War Year Weeks Condense Key Global Events
Western Newspaper Union reports rapid war updates: Oklahoma’s Governor Williams rejects outside aid. German offensive checked near Slavs. Samuel Ferguson buried in San Francisco. Allied gains claimed at Dardanelles and Mesopotamia. Paris reports Champagne advances. British aerial raids and naval losses noted. large female medical student enrollments in London. standstill cited by German attacks near Lille. Britain’s treasury lists injury and property claims. Kaiser acknowledged Allied gains north of Mesnil and near V sur Tourbe. Champagne bombardment marked major action. Britain to expand aeronautical training in Toronto. multiple incidents including prison warden Harry Minto killed, Greek miners killed, and a deadly blast in Ardmore.
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War Office
Hill No 191
Feandon
Dardanelles
Mesopotamia
Paris
Champagne
London
Mesnil
Lossiges
VU Sur Tourbe
Cernay-en-Durn
Great Britain
Toronto
United States
New Mexico State News Highlights Oct Events and Incidents
Roosevelt County Fair at Portales and the State Fair at Albuquerque headline a busy period with meetings, new buildings, and community projects across New Mexico. Reports include a ship of ice plant from Durango, a 24 piece boys band in Magdalena, a new bank at Reserve, a 9,000 pound potato sale in Farmington, a corner stone for Albuquerque Y M C A, and fatal and nonfatal incidents around Silver City and Roswell.
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Vortales
Oet
Federation of Womena Clubs
Portales
Albuquerque
Magdalena
Union County
Des Moines
Durango
Farmington
Marcelino Dias
Silver City
Mimbres
Black River
Malaga
John Martin
Grand Jury
Socorro
Richardson
Lachita
Frank A. Hubbell
Clayton
Artesia
Marquias Melenado
Luna
Mayme Miller
Ladies’ Hospital
Jury Acquits Porter in Shooting Case
James L. Connell was acquitted by a Porter home shooting trial after two hours of deliberation. The case began with two failed indictments by grand juries, a third being returned, and a motion for remand denied. Bond remains $20,000 and venue was moved to Dona Ana county with possible appeal to the State Supreme Court.
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Western Newspape Union News Service
Las Cruces
James L. Connell
Ralph S. Connell
Porter
Tularosa
Mesca Lero
Otero
Dona Ana
State Supreme Court
Polavadera Land Grant Trial Moves Toward Settlement
After a decade of testimony, the Polavadera grant in Rio Arriba county nears settlement. Judge K R Hanna, former referee and now Supreme Court justice, reports ownership favoring two thirds to Perew of Buffalo, N Y, while dismissing claims under Miquela Martinez’s 1741 deed to Gabriel Quintana for lack of proof she was the grantee’s daughter. The grant includes timber land and was originally issued in 1766 to Juan Pablo Martin.
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Santa Fé
Polvadera
Rio Arriba
KR. H Hanna
Supreme Bench
Juan Pablo Martin
L. B. Prince
José Vicente Cordova
Rio Arriba County
Miquela Martinez
Gabriel Quintana
Perew
Buffalo
N. Y
Perews
Miquela
Forest District Leads Grazing Receipts in Two Months
Forest District No. 3, headquartered in Albuquerque, reports total grazing receipts of 45,510 dollars for the two months ending August 31, leading all districts. The district shows a decrease from the previous year in overall receipts for the same period.
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Albuquerque
Forest District
Reclamation completes Rio Grande canal tests in New Mexico
The reclamation officers report the east side canal test successful and water flowing through the system. A steel head gate replacement at McMillan reservoir will be paired with a concrete syphon under the Pecos river to carry water from Lake Avalon main headgate, with the syphon two feet long.
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Santa Fé
Rio Grande
Mesquite
Brazito
McMillan
Pecos
Lake Avalon
Lower Express Rates Promised by New Mexico Shippers
Santa Fe officials of express companies told the State Corporation Commission that a revision of the express schedule will automatically reduce fruit and vegetable rates below the present scale.
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Santa Fé
New Mexico
Santa ‘S
State Corporation Commission
Maxwell Grant Deal May Redirect Land Holdings
It is likely the Maxwell Irrigated Land Company will pass to Denver buyers within days. The closing would trigger construction of the Hebron dam, washed out in 1914, to start in October and finish the irrigation system quickly, costing 75 000 to 100 000 dollars and supplying water for 25 000 acres under the ditch even in poor seasons.
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Maxwell
Maxwell Irrigated Land Company
Denver
Hebron
Land business good in August at Santa Fe land office
The U S land office at Santa Fe reports a fairly good land business in August with 51 621 9 acres taken up and 3 174 dollars received from 249 entries. Of these, 105 were homestead original entries under the act of June 11 1906.
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Santa Fé
Uncle Sam
U. S. Land Office
Talk to Hawaii Wireless Phone Talk to Hawaii Wireless Phone
A fragment mentions Talk to Hawaii Wireless Phone in connection with a telecommunications service. No clear event, date, or outcome is provided to establish a full news item.
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Hawaii
Wireless globe spanning voice sent by radio first time
The Navy and AT&T with Western Electric reported the first transcontinental wireless telephone test from Arlington Virginia to Mare Island California and later to Pearl Harbor Hawaii, linking New York via metallic line to Arlington then across the continent. Officials hailed the milestone for military and potential commercial use.
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Western
Union
Washington
Great Naval Plant
Arlington
Mare Island
Cal
Bullard
Navy
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Western Electric Company
Daniels
Theodore N. Vail
New York
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Naval Radio
London
Paris
Berlin
Rome
United States
Telephone Company
Montauk Point
Wilmington
Del
Navy Department
Naval Station
West Indian Hurricane Devastates Gulf Coast
Reports warn the hurricane after striking New Orleans and reaching smaller Gulf Coast towns. At least 150 people are killed and property damage in New Orleans is near 2 million dollars as communications slow.
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John W. Bookwalter
Springfield
Ama Canal
Ardmore
Oklo
Pittsburgh
New Orleans
Chicago
Mobile
Ala
Gulf Coast
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Williams
Oklahoma
Petrograd
Sanuel F Ferguson
Father of
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London Medical
Herlin
Lille
Harry Minto
Oregon State Penitentiary
Olio Hooker
Harry Stamas
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Toyo Kixen Kaisha Steamship Company
Pacific
Leone Willie
Salandra
England
Istand
Commerce and Industry
M. Weinstein
Council of the Empire
The
Red Cross Society of China
Shanghai
Funston
Progreso
Tex
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Katholikos
de M. Symbad Gabriel
Armenian General Progressive Association
Turkey
Association of German Trades Unions
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Shreveport
Waugh
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Hoyle
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Philadelphia & Reading
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Coaldale
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Coaldale, Pa
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Broadway
Thirty Eighth Street
Missouri Pacific
Oreapolis
Neb
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Carlsbad
Deming
Mimbres Valley
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Ohio
RK. H. Raley
Orosande
Capitol Dome
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Hondale
Thomas Leathers
Roswell
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Juan Antonio Hinojos
Vegoso
Taos
Patrick D. McElroy
East Las Vegas
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Alger Upchurch
Vietirano Trujillo
Shawnee
Merle Wimmer
Venus
Henry Madole
Epworth League
Stag Canyon Fuel Company
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Mike Akarndakis
Steve Mikelidakis
John Varvakis
C. C. Hanna
Navy League of the United States
W. T. Hornaday
State University
el Rito
Harold B. Jamison
Harry B. Cornell
Polaverda Land Grant
Hanna
Maxwell Grant
First Territorial Bank
Lovington
Oscar Thompson
Jeff D. Hart
J. S. Eaves
C. L. Creighton
Lee Haywood
Lovington Grocery and Dry Goods Co
Lovington, New Nexico
Lovington Automobile Co
Republic
FORD
Daily Mail
Pearl
Monument
Knowles
Buick and
Saxon
Eddy County
Carlsbad Auto CO
J. S. Boyd
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