensity at o'clock and soon
after carrying off the storm clouds.
The gale continued, however, through
out the day, blowing in hundreds of
plate-glass windows, hurting signs and
copings to the streets and demolish-
ing several partly built structures.
The storm had it's centre in Massa-
chusetts, the Weather Bureau report
ed, and the telegraph companies said
their service in New England had
been badly crippled, although COM
munication had not been entirely lost
with the principal cities.
Shipping of all kinds scurried to
shelter to escape the heavy seas, and
several ocean liners dropped anchor
until the gale abated, twenty-five
persons aboard Is canal boats driven
ashore off Sandy Hook were rescued
by the Coast Guard crew at that point,
assisted by the crew of the Coast
Guard cutter Seneca. Those saved in
cluded the wives and children of the
boats captains. James O'Neil, in COM
mand of one of the boats, was knocked
into the sea by a flying board and
drowned.
Woman Dies On Way To Church.
The deaths in the city resulting from
the gale all occurred while the blind
ing snowstorm was at it's height A
fireman was fatally injured while re-
spending to an alarm. A woman was
run over by street car, the motor
man of which could not see her on the
tracks. Another woman collapsed
and died in the street while battling
against a gale on her way to church.
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CONVERSATIONS

The color magenta is named after
a battle which was fought in the year
of it's discovery.
Lake Erie produces more fish to the
square mile than any other body of
water in the world.
Gardner Savage of North Anson,
Me-, although totally blind for many
years, is telegraph operator and can
take apart and repair his instrument
whenever necessary.
In Baltimore, as a result of an in
vestigation. experts figured that the
minimum amount on which a single
woman could live decently was $3.50 a
week. Eighty-one per cent of the de-
partment store women in Baltimore
get less than that
A Connecticut inventors clothes
prop that will not fall from a line
has hole in one side of the upper
end, covered with a fat spring that
holds it in place.
A paper cap has been invented to
be fastened to the end of a cigar as
It is made to insure it's sanitary con.
dition and also to serve as an adver.
tising band.
An ice cream freezer of English in.
vention in which ice and salt ara
packed in a cylinder that revolves in.
side the cream delivers it's product in
a continuous stream half a minute
after the crank is turned
The sun valve. invented by Gustaf
Dalen OF Stockholm. will be used in
connection with the lights on the Pan.
anna canal. The sun both lights and
extinguishes the light. The inventor
OF the sun valve recently received the
Nobel prize for this clever device.
Clarmont Daniel of Calcutta univar.
sity, basing his opinion on the state
ments Of the monetary writer no,
Mar. estimates that in 300 years ha.
tween thu middle of the sixteenth ana
che middle of the nineteenth centur,ss
ths gold and silver imported bv India
from the West amounted to $4,000 COO.
OOO. 's'sos'
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Jan. 1. 1915.

Russians invaded Hungary, split
ting Austrian army by their oper-
atfons In carpathians.
Russians in East Prussia driven
across border into Polish province
Of SuWaIki.
Turks invaded Russia but failed
to ervelop Russian forces.
British battIeship Formidable
torpedoed and sunk in English
channel, 600 lost.
German aeroplanes bombarded
Dunkirk again.
Rockefeller Foundation bought
100000 bushels of wheat in Chi
cago for 5eIgians.
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U. S. Consul Reports Sinking.

Washington.-Seve persons
were drowned in the destruction of the
French liner Vile de la Ciotat. the
American Consul reported to the State
Department.
No Americans were aboard. The
ship, he reports, was torpedoed with
out warning at 1O15 o'clock on De-
cember "a and sunk in Is minutes.
The American Consul reported fur
ther that the rescued were picked up
by a Moss liner after they had been
in small boats two hours. The tor
pedoed ship, the Consul reported, was
on her way from Japan, China and
Hawaii to Marseilles. The lost in
cluded one woman, a first-class pas
senger, a stewardess and two chill
dren.
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TO MAKE DEBUT AS
FIRST LADY JAM !
Mrs. Wilson to Receive at Pan
American Reception.
TO OPEN OFFICIAL SEASON
President and Bride Not To Return
From Hot Springs Until Jan.
uary S-EIaborate Prepara-
tions For Reception.

Washington. = Announcement was
made that the first social function al
which Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, former
ly Mrs. Norman Calf, the new mistress
of the White House, will appear Off
cially as the First Lady of the Land,
will be the reception that President
Wilson is to give the night of Jan
uary Z in honor of the delegates to
the Second Pan-American Scientific
Congress. This congress opened IN
Washington Monday, December u, for
13-day meeting, and is being at
tended by prominent men from all OF
the 21 American Republics.
The President and Mrs. Wilson will
not return to Washington from their
honeymoon at Hot Springs, Va, until
January 8, four days before the date
of the White House reception to the
Scientific Congress, but the invita-
tions to the Delegates and their
families will have been meanwhile
issued and elaborate preparations for
the reception initiated. Besides being
the initial number on the White
House calendar of social functions for
the winter, the event in honor of the
Pan-American delegates will be the
first Pan-American reception ever
held in the White House.
In times past the White House
winter program usually started with a
New Years reception to which the
general public was invited, this being
followed at intervals by the annual
diplomatic corps reception, the con-
gressional, the Army and Navy and
the judicial reception. Inasmuch as
there will be no New Years reception
this season the public will not have
an opportunity to shake the hand of
the Presidents bride, but Washington
society is interested by the prospect
of seeing her soon for the first time
standing at the Presidents left side
and heading the line Of Cabinet ladies.
The number of invitations, however, is
to be limited; for there will be about
1000 delegates at the congress, not to
mention wives and daughters, and it
would be a difficult if not impossible
task to receive a much larger number.
On January 6, the night before the
White House reception, President Will
son will address the Congress at spe-
ciaI session in the building of the Pan
American Union.
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Ian. 2. 1915.

Germans began offensive move
ment against kicIce, Russia.
Captured Polish towns fortified
by Germans.
Turks captured fortified Rus
sian town of Ardahan.
Arrest Of four German reserv-
lists on liner in New York harbor
resulted in exposure Of big fraudu-
lent passport plot.
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$4,000 CHINESE REBEL.

Government Troops In Yunnan Join
ReVolutionists.
Peking.-The Government troops in
the Province. of Yunnan have joined
the revolutiOnists under Tsai 40, who
has declared the province independ-
ent and guaranteed the safety of for
eigners.
The revolutionary forces now num-
Der 100000
Conditions in the Province of Kwei-
chow are unsettled, but disaffections
have not been reported in the other
southern provinces.
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Sent Down Without Warning.

Paris.-The French steamer Vile
de la Ciotat, with passengers on board,
was torpedoed without warning and
sunk in the Mediterranean by a sub
marine on December "a, the Ministry
of Marine announced. Seventy-nine
Of the passengers and members of the
crew lost their lives.
The statement follows:
"The steamer Vile de la CiOtat was
torpedoed and sunk on the oath in the
Mediterranean by an enemy submarine
without warning. A majority of the
passengers and crew were picked up
by an English steamer. Details have
not been received"
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SUGAR REFINERY FOR SAVANNAH
Company Planning 100000 Plant
Purchases Site.

Savannah. Ga.-James Imbrie, OF
New York, announced that the Savan.
nah Sugar Refining Company would
erect a $S,OOO,OOO refinery here. He
said negotiations for the purchase OF
a site were expected to be closed i'm.
mediately.
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1921 LOST AT DARDANELLEs.
British Total To December 11-some
Officers Relieved.

Officers Relieved.
London.-Great Britain's loss of Off
GERS and men at the Dardanelles up
to December IL was 112,921.
This is the grand total of officers
and men, including the naval lists of
killed, wounded and missing. The
number killed was 25,279. In addition
to the total of casualties, the number
of sick admitted to hospitals was
96,6S3.
The losses were distributed as fol-
lows:
Killed-Oficers, 1909; men, 29,67O.
Wounded Officers, 1853; men, 72,-
222.
Missing-Of1cers, 337; men, 12,114.
In the House Of Commons Harold J..
Tenant, Parliamentary Under-Secre-
tary for War, declined publicly to give
the names of the officers relieved
from commands in connection with
the landing Of British troops at Suvla
Bay, on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
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MRS. E. FOLSOM PERRINE DEAD.
Was Mother Of Former Mrs. Grover
Cleveland.

New York.-The death Of Mrs
Emma Folsom Perrine, mother of Mrs,
Frances Folsom Preston, who was
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, at Princeton,
N. j., was announced here by George
F. Parker, close friend of the family
Mrs. Perrine was rs years old. Her
death occurred at the home of Mrs.
Preston.
After the death of her first husband,
Oscar Folsom, who was law partner
Of Grover Cleveland before the lat.
ter's first election as President. Mrs.
Perrine spent much of her time with
her daughter.
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MOB THREATENS LYNcHINc.
Guard Protects West Virginia Man
Accused OF stabbing.

Grafton, w. Va.-George Airey, of
Columbus, Ohio, an itinerant watch
maker, is held in Jail at Newburg, near
Grafton, under heavy guard on the
charge of having stabbed Frank
Holmes, 80 years old and married, a
Cornell graduate and engineer of the
Preston Coal Company, at Independ-
ence. Holmes was stabbed several
times in the abdomen and is expected
to die. Much feeling has been aroused
in the community against Airey and
threats of lynching caused a special
guard to be placed over the accused
man.
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DIR. COOK REFUSED PASSPORT.
Explorer and Secretary Baked In De.

Explorer and Secretary Baked In De-
sire To Visit Germany.
Copenhagen. = DR.. Frederick A..
Cook, the explorer, and his secretary.
DR.. F. P. Thompson, called at the
American Legation here They ex-
pressed much disappointment because
the legation would not give them pass
ports into Germany. DR.. Cook and his
secretary may appeal to the Washing.
ton Government against the decision
not to supply them with the passports
desired.
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DEAD MAN ON ENGINES PILOT.
Discovery OF Body Reveals Death Of
Two Women Also.

Corning, N. Y.-Marie McChesney,
20 years old, a school teacher; Ethel
McChesney. her sister, II years old,
and Benjamin Harrison, Il years old,
were killed by freight train at Avoca
They had just left an eastbound pas
senger train of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad and were
walking across the rails when struck
The accident was not discovered until
the freight train reached Bath and
Harrison's body was found on the en-
gine pilot.
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NEW ANCONA NOTE
MAY AVERT BREAK
MiIder Tone Expected to Bring
Austria to Yield.
U. S. RETRACTs NOTHING
Tone Is Made Soft At Possible To
Leave Opening For Vienna
Authorities To
Yield.

London.-A Vienna telegram, for
warded by Reuters correspondent,
says that delivery to the Austrian For
eign Ministry of the second Ancona
note from the United States is an
nounced by the Neue Freie Presse.
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Dec. 80, 1914.

Germans retreated across the
Bzura river.
Russians advanced in South Po-
land.
French submarine torpedoed
and damaged Austrian dread
naught Viribus Units.
German airmen dropped bombs
in Dunkirk, killing fifteen persons.
French -aviators made raids in
Flanders.
AntiWar riots took place in Aus
tria-Hungary.
Austria abandoned the Serbian
campaign.
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NINE MEN KILLED IN COLLISION
Ten Perhaps Fatally Hurt When
Trains Crash.

Cowan, Tenn Eight laborers sSd
one trainman were killed near here 4
collision between freight train on
which they were riding and a fast
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis
passenger train. Another trainman
was probably fatally injured.
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PEACE PARTY IN GLOOM.

Lloyd Bingham, Husband Of Actress
Dies At Christiania.
Christiania, Norway.-Gloom was
cast over the Ford peace party by the
death in a hospital here of Lloyd M
Bingham, husband of Amelia Bing
ham, the actress, and official enter
tainer of the party. Mr. Bingham was
stricken with pneumonia while aboard
the Oscar II.
Henry Ford and Nine. Rosika
Schwimmer are both i'll and this, to-
gether with Mr.. Bingham's death, has
led to a report that the expedition will
be practically abandoned. The open
hostility of Danish officials and the
cold reception here are said to have
discouraged Mr.. Ford.
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Dec. 81, 1914.

French took half the village of
Steinbach.
LuIl took place on most Of the
western line.
Turks invaded Russian Caucasus,
advancing on Kars and Ardahan.
Thirty French and British war.
ships bombarded Pola.
Rockefeller Foundation steamer
Massapequa sailed on second trip
with supplies for Belgium, and
fifth Belgian relief ship left PhiIa-
delphia.
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OLD COINS TO BE REMINTED.
Cuba Sends s1,25o,ooo Worth, Some
over Century Old.

Philadelphia. - Old Spanish and
French coins to the value of $780,
900 arrived at the United States mint
here to be transformed into current
money for the republic of Cuba. The
coins were packed in % kegs and came
here from Cuba by express. Some of
the coins are said to be more than
100 years old and to be of consider
able value to numismatists.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-01
EMPEROR WILLIAMILL.
Reported AS Having Inflammation Of
the Cellular System.

Berlin.-Emperor William has post
poned the trip he had planned making
to the western front, the Overseas
News Agency announces, a slight in
disposition rendering it necessary for
him to remain indoors for a few days.
The agency's announcement describes
the Emperor's ailment as "a slight in
fammation Of the cellular system"
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GETS $so,ooo,oop SHELL ORDER.
MidvaIe Company Expected To subIet

WIuVaIS OOIHPaHy Expected 7 Q SubIet
Part Of 1t.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the Mid.
vale Steel and Ordnance Company an
bounced that the company had closed
contract for $3O,OOOOOO worth of
shells for the French Government. The
contract includes 100000 shells, rang
ing in size from 81 to IL inches, and
all must be delivered next year. 1t
is probable that part of the order will
be sublet to other concerns, the an
nouncement stated.
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THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Dec. 81, 1914.

Germans pushed preparations
for the defense Of Antwerp.
British cruisers and seapIanes
attacked German naval base at
cuxhaven.
Commander Of the German cruz
ser York sentenced to two
years imprisonment for losing his
vessel.
German spy disguised as Moor
Selzed while trying to enter Glib
raItar.
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MORE TROOPS OVER BORDER.

U. S. Allows 5000 carranzistas To
Proceed To Juarez.
Washington.-Perm was given
for 5000 more Carranza troops to pass
through the United States on their
way from Aqua Prieta to Juarez. They
go to strengthen the garrison in the
former Villa stronghold and suppress
disorders, as we'll as to take part in
the campaign to the south. In giving
permission for the passage the stipu-
lation was made that the Mexican
troops should not go through the city
Of FL Paso, but should pass around
it to the international bridge
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SURPRISED THAT FORD QUIT.
Bryan Says He Had Not Heard OF
Latest Development.

Miami, Fla. - William J. Bryan
seemed greatly surprised by the news
that Henry Ford had abandoned the
peace party in Europe. 81 had heard
nothing Of this" he said.
Asked if he would go to Europe to
take Mr.. Ford's place, he replied he
did not care to discuss hypothetical
questions"
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5 VESSELS SUNK
BY TEUTON U-BOATS
French, Belgian and British
Steamers TOrpedOed.
70 LIVES ARE LOST
No Warning Given Passenger vessel
seventy-nine Of Passengers and
Crew Of French Liner
Lost With Ship.

London.-Renewed activity OF Ger
man submarines in the Mediterranean
and apparently in the North Sea, Is IN
dicated by reports made public by the
Admiralty here and by the FrencD
Ministry of Marine in Paris.
The sinking of five steamers, one
French, one Belgian and three British,
and the damaging of fourth British
vessel were announced. The French
ship was torpedoed without warning
in the Mediterranean and sent to the
bottom. Seventy-nine passengers and
members of the crew were lost.
List OF U-Boat Victims.
The vessels sunk were:
The French passenger steamer Vile
de la Gotta, from the Far East to
MarseiIles, a 6,378-ton vessel.
- The Belgian steamer Ministre Beer
naert, 4,215 tons.
The British steamers Yeddo, 4,500
tons, from Calcutta to New York and
Boston; Hadley, 1,777 tons, and Cot
tingham, 51S tons.
The steamer Embla, 1,172 tons, has
been beached at the mouth of the
Thames, with fire raging forward.
Grave OF Ships Not Given.
The Admiralty gave no intimation
as to where the Belgian steamer or
the three British vessels were sent
down. 1t is surmised, however, that
they were sunk in the North Sea.
The crew of the Ministre Beernaert
left the steamer inboats, two of which
are missing Lloyds report that so
members of the crew were saved. Ac-
cording to reports here all the crews
of the other vessels were saved.
The cargo of the steamer Yeddo was
valued at more than $2,00O,OOO, al
though it's exact nature was not
known. The Yeddo upon its last voy-
age from Calcutta to New York and
Boston was commanded by Captain
Brennan and carried Is officers and
crew of so men. Her cargo capacity
was 1900 tons.
It is believed that she had on board
a large amount of skins, tea and other
Indian products.
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scuTARI BoMBARDED.
Five Civilians Killed and is Women
and Children Hurt.

and Children Hurt.
Paris. = Two aeroplanes, one Of
which was German, dropped four
bombs on Scutari, Albania, on Decem-
Der 2S, killing five civilians and injur-
ing 16 women and children, according
to Havas dispatch from Cettinje. On
the same day that the aerial attack
occurred, adds the dispatch, a sub
marine sank Montenegrin ship, with
cargo Of live stock, near st. Jean
De Medua.
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Dec. %, 1914.

New defenses Of Paris compIet-
ed.
Germans finished further forti-
fieatlons on the Rhine.
Russians raised siege Of cra-
cow to attack Austrian armies at
tempting flank movement.
American government protested
against interference with Ameri-
can commerce by British war
ships.
Belgian minister to United
States protested against eanceIIa-
ton Of consular exequaturs by
Germany.
Italian. government checked
plot to export foodstuffs to Ger
many.
British consul at Saida, Turkey,
freed after threat by American
consul.
United States cruiser Tennessee
took 500 refugees from Syria.
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NEW YORK TO TASTE OSTRICH.
Consignment Of 20, Dressed For
Roasting, Reaches City.

New York.-A consignment of 20
ostriches, dressed for restaurant con
sumption, has reached this city. This
is the first shipment Of it's kind re.
ceived here, and the bird will appear
on many menus as a substitute for
turkey. This, with horse meat, gives
New York city two entirely new kinds
of food.
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SCHOOL HAS s75,ooo FIRE.
MllIean College, Tennessee, Loses
5uiIding-Wiring Blamed.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.-Due, it is said, to
defective wiring, Miligan College, an
educational institution of the Christian
denomination in Carter county, Tenn
essee, lost it's new three-story dormi-
tory building by fire. The loss is $751;
900, with insurance of only half that
amount. Plans were made today for
continuing the school. Those occupy
ing the building escaped.
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HEIRS GET ss,s99,s41 ESTATE.
Executors Of Joseph N. Field, Mar
shaIIs Brother. Report.

shalI's Brother, Report.
Chicago-The final report of the
executors of the estate of Joseph N.
Fields a brother of the late Marshall
Field, was submitted to the Probate
Court, showing that the property Of
Mr.. Field, valued at $6,899,S41, had
been distributed in accordance With
the provisions qf his will.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-01

Starfsh can grow new arms, Holsters
new claws and lizards new tails.
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Dec. 90, 1914.

Germans REINFORCED their line
in Belgium.
French invested steinbach, A.
SAGE.
Germans repuIsed French at
tacks on Sennheim.
Russians declared German ad-
vance on Warsaw was checked.
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SERBS TOOK $4,000 TEUToNs.
German Paper Announces Total Cap
tured In Balkan Campaign.

Basle, Switzerland.-Twenty thou
sand German and Austro- Hungarian
soldiers were captured by the Serb
Is in the Balkan campaign, accord
H.. Ea dispatch from Frankfort-on-
Ma The dispatch attributes the in
for lion to the Frankfurter Zeitung.
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RAILROAD MEN GET cA8oosEs.
Threatened Chicago Switchmen's
Strike Is AVerted.

Chicago.-Settlement of the threat.
ened strike of 1000 switchmen en-
ployed by the railroads entering Chi
cago was announced with the word
that the railroad general nagers'
committee had agreed to the EN-.
ployes' contention that transfer trains
should include cabooses for the accom-
mediation of the trainmen.
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TIN IRON Is the most popular Of
all the e, household devices.
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England and Wales in 1912 had 1885,
ss4 marriages..
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New coal fields are announced In
Manchuria.