Expect Clash at Today's Game at Polo Grounds
Chicago White Sox and New York Giants meet at the Polo Grounds today in a decisive World Series game. Attendance forecast 32 000 with receipts around 73000. Urban Faber opposes Rube Benton in a grim, rough duel ahead of a possible decisive seventh game.
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Railway Chief Now a Brigadier General
W. W. Atterbury, vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad system, supervising troop operations in France, has been promoted to brigadier general in the National Army. He is noted as a leading railroad executive with strong qualifications for the high military post. Giants, Umpires O’Loughlin at plate, Klem at second, Rigler at short, Bryans at third. Time 2:37.
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District funding totals cited for multiple cities
The text lists cage district funding at 44,005,400 dollars versus New York 325,000,000, Cleveland 65,000,000, Boston 59,192,000, and San Francisco 80,196,950. It reads as a comparative breakdown of district allocations across major cities.
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Score of Fifth Game Details Base Hits and Pitchers
The report lists extra base hits by Kauff Felsch Fletcher Gandil and strikeouts by Cicotte Burns Holke Sallee Williams Holke Balles Burns Sallée Golins Iwaber Herzog. It notes Runsell on the mound and Sallee walking four times, Cicotte one, with a double play Mullin to F and Collins to Gandil Laenall.
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Brooklyn Trio In Fatal Auto Collision Claims
New York, Oct. 15. Mrs. Sarah Karps of Brooklyn was killed and five others injured in a two car crash. The vehicles were driven by Percy Austin and Joseph Eisen, both of Brooklyn. Austin's wife sustained internal injuries. The drivers could not explain how the accident happened.
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Seven Die as Car Is Hit by Train Near Detroit
A car carrying Joseph J. Pohl his wife Mrs Mary Pohl and five children plus Mrs Ralph Harvey and Keelen Hlarvey was struck by Michigan Central train No 805 at Bartsig crossing twelve miles north of Detroit. The seven occupants were killed instantly and bodies recovered at the scene and later transported to Mt Clemens by coroner order.
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Liberty loan drive marks October 24 Liberty Day
Washington declares October 24 Liberty Day to rally support for the second Liberty loan as the drive reaches about $600,000,000 subscribed. The president urges patriotic meetings and community pledges while treasury reports show slow progress toward the $5 billion goal.
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Neutrality Demo Draws Four Thousand in Buenos Aires
About 4,000 people, mostly Spaniards and Germans, joined a pro neutral demonstration in Buenos Aires on October 15. The march proceeded through main streets but enthusiasm was tepid.
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Confirm Capelle's Quitting
Amsterdam reports the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger announces the resignation of Vice Admiral von Capelle as minister of navy in a semiofficial announcement.
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Offers Prize to Aviators In Britain for Berlin Bomb
Manchester reports M. Meno a wealthy resident offers 5000 dollars to the first British aviator who drops a bomb on Berlin. The pledge underscores wartime zeal and the race to strike Berlin from the air.
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Haig reports night raids repulsed on Ypres front
British and French forces, during the night, repelled reconnoitering parties near Poelkapelle and Becelaere on the new Ypres line in Belgium. The war office said a successful raid occurred near Trulloch four miles north of Lens. French scouts took 30 prisoners near the new Belgian front as artillery duels continued on the Aisne.
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Clark To Campaign For Liberty Loan In West
Speaker Clark leaves Washington to campaign for the Liberty loan visiting Pittsburgh then Oklahoma and Missouri. He joins other Republican leaders in promoting war fund measures while Congress adjourns.
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British Navy Granted Use of Peru Ports
Luna Peru October 12 government grants use of Peruvian ports to a British squadron. The British minister thanks President Pardo for extending the privilege.
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Russians Repel Turkish Assault Near Erzingan
British dispatch reports Turks about a battalion strong attacked Russian positions southwest of Erzingan in Turkish Armenia. The Russian war office says the Turks were repulsed by rifle fire and grenades. Russian torpedo boats destroyed near the Anatolian shores 11 laden schooners and twenty prisoners were taken.
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Senator Ollie James Dies in Personal Tragedy
United States Senator Ollie J. James died after racing from Washington to Mar ion Ky to reach his mother Elizabeth James at her home. She died before his arrival. she was seventy two years old.
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Russians Repel German Landings on Oesel Island
Russian official statement reports fighting with German troops who landed on Oesel in the Gulf of Riga. Germans pressed Russians southeast while a pier on Moon Island was repulsed. Dago Island saw enemy actions and four torpedo boats sunk by shore batteries. Continual naval interdicts and a Kronstadt note mark the Baltic crisis.
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President Wilson Sets Far Reaching Trading With the Enemy Rules
Washington October 15 President Wilson issued sweeping trading with the enemy act regulations. The measures grant the government power to cut off trade with Germany and its allies and oversee foreign exchange. A censorship board and new controls over communications, patents, and imports are created, with the Treasury and Justice Departments empowered to enforce penalties and licensing.
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Wowan Named In Suit Dies In Aurora Hotel
Mrs. Lillian Stiles, famed as beauty and noted in the Herbert Crane divorce suit, killed herself in an Aurora hotel. She left a note for friend Miss Anna Berg, asked for cremation, ashes dumped in a lake, and was discovered near a vial of chloroform. Stiles had become a national figure amid the Crane case and lived with Evanston widow Mrs. S. R. Chittenden. Her health was said to have deteriorated after the sensational allegations about Crane’s Wheatland estate and his remarriage.
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Austro Hungarians Repelled On Isonzo Front Near Chia Povano
Austro Hungarians attacked Italian positions west of the Chia povano valley on the Isonzo front but were driven back by Italian forces.
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