Teutons Take Goritz From Latin Troops
Berlin reports Austro German forces captured Goritz on the Isonzo and the town of Cividale as 80 000 Italian prisoners were taken. Rome says Italian units surrendered or retreated without fighting on the Julian front and the Adriatic front remains unsettled.
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Adriatic Sea
Rome
Italy
Ividale
War Office
Goritz
Isonzo
Cividale
London
Teutons
Amsterdam
Vienna
Second Army
Julian
Wilson authorizes 45 cent coal wage rise at mines
Washington action follows Fuel Administrator Garfield letter urging a higher price to enable operators to meet miners demands. Effective seven oclock Monday morning October 29. Garfield notes fairness in allowing higher charges for products alongside wage hikes after talks with producers and miners representatives.
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Washington
United States
Wilson
Garfield
Allies Make Gains as Belgium and British Improve Positions
Paris dispatch reports French advance in Belgium with gains on the left at the Laighem peninsula and over 200 more prisoners. Aisne fighting continues with intermittent artillery, and an enemy attack in Champagne is repulsed near Maisons. London notes Belgian troops occupying Mercken peninsula near Wyfhuysen and slight position gains near the Ypres Roulers line.
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Belgium
War Office
Laighem
Aisne
Hurtebise
Champagne
Maisons
Forgesbrook
Meuse
London
Flanders
Mercken Peninsula
Wyfhuysen
Dixmude
Ypres- Roulers
Ypres-Roulers
Mercken
Vyfhuysen
Berlin
Ypres
Hloutholst Wood
Russian Soldiers Fired On For Fraternizing With Germans
Petrograd reports soldiers on multiple fronts fraternized with German troops. Russian artillery dispersed those engaged near Illoukst and Kravo with Larovo southeast of Baranovichi. Baltic Sea operations are minimal with Riga coast conditions unchanged.
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Petrograd
Illoukst
Kravo
Larovo
Baranovichi
Baltic Sea
Gulf of Finland
Riga
Austro Anschluss doctor doubts US naval drive
A Vienna dispatch reports Doctor Dumba, ex Austro-Hungarian ambassador to the United States, told the Reichsrat that the United States naval buildup was largely a bluff.
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Dumba
United States
Amsterdam
Vienna
Reichsrat
Liberty Loan Surpasses Target in National Subscriptions
Washington reports the second Liberty loan is an overwhelming success with national subscriptions exceeding the 5 billion dollar goal. New York and Chicago districts show over subscriptions as the campaign closes with a rush of individuals and banks contributing across districts including Federal Reserve regions. Final figures await verification under the plan to allot minimums and excess portions.
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Washington
Free People of America
Federal Reserve
Erie
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Federal Reserve District
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Treasury sales projections soar beyond five billion
Treasury officials estimate total subscriptions could reach 5.5 to 5.506 billion with 8 to 10 million subscribers. New sales are being reported coast to coast by telephone telegraph and messenger, while banks must reach district Federal Reserve banks by Wednesday. Subscriptions from soldiers and sailors run into tens of millions. New York leads the tally as of February 20.
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Telephone
Telegraph and Messenger
Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
French's Son Wounded in Action in Britain Forces
London report lists Major Edward G. French son of Viscount French commander of the home forces, the earl of Dunmore, and Captain Arthur J.P. Howard second son of Baroness Strathcona among British officers wounded in action.
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French
London
Edward G. French
Viscount French
Home Forces
Earl of Dunmore
Arthur J.P. Howard
Strathcona
Milk price cut by Kee & Chapell Dairy firm
Kee & Chapell Dairy of Chicago lowers wholesale milk price to 8 dollars per 100 pounds starting November 1 for five months and plans a retail price of 12 cents per quart. Vice President S S Chapell says farmers can profit about seven percent at a $200 per acre valuation, noting half would have accepted two dollars.
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Chicago
Kee & Chapell Dairy Company
Kee & Chapell
S. S. Chapell
Gen John Biddle Promoted Assistant Chief of Staff
Secretary Baker announced Maj. Gen. John Biddle, former Army War College president, as assistant chief of staff to succeed Gen Tasker Bliss when he retires December 21. Biddle, 58, a West Point graduate from Michigan, will direct tactics of American armies as they take over in France.
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Baker
John Biddle
Army War College
Tasker H. Bliss
Biddle
America
France
Michigan
West Point
Hoover reveals plot to destroy stockyards and guards deployed
National Food Administrator Hoover warns of a nationwide German plot to destroy cattle in stockyards. Chicago officials plan to guard all yards, fortify packing plants, and identify every employee. State and local authorities, including Governor Lowden, are urged to deploy home guards and reinforce grain elevators. Stay alert for further protective measures.
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Chicago
Hoover
Harry A. Wheeler
Wheeler
Lowden
Eleventh Infantry
Ilinois
Washington
Chi- Cho
Kansas City
Brooklyn
U S Batteries Pound Germans In France Night Duels
American forces in France report a fierce nocturnal shelling duel with German artillery. Infantry in first line trenches exchange volleys in mud soaked conditions as Pershing's batteries pound No Man's Land and a first contingent trains with veteran French units in a quiet sector.
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France
Pershing
No Man's Land
College Football Scores From Early Games
A roundup of football results lists teams and scores from multiple colleges and academies. Notable scores include Navy 80 Haverford 0 and Princeton 7 Camp Dix 0 amid a broad set of clashes across the league.
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Harvard
Camp Devens
Cornell
Bucknell
Princeton
Camp Dix
Exeter
Williams
Columbia
New York University
Union
Amherst
Wesleyan
Yale
Pennsylvania
Army
Villa Nova
Worcester Academy
Navy
Haverford
German Bombardment Hits Dunkirk and Paris
German aviators attacked Dunkirk and Paris with twenty powerful bombs. A French war office statement reports 80 civilians killed or injured in the October 29 assaults.
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Dunkirk
Paris
War Office
Helen Cudahy Ends Life Aboard Transatlantic Liner
Miss Helen Cudahy daughter of Milwaukee millionaire Patrick Cudahy and niece of Edward A. Cudahy of Chicago leaped to death from a liner October 19 while en route to Red Cross work in France. Fear of submarines and possible mental derangement cited. note asked to keep details from her father and mother and to warn brother Michael.
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Chicago
Helen Cudahy
Patrick Cudahy
Milwaukee Packer
Edward A. Cudahy
Vparis
Michael
Cudahy
Boston
Princeton Strikes Bernstorff Name From Honor Roll
In Princeton New Jersey on October 27 a state department disclosure about German diplomatic operations led Princeton University to erase Bernstorff’s name from its rolls as a doctor of laws.
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Princeton
Bernstorff
N. J
State Department
United States
Princeton University
Farmers Urge Suffrage and Prohibition in Congress
Springfield Mo Oct 27 The Farmers National Congress closed a four day session by passing resolutions urging national suffrage and prohibition and pledging support to the government in the conduct of the war effort.
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Springfield
Farmers’ National Congress
Wap
Governor Townsend’s Wife Killed in Delaware Crash
The wife of Gov. John G. Townsend Jr. of Delaware was killed in an automobile accident near Philadelphia on October 20. The governor and others suffered severe injuries in the collision.
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John G. Townsend, Jr
Delaware
Philadelphia
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