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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1917
Page
1
Washington November 13 report outlines changes in draft questionnaires for the 9,000,000 men registered for military duties. It clarifies exemptions and classifications, detailing how married men with dependents may be treated, and lists classes I through V for various employment and family scenarios under provost marshal rules.
Construction of the New Methodist State hospital finishes ahead of plan with a December 9 dedication. Rev G J Nelson reports a Sunday ceremony at Mitchell church with Bishop Mitchell as a principal speaker. Officials praise rapid progress despite wartime material shortages as the building nears completion for use early next year.
Mitchell Mayor J E Wells proclaims the fourth Tuesday of each month for six months as a community singing day. A five member committee will organize programs with rotating chairmen. The call invites Davison and neighboring counties to participate and support patriotic song sessions at city venues.
Paris reports the Painleve ministry collapsed after a direct chamber vote and resignation. Dismay on handling the Bolo Pasha affair, exoneration of M. Mary, and prosecution missteps noted. Crisis comes ahead of an allied conference. Clemenceau named as leading candidate to head a new government.
Washington dispatch reports President Wilson has activated federal machinery to avert a railroad strike during wartime. He will meet Nov 22 with Big Four railway brotherhood leaders to urge postponement and consider arbitration while aiming to keep transport running. Labor demands exceed prior eight hour claims, totaling about 109 million dollars yearly.
Italian headquarters report the Piave line holding firm against heavy artillery from the eastern bank. Austro-German raiding parties crossed near Zenson on pontoon boats but were repelled or routed by concentrated Italian fire. The fighting is described as desperate and sanguinary with German fire judged extraordinary from mid calibre guns.
In Rome for the evening parliament more than six hundred senators and deputies arrive from across Italy. The core demand is strong unity with the people and provinces to resist the government and the army against the invasion. Refugees from occupied areas continue to move southward and receive aid in every vicinity.
British forces repulsed a German attempt to recapture ground near Passchendaele in Flanders. The encounter yielded a decisive British victory as reported from London on November 14.
Berlin announces Austro German forces captured Prima Lang in the Sugana valley and Feltre west of the upper Piave river. The report comes via London and dated November 14. The seizure marks a notable advance in the Italian front as army headquarters confirms the taken towns and positions.
Rome reports a withdrawal of Italian troops in the north east of Asiago. The Piave front sees continued German pressure with crossing near Zenson repelled and an attempted Piave crossing between Quero and Fenere held off. Enemy losses described as severe while dislodgment remains incomplete.
Oliver Wilson of Peoria Ill master of the national Grange urged at the annual meeting in St Louis that the present war yields the price humanity must pay for an ideal to secure real lasting world peace and freedom for all. He also backed national prohibition and urged the Grange to push to end alcohol manufacture and sales.
After two hours of fighting in Ojinaga Chihuahua, Villa troops were driven from the town by Mexican government forces under General Cordova. The victory was officially announced at military headquarters.
Cloudy tonight with colder air sweeping into the southwest. Thursday looks to be mostly fair. Temperatures recorded by the Republican thermometer show daytime highs near the mid thirties and nighttime readings in the low thirties across the period. Continuous garbled timing data follows with inconsistent digits.
Buffalo N Y Nov 13 President Wilson urged unrestricted labor and the American Federation of Labor building trades department ordered all strikes on government work halted after plans for a Washington meeting with officials. The convention passed resolutions including extending the eight hour law to all railway workers.
New York November 14 Liberty bonds both issues declined as enlarged offerings appeared on the stock exchange. The 4s fell to 99.36 while the 3 1/2s, more active, touched 99.10 with selling blamed on holders needing to cover losses in stocks and other securities.
South Dakota man among the missing in the casualty list is Wounded and missing BE. Anderson Govukic of Minnesota. Wounded includes vance corporal KE. J. Heller of Ideal South Dakota. Railroading leaders to meet Wilson in Washington to discuss wage increase proposals for conductors and brakemen across the railroads on November 26.
Finnish dispatches report Premier Kerensky now in Petrograd and ruling most of the city after defeating the Bolsheviks at Tsarskoe Selo. Moscow is named as provisional government capital with Kaledines and Korniort in key roles as battles rage in the streets and Bolshevik influence wanes.
Stockholm dispatch says Premier Kerensky has entered Petrograd and that maximalist troops have joined him. The report comes via a Swedish news agency correspondent at Haparanda on the Russian border.
The Russian legation in Stockholm reports Premier Kerensky arriving in Petrograd with troops and defeating the Bolsheviks, per an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen. The claim places Kerensky in command during a victorious maneuver amid the Russian Civil War era.
Berlin reports say Vorwaerts and Germania greet the Russian peace manifesto with questions about Bolshevik retention of power. The paper asks if a three month armistice is feasible for peace talks, noting Germany’s stance against annexations and referencing the Reichstag July 9 resolution and the papal reply. Russian troops in France back Kerensky, pledging support and urging decisive action against Bolsheviks.
New York City reports a reduction in intercontinental telegraph rates between the United States and Central and South American points. The Mexican Telegraph Company and the American Cable Company announced the change, effective December 4, to boost commercial relations between the nations.
In Tokyo on November 14, Deputy General Oshani the Japanese war minister told reporters that sending troops to Europe is absolutely impossible due to enormous cost and lack of tonnage. Baron Takahashi, ex-finance minister, argues the army is short on ordnance and aircraft equipment.
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