Self Governing Jewish Religious Body Declared in Poland
Berlin reports General von Reseler issued an order reorganizing Polish Jewry into a self governing religious body. Local communities join county organizations under proportional representation with a 11 member administrative council and an 21 member supreme council. Parish delegates elected in two sections, tax rights granted to local bodies, and no religious tendency suppressed.
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von Reseler
Russian Poland
Warsaw
Poland
Supreme Council
Giant Interest Free Loan Aims to Aid European Jews
New York reports a plan to provide a vast interest free loan to relocate and shield European Jews from postwar suffering. Dr. Judah L Magnes announced the flotations under miluth Chasadim as acts of loving kindness. The system builds on Russian Polish Jewish free loan societies lending five to two hundred dollars with only an indorser as security.
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Europe
Judah TL. Magnes
Russia
Poland
Ndt
Tee
Qarrel ends in murder in Today's Standard
A fragmentary page note reports a murder ending in a quarrel. Additional items mention Deutschland sinking a tug and belated deportations of Belgians, plus a Thanksgiving proclamation, railroads seeking aid, and various state news items.
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Deutschland
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Bucharest
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EoNevea
Anaconda News
Stanaconda News
Rattoriat Cpalthiens
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ateAuliffe
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Hig Ceat
Tivinwats
Donlan
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Mining New
Goldberg Cartoon
Deportations of Belgians Rise Amid German Coercion
A UK based telegram reports in The Hague that 80,000 to 160,000 Belgians have been deported by Germany, with about 2,000 sent daily. Antwerp is said to supply 27,000 men, while many children and women are terrorized at stations. Deported workers face pressure to sign voluntary work agreements, with unfit men excluded and skilled workers targeted, as neutral nations appeal for intervention.
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Stanley Sima
Butte
John Dowling
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Siiver Bow Park
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Sims
Mia Sima
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Howe
Vega Sunk by German Submarine Off Bergen
Christiania November 17 The Norwegian passenger and mail steamer Vega of Bergen a 1203 ton vessel was sunk yesterday by a German submarine Sixteen passengers and the crew of thirty two men who escaped in five boats were saved by the motor ship Columbia and landed at Stavenger
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London
Vega
Bergen
Ixteen
Columbia
Stavenger
Thanksgiving Day Proclaimed by Wilson for War Sufferers
President Wilson designates November 30 as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer. He urges worship and reflection on the world’s war suffering, calling for aid to displaced peoples and a spirit of peace and prosperity for the United States.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
United States of America
United States
Robert Lan
Railroads Seek Congressional Relief Measures
Washington November 17 railroads outline to a joint congressional investigating commission requested actions include federal incorporation for interstate lines, a commerce commission framework with regional bodies, appeal rights to the full commission, and faster tariff suspension reforms. They also urge authority to set minimum as well as maximum rates and oppose government ownership or eliminating state railroad powers.
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Executive Council of
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Adamson
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Louisville
Fh Committee of Railroad
C. McChord
American Railway Association
Americans From Parral Safe On West Coast
A message from the Alvarado Mineras and Millin Company in Paso, Texas, states Leslie Webb and four other Americans who left Parral before the town’s evacuation by Carranza troops arrived safely in Culiacan, Sinaloa on the West Coast of Mexico. The group included T. G. Hawkins Jr., Bernard McDonald, Howard Gray and A. W. Morris. they are believed to have traveled overland about 400 miles.
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Alvarado Mininis and Millin Company
Lesie Webb
Parral
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Culiacan
Sinaloa
Mexico
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Leslie Webb
Bernard McDonald
Howard Gray
A. W. Morris
Alvarado Company
Paral
Villa
Teutons Near Bucharest Advance Campaign Rumors
Reports claim Austro-Hungarian forces push toward Bucharest with Campulung near the capital. Romanian losses include over 2,100 prisoners. 2,500 captured south of the Rothenthurm pass. Also cited are advances near Moldavia and actions along the Cerna river front. European fronts show sporadic activity with Britons advancing at Harakli and Paris noting ongoing Franco-Serbian efforts.
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Petrograd
Val von Liresht
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Rothenthurm Pass
Iimnik
Predeal
Berlin
Rungul Mountain
Moldavia
Harakli
Struma
Cerna
Paris
Deutschland Fellow Miners Sink Tug in Fatal Clash
A disaster at sea leaves one survivor from the convoyed craft after the Deutschland Fellow miners’ tug is sunk in a deadly clash. Rescuers search for additional crew as authorities investigate the incident.
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Deutschland
Collision links two ships near New London harbor
Protracted quarrel ends in tragedy as the tug T. A. Scott Jr and a submarine Deutschland collide near Race Rock outside New London. Crew of five perish including Captain John Gurney and Engineer Edward Stone. Investigators will hear testimonies from Captains Koenig Hinsch Baker and others before delays ease.
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Hinsch
New London
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Deutschland
Germany
TA. Scott Jr
John Gurney
W. A. Caton
Edward Stone
Davidson
Cook
Eugene Durant
United States
W. Eithey
Reak
Race Rock
Paul Koenig
Deutachland
F. W. Krapohl
Hans Kleese
Koenig
Queeteners
Scott
Frederick Hinsch
Eastern Forwarding Company
Tus
Ci Tain Hinsch
Alby
3 Ang
Harry Baker
Cassie
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