Poles smash Bolsheviks capture towns and armies
Polish forces report major advances across the northeast front. Lida and Pinsk fall to Polish control, Vilna expected to fall soon, and Kamenets-Podolak recovered by Ukrainians. Poles cross the Shehara at Slonim and seize 21st Bolshevik division and nine guns. About 5000 prisoners taken in Polesia and Finsk wrested from Soviet forces.
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Warsaw
Lida
Vilna
Pinsk
Brest-Litovsk
Kamenets-Podolak
Dniester River
Ukraine
Slonim
Shehara
Polesia
Finsk
Grodno
Volhynia
Sarny
Kamenetz-Podolsk
Wrangel
Kiev
Odessa
Cities Grow Fast as Rural Areas Lag in Census
Washington reports cities are expanding seven and a half times as fast as rural districts in the first 85 percent of the new census data. The trend shows cities gaining population while rural areas trail, with cities 10,000 plus experiencing the largest gains.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Edison Works on Device for Communicating With the Dead
Thomas A. Edison is developing a delicate apparatus to enable communication with the deceased. He hopes to finish within months and believes first responses may come from telegraphers or scientists skilled in delicate instruments and electric currents.
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New York
Thomas A. Edison
Mr. Edison
Princeton president backs society of nations at Pilgrim landing event
Dr. John GO Alb ben, president of Princeton University, welcomed delegates for the Pilgrims tercentenary and endorsed the idea of a society of nations.
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Society of Nations
Princeton
N. J
John Go, Albben
Princeton University
Leper Joaquin de Costa Detained in Boston Hospital
Health authorities detain Joaquin de Costa described as a leper and active World Socialist operator. He has been in a hospital for treatment of a skin disease and is said to have had leprosy for years without realization.
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Boston
Tlealth
Joaquin de Costa
Howie
Death Toll Rises From Wall Street Explosion
The September 16 Wall Street explosion death toll increased to 48 as Alfred G. Mapps, 28, a broker, died in a hospital from burns and internal injuries.
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New York
Wall Street
Alfred G. Mapps
Explosion at Lincoln Neb Capital Plant Injures Four
An explosion at the Nebraska capital Lincoln injured four men and left the city without electric service. The blast damaged one building at the Lineoin Electric Light plant on Thursday.Authorities investigated the cause and extent of the damage to the facility.
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Nebraska Capital
Lincoln
Bootleg Liquor Destroyed in Danville Raid
Revenue agents poured out one hundred gallons of moonshine whisky in a recent raid at Danville Wisconsin. A bootlegger attempting to escape was slightly wounded in the incident.
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Danville
Wilson to ask Congress for shipping act changes
President Wilson plans a special message to Congress to defend defying the mandate and to propose altering the Jones shipping act. He would urge referrals to the merchant marine committee to authorize talks with foreign nations to adjust treaties affecting American merchant marine interests.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Merchant Marine Committee of Congress
State Department
British Anthem Triggers Riot at Pilgrim Tercentenary
Police cleared Carnegie Hall after intruders disrupted the New York tercentenary celebration of the Pilgrims. Protesters carried anti British banners shouting Hurrah for America and Down with England while the chorus refused to sing God Save the King. The disturbance forced adjournment as speakers could not continue.
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New York
Carnegie Hall
America
England
World financial conference in Brussels discusses currency questions
The Brussels meeting of the money congress considered currency and exchange issues with remarkable unanimity. Conference circles hope that in committee work, which will decide the outcome, delegates will easily agree on a common line of action.
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Brussels
Explosion Victim Dies in Wall Street Disaster Thirty Seventh
The thirty seventh death from the Wall Street explosion occurred Wednesday night when Theodore Peck of Nyack New York died from burns and internal injuries.
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New Yorko
Wall Street
Theodore Peck
Nyack
Burts
Swallowed His False Teeth Case In Joplin
An 81 year old man named Williams was found dead in bed in Joplin Missouri on Wednesday with his false teeth lodged in his throat. Coroner James said the death likely resulted from strangulation by the teeth.
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Joplin
Williama
James
Deail
White Sox Players Face Indictment Over World Series Tilt
Chicago owner Comiskey suspends seven Sox stars amid grand jury indictments for fixing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Players named include Eddie Cicotte, Chick Gandil, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Happy Felsch, Swede Risberg, Claude Williams, Buck Weaver, and Fred McMullin, with testimony detailing payments from gamblers.
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Chicago
Cincinnati
Sox
Cook County
Comiskey
Cleveland Indians
White Sox
Eddie Cicotte
Arnold “Chick” Gandil
Joe" Jackson
Oscar “Happy” Felsch
Charles “Swede" Risberg
Claude Williams
George “Buck” Weaver
Fred McMullin
Cleotte
Jackson
Chick Gandil
Williams
Pittcher
Joe Jackson
Buck Weaver
Happy Felach
Swede Risberg
Chick Ganil
Cox on Volstead Law Tour in South Dakota
Governor Cox energized a South Dakota tour by opposing any prohibition measure conflicting with the eighteenth amendment as interpreted by the Supreme Court. A barrage of questions about the League of Nations aimed at him due to his German heritage marked the stop. In Arkansas, a collision of two Missouri Pacific trains near Malvern injured twenty five people, several seriously, the cause traced to orders miscommunication.
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Sioux Falls
S. C
Supreme Court
League of Nations
South Dakota
Cox
Little Rock
Ark
Missouri Pacific
Malvern
Deep Waterways Plan Sought for St Lawrence Outlet
Washington experts report hearings on a proposed deep waterway for vessels from the Great Lakes via the St Lawrence River. The plan aims to form a navigable outlet and was discussed before the International Joint Commission.
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Waoshington
Henrings
St. Lauerence
Great Lakes
International Joint Commission la Chicago
Politely Told to Stay Away and Doom for Women in Europe
Politely told to stay away, Mastin Litvinoff is said to be deemed undesirable in Sean, while a Leipz ig report cites dire wartime casualties with 15,000,000 European women doomed to die, per Dr Schweisheimer.
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Washington
Mastin Litvinoff
Great Britain
Denmark
Norway
Sean
Diama
Old Maida
Leipzig
Europe
Asia
Dr. Schweisheimer
International delegates vow to combat alcoholism at home
Delegates at the International Congress against alcoholism return to their nations with resolve to lead anti liquor drives. The congress, in Washington, wrapped up business with Hobson urging a "serum of education" to defeat pro liquor forces abroad and a call to bar brewers from foreign citizenship rights if they export their trade.
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International
Congress
Washington
United States
International Congress Against
Richmond Pearson Hobson
International Committee
Hobson
World Prohibition Federation
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
World League Against Alcoholism
The
World Federation
Photograph of J. R. Howard Leader of Farm Bureau
New and exclusive photograph features J. R. Howard, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, highlighting his prominence in agricultural circles. The portrait captures Howard in a formal pose reflecting his role in farm policy leadership.
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J. R. Howard
The
American Farm Bureau Federation
Editor Accused in Manila Political Case
Manila city prosecutor filed criminal proceedings against Gregoria Perfecto editor of La Nacion organ of the Democrat party charging him with issuing "Yasdlce against Shoae to au thority" a purported act against authority in a political dispute.
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Inauits
Manila
Gregoria Perfecto
la Nacion
Democrate Party
Stiff Sentences for Stealing in Manila
Shing Tea, a Chinese youth, received seven years in the penitentiary for bicycle theft. The term reflected a fraction more than four years for the bicycle taken from a coach.
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Manila
Reds Begin Work on Mexican Soil
Mexico City reports violent harangues from the Central Palace balcony as radical agitators urge social revolution and a food dictatorship. They attack the national legislature and supreme court, threaten bombs against newspapers, and call for a guillotine for journalists while praising a Communist revolution in Yucatan.
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Mexico City
Russia
Workers’ Confederation of the
Supreme Court
Yucatan
Ohio Man Heads the Legion National Commander Ballot
O H IO man J W Galbraith of Cincinnati was unanimously elected national commander of the American Legion on the second ballot at the closing session. His rivals were Han ford McNider of Iowa and J F J Herbert of Massachusetts. The group adopted a resolution favoring strict exclusion of Japanese immigrants, canceling the gentlemen’s agreement, excluding picture brides, and neutrality on political questions.
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Cleveland,o
J. W. Galbraith
S Jr
Cincinnati
American Legion
Galbraith
Hanford McNider
Iowa
J. F. J. Herbert
Massachusetts
Legion
Japan
Schiff Passes to Beyond Widely Known Banker and Philanthropist
New York obituary notes Jacob H. Schiff American financier and philanthropist died at his home on September 25 in his seventy third year. Born in Frankfurt Germany in 1847 he came to the United States in 1865 and settled in New York. At death he belonged to Kuhn Loeb Co prominent New York bankers. Schiff was among the leading Jews of America.
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New York
Jacob H. Schiff
Jacob Henry Schiff
Frankfort-on the-Main
Germany
United States
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Schiff
America
World’s Largest Wireless Station Dedicated in Nauen
The completed wireless sending station in Nauen Germany was officially dedicated on Wednesday in the presence of an invited company including Ellis Loring Diesel United States commissioner to Berlin. Other members of the American mission were present.
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Nauen
Germany
Eliis Loring Diesel
United States
Berlin
Burns Blames Reds for Wall Street Explosion Probe
William J Burns detective agency says private inquiry into the September 10 Wall Street blast found no evidence of an outside group. The statement attributes the crime to adherents of the Third International and mentions possible involvement by Mayak and others.
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Burns
Reds
New York
William J. Burns
Noted Opera House Burned in Cripple Creek
The Victor Opera House, the largest structure in the Cripple Creek district, was destroyed by fire at noon Monday. The building, valued at several thousand dollars, had one occupant at the time. A Rome dispatch reports an earthquake near Mount Etna causing villa destruction and injuries.
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Cripple Creek
Colo
Victor Opera House
Gripple Creek
Sesdal
Slolly
London
Glarre
Bloily
Mount Aetna
Rome
Out of fashion means common and copied anyway
The Spectator notes that when styles go out of fashion, they flood the market as affordable copies. Crowds imitate models quickly, blurring lines of class and age, as attire no longer signals status or honesty as it once did.
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The
Spectator
London
Mayfair
Hampstead
Blind botanist J. G. Wilkinson recalls leaf memory talent
The famed blind botanist explains how he learned to identify beech leaves by touch and taste with help from Percy Grimshaw. He claims complete knowledge of leaves, stems, fruits and flowers across the British Isles, recognizable by touch alone.
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J. G. Wilkinson
Percy Grimshaw
Temple Newram Woods
Leeds
British Islands
Why Wear Shoes Says Barefoot Legends in Chronicle
The London Chronicle notes Eve Nausicaa Helen of Troy and others went barefoot or wore sandals, arguing sandals bridge shoeless and shod life. It cites Irish and Scottish children running barefoot as evidence of no moral decline from lack of footwear.
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Eve
Nausicaa
Helen of Troy
Ireland
Scotland
The
London Chronicle
Grant appoints Washburn then Fish as secretaries of state
In Grant's Cabinet President Grant had two secretaries of state Elihu B. Washburn of Illinois appointed March 6 1860 but resigned six days later to become ambassador to France Hamilton Fish succeeded Washburn He was reappointed at the start of Grant's second term and served to its end.
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Grant
Elihu B. Washburn
Till’ Nois
France
Hamilton Fish
Washburn
I Have Something I Must Ask You
A playful exchange reveals a close moment as one character teases a question of personal importance. The other guesses the nature of the inquiry, prompting a warm, intimate back and forth about a missing hat and a shared secret.
Earthquake Theories About Clouds And Barometric Links
A historical note surveys beliefs linking earthquakes to clouds and fog as well as to barometric changes. It discusses widespread ideas that atmospheric phenomena foretell tremors and that seismic shocks cause mist and pain, while noting the contested nature of these claims.
Sham Worse Than Real Transcript Note
A fragment from the Boeton Transcript notes plenary remarks where speakers imply some critics mask disagreement as humor. The text contrasts genuine opinions with those framed as jokes in a political or public discourse setting.
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Eynice
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