Roumanians in Critical Fight Across Romanian Front
Berlin and Bucharest report heavy battles northeast and northwest of Campolung as Von Falkenhayn seeks to drive on Roumanian plains. Teutons claim sieges near Rothenthurm Pass, while Bucharest notes attacks repulsed in Prahova valley and a Romanian pursuit in the Jiul Valley with hundreds of prisoners and several machine guns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
von Falkenhayn
Berlin
Teutons
Mackensen
London
Campolung
Rothenthurm
Bucharest
Prahove
Clabucetu Rafru
Agaga
Draroshivele
Bucharest War Office
Jiul
Ivance
Mackenten
Tenube
Constanza
Russia
Szurduk Pass
War Office
Dobrudja
von Mackensen
Watchman Risks Life at Crossing to Prevent Wreck
Warsaw Indiana October 31 James Patton a Big Four railroad crossing Watchman saved a wreck by risking his life pulling away a crossing gate that had fallen across the track.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watchman
Warsaw
Ind
James Patton
Death Toll Rises In Lafayette Obituaries
Death claims two men in Lafayette Indiana with Adam Rup pel aged ninety three a longtime resident and Richard Haley aged seventy five dying in the city.
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Lafayette
Ind
Adam Ruppel
Richard Haley
Chicago Markets Reported Live Stock and Grain Prices
Hog receipts 59,000 with light shipping at 9.75 to 10.00 and heavy packing 9.75 to 10.00, primes up to 9.25. Cattle receipts 27,000 with steers 10.75 to 11.25, cows 6.10 to 11.00, dealers’ top 11.00. Wheat No 2 red at 1.83 to 1.88, corn No 2 white 1.10, yellow 1.19 to 1.16, oats No 2 white 0.53 to 0.54. Butter 0.31 to 0.35. Potatoes 1.60 to 1.99. East Buffalo reports steady cattle, hogs 10.00 to 10.40, lambs 10.35 to 11.00, yearlings 8.50 to 9.00, wethers 8.00 to 8.25.
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Chicago
East Buffalo
Dunning and
Stevens
Livestock Commission
N. Y
Hindenburg Arrives in Berlin as War Hero
Field Marshal von Hindenburg visits Berlin for the first time during the war. Crowds cheer as shopkeepers display flags and he and his wife meet with the Kaiser at Bellevue palace. He is quoted saying French tenacity will not save them and British strategic skill is lacking.
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Berlin
Field Marshal
von Hilderburg
Germany
Hindenburg
Kaiser
Bellevue Palace
Kaiserin
France
Cunnea Target of Prosecutor Hoyne in Illinois Race
Chicago reports a statement from State's Attorney Hoyne accusing William A. Cunnea rival for the state's attorney post of embezzling 1102.62 from the widows and orphans fund of the Ancient Order of Hibernians while a state secretary. Cunnea denies the charge, saying funds covered salary and printing bills.
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Chicago
Hoyne
Thomas H
Honest Tom”) Daly
Cottage Grove Avenue
William A. Cunnea
Office of
Public Prosecutor
Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
Cunnea
Skingene Quirk
Kewanee
Ill
Cunnen
Oxygen Factory Blast Wounds Forty in Rome
A massive oxygen factory explosion in Rome on October 30 injures about forty people, with varying degrees of severity. Local authorities investigate the blast as emergency crews treat the injured.
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Rome
Merchants End Discount Grants to Clergy and Clerks
In Freeport Illinois on October 31 merchants voted to stop granting discounts to clergymen dressmakers and clerks from other stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Ill
Sinking of Marina and Rowanmore Prompt Sidelong Attacks
The American embassy reports the British steamer Marina sunk by a submarine after Glasgow departure. Only 34 of 104 crew were saved and landed at Crookhaven. Survivors provide affidavits. lifeboats were shelled during Rowanmore’s sinking. Names and addresses of American aboard Marina are listed.
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Lomdong
Wesley Frost
Queenstown
Marina
Glasgow
Crookhaven
Ireland
Lloyd’s
Frost
Newport News
Rowanmore
Nation-wide probe into food prices targets Chicago grocers
Ten of Chicago's largest wholesale grocers were summoned to meet U S District Attorney Charles F Lyfe after a conference with the district attorney and justice department officials. The inquiry examines letters urging retailers to raise prices and reflects a broader federal investigation into food cost increases across multiple states.
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Chicago
United States
Charles Fp.lyfe
Clyne
Joseph JB. Pleming
Hinton G Clabanch
Bureau of
Department of Justice
Federal
Union
Hinton G. Clabauch
Cone
Wholeesse Grocers
Iowa
Dbrasks Wand
Ohio
Michigan
Ilnois
Indiana
Kentucky
New York
Washington
Two Skeletons Unearthed In Wisconsin Murder Probe
Waukesha authorities probe a possible murder mystery after an excavation at Stillreek sanitarium uncovers two chelotons buried less than ten years ago. One skeleton is a six year old boy and the other a young man about twenty.
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Waukesha
Wis
Waukesa
Woerkmen
Stillreek
Jealous Youth Ends Life in Valparaiso Shooting
Lloyd Behroeder twenty five killed himself in Valparaiso Indiana after a quarrel with a fiancée reportedly over flirting. He left a field and walked home then drew a revolver and died. The incident followed a Cape with a young woman he was to marry.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Lloyd Behroeder
Schroeder
Roumanian Queen's Life Target of Alleged Plot
Berlin reports an overseas agency interview quotes Field Marshal von Hindenburg condemning attempts on Queen Marie of Roumania. A Bucharest decree charges Babosh and Thor with conspiring to assassinate Roumanian leaders, linked to Austro-Hungarian authorities and Budapest police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Roumania
Marshal von Hindenburg
United States
Marie of
Babosh
Thor
Bratiano
M. Costinesco
Roumanian
M. Filipesco
Budapest
Noted resort owner Sim Caro dies in Milwaukee
Sim Caro famed North country guide and Lac Du Flambeau resort owner died in Milwaukee hospital after a month of illness. For twenty years he ran a family resort in the Lambeau region and was known as Uncle Sim to families from Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Milwaukee and other Mississippi River cities who summers there.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Speaker denies managing Indians for next season
Cleveland, Oct. 21. Tris Speaker said he will not manage the Cleveland Indians next season and has not been offered the job nor would he accept it. Jimmy Dunn, owner of the Indians, said he would announce his choice of manager on Wednesday.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Indians
Tris Speaker
Texas
Jimmy Dunn
Indians
Death Note Found in Mississippi River Float
A faded death by own action note supposedly signed by Charles Krauger was found in a bottle floating in the Mississippi near Savanna Illinois. The note, yellowed with time, stated a determination to end it all and had no date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savanna
Ill
Charles Krauger
Mississippi River
Mexican Leaders Back Carranza Ahead of Queretaro Conference
Washington reports General Obregon Pablo Gonzalez Benjamin Hill and Eduardo Hay announce support for Carranza as Constitutional president of Mexico. The issued nominating speech seeks U S influence at the Queretaro convention and hints at efforts to restore order in a chaotic republic.
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Washington
TP E
Alarve Obregon
Pablo Gonzales
Benjamin Hill
Eduardo Hay
Carranza
Mexico
Mexico City
Queretaro
United States
Niagara
Eliseo Arredondo
Deviensie
Fe! Pugso
Chihuahua
Santa Ysabel
Samco
Ojinaga
Arcardio Armandauz
Arredondo
State Department
Louis Cabrera
Cabrera
Mr. Lansing
George L. Vilmonds
Certera
Women Mission Union names sleuths to curb flirtation
Members of the Womans Mission Union announce committees of sleuths to patrol business district streets and the Aurora Elgin and Chicago railroad waiting station to stop the activity of girl mashers, aiming to protect unsophisticated boys.
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Bigin
Miein
Womans’ Mission Union
Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Railroad
Man Loses Foot Under Train In Marion
William Berry a mechanic at Western Drop Forge in Marion Indiana was dragged among shunted cars and suffered the loss of his foot. His companion Rufus Taylor of Logansport aided in the peril but could not save the limb. The injury required amputation.
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Marion
Ind
Wilam Berry
Western Drop Forge Company
Rufus Taylor
Logansport
James G. Jeffers Elected Grand High Priest in Chicago
James G. Jeffers of Arcola was elected grand high priest of the Most Excellent Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Me Hinos at the sixty seventh annual convention in Chicago on October 30.
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Masons
Chicago
James G. Jeffers
Arcola
Royal Arch Masons of
Me Hinos
U. S. Probes Car Shortage Nationwide
The Interstate Commerce Commission opened a nation wide inquiry into the auto supply shortage. It called on all carriers to provide full information on conditions along their lines.
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U. S
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Felix Diaz
Villa and Zapata
Alliance
American Press Association
Marina Net
British Transport
United States Shipping Company
Donaldson Line
EF. H. Smith
Philadelphia
Oe Ee Acpand
J. H. Robbins
Richmond
William Cullen
S. A. Devlin
George Rogers
Norfolk
Andrew Kraig
Springfield
T. H. Hamlin
Fdear Miller
Charles Porky
Baltimore
Massa
Eddie Martin
R. F. Clarke
N. Little
F. C. Davis
Wake Forest
N. C
Harry F. Jones
Tom Anderson
Oklahoma
BF. W. Ryan
F. Kildal
St. Paul
Minn
M. L. Hunt
John J. Rilley
L. Harvey
P. D. Brown
Upperville
Edgar Scheerer
J. Hancock
J. C. R. Brown
PD. C
H. B. Bennett
G. M. House
Thomas J. Brannigan
Charleston
S. C
Jack Davis
Roanoke
Robert Harris
Robert Barton
George F. Ledberry
Faye
Miss Eva Booth
Salvation Army
Eva Booth
Tflartedale
N.Y
Syracuse
James R. Gray
Syracuse University
Banectlor
von Hindenburg
Sim Caro
Las du Flambeau Chain
Merigan Chiefs
Bage Garranza
Obregon, Gonzales
Tion
Queretare
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