Italy and Russia War News and Vatican Defenses
Reports from the front describe Russia fragmenting under dietitian chaos as factions debate restoring monarchy while Italy repels Teuton advances along the Piave Trent fronts with heavy casualties and Allied reinforcements. Britain and France push reserves to Italy as General Byng and Burg clash again near Cambrai. The U S war council aims for centralized control, railways reform, and tighter import embargoes while Vatican officials deny pro-Austrian propaganda claims. A Swiss neutrality warning follows Interallied talks in Paris.
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Italy
Piave
Venice
Aries
Thiuny
Trent
de Adriade
V. Bo Maurice
Chiet
British War Office
Germany
Cambrai
Burg
Rupprecht
Duit
Bourlon
Gala
Fontaine
Byng
Cambens
Pershing
Ube
Armistice Talk Moves Germany toward Paris Conference
Review of the past week notes Germany accepts a proposed armistice, with a December Paris conference planned. Petrograd radicals face turmoil as Bolshevik leadership appears uncertain, and U S ambassadors await results of elections amid upheaval in Russia.
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Edward W. Pickard
Paris
Thorney
Mit
Tila
Botehertkl
Termanale
Germany
Cheeiren
Wae
Anl
Stat
Petrograd
Lepine
Troteky
al- Vewanis
United States
Theisenostitarnt Assembly
Russia
Leone
Holsheviks
Secratant
Gftharniley
Wowk
Weir
Lenine
Russie
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Kuroe
Little
Rosin
Volos
Turkestan
Muasla
Tudor
Miboria
Man
Connaches
Federal arrests target Italian anarchists in Washington and west
Federal agents arrested about 40 men in Washington and other states, accusing a secret society of plotting disturbances and an attempted assassination of the King of Italy. Suspects, including shipyard workers, were seized at immigration stations and elsewhere as part of a crackdown led by federal inspectors.
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Carela Stu Bodall
United States
Italy
Wwe
Shilpa
Arrestees Resist as Deputies Face Fire in Waterfront District
Reported clashes occurred with deputies in the water front area though no injuries were reported. Officials say special groups and allied crime networks have plotted to undermine morale by circulating literature supporting extremist aims.
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Water Front
Peace terms to be harsh outlined by German faction
The Daily News reports a declaration from Bevor Schvtnetinit’s Pan German Wogile faction. It claims the Imperial German branch envisions sweeping conquest in Courland Livonia and adjoining states, occupying West frontiers, controlling Belgium Dunkirk Boulogne. It also envisions a German colonial empire in Africa, seizure of Egypt and Sudan, and control of the Suez by central powers, with vast reparations.
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Schvtnetinit
Wogile Hae Suet
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Germany
Courland
Livonia
West Ten
Brieg
Ned Longwy
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Dunkin, Catals
Boulogne
Atdea
Portugal
Rovereto
Egypt
Sudan
Ota
Vie
Suez
Bible Preacher Neale Shaped by Memory and Faith
An evangelist named Father Neale preached with vivid memory, teaching to memorize the Bible. He shunned payment, lived by scripture, and mocked a modern preacher who used a concordance. Anecdotes from Washington and Mount Vernon illustrate his deeply devout life and plain talk on faith.
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Proprhet
Washington
Tie
Meyers
Jordan
Pather Neale
David
Absalom
Father Newle
Tofley
Mount Vernon
Dispatch
Minally
Father Neale
Murder Neale
Why It Is Ham Meadow Heralded In Dresden Hunch
A Berlin journal questions the sale as usury after a farmer sells a tourist a ham for seven dollars then buys a five acre meadow with the proceeds. The land is now locally named Ham Meadow amid debate over the ethics of the exchange.
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Dresden
Berlin
Prosaic Environment and Fate in a Turbulent Meeting
A garbled reminiscence describes fate's tricks on a man and a proposal on a jitney bus. The narrator muses on survival costs and a shopper’s fear of danger, while a clumsy dialogue hints at a pending threat and a tense social moment in a chaotic scene.
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Twobble
Payline
Wiltz
Mrs. Iwebite
Growing Old in Faith A Bible Trust Sermon Reflection
A sermon depicts an elderly woman who loved church life yet lacked personal Bible habit. It contrasts her rich Gospel knowledge with missing inner assurance, urging readers to store scripture while young and grow old blessed by faith, peace, and the Holy Spirit.
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Vemuel
Asteem
Billerondins
David
Dasvid
Sunday Shoot Toves
Fragmented OCR text discusses sin and the Book of Genesis. It references creation, human fall, and a substitutionary sacrifice. The prose is garbled but centers on moral consequences of sin and divine liberty. Includes stray phrases about liberty, forgiveness, and a distant call to salvation.
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Terete
Remey
Dvil
The Word of Kindness and Quotations on Wit
A fragmented excerpt discusses kind words versus witty sayings, critiques of gifts and wit, and a meditation on divine communication. It references G D Prentice and Jeremy Taylor, touching on themes of generosity, perception, and the limits of human wisdom.
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Selon
G. D. Prentice
Rehearse for Big Battles Realism Carried by Germans
German and French armies rehearse battles on maneuver grounds with realistic fire while the French limit casualties. A German soldier records injuries from trench mortars and explosive rounds during drills before Verdun, noting the cost and danger of realism. A captured soldier describes shelling, shelter collapse, and supply failures while awaiting reinforcements and letters home.
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218Th
Duke of Wuerttemberg
Sien
Mochwatsch- Waldcrystal
Mrs Thomas F. Ryan Wedding Ties Society Figures
Mrs Cuyler, a prominent society woman who recently wed Thomas Fy Ryan, the noted financier, joins a fashionable circle as a newly married social figure.
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Cuyler
Thomas Fy. Ryan
Fragmentary historic caption fragment from The Chicago News
Partial OCR text references Mey and French forces, hunger and thirst, predicaments, and a quoted dark mood. Mentions Paul Scott Mowrer and the Chicago News, suggesting wartime coverage or correspondence. No clear events, dates, or complete identities available.
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Father Failuy
Mey
Paul Scott Mowrer
Chics
Tank brings in prisoner under British tank crew vigilance
London reports a British tank crew capturing a lone German soldier after a skirmish near a ruined trench. The prisoner reportedly trembled, was offered cigarettes, and treated without injury as he was escorted to safety.
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London
Cut Off Hair As She Sleeps
New York detectives investigate the case of Miss Anita Brown a seventeen year old of 1014 Portieth Street Brooklyn who says a person entered her room at night and cut 18 inches from her long black hair The bale was found on her pillow Doors were bolted and the parents believe no one escaped through the basement She did not see anyone in the room.
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New York
Jranch Toreau
Anita Brown
Portieth Street
Brooklyn
Thaiil
BARON VON STEUBEN CALLED FRENCHMAN BY SOCIETY LEADER
Indianapolis Ind 4 B Gardiner secretary general of the Society of Cincinnati claims Baron de Steuben was a Frenchman not a Prussian. He says Steuben born German renounced Prussia and pledged to France when aiding American revolution and that expatriation followed a glorious seven years war record.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Baron “von” Steuben
Baron “de" Steuben
B. Gardiner
Society of Cincinnati
Baron “de” Steuben
Prussia
France
America
Gardiner
Steuben
Diaries From Captured U-Boat Commanders Endorses Destroyers
Diaries recovered from captured U-boat captains document destroyers as the most effective weapon against submarines. Convoying merchant ships strengthens offensive power, with destroyers detecting torpedo wakes and attacking with depth charges. Several submarines are described as destroyed or crippled in recent weeks, including an interned U-boat in Spain and a German sub sunk after near-contact torpedoing of a US-bound ship.
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Spain
Germany
United States
How German says tank in wartime dispatches
Washington reports a long German term used in official dispatches to denote a land vehicle of war. The word schutzentrabenver notigung automob ile translates roughly to a machine for suppressing shooting trenches, a concept akin to the English tank in its war function.
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Washington
Sneeze Breaks Glasses In Car Crash
Rochester physician Dr D J Corrigan of Webster is in St Marys hospital after a sneeze caused his face to strike the steering wheel. His eyeglasses shattered and a glass shard entered his eye as he returned from Fairport. Doctors strive to save his sight in one eye.
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Rochester
N. Y
D. J. Corrigan
Webster
St. Mary’s Hospital
Fairport
Pershing Pie Request Sparks Salvation Army Tale
Chicago readers learn how Ensign Mary Sheldon answered General Pershing’s request for an appreciated gesture by baking pies for him. The anecdote ties to Salvation Army efforts during wartime and features a vivid scene from Sonoma California where Antoinette Marcucci, five, was gored by a bull while watching stock driving, her red dress torn as her mother and father acted to fend off the animal.
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Chicago
Mary Sheldon
Salvation Army
Pershing
France
D. W. Agnew
Salvation Army Ber
General Pershing
Ensign Sheldon
Schellville
Denmark Reconsiders Spy Leniency Amid War Costs
Danish parliament debates stricter punishment for spies amid rising losses to foreign agents. Premier Zahler distinguishes between foreign operatives and Danish traitors, noting espionage as a wartime burden. Nearby Evansville plans to pioneer rabbit canning to reduce meat costs, with Kentucky towns supplying 50 000 to 60 000 rabbits yearly.
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Zahler
Denmark
Irving
Evansville
Green River Territory
Kentucky
Dyer
Owensboro
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