Virginia Votes Day by Overwhelming Prohibition Victory
Virginia voters backed statewide prohibition by large margins across the state. Cities like Petersburg and Alexandria went dry. Norfolk and Richmond joined the dry wave, while only a few counties remained wet. Officials expect the measure to take effect November 1, 1916, ending the sale of liquor in most forms and shifting production outside state lines.
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Virginia
Anti-Saloon League
Stuart
Congress
Tazewell County
Pocahontas
Commonwealth
Richmond
Alexandria
Danville
Norfolk
Petersburg
Newport News
Bristol
Roanoke
Lynchburg
Amelia
Page
Greene
We Ee
Miners Accept President Plan For 3 Year Truce In Colorado
About 12 000 Colorado miners on strike since September accept President Wilson's three year truce plan. It requires strict enforcement of mining and labor laws, allows union membership, and creates a three member commission to oversee provisions including checkweighman rights and fair costs shared by miners and operators.
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Denver
Col
United States
Colorado
Trinidad
Wilson
United Mine Workers
Soft-Nosed Bullets Cause Ugly Injuries Reported
A Rhineland Red Cross chief described American made 45 caliber soft-nosed bullets with copper cores causing severe injuries to German wounded. He contrasted French bullets as cleaner and less damaging and recounted a Belgian telephone girl guiding shellfire, later killed when a fort office was destroyed.
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Aaschen
Aix la Chappelle
Red Cross
Rhineland
Muberge
Batiste
Dahlen
Russians Seize Jaroslau Fortified Position
Russian troops occupy the fortified Austrian position at Jaroslau and raise the Russian flag. Jaroslau, a key railroad center, sits seventeen miles north northwest of Przemysl and lies on the line between Lemberg and Crocow, with a San River bridge dominating river passage.
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Petrograd
Jaroslau
Przemysl
Lemberg
Crocow
British Fleet Exceeds Helgoland Line Off German Base
Ban Lorenzo captain reports two hundred British warships in a battle line off Helgoland after six weeks with the fleet. Rumor says Admiral Sir John Jellicoe may have been aboard the submarine that sank the Hela cruiser.
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Battle Line
New York
Helgoland
Ban Lorenzo
London
Sir John Jellicoe
Congress passes rivers and harbors bill with 20 million
The day in Congress saw a redrafted rivers and harbors appropriation moving 20 million to existing projects. The House met at noon and resumed debate on the general land leasing bill with war revenue legislation reported favorably by eleven to five. Adjournments set for 5 p.m. until Wednesday noon.
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Ways and Means
Germans Compelled to Yield on All Fronts
Paris report says German right flank yielded to the allied enveloping advance while the center repulsed the offensive. German forces failed to seize the Meuse heights on the left but crossed into Lorraine at Donestre. The wedge captured twenty cars and many prisoners. In Galicia Russians press the Austrian rear guard, bombard Jaroslav, and invest Przemysl.
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Paris
Meuse
Lorraine
Coslumne
Donestre
Galicia
Jaroslav
Przemysl
Marconi Company to Sue U S Over Naval Neutrality Rules
The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America announced in New York that it will file papers in federal court to challenge whether the United States government can order the closing of its plant for not observing naval neutrality regulations. Edward J. Daly, vice president and general manager, issued the statement outlining the company’s position.
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New York
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America
United States
Edward J. Daly
Tourists From London Arrive In New York
New York, Sept. 22. The steam ship Minnewaska from London arrived with 224 delayed tourists. The Zealand from Liverpool carries 363 passengers and the Principelle from Rotterdam 423, with several more ships due tomorrow. An open letter to the U S president signed by 787 Americans on the New Amsterdam professes gratitude to the Netherlands for aid and defends German treatment of foreigners during the war.
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New York
Atlantic Transport Line
London
Zealand
Liverpool
Principelle
Rotterdam
Nieuw Amsterdam
Cameronia
Glasgow
St. Paul
New Amsterdam
Netherlands
United States
America
Germany
England
British cruisers Aboukir Hogue and Cressy sunk in North Sea
London reports the sinking of the British cruisers Aboukir Hogue and Cressy by submarines in the North Sea. Casualties are unknown though many crews were saved after Aboukir was torpedoed first and other ships aided. The three ships formed a 12 000 ton class.
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London
Aboukir
Hogue
Cressy
North Sea
South Africa's Gen Botha to Lead British Campaign in Africa
General Lewis Botha, premier administrator of agriculture for the Union of South Africa, will assume supreme command of British operations against German southwest Africa. The move announced in London ties the South African leader to the strategic effort in the theater.
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London
Lewis Botha
Union of South Africa
Southwest Africa
Injunction Against Southern Express Company Upheld
Williamson Sept 23 Special Circuit Judge James Cameron refused to dissolve the injunction stopping Southern Express from delivering liquor shipments from non residents. He ruled a Gary Indiana to local station shipment violated Yost law Webb Kenyon act making the company a common nuisance. Final hearing set for November term with possible appeal. Attorneys Quesinberry York for the state Goodykoontz Scherr for the defendant.
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Supreme Court
Express Company
Damron
Webb-Kenyon
Quesinberry
York
Goodykoontz
Scherr
British Cruiser Disabled in Zanzibar Harbor Action
Report from Capetown on September 22 describes German cruiser Koenigsberg entering Zanzibar harbor at full speed, disabling a patrol boat and opening accurate fire on the British Pegasus at 9000 yards, closing to 7000. Pegasus guns silenced in fifteen minutes. flag shot away twice but replaced. Koenigsberg left after fifteen more minutes of firing. Pegasus listing with dead and wounded along the water line.
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Capetown
Pe?gasis
Zanzibar
Koenigsberg
Koenigsburg
Pegasus
Austrians Defeated Near Drina in Serbia
A Nish dispatch reports after days of battle near Kroupani ten miles from the Bosnian border about 25 000 Austrians were defeated and flee the Drina banks. Serbians recall troops from Syrmia and push toward Svornik while an Austrian detachment fails to take Shabutz near Belgrade, suffering heavy losses.
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Paris
Havas
Nish
Servia
Kroupani
Drina
Syrmia
Svornik
Shabutz
Belgrade
German liner Svreald captured by British cruiser Berwick
The Hamburg American line steamer Svreald was captured by the British cruiser Berwick in the north Atlantic, an admiralty announcement reported in London at 9 41 p m.
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London
Berwick
North Atlantic Ocean
Admiralty
Rheims Cathedral Tapestries Saved From Bombing
In Bordeaux on Sept. 22 the famous set of Rheims cathedral tapestries was taken to a place of safety before the bombardment.
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Bordeaux
Rheims
Austrians Driven Back on Serbian Front
A Nish dispatch reports Serbians push Austrians from Lioubovia Svornik and Loznitza along the front. Austrians cross the river after heavy losses but fail to cross the Save.
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Paris
Lioubovia
Svornik
Loznitza
Rine
West Virginia Showers and Cooler Wednesday
Weather forecast notes local showers and cooler conditions in West Virginia on Wednesday.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Revenue Cutter Tahoma Abandoned Off Alaska Reef
A cable from Seward reports the U S revenue cutter Tahoma struck a reef twenty miles off Kiska Island in the Alutian group and has been abandoned. The Mariposa at Seward picked up the message and the crew may have been saved by the Japanese liner Tacoma Maru.
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Seattle
Washington
United States Revenue
Kiska Island
Alutian
Seward
Alaska
Money Situation Strong Amid Declining Railway Traffic
The western money position remains strong while railway traffic falls due to the European crisis. Banks are urging retrenchment and the expansion of enterprises is being consciously slowed across business sectors.
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New York
Prince August William Wounded at Marne Battle
An Exchange Telegraph report from The Hague quotes Berlin saying Prince August William fourth son of Emperor William was shot in the left arm during the Marne battle and that the Iron Cross first class has been awarded to him by Emperor William.
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London
The
Hague
Berlin
Prince August William
William
Marne
Pocahontas Votes Dry In Townwide Referendum
Pocahontas with about 2500 residents and twenty six saloons voted dry yesterday in a decisive public ballot. Local citizens publicly asserted themselves as the measure passed.
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Pocahontas
Casualty List Reports Allied Officers Killed and Wounded
London September 22 10 50 p m The official press bureau tonight issues a casualty list dated September 17 detailing twenty eight officers killed forty six wounded and fourteen missing Three officers previously listed as missing have returned to their commands Among other ranks 150 wounded and 202 missing are reported
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London
Official Press Bureau Tonight
The Bullet That Shattered Europe’s Peace
A London dispatch recalls the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the ensuing drift to war. It describes European tensions, key figures, and Serbia's denial of direct involvement while Austria-Hungary presses for action. King Peter of Serbia defends Slav independence amid rising regional upheaval.
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London
New York
Gabriel Prinzip
Ferdinand
Austria-Hungary
Europe
Sir Edward Grey
England
M. Sasanoff
Russia
Calais
France
Prinzip
St. Petersburg
Austria
Servia
Archduke
Bosnia
Peter
United States
Dingland
Austria- Hungary
North Sea submarine raid sinks British cruisers
Reported British admiralty details a German submarine attack that sank three armored cruisers the Cressy Aboukir and Hague near Ymuiden and Harwich while crews were rescued amid heavy loss of life. Survivors describe five hundred men killed from the three ships with boasted German success.
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North Sea
Cressy
Aboukir
Hague
France
Jarosian
San River
Przemysl
Sarajevo
Bosnia
Africa
Lewis Potha
Cattaro
Galicia
Lord Kitchener
French
Sereeveld
Derwick
North Atlantic Ocean
Ymuiden
Holland
Hogue
Flores
Harwich
Eng
Parkestoun Quay
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