Austro Premier says peace hopes, hostilities to end soon
Basel Oct 17 Baron Burian Austro Hungarian foreign minister told the Austrian foreign affairs committee that after examining Wilson's reply to Germany he would not alter the belief that a cessation of hostilities on all fronts and negotiations for a general peace would occur within a distant date. He stressed armistice talks depend on military factors and that future peace must not be a peace by force.
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Baron Burian
Foreign Affairs Committee
Vienna
Wilson
Germany
Austria
Jury Frees Baby Doll And Hawkins In Murder Case
After a one hour forty minute deliberation a Fairfield county jury returned a not guilty verdict for William Baby Doll Thomas and Jake Hawkins in the December 1917 Kerstone Social club riot murder case. The pair were released as cheers erupted in the court house corridor with Thomas greeting supporters and recalling river-law tensions.
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Norwalk Mayor Calls Meeting To Fire Police Force
Norwalk mayor Jeremiah Donovan calls a special Common Council meeting for tomorrow evening to consider reducing the local police force from 24 officers. He proposed dispensing with six to ten officers after the council recently voted to raise salaries, a veto which was later overridden.
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Jeremiah Donovan
Common Council
Donovan
Weather fragment unclear with scattered forecasts
Partial text describes South New England partly cloudy Friday and unsettled cooler Saturday, plus New York forecast fair Friday cooler north and central portions, with Saturday partly cloudy and coastal cooling. Times and measurements are garbled and unreadable.
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U. S. Prisoners Work in Mines
Special dispatch from Amsterdam reports German camps for American POWs at Darmstadt, Limburg, Moischede, Giessom, Lahn, and Paderborn with about 700 to 940 prisoners in each area. The piece notes segregated Americans, some officers in Holzminsen and Graudenz, and questions about treatment and conditions for captured U.S. personnel.
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Graudenz
West Prussia
Americans urged to buy Fourth Liberty Loan bonds
Secretary McAdoo appeals Bridgeport and national readers to back the Fourth Liberty Loan within two remaining days. He cites four billion dollars reported and urges immediate action, noting liberty’s cause, patriotism, installment options, and support from patriotic banks to ensure victory.
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Bridgeport Hearing on Condemnation for Hydraulics Site
A Bridgeport Hydraulic Co seeks to condemn eight acres owned by the Twiss brothers of Monroe for a reservoir expansion. Negotiations over price stalled. owners value the tract at 1600 dollars. The hearing sits before W J of this city and C J Jey of Newtown, appointed by the Superior Court. The case tests the acquisition amid ongoing public health appeals and nurse relief efforts.
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Tewns Brothers
Bridgeport Boosts Liberty Loan Drive Totals
Bridgeport reports a city total of 7.5 million dollars in the fourth Liberty loan drive with an unofficial total of 37.5 million and an official 4.27 million last night, aiming for 8.54 million. Early gloom gave way to growing support as workers and employers pledge matching funds and memberships rise through local firms and chambers of commerce.
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Exis Daller
Singer Manufacturing Company
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Lake ‘Porpeda
Ban on Riding on Sunday Is Lifted
Washington date line reports the administrator Garfield announces an immediate lifting of the gasoline riding ban on Sundays with effect in windows. Men’s suits advertised by Riley appear in the same edition.
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Get
Cgiarfield Todel
Riley
Veterans rally for Fourth Liberty Loan at Plaza Theatre
A 102d veteran urged support for the Fourth Liberty Loan at the Plaza Theatre, recalling five bonds purchased in trench times. The Civil War veterans, Minute Women, and local dignitaries urged subscriptions, with nearly 20000 pledged that night and total theatre sales reaching 32100 this week. Willian St Barnum and others joined the appeal, as Miss Margaret Beck and the Ash team aided the drive.
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102D Infantry
Foli
J. A. A. Robinson
George Augur
Wilmia V. Dee
Joan
Plaza Theatre
Liberty Bonds
Willian St. Barnum
BP. Tyarnum
Bugs
Mr. Morbes
Feorge Greenspun
Ash
Uideville
German Admiralty Orders U Boats to Withdraw
Handelstad reports with reserve that the German Admiralty has issued instructions for all submarines to return to their bases. Censors note potential extra value and the advisability of reassembling flotillas as patrols wind down.
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Handelstad
Germany's reply to Wilson expected in note by night
Berne reports German reply to President Wilson’s peace note will be drawn up and sent to Washington tonight. Berlin papers say Germany will seek to keep conversation alive while Amsterdam dispatches note anti Wilson sentiment rising in military and civil circles. Austrian foreign minister Burian signals internal political shifts and changes in wartime strategy to meet Wilson’s terms.
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Berne
Vienna Reports Wilson Sends Austrian Reply
AMSTERDAM reports, per the Taseblatt, that Vienna says President Wilson’s reply to Austria-Hungary was known in Berlin Tuesday evening. The Washington report notes no dispatch by Wilson yet, with expectations tied to Germany’s reply to the President’s note of March. Stratford lad Stephen Jones Jr. is listed as wounded but not missing, in yesterday’s casualty list.
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