War summary notes gains and policy statements from 1917 era briefings
Secretary Baker flags Russian situation as key to overall strategy. German forces cross Piave near Venice. Tirpitz demands Belgium annexation and denounces Anglo Americanism. Venices power line disrupted by Austro-German advance. British seize Askalon and advance on Passchendaele ridge. Allied force moves to Italian front. Diaz replaces Cadorna. Rail workers seek pay increases. postal fraud case in New York. Army engineer growth. inland waterways to aid rail and coal. Tamany Hall to distribute patronage funds. Enright street named to honor fallen Private Enright. Education department says Germans can still be taught in schools. Field mass in Spartanburg praising patriotism.
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Baker
Teutons
Lower
Piave
Venice
von Tirpitz
Munich
Belgium
Germany
Cellini
Jerusalem
Askalon
Holy City
Mediterranean
Flanders
Passchendaele
Diaz
Cadorna
New York
Elmer Dwiggins
Army Engineer Corps
Tammany Hall and Allied
Camp Wadsworth
Spartanburg
Bishop Russell
South Carolina
United States Bureau of Education
Private Enright
Europe
Pittsburgh
Enright
Third American Battalion Relieves Front Line In France
In France the third American battalion takes its place in front line trenches relieving the second battalion which bore the brunt of a recent German raid. Secretary Daniels reports progress locating submarines making their destruction easier. President Wilson appeals to the AFL for worker unity in defeat Germany. Captain Koheritz of the Rochester describes the torpedo hit and the ten seconds to impact. A new federal licensing law to regulate handling explosives takes effect November 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Daniels
Wilson
American Federation of Labor
Buffalo
Germany
Eric Koheritz
Rochester
United States
Washington moves to register German residents and track enemy plots
Washington prepares to require registration of every German in the United States with periodic reports to monitor the threat. President Wilson urges loyalty while draft forms list eligible men. The White House protests suffragists and the Russian embassy status is discussed amid global tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Joseph P. Tumulty
New York
District of Columbia
White House
China
Japan
Washington
Petrograd
Moscow
Wilson
Clifford Thorne
Williams
Western Lines
Nearing Pleads Guilty At Duluth Pacifist Meeting
General Scott Nearing was arrested in Duluth at a pacifist gathering and pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, receiving a $50 fine. Relief from sugar shortages is promised this week by the food administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott Nearing
Duluth
Wilson
Buffalo
Food Administration
Arthur C. McGiffert
Union Theological Seminary
Presbyterian Church
John J. Pershing
France
Congress
Liliokalani
Hawaii
Honolulu
Sporting Billiardists Back Campaign for Red Cross Ambulances
A nationwide drive by billiardists aims to fund and send one hundred ambulances to the Red Cross for use behind Allied lines in France. The effort is part of wartime charity and public spirit across sports circles.
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Red Cross
France
Christy Mathewson
Rube Bressler
Redland
Bressler
Mackmen
Southern Association
Whitman
New York
Wilfrid Vian
Westy Hogan
Omar Khayyam
Bowie
Pimlico
West Point
Carlisle
Annapolis
Georgetown
Cornell
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Interstate Trap Shooting Association
Wandell M. Mooney
Paterson
N. J
Wesleyan
Lawrence E. Williams
Geneva
N. Y
Naval Reserves
President Wilson asks Labor to push war aid worldwide
President Wilson urged the American Federation of Labor to unite for victory in the war and warned pacifists while praising labor. He blamed Germany for starting the war and urged rising U.S. power, concerted labor capital cooperation, and export of critics to sustain freedom. He cited Colonel House’s Europe mission and stressed unity under American leadership.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Wilson
American Federation of Labor
Germany
Ielady
Colonel House
Europe
Britain faces strong attack over Lloyd George speech
In parliament foreign indications show Premier Lloyd George will endure a sharp challenge for his blunt Paris remarks. Asquith demands a fuller statement on his grave comments. French ministry resigns after deputy defeat. Frankfurt Zeitung notes American impact on the western front. Kerensky leads Russian troops against Bolsheviks near Petrograd with fighting near Gatchina. Germany forms a more democratic cabinet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Lloyd George
Paris
Asquith
Chamber of Deputies
Frankfurter Zeitung
West Front
Kerensky
Spies and language tricks hobble German efforts in war tale
A Princeton graduate recounts a WW I espionage tale from Belgium showing how spies used unrecognized languages and slang to pass rumors. An ambulance driver hears a rumor that a German tried to assassinate President Wilson and conveys it in coded American slang to a trusted friend.
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Princeton
New York
France
Belgium
Berlin
Wilson
Washington
Ife
Isaac
Stalra
Dixie
Steeve
New Jersey Briefs Highlight Historic Presbyterian Home Plan
Paterson to house the first Presbyterian home for aged men and women with Rev. Hugh B. MacCauley named head at a $3,600 salary. The Seebass residence on Broadway near Barbour Park is favored for the denominational institution at a $25,000 cost. Democratic County committee debates persist as Parker loses to Fetter by 194 votes. Assemblymen Gill and Wolverton discussed for speakership as January assembly begins.
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Paterson
First Presbyterian Home
Hugh B. MacCauley
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Trenton
New Jersey Synod
Seebass
Broadway
Barbour Park
Democratic County Committee
Parker
John H. Fetter
John E. Gill
Mercer County
Charles A. Wolverton
Camden
Finance Committee of
New Jersey
North German
Lloyd Steamship Company
Hoboken
State Board of Taxes and Assessment
Sergeantsville
Hunterdon County
Bessie E. Cramer
Philadelphia
Ocean City
Woman's Auxiliary
Vineland Hospital
Bridgeton High School
Seabrooks Farms Company
South Jersey
Riverton Military Training Organization
Williamstown
Pitman
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad
Supreme Court
John B. Burtis
Mansfield Township
Burlington County
Democratic Board of Freeholders
Edward T. Haines
Mount Holly
Burtis
Temperance Workers
Cumberland County
Millville
Howard Amer
Deerfield
Cumberland County Temperance League
Greenwich Piers
Benjamin Carson
Woodbury
Public Service Railway
Public Service Electric Company
Public Service Gas Company
Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone Company
Eastern Telegraph and Telephone Company
Clayton
Carney’a Point Parent-Teachers’ Association
Miss Sharp
D. F. Hendrickson
Gloucester County
Health drive at Camp Dix receives state federal support
The New Jersey health department and Camp Dix leadership coordinate sanitary efforts to guard water supplies and food handling. A Wrightstown sanitary unit with inspectors and vehicles is set up, with state aid to roads and water supply, while concerns over polluted Crosswicks Creek are addressed. Governor Edge and Major General Kennedy push cooperation and funding to protect soldiers and civilians.
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Trenton
Camp Dix
State Department’ of Health
C. W. Kennedy
State Department
Wrightstown
State Department of Health
Genera Kennedy
Bureau of Local Health Administration
General Kennedy
Edge
C. Price
Kennedy
Water Company
State Health Department
Elisha Lee
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Crosswicks Creek
Delaware River Qurryane Construction Company
Department of Health
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington
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Seven Seas
Kaiser
Alsace-Lorraine
Hamburg
Bagdad
Friends of Freedom
America
Gompers
Ang
New Jersey State
Jersey Department
Gov
Stone
David F. Weeks
Skillman
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