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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1917
Page
8
The article notes America's first casualty in World War I as 67 deaths including 16 soldiers from the transport Antilles torpedoed by a German submarine. It remarks on crossers through danger zones and asserts that transport crossings and soldier passages have risen unimpeded despite submarine threats. It praises navy efficiency and national pride.
Virgil Larrison 17 Dewey Chattin Pansy Parsons and Orin Mc Kee are under arrest in Terre Haute for the murder of Greek taxi driver Andy Manos. Larrison confessed naming Chattin then recanted and gave a full account of how they lured, killed, and discarded the body near Nine Mile Island before burying it at Sugar Creek. They allegedly robbed Manos and fled with the car before police detained them in Washington Indiana.
A. G. Empey denounces Germany and its people in Evansville Indiana claiming the German people are the war’s foe. He urges internment for German Americans and says loyal Germans must fight the Kaiser while others belong in internment camps.
Jim Higgins attends a Republican club outing and meets Mary Foster in a moonlit boat shadow. A sob from Mary reveals vulnerability, and Jim offers help as a budding romance begins between the two across the street.
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