Bloodied Veterans Halt Teutonic Serbian Advance
British reports note Field Marshal von Mackensen’s Serbian campaign advances slowly with limited gains. Bulgarian forces attack northeast of Nish while Romanians solidify neutrality. Allied naval blockade targets Bulgarian ports as Serbian defenses hold and casualties rise. Romania and Greece push to maintain neutrality amid Balkan turmoil.
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London
von Mackensen
Serbia
Nish
Peter
Balkan
Pieana
Boukva
Athens
Vatandovo
Hovdovo
Savroniki
Berlin
Teutonic Tinyvasion
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Meer
Aegean Sea
Romania
Rumania
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Near East
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Mayor's Veto Over-Illuminates City Finances
Mayor Woodward explains veto of October apportionment sheet to City Council. He argues receipts were over-estimated by $276,000 and that school construction should be prioritized, urging debts to be paid from the charter reserve fund. The veto message, widely noted, is expected to be overridden.
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Woodward
Jane
Charter Reserve Fond
City of Ananta
Tower Finance
Luelness
Comp Froners
Lakewood
Seaindh
al- Germanic Board
Mmch
Aldermanie
Inge Tevinson
Mooney
Jung
Concents
Avas
Camptraiter
Georgia
Valirond
Car Smash On Peachtree Street Ends With License Snatch
A speeding automobile strikes a grocery wagon injuring a mule and driver, then hits a streetcar near 314 Peach tree Street. The unknown driver pulls off his license plate and flees, leaving the damaged car and a suitcase in the seat. Officer Webb pursued but nabbed no one. The vehicle was taken to headquarters.
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L. W. Rogera
Peachtree Street
Rogers Store
Sam Webb
Dry Sunday Expected as Chicago Drinkers Face Prohibition
Chicago officials predicted another dry Sunday with Malvord Thompson's saloon closing order in effect. Police will focus on reporting violations while reform leaders plan vigilant monitoring citywide and warn county towns. Ar thur B. McCord notes prosecutions will follow for towns opening saloons, though Wiles may heed the warning. President Max reports nine saloonkeepers in his village ordered closures with constables enforcing it. Cicero Forest Park Blue Island and other larger towns report extra preparations for crowds expected Sunday.
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Chicago
Malvord Thompson
Healey
Arthur B. McCord
Citizens’ League
Wiles
Max
Pure Terror Causes Deaths in Zeppelin Raid
London report on an inquest into Wednesday night Zeppelin attack outcomes. Nine of eighteen victims died from heart failure or shock due to bombs and gunfire. Among the deceased were women, a dressmaker's assistant, and a father, mother, and daughter amid wreckage. The coroner ruled deaths from bombs dropped by an enemy airship, urging no murder verdict against the German emperor. The king and queen visited Charing Cross hospital to see the injured.
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London
Toth
H .Im
Che Jeatha
Theoroner
Cotton Futures Act Court Ruling Sparks Enforcement Debate
Washington reports that a federal judge declared the cotton futures act unconstitutional, prompting officials to plan enforcement after an appeal to the Supreme Court. Treasury and Agriculture officials, following conferences, say the act should have originated as a revenue measure, with ongoing contention in the Senate over tax provisions.
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Washington
Howel
New York
Supreme Court
Treasury
Agriculture Departments
Hough
Senate
Local motorists escort into city for highway boost
Over two hundred cars accompany a welcoming procession into Atlanta as Chicago travelers arrive in Miami style efforts to promote good roads. Robert Maddox extends hearty Atlanta welcome and reads a fellowship message from Governor Dunne to Governor Harris.
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Chicago
Miami
Robert Maddox
Atlanta
Harris
Dunne
Dixie Highway Tour Leaves Ansley Hotel Morning
The Dixie Highway tour will leave the Ansley hotel at 19 o'clock in the morning for Macon Georgia, where the tourists will spend tonight. They will take luncheon at Griffin Georgia.
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Ansley
Fife
Macon
Griffin
Mother and Son Fight Negro in Dark Room at Womack Home
In Macon Georgia on October 16 Jim Howard a 21 year old black man hid under a bed at Lydia Womack widow of grocer W T Womack and attacked her for robbery. Her son shot the intruder during a struggle in darkness. A bystander severed the assailant’s throat with a pocketknife and Davis was bitten before police moved the attacker to a hospital where recovery was possible. Neighbors fear reprisals as excitement runs high.
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Macon
Jim Howard
Lydia Womack
W. T. Womack
Womack
L. Davis
Vielen
United States to Care for British Interests
Washington reports Sir Cecil Spring-Rice notified Secretary Lansing that a state of war exists between Great Britain and Bulgaria. At Britain's request British interests in Bulgaria will be looked after by the United States.
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Washington
Cecil Spring-Rice
Lansing
Great Britain
Bulgaria
Ad States
Esta
Dixie Highway Leads States Toward Chicago Route
Special Star Correspondent notes entertainment and enthusiasm along the Dixie Highway from Chicago toward Miami. The corridor sees Georgia nearing a leading position in road progress as officials and locals overcome high water and obstacles. In Rome the momentum peaks before the article continues on Page Five.
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Ned Mpintosh
Special Star
Charlie Bookwalter
Indianapolis
Dixie Highway
Chicago
Georgia
Association
Here
Lafayette
Georgia Line
Tennessee
Rome
Electric chair affirmed for Black man in Campbell County
Newport Ky October 16 jury convicts Harry Garrison 18 of confronting and assaulting white Afra Lmelia Crowder at her home July 28. Court sentences Garrison to die in Eddyville electric chair. Crowder exclaims justice done as Campbell County records note prior all-white defendants in similar cases.
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Newport
Campbell County
Harry Garrison
Afra
Lmelia Crowder
Garrison
Eddyville Penitentiary
Fire injures nine at Mutual office. call for stricter blaze rules
Nine people are injured in a furious blaze at the Mutual office. Chief Cody will ask passage of an ordinance imposing stricter fire safety requirements for film exchanges. The report names Miss Lucile Davis as among the injured with hopes for recovery viewed as uncertain.
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Furious Blaze
Mutual Office
Lucile Davis
Cody
Blaze
Blaze Victims List From Kirkwood Fire Report
The dead include Miss Clara Westbrook of 68 Gordon Avenue and Miss Littie L Ham of 15 Dillon Street. Others injured or fatally hurt include Miss Lucile Davis and Miss Seulah Yost with burns and broken bones, Miss Annie Aflen, Miss Pearl Batson, Miss Irene Parker, Miss Helen Brantley, Ellicott H Matthews, and fireman J E Camaile with injuries. Gordon B Adams at St Josephs Infirmary suffered severe burns and spinal injury.
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Clara Westbrook
Gordon Avenue
Kirkwood
Littie L. Ham
Dillon Street
Seulah Yost
Peachtree Street
Annie Aflen
Woodward Avenue
Pearl Batson
West End
Irene Parker
Simpson Street
Helen Brantley
Ellicott H. Matthews
Pine Street
J. E. Camaile
Garden Street
Gordon B. Adams
St Joseph's Infirmary
Two girls dead as fire scatters through Mutual Film building
A Saturday afternoon blaze in the Mutual Film exchange on Luckie and Cone streets trapped two young women on the second floor rear supe rly room. Lottie L Ham of Dillon Street and Clara Westbong of Gordon Avenue Kirkwood Ga perish while nine others are burned or injured. Cause disputed between fuse ignition from electrical equipment and spontaneous combustion amid moving picture film fumes. Firefighters report rapid spread and trapped workers unable to escape.
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Insnectors
Mutual Film Exchange
Luckie and
Cone Streets
Lottie L, Ham
Dillon Street
Clara Westbonok
Gordon Avenue
Kirkwood
Seratable
CE. Kesenick
Muwtual In Exchange
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