Venizelos Dominates Crete and Greek War Effort
London reports entente recognition of Crete's Venizelos led provisional government while Athens renews war entry proposals. In New York, over 309,000 Greeks in the United States are invited to join the Venizelos party with a $4,000 fund raised and $100,900 monthly expected from managers.
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Venizelos Party
United States
London
Entente
Greece
Crete
Venizelos
Canea
Athens
Lambros
M. Kalogeropoulos
U. S
New York
America
Movement
Eight Men Adrift in Lake Michigan Gale
Eight men aboard a powerless derelict scow drift in Lake Michigan amid a fierce gale near Manistee Michigan. Rescue chances are slim as the Marion towing the scow Aurora struggled inbound from Cleveland toward Ludington and was driven into the harbor by heavy seas, breaking the tow line and locking the entrance.
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Manistee
Mich
Lake Michigan
Secon
Aurora
Honors veteran janitor at Short Ridge High School
Indianapolis October 17. Short Ridge High School honors James Biddy, janitor for twenty five years, with a tablet in the halls recounting his faithful labor and the cheer he brought to students during a quarter century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Shortridge High School
James Biddy
Detroit Enforces First Dry Sunday in Years
Detroit records show arrests for drunkenness dropped to one-fifth of the usual weekend total after Police Commissioner Couzens ordered Sabbath saloons closed. The city experienced its first dry Sunday in years on October 17.
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Detroit
Mich
Couzens
Jpoth
French Commander Sarrail in Balkan Campaign
General Sarrasin leads French forces in the Balkan campaign amid evolving fronts. Reports place his troops advancing through key cities with coordinated Allied units, aiming to secure supply routes and pressure enemy positions on multiple axes.
Two lynchings in Paducah after assault on Mrs. Rose
A mob in Paducah Kentucky lynched two black men and burned their bodies after a Friday attack on Mrs. George Rose. Brock Finley and Asa Thornhill were seized from jail, identified, and hanged at a tree with a crowd of about six thousand watching.
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Palucah
George Rose
Brock Finley
Asa Thornhill
Finley
Thornhill
Thanksgiving date set by Wilson proclamation
Long Branch New Jersey October 17 Thanksgiving day will be on the last Thursday in November as usual. It will fall on the last day of next month. Proposals urged President Wilson designate November 23 as the date but he will proclaim November 30.
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Long Branch
N. J
Wilson
Rich Woman Hangs Herself in Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Mich Oct 17 Mrs Henrietta Walker aged twenty wife of Joseph Walker of St Andrews Florida hanged herself in her apartment. Report says she inherited a fortune after her father's death and a family dispute with her mother Mrs Amelia Wayler is blamed. Her husband Joseph Walker is described as a wealthy southerner.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Henrietta Walker
Joseph Walker
St. Andrews
Florida
Billy Jordan, Announcer, Dies at Eighty Four
San Francisco reports the death of Billy Jordan a famed boxing announcer. He passed away in Youtville after months of illness at age eighty four leaving a void for fans and promoters nationwide.
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Billy Jordan
San Francisco
Cal
United States
Youtville
Jordan
Brazil to bar maimed European war immigrants
Rio de Janeiro October seventeenth. Deputy Gustavo Barroso pushes a bill to regulate admission into Brazil for persons maimed in the European war. Barroso fears the country will be overrun by crippled immigrants.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Gustavo Barroso
Barroso
Allies Attack Bapaume Road In Somme Offensive
Berlin and Paris report intensified fighting on the Somme as British and French forces press toward Bapaume. French troops reach Sailly Saillisel, engaging in house to house combat with German forces along the Bapaume highway while British attacks near Thiepval and Albaincourt continue. German counterattacks reclaim some ground but fail to halt the Allied advance.
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Paris
Banaume
Peronne
Beethune
Sailly Saillisel
French War Office
Sailly Saillise
Bapaume Highway
Thiepval
Albaincourt
Gueudecourt
Bapaume
Youter
Sailly-Saillise
Four Crown Fording River Tragedy Near Blackwell
George Noohan clerk of the Washington county court his wife and his mother in law Mrs Annie Campbell along with Wade Richardson a ten year old of St Francois county drowned while attempting to ford the Bug river near Blackwell The accident occurred at Potosi Missouri on October 17 report says the party was crossing the stream when flood conditions proved fatal.
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Potosi
George Noohan
Washington County
Annie Campbell
Wade Richardson
St. Francois County
Blackwell
Gerard to See President Monday in New Jersey
Long Branch October 17 James W Gerard American ambassador to Germany who recently returned to the United States will confer with President Wilson here next Monday as announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerard
Long Branch
James W. Gerard
7Vermany
Wilton
Markets Report Chicago Live Stock and Grains
Chicago hog receipts 48 000 with light shipping near 9 50 to 10 00 heavy packing 9 25 to 9 40 and 8 40 to 9 00 for good to fancy pigs Cattle receipts 28 000 with steers 10 00 to 10 75 cows 6 55 to 6 65 and dealers 11 09 to 11 75. Wheat No 2 red 1 57 4 to 1 58 4 Corn No 2 yellow 90 14 to 90 4 cents oats No 2 white 46 14 to 46 % Butter extras 34 14 to 34 40 cents potatoes 1 40 East Buffalo cattle 240 cars hogs 190 cars sheep 40 cars veals 15 00.
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Chicago
East Buffalo
Dunning and
Stevens
Livestock Commission
N. Y
Stop Look Listen urged at crossings to save lives
Bloomington Ill Oct 17 alarmed at rising grade crossing crashes the Illinois Central warns drivers to Stop Look Listen before crossing tracks. In the last three months eighteen killed and thirty six injured a monthly fatality total likely around two hundred. Elimination of grade crossings would cost the company about 215 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Ill
Iinois Central Railway Management
Ilinois Central
Soldier Weds After Tossing Hardtack Note From Train Window
In Decatur on October 17 Fredi Schultz of Linder New Jersey with the national guard tossed a piece of hardtack wrapped in paper bearing his name from a moving car window as the train passed Ramsey Illinois en route to the Mexican border Emma H Klipper found the note and wrote him The couple married in the First Methodist church here.
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Decatur
Fredi Schultz
Linder
N. J
National Guard
Ramsey
Illinois
Emma H. Klipper
First Methodist
Japs and British Favor Gary School Plan After War
Gary Ind October 17 The Gary Isbrol system created by William Wirt the Hoosier Schoolmaster may be adopted in England after the war according to Teachers World a London publication Many Pavation educators studied the system advocating its use in postwar reconstruction Japanese commissioners recently completed a study of Gary schools
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Gary
Ind
William Wirt
Illinois Co ed Burned to Death in Wisconsin
Beatrice Foster twenty seven a UW library school student died after a lighted match ignited her flimsy kimono in her Madison room. She was alone when the blaze started and died at a hospital within an hour. Foster formerly worked four years as assistant librarian at Platteville Normal school and resided in Macomb Illinois.
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Madison
Wis
Beatrice Foster
University of Wisconsin Library School
Miss Foster
Macomb
Ill
Library
Platteville Normal School
Box Factory Fire Loss Hits Fifty Thousand
Crawfordsville Ind Oct 47 Fire destroyed the main part of the Pioneer Box factory causing a loss exceeding 50000 dollars. Local crews battled the blaze as flames gutted the plant and interrupted production.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Pioneer Box Factory
Three Inches of Snow in Michigan Copper Region
Calumet Michigan reports three inches of snow with high winds. All shipping sought shelter and Wake Superior was deserted by boats, affecting the copper region's transportation on October 17.
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Michigan
Calumet, Mich
Copper
Wake Superior
Funks Louisiana land sold at public auction
New Orleans October 17 United States marshal Frank M Miller sold at public auction in Hahnville La all lands of the Louisiana Delta Lands company owned by the Funks known as the corn kings of Illinois who purchased the holdings years ago W G Mecore bought the land for 500 dollars assuming all debts He acted for the Funks The tract covers several thousand acres and the town of Paradise La C Oliver Holmes of Indianapolis Ind a creditor initiated proceedings against the company
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New Orleans
Tun
Frank M. Miller
United States
Hahnville
Louisiana Delta Lands Company
Funks
Corn Kings
Linois
W. G. Mecore
Paradise
Oliver Holmes
Indianapolis
Ind
Judge Denies Sturdevant Petition in Bank Case
Special Judge Parr ruled in Noblesville Indiana that Elmer L Sturdevant may not have the Familton Trust Co books placed with the county clerk Instead he may examine the records while preparing his defense to an indictment charging conspiracy to wreck the bank of which he was president when it was closed by the state auditor
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noblesville
Ind
Parr
Lebanon
Elmer L. Sturdevant
Familton Trust Company
Sturdevant
Haymakers to Meet in Anderson District Lodge Event
Haymakers from several surrounding cities travel to Anderson Indiana for a district lodge meeting on Saturday with preparations for a parade involving 1 500 lodgemen in line amid a community event setting
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Anderson
Ind
Roumanians in Borden Stand It Is Admitted
A German military critic says the Roumanian army invading Transylvania has been crushed. Seven miles penetrations into Roumanian territory are cited, with Berlin claiming the invasion ended in a pitiful fashion as reinforcements arrived to save a fragment of the second army. Russia and Italy press the Austro German front, while Roumanians report stubborn defense in Dobrudja and gains near Stanagligoran and Giocado Bronului.
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Arts
Bucharest
Stanagligoran
Giocado Bronului
Cioicastri Catulu
Alt Valley
Kallainam
von Falkenhayn
Roumania
Vienna War Office
Guiergvu
Polistoca
Rucaru
Dobrudja
von Mackensen
Russia
Italy
Galicia
Volhynia
Petrograd
Carpathians
Stokhod
van Mackensen
Berlin
Transylvania
Ferdinand
New York City Voter Registration Hits 728710
New York City reports 728 710 registered voters, beating last year’s mark by 70 899 but missing forecasts of 750 900. The gain over 1912 Inez election registration stands at 23 424. Analysts cite many foreign-born men returning to Europe as a key factor in the shortfall.
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New York
New York City
Inez
Europe
Gary Tin Mills Begin Work On New Sheet Plant
Gary Tin Mills in Chicago started construction of a new Sheet and Tin Plate plant begun last December. The project will provide 2,000 jobs and an estimated wage of $54 daily. Company officials were on hand for the opening ceremony as work began on the first part of the Oct. 17 plan.
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Chicago
Gary
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