German Retreat From Polish Front Shocks London
London dispatches report German forces in Polish theater retreating to fortresses near Posnan after heavy losses along the Vistula and Warta rivers. Reinforcements rush to strengthen German lines as Russia claims decisive victories. Hindenburg’s 400,000-strong army reportedly broken into parts and pursued by Russian forces toward the front.
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London
Vistula
Warta Rivera
Posen
Nicholas
Petrograd
German Empire
Poland
Matlo
Plock Leczyen
Czenstocnowa
Cracow
Times Petrograd
Warta
Brezoziny
Tuszyn
Warsaw
Plock
Bzura
French Hurl Bag Germans In Desperate North Sea Drive
London reports heavy fighting in the Argonne and renewed German pressure on the Belgian coast. British and French officials claim repulsed Allied trench assaults and new ground gained, with German reserves and siege guns massed for attacks on Nieuport Dixmude and Ypres. Casualties mount on both sides as bombardments threaten Dunkirk and Calais by Christmas.
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Nieuport
Dixmude
Ypres
West Flanders
Liege
Brussels
Dunkirk
Calais
Flanders
Grand Duke
Albrecht
Wurtemberg
Lombaertzyde
Zeabrugge
London
Berlin
Sotssong
Troons Leave Vera Cruz After Seven Months Stay
Leslie exits Vera Cruz after a seven month residence then departs for undisclosed next assignment. The departure ends a prolonged stay that saw local engagement and routine duties. Community records indicate no immediate replacement plan or announced timeline for the next post.
A Singular Marriage Feast In Polynesia
Polynesia hosts a unique wedding custom where the groom is absent during the feast. The groom is said to be sent into the bush when the bride joins his family and remains there through the celebrations. Only after guests depart are messengers sent to summon him.
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Polynesia
Croker to wed Mrs Dickinson in New York tomorrow
Richard Croker former Tammany leader will marry Brooklyn widow Mrs Dickinson in a Nuptial Mass at St Agnes Church East Forty third Street New York. The ceremony follows a long separation after his first wife died in Austria. The couple will then depart for Florida likely on the next train.
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New York
Richard Croker
Tammany Hall
Dickinson
Brooklyn
Croker
Austria
Ireland
St. Agnes’ Church
East Forty-third Street
Taird Avenue
Mr. Croker
Mrs. Dickinson
Florida
Democratic Club
Frank
Herbert
Kansas City
Fowl froze to roost in court rent dispute
Reading Pennsylvania November 25. Peter Dieffenbach testified his chicken house was so poor that his hens froze to their roosts. He poured warm water to free them and then placed the birds under a kitchen stove to revive them. The defense was set off to a salt for recovery of rent. The jury hears the case.
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Reading
Peter Diefenbach
Dieffenbach
To Face White Slave Trial in Mobile
Joel M. Foster a Browns Mills resident must stand trial in Mobile on December 9 on charges of violating the white slave act. Delilah M. Bradley a seventeen year old stenographer was allegedly transported to Mobile last January, drawing national attention.
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Mobile
Ala
Joel M. Foster
Browns Mills
N. J
Charies
Toulmin
Foster
Delilah M. Bradley
Schwab Secures Massive Orders For Bethlehem Steel
Charles M. Schwab has returned from Europe with 50 million dollars in contracts to be filled by Bethlehem Steel and its affiliates. Industry observers say the orders will occupy the plants for a considerable period, testing their capacity.
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Schwab
New York
Charles M. Schwab
Europa
Bethlehem Steel Company
Rich Poultry Dealer Shot In West Washington Market
Newark Nov 25 Barnett Haff a poultry dealer long noted for criticizing the poultry trust was shot and instantly killed in the West Washington market by two men who fled in an automobile.
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Stabn
Newark
Barnett Haff
Poultry Trust
West Washington
More Boer Rebels Taken
A Pretoria dispatch reports the capture of 100 additional Boer rebels including Commandant Jordaan and four other officers.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Pretoria
Jordaan
Weather Summary from Yesterday’s 8 P.M. Readings
Observations from U S weather bureaus at 8 p m report Albany 92 Clear Atlantic City 38 Clear Boston 32? P Cloudy Buffalo 33 Clear Chicago 48 Clear New Orleans 68 Cloudy New York 35 Clear Philadelphia 34 Clear St Louis 60 Clear Washington 34 Clear Weather today cloudy and warmer with a fall tomorrow light winds
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United States Weather
Temp
Albany
Atlantic City
Boston
Ces
Buffalo
Chicago
New Orleans
New York
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Washington
Richard Croker Weds at Seventy One Years Old
Richard Croker plans marriage at age seventy one to Acarn, with notice of union drawing attention in local society. The vow gathers interest among relatives and neighbors as the ceremony nears.
24 Lose Lives When Schooner HiS Reef
Bolinas California November 25 Forty three survivors and fifteen dead from the wrecked coastwise steamer Hanalel ashore on Roxbury Reef near Bolinas have been accounted for. Of the survivors thirty were towed ashore by lifelines or fought through surf, thirteen were carried aboard the revenue cutter McCulloch. The fifteen dead were aboard the McCulloch. With sixty two on board only four unaccounted for. The Hanalel broke into splinters after nearly a day. Unassisted were Mrs. Ethel Ferguson and her eight year old son Harold of Windsor. Fuel tanks costed the sea and fouled the rocks, hampering rescuers.
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Bolinas
Cal
Hanalel
Roxbury Reef
Iife
McCulloch
Ethel Ferguson
Harold
Windsor
Bomb hits Warsaw consulate as German advance nears
A German air bomb exploded in front of the American consulate in Warsaw breaking windows and injuring none of the staff, though several bystanders were killed or wounded. Ambassador Marye reported the incident from Petrograd. The event signals the proximity of German forces to Warsaw and implies forthcoming withdrawal of American staff if fighting reaches the city.
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Washington
Warsaw
Poland
Marye
Petrograd
British embassy hit in Constantinople riot
A Petrograd dispatch reports the British embassy in Constantinople ransacked and the Russian hospital pillaged. Foreigners faced abuse. arrests spread across classes. Dispatch notes a wide conspiracy against the Young Turks and rumors of Arab treachery throughout the Turkish empire.
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Constantinople
London
Petrograd
Fire destroys McKeesport department store in $177,000 loss
Fire of unknown origin detected in the basement of County Commissioner J. Denny ONeil’s McKeesport department store in Pittsburgh area causes total ruin of the building and damage to adjacent structures with an estimated loss of 177000.
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McKeesport
Pittsburgh
J. Denny O'Neil
New Coal Deposits Found in Buonshoe Region
Bellefonte Pa November 25 Two new coal deposits discovered in the Buonshoe region. Lehigh Valley Coal company reports a four foot vein at Toub HM and the Kelley Brothers a five foot vein at the mouth of Bendry Run.
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Bellefonte
Buonshoe
Toub HM
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Bendry
Kelley Brothers
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