World News at a Glance Reports War and Disease Impacts
The summary lists a sweeping set of items: foot and mouth disease outbreaks prompt federal quarantine in multiple states and potential food supply effects. Congress may fund the campaign to suppress the epidemic. trade balances and freight rate changes affect October figures and policy. political shifts include Democratic control with Republican gains and state races. international notes cover British cargo scrutiny for ships to northern Europe, Mexican provisional president Gutierrez, and various war news. domestic incidents include a Vermont liquor tragedy, stockyard disruptions, and a bank of other events from labor strikes to natural disasters.
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United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Congress
War News From Europe and Balkans Turmoil
The report details the Battle of Coronel where German fleets defeated the British squadron off Chile, with Monmouth sunk and Good Hope possibly wrecked. It notes Belgian coast fighting and German retreats, plus Turkish diplomatic break with Britain France Russia and Servia and Turkish Black Sea bombardment. It mentions Belgian relief efforts and Rockefeller Foundation aid for war victims.
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Good Hope
Monmouth
Glasgow
Coroel
Chile
Christopher Craddock
Coronel
South Pacific
Hawaii
Belgium
Nieuwport
London
Calais
Albert
Berlin
William
Ypres
Coast Campaig
Belgian
Bruges
Roulers
Ghent
Dixmude
Balkans
Turkey
Great Britain
France
Russia
Servia
Balkan
Greece
Bulgaria
Black Sea
Germany
England
Italy
Minerva
Akabah
Gulf of
Red Sea
Suez
Poland
Russian Poland
Suwalki
Vistula
Piotrko
Opoczno
Czarow
Warta River
American Committee For Relief
New York
Rockefeller Foundation
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
National Red Cross
Kansas City
Wars in East and Flanders Battle Stalemates Persist
Reports from the eastern front describe conflicting claims between Russians and Turks with no decisive battles yet. In Flanders the fight near Ypres stalls as German and Allied forces gain little ground while floods hinder progress. Britain annexes Cyprus as the war broadens.
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London
Galicia
Turkey
Great Britain
West Flanders
Ypres
Ostend
Bixschoote
Poland
Warthe
Vistula
Warsaw
von Hindenberg
Przemysl
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Washington
Commerce Department
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate
Lansing
State Department
Wilson
W. A. Holley
Greenville, Tex
Middle West
Department of Agriculture
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Michigan
Illinois
Ohio
Union
Chicago
Eulalio Gutierrez
Mexico
Aguas Calientes
Carranza
Bristol
D. A. Bisbee
Chicago Union Stock Yards
United Shoe Workers of America
St. Louis
Joseph L. Florent
California
Oregon
Arizona
Robert L. Williams
John Fields
Foundation
8S. E. Bennett
Bureau of Animal Industry
Arthur Capper
Neeley
William Joel Stone
Jok & Albert
American Commission For Relief
S Ee Foreign Affairs
American Red Cross
Messina
Sicily
Palermo
James Scarlett
Georges Despardins
American Ambulance Service
Paris
Mount Vesuvius
Pugliano
Jonkheer Bertling
Amsterdam
Petrograd
Reuter Telegram Company
Rome
New York Tribune
Lloyd’s
Platura
Copenhagen
St. Maurice
Mario Prince
Chigi-Albani
J. K. Kalanianaole
Prince Cupid
Adne R. Chaffee
Los Angeles
Chaffee
Orwell, O
F. Augustus Heinze
West
Saratoga, N. Y
Heinze
Nash Rockwood
James Duane
Ardmore
Freeman
Pacific
Kaiser
Flanders
Cyprus
Britain
Mediterranean
Tsing Tau
Romania
Lobko
Order of St. George
Peruna
Nelli Courter
Franklin
Norwalk
Lang-O
Lang-O Mineral Wonder CO
Lougheed Bik
Calgary
Canada
Parker
Washiton
Liggalte Myers Tobacco Ch
Florida Farm L
Jacksonville
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