New Mexican Revolution Emerges In Chihuahua Territory
A proclamation signed by former federal generals José Ynes Salazar and Emilio Campa calls for a new revolutionary movement opposed to both Carranza and Villa factions. Their forces reportedly move toward Casas Grandes, with promises of a convention government and broad support across Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Paso
Mexico
José Ynes Salazar
Emilio P. Campa
Chihuahua
Casas Grandes
Juarez
Chihuahua City
Vera Cruz
Villa
Vado de Piedra
Geni
Salazar
Albuquerque
N. M
Fort Bliss
Texas
Campa
Huerta
Pascual Orozco
Orozco
New York
Ih Villa
Carranza
Fears for English Road amid Carranza threats
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice informed the U S State Department of a dispatch from Mexico City alleging Gen. Carranza planned to destroy the British plant railway between Vera Cruz and Mexico City by bombing tunnels. Carranza also seized British cotton shipments at Vera Cruz bound for interior mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cecil Spring-Rice
State Department
Chareé d
Mexico City
Carranza
Vera Cruz
Florida Hopes For Havana Run On Atlantic Coast Line
The Atlantic Coast Line advertises speedy service from Florida to Havana with a 36 hour claim and mentions superior roadbed and daily departures. The note highlights all Florida resorts reachable and a 1 218 day count reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Florida
West
Superior
Lusitania Delayed for Head Tax Collection on Voyage
The Lusitania faced an hour long delay as Cunard officials and State Street staff collected a new war tax from 900 steerage passengers aboard en route to Liverpool. First and second cabin tickets paid 1250, steerage paid 2700 totaling 5825 dollars. Capt. Roberts ordered the gangway lowered at 11 16 with a Liverpool arrival expected Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lusitania
Cunard
Purser
State Street
Liverpool
New York
United States
Bahead
D. J. Roberts
Daniel Dow
Winter Snow Comes With Cold Wave and Shelter Demand
A northeast gale brought sleet then light snow last night, with a thin coating melting quickly on streets. The storm spurred a surge of homeless to the Municipal Lodging House, overwhelming capacity and pushing 400 more to seek shelter in the recreation pier annex, which now houses up to 2,000 men after a $15,000 expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mio
Weather Bureau
East Twenty-fifth Street
Whiting
Pew
Recreation Pier
East Twenty-fourth Street
Henry B Joy undergoes operation for head clot in Detroit
Henry B Joy president of the Lincoln Highway Association and Packard Motor Car Company, is in Roosevelt Hospital after an operation by Dr Charles N Dowd for a head blood clot. He rests comfortably and expects to return to Detroit in two to three days. He was injured when a night drive hit a hole, throwing him against a windshield and lacerating the temple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry B. Joy
Detroit
Lincoln Highway Association
Packard Motor Car Company
Roosevelt Hospital
Charles N. Dowd
Automobile Board of Trade
Joy
Wcmp
J G Bennett Sails Away After Paris Marriage
James Gordon Bennett proprietor of the New York Herald sailed yesterday on the Lusitania for Paris via Liverpool after eight days in New York. He attended to business including a new will in light of his marriage to Baroness de Reuter in Paris on Sept 11. Bennett declined to comment on the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Gordon Bennett
New York Herald
Paris
Liverpool
New York
Baroness de Reuter
Bennett
Curtiss Plans Move of Aeroplane Factory to Buffalo
Glenn H. Curtiss will relocate his aeroplane factory from Hammondsport to Buffalo New York. A large part of the B H R Thomas Motor Car Company plant is to be used and airship and flying boat production will begin within a week. The move is prompted by the need for larger quarters and Lake Erie testing facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
N. Y
Glenn H. Curtiss
Hammondsport
BH. R. Thomas Motor Car Company
Lake Erie
Curtiss
Holiday Round Trip Fares to Southern Points
Southern Railway announces holiday round trip fares from Washington DC to southern points in Arkansas Texas and Oklahoma. Tickets on sale December 18 to 24 for Southern destinations and December 17 to 22 for Arkansas Texas and Oklahoma. For information and reservations visit the N. Y. Office at 264 Fifth Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Southern Railway
Washington, D. C
Southern
Arkaness
N. X
Fifth Avenue
Miss Jessie Cope Visited Providence on Bribery Case
Miss Jessie Elizabeth Cope came to Providence in August to consult attorney William H. Thornley about possible actions against Col. Charles Alexander. Thornley said she presented as a client seeking information and had no bribery intent at that time. she used letters and calls to contact Alexander and Hayes, stayed two weeks with her mother, and departed without further word.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Jessie E. Cope
Col
Charles Alexander
Providence
Alexander
Cope
L. C. Wheeler
Department of Justice
United States
Mason
Michael L. Igoe
United States District Attorney
Miss Cope
Igoe
Hinton G. Clabaugh
Cype
Igpe
Charles F. Clyne
Lucien C. Wheeler
Los Angeles
Col. Alexander
Cal
Jessie Cope
E. Zuber
R. L
Jessie Elizabeth Cope
William H. Thorney
Gardner, Price & Thornley
Mr. Hayes
J. J. Cope
Art Treasures Allegedly Sunk in River Scheldt
A Belgian official confidant claims that priceless works including Rubens Descent from the Cross were sunk in waterproof containers at the bottom of the Scheldt before Antwerp fell to the Germans. The informant notes Germans billeted in some galleries and that many paintings were once believed moved to England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antwerp
Scheldt
Rubens
England
Spy Betrayal Seals Fate of 500 French Troops
Dispatches from Dunkirk recount how a spy gained access to a church belfry at Lampernisse and signaled German artillery. German bombardment exposed the troops, killing about 500 soldiers as they slept on straw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Dunkirk
Lampernisse
British Cruiser Venus Goes Ashore in Heavy Storm
London December 5 A British cruiser Venus ran ashore during a south coast storm. The vessel struck with full force with foremast and part of the bridge carried away by a raging sea. Venus was en route to a southern port when the gale struck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Venus
England
Booth Steamship Company
Antony
Liverpool
Para
Lizard
Waterloo
Mersey
Highland Light Infantry Private Wins Victoria Cross
Private George Wilson of the Second Battalion Highland Light Infantry receives the Victoria Cross for conspicuous gallantry near Verneuil on September 14. He advanced with one comrade, who was killed, and he alone captured a hostile machine gun, shooting the officer and six men operating it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
George Wilson
Highland Light Infantry
Verneuil
Wilson
King George Returns to Buckingham Palace After Front Visit
King George arrived at Buckingham Palace this evening after visiting British forces at the front in France. The monarch’s return follows the troops’ front engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckingham Palace
London
George
France
Austrian Plane Drops Bombs on Cettinje
A Reuters dispatch from Podgorica reports an Austrian airplane dropped two bombs on Cettinje the Montenegrin capital. No damage was caused according to the report broadcast from London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cettinje
London
Reuter
Five Lost in Gale on Virginia Coast
Six lives lost and extensive property damage reported as a violent northeast gale hits the Virginia Carolina coast. Historic USS Constellation broke from moorings near Chesapeake Bay, while schooner William Donnelly foundered at Thimble Shoals Light. Coastwide distress lingers as wreckage washes ashore near Norfolk and Virginian Beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Norfolk
Virginia
Carolina
Chesapeake Bay
United States
Constellation
William Donnelly
Baltimore
John H. Phillips
Thimble Shoals Light
Willoughby Beach
Virginia-Carolina
Virginian
Atlantic Ocean
Lee Park
Ghent
Desperate engagements on front near Lodz and Poziom
Official reports describe heavy fighting along the Lodz region and roads west toward Piotrkow with armored cars attacking a large enemy column at night, causing serious losses. French, German, and Austrian fronts report limited gains, bombardments, and ongoing artillery battles across multiple sectors.
French Gain Upper Alsace In War News
Reports from Rerne Switzerland and Washington describe French gains in Upper Alsace near Altkirch and Damerkirch. French forces press to sever German lines while Belfort garrison repels counter attacks near Thann and Elirtsbach as artillery inflicts losses on German positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dec
Flanders
Lorraine
Upper Alsace
Belgium
Upper
Alsace
St. Mihiel
Meuse
Rerne
Switzerland
Paris
Basel
Altkirch
Damerkirch
Colmar
Sennheim
Milhausen
Washington
Belfort
Foreign Office
War Office
Thann
Elirtsbach
British Submarine Pressed Through Dardanelles
A British submarine attempted to force a passage through the Dardanelles but was detected by Turkish forts near Constantinople and apparently hit by shots from the fortifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Sayville
L. I
Dardanelles
Constantinople
Frankfurter Zeitung
Constellation adrift near Thimble Shoal near Norfolk
The historic frigate Constellation, rebuilt for the Star-Spangled Banner Centennial, lost way near Thimble Shoal as a northeast storm rages. Naval and revenue vessels, including the Uneas and Itasca, stand by to aid. Believed to be saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Constellation
Norfolk
Baltimore
Daniels
Navy Department
Louis Rudolph de Steigner
Norfolk Navy Yard
Ontario
Thimble Shoal
Uneas
Itasca
Newport
Congress
Atlantic
Washington Navy Yard
Father shoots son in Brooklyn building quarrel
Dr Jacob Wachsman found William Rexer Jr wounded in the abdomen after he alleged his father William Rexer shot him during a quarrel at their home. Rexer Sr was arrested and to be arraigned in Fifth Avenue Police Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Wachsman
Forty-seventh Street
Brooklyn
William Rexer
Forty-sixth Street
Rexer
William, Jr
Wachsman
Yong Rexer
McCarthy
Fennell
Hughes
Bexer
Fifth Avenue
New Pullman Service Asheville N C
New Pullman service from New York daily departs at 12 08 noon arriving in Asheville at 10 25 next morning. Sleeper car arrangements offered by the Pullman Company and Southern Railway. Five Avenue New York. Tie 264.
Cabinet Going to Paris for Government Reestablishment
The French Cabinet members depart Bordeaux for Paris to restore government. Briand leaves for Paris today. Ribot Maly and Doumergue plan to depart tomorrow. Sembat Guerde and Thomson head to Paris Monday. President Poincare is expected to follow early next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bordeaux
Paris
Aristide Briand
Justice
Alexandre Ribot
Louis J. Maly
Gaston Doumergue
Finance
MM. Sembat
Guerde
Thomson
Monay
Poincare
Serbian cabinet resigns. Pachiteh forming new ministry
A telegram from Nish to Stefani News Agency reports the Servian cabinet under Nikola Pachiteh has resigned today. It is believed Pachiteh intends to form a new ministry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
London
Nish
Servia
Stefani
Servian
Nikola Pachiteh
M. Pachiteh
Xmas Excursion Rates South Heart of Seaboard Rail
Promotional notice from Seaboard Air Line Railway advertising Christmas excursion rates to southern cities. Mentions dates around December 18 to January 1 and 184 Broadway New York as contact point. Dense OCR with partial phrases but identifies rail promo and travel window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dan
Ing
Seaboard Air Line Ry
Broadway
N.Y
King George Meets King Albert in Flanders Roadside Glimpse
In Dunkirk a historic roadside meeting occurred as King George VI and King Albert I greeted each other on a muddy road. The two monarchs spoke briefly, reviewed Belgian troops, and shared a quiet, cordial moment before continuing toward the frontier and Belgium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
London
Daily Mail
Dunkirk
Flanders
George
Albert
King George
Prince of Wales
King Alberts
Belgium
Portuguese Cabinet Resigns in Unison
Lisbon dispatch reports the entire Portuguese Cabinet resigned today in a unified move. An advertisement promotes the General Acoustic Co. aid for the deaf, claiming 150,000 people hear clearly with the Aconisticon at 220 West 43rd Street, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Lisbon
General Acoustic Co
New York
Advt
New German Front Forms Across Poland From Kutno to Cracow
London reports a major shift as German forces reinforce from the west creating a new line from Kutno to Cracow. Generals Danki Hetzendorf and Mackensen command segments while the Eighth East Army occupies the north, signaling a fresh battle against Russian forces with heavy losses at Lodz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
Lodz
Russian Siberians Crush German Forces in Poland Battle
Dispatches report a fresh Russian Siberian assault near Lodz and Rzgow pushing back German units. Descriptions describe a German graveyard at Kurpin and heavy casualties as Russian batteries dominate the wooded front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petrograd
London
Ledy
Russian Poland
Szczerczow
Cf. Piotrkow
Glowno
Lodz
Vistula
Lods
Brzeziny
Kurpin
Poland
Rzgow
Hand to Hand Battle for Lodz Cemetery Sparks Fierce Fighting
Lodz endured heavy bombardment and violent assault as troops fought hand to hand for control of a city cemetery. Casualties and house-to-house clashes were reported as the battle raged through the day with no clear breakthrough for either side.
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Salazar and Campa
Mer Huerta
Gen. Villa
Terri
José Ynez Salazar
Rio Grande
Madero
Alence
Santa Fé
Ojinaga
Sanderson
Concentrat Cml
Bites
Scott
Yerque
Mex
The
J. G. Bennett
Aeroplane Builder
U. S
Virginia Coast
Donnelly
Nantucket
Official Reports
Russia
Germany
Mets
la Bassé
Argonne
Altkireh
Austria
Vienna
Carpathians
Galicia
Lys
Weldendreft
Langemarck
Poesele
Dixmude
Ypres
Vineyard Haven
Mass
Tuckernuck Shoal
Nantucket Sound
Acushnet
Woods Hole
New London
Builder
Briand
Piotrkow
Cracow
Czensto
Chowa
Kutno
East Prussia
Danki
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