Master Spy Graves Held For Blackmail In Washington
Karl Armgard Graves a self styled international spy and magazine writer was arrested in Washington and charged with attempting to extort 3000 dollars from Countess von Bernstorff wife of the German ambassador by threatening to publish letters supposed to reveal her infirmities. He also faced charges of bringing stolen letters into DC and possessing what appeared to be confidential German dispatches. Graves pleaded not guilty saying the papers were diplomatic not blackmail.
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Washington
Karl Armgard Graves
Department of Justice
Countess von Bernstorff
Graves
Count von Kernstorff
District of Columbia
Hoboken
N. J
Rowell Blames California Republicans for Hughes Trip Loss
Chester H. Rowell, chairman of the Republican central committee, says California organizers mismanaged Hughes visit and ignored eastern instructions, contributing to the loss of the state for the Republicans.
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San Francisco
Chester H. Rowell
Republican Central Committee
Charles E. Hughes
California
Teiper murder trial jurors chosen in Buffalo
Jurors are being selected in the trial of John Edward Teiper charged with killing his mother Mrs. Agnes Teiper on January 30. The district attorney indicated the case will rest on circumstantial evidence.
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Buffalo
N. Y
John Edward Teiper
Agnes Teiper
Talesmen
Daylight Saving Plan Move to 1917 U S
Daylight saving proposals will be considered at a national convention on January 30 and plans announced for public concurrence from May 1 to September 30, 1917. The meeting outlined a one hour clock advance across the United States during the period.
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New York
United States
Bank Fails to Open in Williamstown
The First National Bank of Williamstown did not open for business and an examination of the books was in progress. George W. Hunter, longtime bank cashier and former mayor, could not be located.
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Williamstown
W. Va
First National Bank of
George W. Hunter
Duma Tackles Food Problem in Petrograd Sessions
Petrograd reports the Duma resumes after a fourmonth adjournment to address the food situation. Reorganizing current supply channels is a principal question as population needs remain unmet.
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Duma
Petrograd
Jutia
W. W. Members Face Trial Over Everett Riots
Seventy four industrial workers are charged with murder stemming from the Everett Washington riot of November 4. Prosecutor Webb of Snohomish county says the prisoners will likely be tried in the December term of the Snohomish county superior court.
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Seatile
Everett
Wash
Webb
Snohomish County
Great Western Sugar declares dividend in Denver
The Great Western Sugar company in Denver declares a 42 percent dividend on its common stock plus the regular quarterly dividend of 1 percent on both common and preferred stock, issued Wednesday.
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Denver
Colo
Great Western Sugar Company
Democratic chief vows $300000 drive to erase deficit
Chairman Vance McCormick of the Democratic National Committee said after the election that his mission is to collect 300000 dollars to cancel the deficit in the campaign chest. The remark came on Wednesday as fundraising efforts were outlined.
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New York
Vance ©. McCormick
Democratic National Committee
Cold wave hits Billings as eastern Montana records freezing morning
A cold wave sweeps eastern Montana with morning temperatures dipping below freezing in Billings. The ground shows frost as the season begins its first real cold spell this fall.
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Billings
Mont
Montana
Mercury
Boston Mayor Proposes Food Embargo to Wilson
Mayor James M. Curley asked President Wilson to convene Congress and recommend a law imposing an embargo on food products. The move aims to curb supplies during a national crisis and seeks legislative action to regulate exports and trade.
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Boston
James M. Curley
President Wilson
Congress
Railroads Attack Eight Hour Law Across Nation
Suits challenging the constitutionality of the eight hour railroad law began in multiple states. The Justice Department plans to defend each case, with Assistant Attorney General Underwood leading and Frank Hagerman aiding. Railroads seek temporary restraints, while the government argues Congress has power to enforce the law.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Gregory
Underwood
Frank Hagerman
Kansas City
Davis
Congress
Republicans Expect Control Of House Speakership
Washington reports Representative Woods, head of the Republican committee, asserting the Republicans will control house organization. A speaker requires 218 votes. despite unofficial returns showing them one seat short, they count on Progressives in Minnesota and Louisiana and an Independent in Massachusetts to back James R. Mann for speaker.
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Washington
Woods
Republican Committee
House
Minnesota
Louisiana
Massachusetts
James R. Mann
Irregular Idaho Votes Feed Washington County Probe
Boise reports thirty five irregularly sworn votes found in an election fraud probe ordered by Attorney Peterson. Prosecuting attorney says more irregular votes likely exist, with statewide fraud allegations under investigation.
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Boise
Idaho
Peterson
Washington County
Italian Husband Wreaks Vengeance in Detroit Crime
Police found the bodies of Mrs. Richard Caprarotta aged 16 and Petro Damore aged 22 in the Caprarotta home on Detroit's east side. The husband, reported missing, is suspected of killing both victims in a violent crime.
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Detroit
Mich
Richard Caprarotta
Petro Damore
Wolves Threaten Travelers Near Baker Oregon
Early winter drives timber wolves into valleys and they menace travelers. Bert Cain reports meeting three wolves at the edge of the timber near Baker.
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Baker
Ore
Bert Cain
Nashville Lawyer Testifies Self Defense in Slayers Murder Trial
Charles C. Trabue, Nashville lawyer, who shot and killed Harry Stokes in a taxpayers' suit trial last April, testified he acted in self defense.
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Nashville
Tenn
Charles C. Trabue
Harry Stokes
Wilson to press full legislative program after election
President Wilson returns to the White House and plans to push the remaining legislative program as Congress convenes. Officials note no radical policy changes but anticipate tariff revision after the war and focus on submarine warfare, Mexican relations, and border protection.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
House of Representatives
Lansing
Henry Morgenthau
Democratic National Committee
State Department
Atlantic City
Tariff Commission
Congress
Sussex
Mexico
United States
Chihuama
Carranza
Suffragists Predict Massive Lobby at Next Congress
In San Francisco the National Woman's Party said the upcoming congress will face the largest equal suffrage lobby in history after a post election luncheon. Speakers predicted victory for national suffrage before Congress adjourned.
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San Francisco
National Woman's Party
Congress
Republicans to lead Senate as Democrats hold Assembly in Nevada
Nevada reapportionment results show the state senate Republican 12 to 6 with the house controlled by Democrats. The final tally reflects party distribution as the legislature schedules its next session in Reno.
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Reno, Nev
Nevada
Senate
Hughes Narrowing Lead in Minnesota Race
With soldiers' votes added and Sibley county gains, Hughes' margin over Wilson shrank to 248 votes. Current totals show Wilson 178,758 and Hughes 178,004 as final returns update the tight contest.
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Hughes
Minnesota
Bt. Paul
Wilson
Sibley County
Britain Defends Blacklist as War Amunition Measure
The British note to Washington defends the trade blacklist as a munition regulation aimed at shortening the war and limited to British interests. It rejects American calls to remove American firm names and signals openness to further talks while stressing allies face ongoing hard fighting.
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Washington
State Department
Captain Boy-Ed Marriage Plans Delayed by Navy Censor
Ameri can navy censor temporarily spoiled the marriage plans of Captain Boy-Ed former German naval attache at Washington and Miss Virginia Mackay Smith daughter of the late Bishop Mackay Smith. Boy-Ed secured consent and asked the kaleer’s permission by wireless but the censor held it up. He was recalled at President Wilson’s request while the issue awaited approval.
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Boy-Ed
Washington
Virginia Mackay-Smith
Bishop Mackay-Smith
Wilson
Guardsmen Being Sent Back Home From Mexican Border
War Department states withdrawal of five national guard regiments from the Mexican border does not reflect a policy shift or withdrawal. About 6,000 troops to be returned as transport allows, with roughly 100,000 guardsmen remaining on border, expected back at state muster points by Thanksgiving.
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War Department
Washington
Funston
Atlantic City
Youthful Slayers Freed
Harold and Lynn Lovelace two boys aged 12 and 11 are acquitted of murder in the killing of Prof. F. T. Hamill near Twin Falls Idaho. Jury found incapacity to comprehend the crime. Probate court orders place the youths in industrial school for public safety.
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Twin Falls
Idaho
Harold
Lynn Lovelace
F. T. Hamill
Here
Hamill
Lovelace
Lynn
Villa executes Germans in Parral report shocks El Paso
A Parral mining company dispatches word that Theodore Hofmueller a Parral Chihuahua merchant his wife and baby were killed by Villa bandits during the occupation of Parral. The German victim is identified as a German subject.
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el Paso
Texas
Theodore Hofmuler
Parral
Chihuahua
Villa
Deutschland Starts Back Home From New London
The German submarine Deutschland slipped from New London harbor early Thursday bound for Bremen. Its cargo, valued around $2,000,000, is believed to include crude rubber nickel zinc and silver bars.
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New London
Conn
Bremen
Oklahoma’s finest turkey sailed to White House for Thanksgiving
Lawton Oklahoma dispatch reports George H Block local hotelman shipped a 25 pound turkey described as the king of Oklahoma flocks to the White House on Thursday in pursuit of a presidential Thanksgiving feast.
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Lawton
Okla
Wilson
Oklahoma
White House
George H. Block
Hull Concedes Defeat in Fourth District Race
Charleston Wy Thomas A Hull a Democrat for Congress conceded defeat to Harry Woodyard a Republican and said he would not contest the result in the Fourth District race.
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Charleston
Wy Va
Thomas A. Hull
Congress
Harry ©. Woodyard
Oldest U S Fireman Dies in Service Record Obituary
George Knopfflock fire chief and treasurer of the International Association of Fire Engineers died Tuesday. He was aged and longtime veteran, considered the oldest fireman in the United States by years of service.
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Manfield
George Knopfflock
International Association of Fire Engineers
United States
Cotton Mill Wage Increase Across United States
Factories nationwide announce a wage rise averaging ten percent affecting about thirty thousand operatives with few exceptions. The move signals broader labor cost shifts across the textile sector.
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Providence
United States
Deutschland Test Clears Undersea Freighter Deutschland
Three tests for the German undersea freighter Deutschland were held at her pier Tuesday and, according to her officers, were entirely successful.
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Newton
Conn
Deutschland
Baltimore Infant Dies After Serum Cure Trial
Henry Tuerke, months old, once deemed cured in New York after serum treatment for infantile paralysis last summer, died here following a second attack. He had been pronounced cured previously.
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Baltimore
Henry Tuerke
New York
Port Worth Leader Paul Waples Killed in Auto Crash
Paul Waples chairman of the state Democratic executive committee was killed near Hadley when an interurban car struck his automobile. He was a prominent capitalist and political figure.
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Port Worth
Texas
Paul Waples
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Hadley
Waples
Allies Close In On Monastir In Macedonian Front
Serbian war office reports heavy Allied advance south of Monastir in cooperation with France, capturing villages east and southeast of the Cerna river while driving Bulgarian German forces from positions. German counterattacks on Ablaincourt and Pressoire fail to break French lines as Britons gain ground along the Ancre front, though fighting subsides.
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London
Cerna River
Serbian War Office
Cerna
Monaeth
Monastir
Berlin
Fign
Karakasks
Lake Tahinos
Tepavtsi
Guiles
Saloniki
Ablaincourt
Pressoire
Somme
Ancre
France
Pointe
Madeleine Force Pick Named Guardian Ad Litem
Mrs. Madeleine Force Pick formerly Mrs. John Jacob Astor was appointed guardian ad litem by a federal court to prosecute a suit to recover income taxes paid in 1918 by the Astor trust. The infant John Jacob Astor, son of Colonel John Jacob Astor who died in the Titanic disaster, paid $2,544 on income from the $2,000,000 trust.
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New York
Madeleine Force Pick
John Jacob Astor
Federal District Court
Mra. Dick
Women Elected in Nevada in Early Race Results
Reno reports indicate at least two women won state offices in Nevada. Jennile Curiax in Nye County captured the office of recorder on the Democratic ticket, defeating rivals by several hundred votes. Rita Millar won in Mineral County for the same post, both widows on the slate, signaling near parity for women candidates statewide.
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Reno
Nevada
Ofre
Nye County
Jennile Curiax
Met
Nal
Rita Millar
Lsu
Aulley
Bakers Face Wide Closures Amid Skyrocketing Costs
J M Bell, secretary of the National Association of Master Bakers of America, says 1,600 bakeries have closed since August 1 due to plummeting flour, eggs, butter and other costs after a Memphis executive board meeting.
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Chicago
J. M. Bell
Genere
National Association of Master Bakers of America
Cral
Memphis
Eilop
Bite of Dog Proves Fatal in Spokane
Mrs. Sarah O'Clintock died in Spokane after a dog bite from her pet bull dog on October 15 at her home in Larah. The disease developed about a week later.
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Spokane
Sarah
Edwin V. Bweel Receives Recess Appoint to Commerce Post
Edwin V. Bweel, former assistant secretary of commerce, who resigned to run for Michigan governor and lost, is given a recess appointment to his former post by the president.
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Sweet
Washington
Edwin V. Bweel
Commerce
Michigan
Embargo Declared on Galveston to Atlantic Route
An embargo was declared on the Galveston to Atlantic corridor to relieve port congestion and address shortages. The measure targets eastward shipments via the Southern Railway to ease rail traffic and protect supply lines.
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Galveston
San Francisco
Eastcourt
Atlanti
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