Red Sox Near World Title With One Game Left
Beaneaters Soar at Ebbets Field 6 to 2 over the Superbas as Red Sox chase the championship with one decisive game remaining.
12 Oct 1916
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1916
Page
1
Beaneaters Soar at Ebbets Field 6 to 2 over the Superbas as Red Sox chase the championship with one decisive game remaining.
Boston beats Brooklyn 6 to 2 at home to cut Brooklyn’s series lead to 3 1. The crowd of 21 662 witnessed Leonard hold Brooklyn to five hits while Gardner slams a homer and Carrigan adds a run. Total receipts reach $72 840 with players and clubs sharing millions across four games.
Denver New Mexico weather forecast reports partly cloudy conditions for Friday. Yesterday’s high reached 69 degrees with a low around 50. A trace to a half inch of precipitation is possible, with a southwest wind.
The Journal refuses advertising from the Republican central committee citing fraud risks. Readers are warned the old Republican gang’s methods persist and the paper will not publish material that aids deception or misleads the public.
Report from General Trevino via Major Morin describes Pancho Villa forces moving toward Madera Chi huahua with detachments at Santa Ana and Temosachic and additional troops sent from the Carranza line. Surrender of rebel chiefs Hitimio Garcia Francisco Soto and Macedonio Lozano with their men reported in northern Durango.
Refugees arriving in El Paso from the Guerrero district said a large number of Villa’s men gathered at Hacienda Santa Ana and at Temosachic. Families are fleeing to Pearson. Santa Ana lies 35 miles south east of Madera, which is 80 miles south of Casas Grandes. Temosachie is 20 miles south of Madera. The Juarez Madera telegraph line is down.
A morning report from Douglas Arizona notes a malaria-like epidemic in northeastern Sonora with high fever and multiple deaths. In Fronteras and nearby towns cases number in the dozens to hundreds, with several fatalities weekly and entire families affected.
Tex Oct 11 report from El Paso states Jose Ysabel Robles, former Ville commander, arrived with news of General Robles amassing a large mountain force in Oaxaca. Cantu says Robles demands Carranza retire, civilian governors replace military, cabinet ministers from civic life. threatens revolt if rejected. Cantu left Oaxaca on September 21 for the border on a mission.
Sedalia Missouri reports that woman suffrage in the west will end liquor, with Ira Landrith claiming the enfranchisement of women will double the southern negro vote. He told audiences that equal suffrage in the west spells doom for liquor and that the south will double voting strength of blacks through women’s ballot rights. He criticized northern states for denying wives and daughters the ballot while enfranchising black men.
Eliseo Arredondo, the Mexican ambassador-designate to the United States, departed here for Washington. He was accompanied by Colonel Juan Barragán, Carranza’s chief of staff, and other representatives of the de facto government.
Three troops of Colorado National Guard cavalry A B and C will depart late today for the Mexican border. The remaining units are expected to entrain tomorrow as headquarters announced.
Fierce fighting continues as German forces face assaults by French and British units on the Somme front. In the Balkans Serbs and Bulgars clash at Macedonia with Entente troops repulsed.
Allied and British pressure advances in Greece and Macedonia as Greek fleet ultimatum looms. French take trenches west of Devedic while Germans counter near Somme. Italians gain trenches in Trentino and capture 530 Austrian prisoners. Fierce fighting persists on Balkan and Carso fronts with Romanian and Bavarian movements reported.
Charles Helena Montana Fairbanks, Republican candidate for vice president, spoke as he and the Hughes alliance women met in Helena. The group headed east and westbound trains. Short speeches asserted a large Republican majority in the region. A reception by local women followed the noon meeting before the special train departed for Butte at 2 p.m.
In London today Lord Robert Cecil in the House of Commons announced a mourning for W and said the American government reply on permitting belligerent submarines to enter neutral ports had been received. He regretted he could not make any further statement at present.
A dedication event is planned tomorrow evening at Domingo near Santa Fe for the Pernalillo Mercantile company's new mission style building. Invitations have been sent to distant points for attendees at the dance and ceremony.
Berlin dispatch reports the bill prolonging the current German legislature until January 12, 1917, passed on third reading. The note mentions routes via Amsterdam and London for the dispatch.
Republican candidate accuses the administration of an intermittent war with Mexico lasting two years. He emphasizes Mexican policy as a central theme in his campaign.
In a twelve hour West Virginia swing, Charles E. Hughes declares no agreements with anyone and vows to defend American rights at sea and on land. He charges the administration with intermittent war and defends honoring international law while urging peaceful strength.
London reports Vice Admiral du Fournet has issued an ultimatum to Greece demanding surrender of the Greek fleet except for the armored cruiser Averoff and battleships Lemnos and Kilkis by 1 PM Wednesday. The move aims to secure allied fleet safety amid Balkan front tensions and involves disarming Kilkis Lemnos Averoff and altering coastal fort control.
A woman was killed and two men mortally wounded when police fired on oil strikers in Bayonne New Jersey. Dozens more were injured as rioters attacked a fire engine and demolished property during the unrest tonight.
Premier Asquith defends continued war spending framing aims as reparations and future security. He cites votes of credit totaling over 1.15 billion and notes daily expenditures, military and munitions outlays, and loans to allies while praising Allied successes in Mesopotamia and Dobrudja and noting German losses at Verdun.
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