Germans take Lodz in Poland a major victory
Berlin reports German forces occupy Lodz the second city of Poland, a 75 mile drive southwest of Warsaw. Desperate battles raged around the city as heavy shelling and hand to hand fighting occurred, with advances west of Piotrkow and near Glowno toward the Vistula. Lodz, once a thriving center, rises as a crucial base for further push toward Warsaw.
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Lodz
Poland
Warsaw
Piotrow
Glowno
Vistula River
Germans Drive on Front in Central Poland as Lodz Falls
Unofficial reports from Petrograd indicate a major German advance across central Poland, with fighting near Trow and north of Lodz and at Piotrkow. About 380 miles of flank gains between the Vistula and Warthe rivers, Russians reported in Plock and near Gomlin, with German forces potentially severing Russian supply lines and threatening Cra cow. Telegraph lines describe heavy storms limiting updates.
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Lodz
Poland
Petrograd
Trow
Piotrkow
Vistula
Warthe
Plock
diHs
Kalisz
Czenstochowa
Cracow
Mrs Vanderbilt Loses 10000 Necklace in New York
Mrs. W K Vanderbilt Jr advertises for the return of a pearl necklace valued at 10000 with more than 200 stones and a locket. The loss occurred days ago during a visit to scalp specialist John I Gleason at 56th street. No questions asked on return.
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New York
W. BK. Vanderbilt, Jr
John I. Gleason
Gleason
Mrs. Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Florida
Cuba
Florida East Coast Railroad
Suffrage Distrusts Political Parties
Hartford woman's plea to the Socialist group argues equal franchise is key to workers' freedom, condemning any party coalitions. Emily Pierson declares suffrage should not be tied to any party and predicts long battles ahead, noting anti suffrage comes from leisure class women fearing working class enfranchisement.
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Hartford
Emily Pierson
Open Forum
Miss Pierson
Progressives
Prohibitionists
Fragmentary note reports bombs and conference details
The fragment mentions bombs on a date and a conference held in Bre desday with unclear officials or events. It references Kaiser and a potential fate on a Wednesday. Details are incomplete and names are unclear.
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Kaiser
Bredesday
Dye famine threat in American textile trade warned
A Boston News Bureau report quotes a textile authority warning that the dye stuffs famine has begun with major denim mills withdrawing lines. They foretell two months of supply, possible mills' shutdowns, and scarce blacks and whites in hosiery as war disrupts dyes worldwide. An American visitor to England describes Britain’s secret naval buildup with six super-dreadnoughts and eight battle cruisers planned for Devonport and Portsmouth, plus new turret arrangements and oil-fueled ships immune to torpedoes.
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Boston
England
Devonport
Germany
Britain
Jellicoe
North Sea
Atlantic
Royal Navy
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Navy Yard
Provisions of Lucius Tuttle's Will Unearthed
Hartford reports the will of Lucius Tuttle former president of the Boston and Maine Railroad filed in Norfolk county probate. MIT receives a $50000 bequest. Trust funds of 100000 each are created for grandson Lucius Hill sisters Nellie and Ruth Miller and daughter Jennie Miller with income payments and principal distribution on death or issue. Residue left to Mrs. Jennie Miller with Old Colony Trust Company named executor and trustee. Will drawn November 25, 1914 with witnesses Poor Foster and Coolidge.
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Courant
Lucius Tuttle
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
Boston Globe
Dedham
Mass
Norfolk County
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brookline
Boston & Main Railroad
Tuttle
F. @. Tuttle Brown
Old Colony Trust Company
Jennie Downing Miller
Dayton, O
Lucius Tuttle Hill
Boston
Nellie Tuttle Miller
Ruth Miller
Dayton
Miller
John R. Poor
Frederick Foster
William Coolidge
Manchester
Blind 30 Years At 90 He Sees Again
Philadelphia dispatch recalls Captain Isaac Williams a Civil War veteran who had been blind nearly thirty years. At ninety he was operated on by Dr Mary Buchananan at Women’s College hospital and said he could see as well as on Gettysburg day. He greeted callers in his chair and mistook voices for faces.
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Philadelphia
Isaac Williams
Women’s College Hospital
Mary Buchananan
Pickett
Gettysburg
Sally
French Guns Force German Retreat on Multiple Fronts
Paris reports heavy French artillery increasing efficiency with Vermelles evacuation blamed on French fire. French guns destroyed a field fort on the Yser canal and silenced Verdun heavy guns while gaining success in Champagne. Unofficial tips claim disruptions to Metz-Woevre communications and a French advance near Jaesmes nils with Moselle approaches. Rail line hit by bombardment of Arneville, and a German supply train reportedly destroyed near Pogny.
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Vermelles
Bethune
France
Yser
Verdun
Champagne
Lorraine
Metz
Woevre
Jaesmesnils
Fort Wagner
Lesmesnils
Moselle
Pogny
Arneville
Police Give Crooks Identification Cards in Chicago Scheme
Chicago officials exposed a crime protection racket where crooks carried official looking ID cards to shield them from arrest. State's Attorney Hoyne cited confessions from Clarence Class detailing a system with Cigar Company cards and perforated stars. Indictments tied the scheme to wire tapping gangs and police officers, linking the Kirby Savings Bank collapse to this collusive network.
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Chicago
Detective Bureau
Hoyne
Clarence Class
H. & G. Cigar Company, Cigars and Tobacco
Kirby
Kirby Savings Bank
Crooks’ Benevolent and Protective Association
Judge Landis
Final Session of Sixty Third Congress Opens in Washington
Washington December 7 final session of the Sixty third Congress convened at noon as members from both parties returned from six weeks recess. The Senate and House faced a heavy calendar with about fifteen appropriation bills and major measures on rivers and harbors immigration and currency laws requiring swift action and possible filibusters in the Senate.
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Washington
Sixty-third
Senate
House
Congress
Coast Guard
Revenue Cutter
Foster
Barnhart
Taft
Adamson General Dam
Ferris
United States
Jones
Alexander Seaman
Underwood
Harwick
Georgia
Bacon
Democratia
Rivers and Harbors Committee
Public Buildings Committee
No Amen Corner Dinner Cancelled This Winter
The Amen Corner directors in New York decided to skip the February dinner planning to use the treasury for local relief. President Charles J. White cited a strong sentiment against merry making amid widespread need and announced a 1916 February gathering is possible with reservations already made.
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New York
Amen Corner
Charles JL. White
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