Germans Press At Ypres And Dixmude Fronts In World War I
Enemies bombard British lines at Ypres and Dixmude for days as Germans push to storm trenches. Prussian guards report 4,000 casualties with 1,900 killed amid heavy artillery and night bombardments along the coast. British warships bombarding German positions near Nieuport. Paris confirms government returns to the north and Paris measures ease.
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Paris
Ypres
Dixmude
London
Pbetgcian
Nieuport
Sixteen Hurt As Street Cars Collide In Pittsburg Crash
Fifteen or sixteen people were injured when a Frankstown avenue inbound street car crashed into the rear of a Fifth and Shady car at Thirty-fourth street and Penn avenue shortly after 10 pm. Conductor W Berringer and motorman James Enright were among the injured, with multiple patients taken to St Francis Hospital and St Margaret's.
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Pittsburg
Frankstown Avenue
Thirty-fourth Street
Penn Avenue
W. Berringer
Shady Avenue
St. Francis Hospital
James Enright
G. Comnerling
Cherry Street
Etna
St Francis Hospital
Goldie McKain
W. F. Evans
North Atlantica
H. W. Rodgers
West F’orty-Fourth Street
York
Margaret’s Hospital
H. DD. Immell
St. Margaret's
John Griffith
Kmlolsxe Street
Northside
Francia Pital
Samuel Wolf
Margaret Rolands
Carnegie Avenue
St. Francis Pital
Frankstownh
No. 5
Pittsburg Railways
St. Francis
St. Garet’s Memorial Hospitals
Western Maryland Hospital installs hydrotherapeutic room
A. R. McGonegal of Washington inspected and laid out the new hydrotherapeutic room at Western Maryland Hospital the first hospital between Washington and Pittsburgh to install such facilities. Four baths including shower and sitz operate from an expert control table with thirty gallons of water per minute. The wing includes hot air electric cabinets a rest room and a shampoo table with two other connected rooms.
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A. R. McGonegal
Washington
District of Columbia
Western Maryland Hospital
Pittsburgh
Sitz
McGonergal
Macfarlane Plumbing & Heating Company
John B. Mcfarlane
Missing saloon owner Alex Schute feared to have harmed self
Alexander Schute 40, once a saloon keeper at Mechanic and Frederick streets, vanished after closing his new Baltimore street stand. Relatives fear despair may have driven him to suicide. searchers scour area and river. Police in Cincinnati and other cities alerted. he is brother of Patrolman William L. Schute and nephew of Peter I. Wright.
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Baltimore Street
Mr. Schute
Mechanic
Frederick Streets
George Groves
Cincinnati
William l. Schute
Peter I. Wright
Outside Violators Immune in West Virginia Prohibition
State officials in Wheeling admit difficulty prosecuting liquor dealers indicted for mailing circulars to solicit orders into West Virginia. Offenders in other states cannot be arrested. The Union Temple of Liberty, a new fraternal group of drinkers, is barred under the Yost law, per Prosecuting Attorney R. M. Addleman, after a Cincinnati telegram about an anti-temperance group planning to invade dry states.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Union Temple of Liberty
West Virginia
R. M. Addleman
Cincinnati
Russia Seizes U.S. Factory Assets for War Production
Petrograd reports the Singer Sewing Machine Company plant has been taken over by the government for small arms manufacture. The American Graphophone Company plant is similarly requisitioned, and American smelting interests are used to produce steel bullets for the military effort.
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Petrograd
Russia
Singer Sewing Machine Company
American Phonograph Company
American Princess Aids Wounded in Jotria While Husband Fights Russians
Princess Sulkowski once Marie Louise Freese of Los Angeles serves as Red Cross nurse in Vienna. Her husband Prince Stanislaus Sulkowski fights Russians on the Russo Austrian frontier. Sister Miss Katherine Freese and mother traveled to Vienna before the war to see them. They then moved via Paris Brussels Amsterdam to return to America.
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Jotria
Husband
Los Angeles
Sulkowski
Marie Louise Freese
Stanislaus Sulkowski
Austria
Red Cross
Vienna
Katherine Freese
Miss Freese
Mias Freese
Paris
Brussels
Amsterdam
America
Federation Convention Poised for Stormy Debate
Philadelphia delegates move beyond routine reports to a two sided question on organization by industries. Debates over carpenters and metal workers painters and railways departments promise a stormy first day with arguments likely to dominate. Four days of sessions are anticipated to be tense.
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Philadelphia
Boer Rebels Defeated in British Attack in Free State
Official dispatch from Pretoria reports 15 000 Boer rebels led by General Beyers defeated in Hoopstad district by General Botha and Commander Hold on November 15. Rebels pursued 18 miles, scattered into small bands, few captured. Six Botha soldiers wounded. 100 prisoners taken. large stock of munitions seized.
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Cape Town
S. Africa
Pretoria
Beyers
Hoopstad
The
Free State
Botha
Wilson Sees Bright U S Prospects After Bank System Opened
President Wilson lauds the new Federal Reserve bank system and tariff currency trade laws as foundations for a brighter U S economy. He says monopoly is being eradicated by these reforms and credits improved credit with unlocking national potential amid Europe’s war. He notes cotton marketing and railroad issues will be tackled with candor and justice.
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Washington
Wilson
McAdoo
Treasury Department
Federal Reserve Bank
Europe
United States
German Cruiser Berlin Begins Disarming in Norway Port
In Christiania November 18 report from London states the German cruiser Berlin has begun disarming at Trondhjem Norway after sailing past British patrols. The ship’s commander stayed inside port, suggesting sizable enemy forces waited beyond the three mile limit.
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Norway
Christiania
London
Berlin
Trondhjem
North Sea
Keel
Wilhelmshaven
Court Decides Against Lawyer Anhut
Albany November 18 The court of appeals confirmed the conviction of attorney John N Anhut for offering Dr John W Russell 26000 to secure the release of Harry K Thaw from Matteawan. Anhut faced a sentence of two to four years and claimed Dr Russell demanded payment for a release recommendation.
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Albany, NY
John N. Anhut
John W. Russell
State Hospital For the
Matteawan
Harry K.thaw
Court of Appeals
Anhut
Russell
Thaw
Dr. Russi
Warsaw Governor Reported Taken Prisoner by Germans
Berlin telegram via Reuters from Amsterdam says the governor of Warsaw and his staff were captured among Russian prisoners in the Kutne battle. The item notes German claims and places the event in the Kutne engagement with the Warsaw leadership taken.
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Warsaw
London
Kutne
Berlin
Reuter
Amsterdam
Weingolds in Baltimore Jail for Frauds Against Railroads
Two Cumberlanders Nathan and Benjamin Weingold are jailed in Baltimore on charges of inflating value of goods shipped on the B and O Railroad and filing false damage claims. They were arrest ed here and committed to await a Monday hearing with $500 bail set for Nathan. Mrs Nathan Weingold and their son Charles are also jailed. authorities anticipate further arrests as the scheme is said to have operated between Baltimore and Cleveland.
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Baltimore
Balttimore
United States
Bond
Captain Hardy
Weingolds
Nathan Weingold
West Virginia
Bluefield
W Va
Benjamin Weingold
Maryland
Charles
Cleveland
Avid A
Stock broker sentenced but appeals in federal case
New York reports Jared Flagg was sentenced to 18 months in Atlanta federal prison for mail fraud against stock investors. Judge Rudkin denied a new trial and allowed a stay and bail of 50,000 while Flagg appeals. Associates of Flagg face indictments for further misuse of the market.
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New York
Jared Flagg
Atlanta
Rudkinn
Flagg
Slagg
Rudkin
Ruckin
Help Britain or Bid Home Rule Goodby
William O'Brien MP argues in a letter that Ireland faces two choices. He says Ireland’s stance on conscription and loyalty to the government could decide whether Home Rule or continued coercion guides Ireland. He frames the issue as England deciding Ireland’s fate.
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London
Goodby
England
William O'Brien
House of Commons
Ee Ot
Iriah
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Belgium
Sluis
Hollang
Bordeaux
Chamber of Deputies
Phe
Alex. Schute
Alexander Schute
U. S
Cumberland Press
Nathan
Ounseley
Baltt Noon
Aet Am
Nathan Weinvold
Min Yesterdas
Rebecca Weingold
Jacob L. Gigg Ind
Thomas J
Wellgold
Helinder
Ch Weingold
W. J. Metarron
Haltimore
eCurron
Rederegular
Krigay
Ember
David Cad
Ter
Daniel H. Morgan
Britain
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