America Votes for President in Close Election Year
Sixteen million Americans will vote for president and vice president as states like Indiana, New York, Ohio, California, and New Jersey are listed as doubtful. Fifty-one electoral votes are needed to win with 266. In addition to this tight presidential race, 35 U.S. senators and numerous governors will be elected across many states with referendums on woman suffrage and prohibition in several.
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Price Boosting Probes Seem Focused on Coal
Three investigations by the Department of Justice into abnormally high prices for milk bread and coal proceed amid word of a suspected conspiracy among coal operators and railroads. The Interstate Commerce Commission also probes coal car shortages while officials deny a true national shortage exists.
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City Babies Beat Country Babies in Contest
Richmond Indiana November 6 a comparison of score cards in a baby contest showed city entrants were more normal than country entrants and the winning city baby scored higher than the winning country baby.
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Richmond
Ind
Liquor In Auto Causes Fatal Indiana Crash
Two men died when an auto at a grade crossing struck an Indiana Union Traction interurban car near Poneto Indiana. James Snyder a 52 year old barber and Charles Marsh a 42 year old farmer were killed. Skulls fractured and liquor was found in the auto.
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Bluffion
Ind
Indiana Union Traction Company
Poneto
James Snyder
Charles Marsh
Pies Standardized Size Adopted in Lafayette
Lafayette diners will see uniform pie sizes in all local restaurants after a meeting of restaurant proprietors. They voted to use a standard pie tin so every pie is the same size across establishments.
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Lafayette
Ind
Limited Autonomy Granted Poland Freed from Central Rule
Proclamations in Warsaw and Lublin restore Polish self governance as an autonomous hereditary monarchy under German and Austrian imperial oversight. General von Beseler in Warsaw and General Erk in Lublin officiate. a Polish army may be created and city administration rights restored in occupied provinces.
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Erk
Europe
Austria
von Beseler
Belgium
Citizens and I W W clash leaves several dead in Everett
In Everett a battle between citizens and a band of Industrial Workers of the World leaves six known dead and a suspected eight. Two I W W members are wounded and four killed were brought to Seattle. About fifty more are believed wounded and four hundred I W W supporters in Seattle voted to reinforce comrades in Everett to resist authorities preventing street speaking.
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Seattle
Wash
Industrial Workers of the World
Everett
Local man kicked by horse again in Corydon
Leander Bottles, who lives near Corydon Indiana, was kicked in the head by a horse and is seriously injured. The same horse kicked him last summer, breaking a leg and ending his use of a crutch.
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Corydon
Ind
Leander Bottles
Here
NEW U-BOAT CRISIS LOOMS
Washington reports the administration weighing reports from Germany that the German admiralty may order eight submarines to treat as war vessels any enemy merchant ships carrying armament. The State Department will assess each case individually to protect American lives and interests.
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Germany
Ferman Admiralty
State Department
Cuts Throat Over Sweetheart in Halloween Pact
Lafayette Indiana November 6 Francis Lynch 21 slashed his throat with a razor after his sweetheart refused to attend a Halloween masquerade dance. He is in critical condition in a local hospital.
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Lafayette
Ind
Francis Lynch
Koenig Honored by Harvard German Club
Captain Paul Koeniz of the merchant submarine Deutschland was elected an honorary member of the Harvard Deutscher Verein in Cambridge Massachusetts. The announcement notes Koeniz’s recognition by Harvard students of German ancestry and service.
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Harvard Germans
Cambridge
Mace
Paul Koeniz
Deutschland
Harvard Deutscher-Verein
Italians Gain Ground as 9,000 Austro Hungarians Are Captured
In renewed fighting near Gorizia, Italian forces under Count Caderse capture more than 9,000 Austro Hungarians, including 270 officers, with heavy artillery exchanges east of Gorizia. French drive beyond Fort Vaux expands gains at Verdun, while Falkenhayn’s advance nears Bucharest, with Romanian forces repelled and many captured. Russian troops push south of Dorna Vatra occupying heights in the Carpathians.
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Putna
Russian War Department
Ohio and Northwestern Favored In Western Conference Race
The piece names Ohio State and Northwestern as top contenders in the Western Conference football season, predicting they may finish undefeated and meet in Columbus for the title. It praises the Buckeyes and notes their fast, brave backs and strong team.
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Northwestern
Columbus
Bett
Buckeyes
Pioneer in Chicago packing industry dies at Prairie Avenue home
Deoree Webster a Chicago packing industry pioneer died of heart disease at his Prairie avenue home. He began as a Baltimore clerk and joined Armour & Co after 1877, later becoming a member of Armour, Monnintena and Co in 1881.
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Deoree
Hi Ton Webster
Prairie Avenue
Baltimore
Armots, Moniintena
Armour & Co
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