Bernstorffs Named in Notes in Blackmail Case
Dr Karl Armgaard Graves, held on a blackmail charge in Washington, claims letters in his possession expose illegal stock dealings tied to the Bernstorff family. He describes break‑ins at his West Sixty ninth Street home and asserts the documents implicate others without harming the countess. He says the letters are diplomatic in nature and not love notes. A German embassy package was broken into and stolen contents reported.
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New York
Karl Armgaard Graves
Washington
Dr. Graves
West Sixty-ninth Street
Department of Justice
Europe
Count von Bernstorff
Berlin
Champ Clark Predicts Reelection as Speaker of the House
Champ Clark asserts he will win reelection to the speakership in the U S House of Representatives. He argues his allies support his bid and he is confident about the upcoming vote among members.
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Clark
Congress
Papers by Graves Accused in Blackmail Case
Armgaard Karl Graves, self styled international spy, was arrested Saturday on a blackmail charge involving Countess von Bernstorff. Authorities say papers seized are all of innocent character and their relation to allied documents is not known.
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Armgaard Karl Graves
Countess von Bernstorff
Department of Justice
Jealous Illinois Man Shoots St Louis Pianofire Harbinger
Adolph Masterson of Mount Carmel Illinois shot George Murray of St Louis four times in Mount Carmel after accusing him of causing his wife to divorce. Masterson surrendered to Detective Daniel O'Brien at the Southern Railway hotel stating Murray broke up his home. Murray, a 44 year old traveling piano tuner, was buying a ticket to Princeton Indiana when the shots were fired.
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Mount Carmel
Ill
George Murray
St. Louis
Adolph Masterson
Princeton
Ind
Murray
Mrs Delrah Hopkins Dies In Indiana Community
Bicknell Indiana reports the death of Mrs Delrah Hopkins noted for state WCTU work and local charity. Survived by husband Dr R R Hopkins Richmond Indiana a daughter Mrs Philip Ramp Logansport and a son Galen R Hopkins Indianapolis. Also mentions death of Mrs Ruphena Phillippe aged seventy four in the city.
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Bicknell
Ind
Delrah Hopkins
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
R. R. Hopkins
Richmond
tInd
Philip Ramp
Logansport
Galen R. Hopkins
Indianapolis
Ruphena Phillippe
Horse's Death Saves Man in Belleville Runaway
In Belleville Illinois on November 18 a frightened horse pulling a wagon ran away and fell dead just before a moving freight train. The horse's death shattered the vehicle and apparently saved the life of the driver John Ross who escaped unharmed.
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Belleville
Ill
John Ross
Gas City forms cooperative grocery to beat high living
Citizens in Gas City Indiana form a cooperative grocery to buy directly from a vic a store and sell at cost. Two hundred fifty shares will be sold at four dollars per share to Gas City residents as a rebuke to rising prices.
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Marion
Ind
Gas City
Vica
Acun
Republicans and pacifists lose seats in 1930s House race
Washington reports show Republicans gaining ground as pacifists like Clyde Tavenner and Warren Bailey lose their bids. Cyclone Davis is defeated in Texas primaries while Oscar Callaway Finley Gray and Frank Buchanan lose renomination. Big Navy advocate Thomas S. Butler to chair the House Naval Committee under GOP control.
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Washington
House of Representatives
North Carolina
Britt
Pennsylvania
House
Clyde Tavenner
Ilinois
Henry Ford
Warren Worth Bailey
Naval
Oscar Callaway
Texas
Finley H. Gray
Indiana
Frank Buchanan
Illinois
Archibald C. Hart
New Jersey
Michael Liebel
Davis
Thomas S. Butler
Julius Kahn
California
James Hay
Dent
Alabama
Hay
Two Autos Collision Kills Paris Merchant on Clinton Road
W A Link, a Paris merchant, is killed in a head on crash on Clinton road one mile east of Paris. His brother Dr Frank Link is seriously injured and five others hurt when two gray Iron Maimacines crash at thirty miles per hour in a sharp curve and fall into a culvert. Link had been married to a nurse three weeks earlier.
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Paris
Clinton Road
W. A. Link
Frank Link
Lick
Paris Hospital
Miss Amyle
Chester Dalrymple
Chrisman, IL
Who Hit Wryham
A damage suit and two charges of perjury hinge on whether William Hodges, while riding his motorcycle at Virginia, hit the wagon and team owned by William Milner or whether the wagon hit the motorcycle, creating a disputed accident claim.
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Wryham
Virginia
William Hodges
William Milner
Rainey Wins Landslide in Twentieth District
Rainey defeats opponents across all counties in Carro lton Illinois securing no less than an eight thousand vote majority in the Twentieth Congressional district race.
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Rainey
Carrolton
Ill
California electoral vote split unlikely after count
Los Angeles reports show the top Democratic elector leads the lowest by 690 votes with unofficial county totals. San Francisco data suggest about a 400 vote gap among Democratic electors. Statewide ratio could shift some but likely won’t yield a Republican victory in California’s electoral allocation.
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Los Angeles
McAller
San Francisco
California
Pleasant for Miss Rankin Congresswoman Unusual Courtesy
Washington officials say Jeanette Rankin will be welcomed in the house with courtesy regardless of party control. There are no firm plans yet but a Democratic leader suggests she may be assigned a room in the main Capitol building to feel at home among lawmakers.
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Washington
Jeanette Rankin
Montana
House of Representatives
House
Capitol
President Wilson Travels Unrecognized Through New York
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson travel from Williams Town Mass to Washington aboard the Mayflower. They leave the naval yacht at West 79th Street and board the 8 34 train at Pennsylvania Terminal. Margaret Wilson Eleanor Paxon Sayre attends a christening in Massachusetts.
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New York
Wilson
City
Washington
Wiliamstown
Mass
Eleanor Paxon Sayre
Margaret Wilson
Helen Woodrow Wilson
West 79Th Street
Pennsylvania Terminal
A Wilson Parade Formed Amid Evening Controversy
A parade by supporters formed around Mr. Wilson after early returns suggested his win. Spectators and local groups gathered downtown as cheers rose and banners aired the pride in the apparent victory.
Senator Knox returns to Senate as Kern loses seat
The return of Senator Philander C. Knox from Pennsylvania adds to the array of able lawyers in the U S senate. This legal gain is offset by the defeat of John W Kern of Indiana.
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Philander C. Knox
Pennsylvania
U. S. Senate
John W. Kern
Indiana
Eight Believed Lost At Drawbridge Crash
Vancouver B C November 13 Eight persons are believed dead when a Vancouver Ladner jitney bus crashed through a partly open drawbridge on the Brager river. Driver John Smith and R Wilcox and Ken Ritchie of Ladner are confirmed dead. A woman thought to be Mrs Brown and her two children are missing. Donald Stewart and Duncan Forsyth are also believed dead. Three others escaped.
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Vancouver
TB. C
Donald Stewart
Colony Farm
Duncen Forsyth
McRae
Woodward's Landing
Range in electors large in Pierre November voting
In Pierre South Dakota on November 13 the late returns show the gap between top electors narrow, with less than three thousand separating the highest Wilson elector and the lowest Hughes elector. Some counties show over two hundred vote range among electors. Popular votes favor the Republican and Democratic candidates may exceed one hundred thousand with minor Socialist and Prohibition votes. Current footings from fourteen counties report Hughes 48 944 Wilson 45 696.
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Pierre
Wilson
Hughes
Physician Assassin Wounds Doctor at Home in Aledo
An unknown assailant fatally wounded Dr. J. A. Kleinschmidt as he approached his home in Aledo. The shooting occurred as the physician entered his residence, with reports noting the incident near Galesburg Illinois on November 13.
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Galesburg
Ill
J. A. Kleinschmidt
Aledo
Russians Reach 55 Mile Transylvania Front
Petrograd reports the Russian army has advanced more than fifty five miles below the Bukowina border into Transylvania as Teutons seize trenches in Galicia and the fighting continues near Lemberg Lipnicadolna Svistelniki and along the Somme front Sailly Saillisel remains contested with German advances and setbacks.
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Petrograd
Transylvania
Oss
War Office
Bukowina
Dobrudja
von Mackensen
Teutons
Galicia
Lemberg
Lipnicadolna
Svistelniki
Berlin
Narayuvka River
Saillisel
Paris
Sailly-Saillisel
Somme
Somme Front
Indiana's medium school attendance cited by federal bureau
Washington reports the U S Bureau of Education classifies Indiana as medium in school attendance for ages six to fourteen. The list ranks states by attendance ranges: high over 90 percent includes Connecticut Iowa Massachusetts Michigan Nebraska New Hampshire New York Vermont. medium 80–90 includes Indiana Colorado Washington Oregon Ohio Utah Montana California Delaware Idaho Illinois Kansas Maine Maryland Minnesota Missouri Nevada New Jersey North Dakota Oklahoma Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Dakota West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming. Low 70–80 Kentucky Mississippi New Mexico North Carolina Texas. Very low below 70 Alabama Arizona Florida Georgia Louisiana South Carolina Virginia.
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Washington
United States Bureau of Education
Indiana
Bureau
Connecticut
Iowa
Massschusetts
Michiigan
Nebreeka
New Hempeliine
New York
Vermont
Colorado
Oregon
Ohio
Utah
Montana
California
Delaware
Idaho
Ilinois
Karson
Maine
Maryland
Minnesota
Missouri
Nevada
New Jersey
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Pennsyyvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Kentucky
Mississippi
New Mexico
North Carolina
Texas
Alabama
Arizona
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
South Carolina
Virginia
Longest drop kick by Notre Dame freshman kicker Gipp
Ca tain George Gipp of the Notre Dame freshman team booted a sixty one yard drop kick from his own thirty nine yard line against Western Normal College at Kalama zoo. The game ended 10 to 8 in favor of Notre Dame as Gipp also attempted a forty eight yard field goal.
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Notre Dame
Ind
Catain George Gipp
University of Notre Dame
Western Normal College
Kalamazoo
Gipp
Weine
Western Normal
Eems
Romance Told On Banks Of Chippewa River
In Bruce Wisconsin on November 18 a couple, Ata Waughter from a wealthy Bruce family and Fred Uimbreit from Caley Laie, married near town. The ceremony followed their romance from its start to its growth along the riverbank.
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Chine
Bruce, Wis
Chippewa
Ata
Bruce
Fred Uimbreit
Caley Laie
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Exmayor
Glasgow
Scotland
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Russ Press
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Roumania
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Hoosier School
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