Russian Troops Take Gumbinnen in Bold Prussia Drive
Petrograd reports a fierce front line clash in East Prussia, with Cossacks charging German gunners at Gumbinnen after days of heavy fighting. Russians claim batteries captured and the town occupied, as German defenses retreat toward Insterburg amidst broad war activity in Poland and Galicia.
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Toland
Eost Prussia
Gumbinnen
Stalluposnen
Ujion
Gerwat
Insterburg
Rua
Berlin
East Prussia
Poland
Czenstochowa
Cracow
Vienna
Dunafec
Galicia
Carpathian Mountains
Lodz
Brzebiny
Strykow
von Hindenberg
Vistula
Warthe
War Office
Russian
Amsterdam
Fighting Along Whole Line In North France Warfront
Nov 25 report describes renewed British naval bombardments along the Flemish coast and a large Anglo French assault from the North Sea to La Bassée. German forces strike back in force as a battle rivaling the Marne unfolds with the combined armies and fleet in action.
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Emden
London
North Holland
Exchange Telegraph Company
The
Hague
North Sea
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Good Hope
Chile
Russia
Black Sea
Dnieper
Bug
Gulf of Kertch
France
Flemish
la Bassec
Marne
Multiple World War I Fronts Echo in Reports from Europe
News from Petrograd to London recounts the sacking of the British embassy in Constantinople, arrests of foreigners, and a rumored Turkish conspiracy against the Young Turks, with claims of Turkish victories, while refugees in France mount to about one million. Warsaw bombing and British war loan news follow, alongside naval damage to the cruiser Goeben and Portugal’s shift toward allied intervention.
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Constantinople
London
Petrograd
Morning Post
Turkey
Caucasus
Egypt
Suez Canal
Ol Kantara
Nobleman's Son Ends Life Over Naval Commission Bid
London November 26. Guy Ernest Hamilton killed himself with a rifle after failing to secure a commission in the naval division due to ill health. The tragedy underscores the pressures of military service in the era. Hamilton was the son of a nobleman and his death prompts inquiry.
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London
Guy Ernest Hamton
Autelde
Naval Division
Worse Scourge Than War Cholera Ravages Vienna
The text warns that Asiatic cholera, reported in Vienna, is one of the most virulent diseases. It carries a mortality around 60 percent in mild cases and about 90 percent in severe ones, posing a greater internal threat to Austria’s capital than Russia or the Balkan fronts. It distinguishes cholera from bubonic plague, noting their shared high death rates but different disease histories.
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Vienna
Austria
Russia
Balkan
British ship Bulwark sunk after magazine blast
British battleship Bulwark exploded in the Medway estuary near Sheerness. About 700 to 800 crew members perished, including Commander Capt. Guy Belater. only 12 saved. Official reports say interior magazine detonation caused the destruction. bands aboard were playing at the time. News notes also report German and Austrian prisoner gains and Allied advances in other theaters.
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London
Bulwark
Medway River
Guy Belater
Churchill
Sheerness
House of Commons
Winston ‘Churchill
England
Wounded Servian Soldiers Flood Hungary Accommodated
Wounded soldiers from Servia pour into Hungary in such numbers that nearly all school buildings in the country have been requisitioned for their accommodation.
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Hungary
Vienna
Servia
Siegel Found Guilty In Grand Larceny Case
Geneseo local: Henry Siegel, New York merchant, found guilty of grand larceny after four hour jury deliberation. Justice Clarke imposes 1000 dollar fine and ten months in Monroe county penitentiary with bail set at 25000 dollars. Stay of execution granted until second Monday of June. Siegel must appear in Geneseo then to discuss creditor settlement. Influential friends expected to aid Siegel’s reestablishment in business.
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Geneseo
Henry
Siegel
New York
William W. Clarke
Monroe County
Clarke
Justha Clarke
War to Plant Biggest Wheat Crop Yet, Says Expert
Washington dispatch reports Charles M. Daugharty of the agriculture department predicts the 1916 harvest will come from the largest wheat area in world history due to the European war. He notes a global shift to larger acreages, heavy demand from western Europe, and extensive autumn seeding in North America and British India, with labor mobilization across neutral and wartime nations.
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Washington
Charles M. Daugharty
Department of Agriculture
Europe
North America
British India
Italy
Itla
England
France
Germany
Pope Benedict XV Celebrates Sixtieth Birthday Quietly
Rome reports Pope Benedict XV quietly marked his sixtieth birthday on Saturday with messages from many nations. Heads of state expressed hope that his peace plea could be realized amid global sentiment for an end to conflict.
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Rome
Benedict XV
Burlington
J. W. Richardson
San Diego
Cal
White House
Washington
San Francisco
Schwab returns with massive war orders and lucrative commission
Charles M. Schwab arrives from Europe carrying $200 million in orders from British and French governments for wartime equipment. Bethlehem Steel and others will fill most orders, with United States Steel among beneficiaries. Schwab's commission is reported near one million. Including the orders, American manufacturers hold not less than $400 million in ally contracts, excluding grain and provisions.
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Chicago
Charles M. Schwab
Europe
Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Works Corporation
United States Steel Corporation
STORM SINKS STEAMER CURTIS AND BARGES
In Sault Ste. Marie Michigan on November 24 the steamer Curtis and its two barges the Auntie M Peterson and the 8 DR. Marvin were lost in a severe Lake Superior storm. Crews totaling 26 were aboard and four additional bodies were recovered bringing the total recovered to 12 including Captain J P Jennings.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Curtis
M. Peterson
DR. Marvin
Lake Superior
Flagg
J. P. Jennings
Ife Savers
Oglesby Widow Injured in Runaway Crash Near Home
Mrs Richard J Oglesby widow of ex Governor was thrown from her carriage near her home at Highart and fatally or severely injured. In Boston a three year old was hurled to safety from a third story window as a fire trapped seven people in a tenement and two girls fainted from smoke. In Shiloh South Carolina Dillard Wilson an escaped negro convict suspected in a white woman’s murder was lynched near her home.
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Springfield
Richard J. Oglesby
Oglesby
Hikhart
Boston
Shiloh
8. C
Dillard Wilson
Ezekiel Troluck
Hera
Man confesses strangling eight year old Albert Kraft
Philadelphia on November 23 Victor Eshelman aged about thirty five of Locust street Inesmuch mission confessed to police that he dragged eight year old Albert Kraft to a sewer culvert and strangled him with his fingers He was held under one thousand dollars bail for a further hearing before Magistrate Pennock at the Garman town police station
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Philadelphia
Albert Kraft
Victor
Eshelman
Inesmuch
Locust Street
Pennock
Garmantown
New Head for Packing Company in Chicago
Chicago November 25 J M Cudahy was elected president of the Cudahy Packing company at the annual meeting to succeed H A Cudahy G C Shep ard and W F Wilkins department heads were elected vice presidents
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Packing Company
Chicago
J. M. Cudahy
The
Cudahy Packing Company
H. A. Cudahy
G.C. Shepard
W. F. Wilkins
Panama Assembly Grants President Power to Expel Foreigners
Panama November 26 The national assembly enacted a law that effectively gives the president authority to expel all foreigners from the country. The action concentrates removal power at the executive level and signals a tightening stance toward noncitizens.
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Panama
National Assembly
Mac Donough Torpedo Hit During Harbor Maneuvers
United States destroyer Mac Donough was struck by a dummy torpedo fired from submarine K-8 while at the mouth of New London harbor. The impact wedged the torpedo in a bow hole. the ship is now docked for repairs. Julius Rosenwald pledges 12000 dollars plus 1000 a month to aid Palestine’s reestablishment in Europe’s war years.
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Galna
London
Flanders
French War Office
New London
Conn
United States
MacDonough
MacDanough
Chicago
Julius Rosenwald
Europe
Palestine
President Fish Brings $15 Million British Wagon Orders
New York Nov 25 President Fish of the Studebaker Corporation returned from England with British orders for wagons sleds harness and other supplies totaling 15 million dollars. In Steubenville Miss Margaret Upperman a 40 year old clerk was instantly killed when she was caught in department store elevator machinery.
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New York
England
Fish
Studebaker Corporation of
Detroit
Steubenville
Margaret Upperman
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