Front line stalemate and German moves in World War I
Paris reports no perceptible change at the front with continued fighting between Dixmude and the Lys canal and German shifts in Belgium and northern France. A German wagon train was destroyed by artillery, and Germans were pushed back at the Argonne. Petrograd says Russians captured Jaryslau with 5000 prisoners as Austrians retreat along the San River.
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Paris
Dixmude
Lys Canal
Belgium
France
Argonne
Petrograd
Jarjoslau
Lemberg
San
Winter Coat Stockpiles for Army Revealed in London
London reports governor building vast army stores with train load of furs and sheepskins to produce winter coats. Ground covered by acres of sheds, barbed wire fencing, and guards accompany the shipments as materials arrive for mobilization.
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London
Shere
Russians Capture Turkish Regiments in Armenia
The Tribune reports Russians have captured several entire Turkish regiments in Armenia where natives reportedly welcome the Russians as liberators.
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Rome
Armenia
Turka Seizes Two British Steamers at Smyrna
London dispatch reports the Turkish ship Turka seized two British steamers at Smyrna yesterday. The Telegraph company notes the incident as part of ongoing tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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London
Telegraph Company
Turka
Symrna
Rev Wentworth to Lecture Here Next Monday Night
Rev Charles Wentworth former pastor of the local Methodist church now with Bakersfield First M E church will lecture next Monday night at the Methodist church under the M E Brotherhood. His talk Feeing From the Wrath of a rope draws on wide travel and continued usefulness.
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Charles Wentworth
M. E
Bakersfield
M. E. Brotherhood
Methodist Church
Wentworth
Wrath of
Arope
Exeter Sun
Exeter
California
Turkish cruisers bombard Batum in Black Sea port attack
A Sofia dispatch reported by the Vesische Zeitung says Turkish cruisers successfully bombarded the Russian fortified seaport Batum on the eastern Black Sea coast. The notice comes from Sofia via Amsterdam dated November 6.
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Amsterdam
Vessische Zeitung
Sofia
Bulgaria
Batum
Black Sea
Engagement Underway Among British German and Japanese Warships
Private advices from Valparaiso to British shipping agents report an engagement now taking place off Yangos between British German and Japanese warships. A Sunday naval clash between British and German forces has been confirmed.
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San
Francisco
Yangos
Valparaiso
Joker in No. 47 shows up in San Francisco
San Francisco reports that a local unit voting Tuesday against the statewide prohibition amendment becomes wet for eight years under amendment 47. A dry district that rejects the amendment becomes wet for eight years, and a wet district becomes dry for the same period if licenses are issued.
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San Francisco
Chronicle
Villa offers to resign command to ease Carranza row
General Villa formally notified the Aguas Calientes convention of willingness to resign command and retire to private life if needed to eliminate Carranza. The convention took no action pending the Puebla commission report notifying Carranza of Hutierrez’s provisional presidency.
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Washington
Villa
Aguas Calientes
Carranza
Puebla
Hutierrez
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AGENCY TO REPORT ON WORKER EMPLOYER LAWS
Washington moves toward new regulation as the 63rd Congress prepares to review a comprehensive report from the Commission on Industrial Relations. The panel details its findings from 1918 to 1914 and outlines hearings in New York Philadelphia Chicago and other cities. The commission aims to draft bills for broad reforms of industrial relations next year.
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Washington
Sixty-Third Congress
Commission On Industrial Relations
New York
Chicago
Atlanta
Congress
Commission
Boston
Philadelphia
Patterson
N. J
Butte
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Feld
Charles McCarthy
Wisconsin
Keftner Extends Thanks to Eleventh District Voters
Congressman William Kettner releases a grateful note to voters and supporters from across parties in the Eleventh District after his reelection bid. He promises to return to Washington a stronger force and dedicates victory to his wife, citing cross party endorsements and district progress.
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Eleventh District
Washington
Conditions Worse In Belgium Report From London
Millar K ler reports from London that conditions in Belgium are dire with refugees pouring into Werp and towns destroyed between Antwerp and Malines. The American relief push claims ten thousand tons of cereals en route from England to Rotterdam to aid Brussels and surrounding areas.
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London
Millar K Ler
American Commission For the Relief of
Belgium
Mr. Shaler
Brussels
Bergen
Antwerp
H. A. Johnson
Ghent
Holland
Malines
American Commission
Engl
Rotterdam
Brus
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