Two Black Men Shot During Hold-Up in Rock Springs
In Rock Springs Wyoming on October 20, Marshal Stoddard killed two intoxicated men attempting a hold up at Mills tea store. Miss Musgrove hid in the rear as John D rushed the marshal and another gunman fired. Stoddard shot both men to quell the scene and a flood of railroad section hands filled the jail hours after.
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Rock Springs
Wyo
John DD
Marshal Stoddard
Mills
Musgrove
John D
Noth
Siodda
Clark Attacks Democratic Record At Wyoming Rally
United States Senator Clarance D. Clark with Frank G. Curtis of New York campaigned in Cheyenne at the Atlas theatre. He accused the Democratic party of broken pledges from the Baltimore platform and of raising living costs while praising the war era prosperity and warning of cheap European labor after peace. Curtis endorsed Clark and Mondell, attacked Hughes and the Adamson bill, and pressed for a decisive New York result.
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United States
Clarance D. Clark
Frank G. Curtis
New York
Cheyenne
Atlas Theatre
Democratic Party
Baltimore
Wilson
Clark
Europe
Frank Curtis
Wyoming
Leon
Curtis
Mondell
Republican Party
Senate Judiciary
Daniel Webster
Charles Evans Hughes
Hughes
Panama
Democratic Congress
Fort Yellowstone Abandoned as Military Post
Fort Yellowstone in Yellowstone park was abandoned for a military post. Two hundred soldiers will be moved to the border and replaced by thirty rangers. Soldiers mourn leaving the park for the Mexican border amid dull border news of a freight train robbery near Blasdell bound for Chicago.
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Landbpr
Fort Yellowstone
Yellowstone Park
Hold-up Men Try Bold Robbery At Bon Ton Restaurant
Two apparently local men brandished a firearm and attempted to seize cash from the Bon Ton on Lincoln highway around four pm yesterday. The assailants clashed with Wah Pong. they fled toward the railroad tracks, leaving unclear how much money was taken. A boy said he saw a ten dollar bill near the scene, but investigators have not determined its origin.
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Lincoln Highway
Lee Wing
Wah Pong
Kim Lee
Whee
G O P Women Decline to Debate With Democrats
Annne Frances A Keller, chairman of the Hughes alliance women’s committee, declined a debate challenge from the Democratic National Committee’s women’s bureau. She telegraphs from Los Angeles that schedules prevent returning to New York in time to accept. The Hughes alliance says the decision came from the committees in New York, not Keller personally.
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New York
Annne Frances A. Keller
Hughes Alliance
Women's Bureau
Democratic National Committee
Los Angeles
Wilson
Hughes
New York City
Tragedy Near Ogden As Auto Struck Between Trains
Ogden Utah October 20 D Bassett manager of the Novelty Art works Salt Lake City was crushed to death three miles south of town between two trains rushing from opposite directions as he crossed the tracks in an automobile Four companions leaped from the car and escaped injury
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Ogden
Utah
Bassett
Novelty Artworks
Salt Lake City
Coast to coast strike orders shake Canadian Pacific
Winnipeg Manitoba Get 20 Canadian Pacific trainmen from coast to coast were ordered to strike at 6 p m Wednesday. The move comes after earlier optimism for settlement faded and trainmen official Great Mull says talks have not produced an agreement before the strike deadline.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
F Pacific
Coast-Todoast
Great Mull
Saye
Villa band routed by Gen. Ozuna in Santa Ysabel clash
General Ozunas advance guard engaged a Villa band near Santa Ysabel and won the clash. An unverified report said Martin Lopez, brother of Pablo Lopes, was killed. Advices reached Gen Trevino and note the violence in Chihuahua.
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Chihuahua
Ozuna
Santa Ysabel
Trevino
Martin Lopez
Pablo Lopes
Ysabel
Church Urges Social Service To Relieve Poor
The Protestant Episcopal general convention in Detroit in 1919 will hear calls to raise church involvement in alleviating poverty. A Joint Commission report urges overhaul of social schemes and property to fight poverty, noting housing, recreation, vice and crime as core concerns and warning against relying on a political agenda.
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ST. Louis
Protestant Episcopal General Convention
Detroit
Joint Commission
Protestant Episcopal Church
Vale and warm er Seinydes weather report fragment
The readable fragment notes a mix of warm and cold conditions with unclear framing. It mentions Sunday timing and a general sense of cooler temperatures ahead, but lacks complete details or identifiable locations or institutions.
Halifax Lights Out As War Threats Keep City Vigilant
Halifax orders all street lights off except select shaded areas and requires blinds to be drawn. Citizens fear a possible Zeppelin raid or enemy air attack as military authorities issue the blackout measure amid wartime tension.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Fenrsl
Dutch Steamer Arakan Held Up by British Vessel
Washington reports the Dutch steamer Arakan was held up on the high seas in August by a war vessel and all mail was taken. The state department has no explanation and will inquire why a neutral ship far from the war zone faced such action.
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Arakan
Washington
State Department
Republicans Fear Loss in Connecticut New York Votes
The Evening Mail reports Connecticut’s Republican 40,000 lead could flip to Wilson. Labor groups favor Wilson. pamphlets attack tariffs. Villard tours upstate noting strong Democrat drift, especially among workers. Republicans show disaffection in several areas as Honeevelt speeches recede.
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New York Evening Mail
Hughes
Wilson
New York
The
Evening Mail
Connectut
Connecticut
New Jersey
Oswald Garrison Villard
Tenius Post
Villard
Kalood
Honeevelt
Secretary Baker Denies Mexicans Compared With Continentals
Elmyria N Y Oct 20 Secretary of War Newton D Baker said a clipping misquoted him as comparing Mexicans with American revolutionists. He called the claim absurd and wholly wrong and expressed displeasure at being minquoted saying he did not say anything that could be interpreted that way.
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Elmyria
Newton D. Baker
Chicago car men aid New York strike action
Officials of the Chicago surface and elevated railway employes union plan to send 16 000 dollars to aid New York city street car men on strike. The Cook county group also votes a monthly assessment on 15 000 workers to support the effort as long as the strike continues.
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Chicago
New York
Cook County
2000s Electoral Vote Forecast In Early Returns
In New York and other states provisional returns show Vance T. McCormick declaring the race over with the President likely to be reelected. Analysts anticipate Hughes securing about 300 electoral votes with several slates still undecided among 651 total electoral votes.
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New York
Qgci
Vance T. McCormick
Demarratio Vhalraan
Charlee W. Parahbam
Bighes Campany Biog Laurehaine
Hughes
Escape convicts returned to Sing Sing after breakout
Ossining N Y Oct 20 All six inmates who escaped from Sing Sing yesterday in an auto truck are recaptured. Alfred Breinhour serving twenty years for robbery and assault remains at large. Three were caught last night and two more early today.
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Ossining N. Y
Sing Sing
Taat
Alfred Breinhour
Sarving
Carught
Austrian Princess Marries Apothecary Amid War Romance
The Prankfurter Zeitung reports Princess Marie Theriew of Hohenlohe marrying Otto Kohleisen of Innsbruck an apothecary from a modest Austrian family. The Princess nursed Kohleisen while he was wounded in a hospital after an illness contracted on the battlefield.
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London
British Fall Back as Somme Battle Rages
Britons retreat under pressure in the Somme as German offensives gain ground in France and Galicia. Berlin reports major captures, while London notes a Thiepval repulse and Mediterranean submarine losses. Russian and Austro German forces clash in Volhynia and Transylvania with heavy fighting and varying gains.
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France
Galicia
Debrudja
Macedonia
Transylvania-Romania
Berlin
Paria
Somme
London
Thiepval
Teutons
Lemberg
Volhynia
von Mackensen
Dobrudja
Bucharest
Black Sea
Petrograd
Transylvania
Phtrograd
Russian War Office
Kivelin
Korytnica
Svitvelniki
Carpathians
Berna’ Watra
von Palkenhayn
Drunken Mexicans Fire on U S Soldiers at Border Clash
Report from General Funston cites a 45 minute exchange between U S cavalry and a group of about 40 Mexican attackers near Sandoval. No American casualties reported. unclear if assailants were Mexican nationals or cross border insurgents. The incident follows earlier border tensions and remains under review by military officials.
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Tex
Amercan
Jose
Ing
Hopart
General Funston
Colon
Joseph Gaston
Tesay
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