Italy Declares War on Turkey Amid Navy Engagement
Italian warships attack Turkish destroyers off Epirus and sink one in Prevosa harbor. Italian cabinet declares war effective 2 30 pm Friday September 29 after a Turkish reply deemed unsatisfactory. Turkish forces report casualties and troop landings near Prevosa.
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Rome
Italy
Turkey
Constantinople
Turkish War Ministry
Paris
Tripoli
Said Pasha
Kismil Pasha
Mahmoud Shefket Pasha
Salonika
Prevosa
Epirus
Matin
Athens
Venitza
Greece
Tonian
New Orleans Girl Charged in Family Poisoning Case
Annie Crawford, arrested in New Orleans on an alleged murder charge, admits giving morphine to her sister Elise by mistake while intending calomel and soda. Police pursue links to a supposed Lucretia Borgia pattern as three other Crawford family members died under mysterious circumstances in the past fifteen months with Annie as beneficiary on their life policies.
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New Orleans
Annie Crawford
Elise
Miss Crawford
Presbyterian Hospital
Crawford
Taft Receives Italy declares war on Turkey news
In Ottumwa Iowa President Taft learned of Italy's declaration of war on Turkey via Associated Press dispatches handed to him on his train. He showed deep interest and asked for more details but offered no comment.
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Taft
Ottumwa
Iowa
Italy
Turkey
Associated Press
Relative War Strength Of Italy And Turkey
In the wartime briefing Italy declares war on Turkey. Italy shows 1,046,000 total war strength with 1,200,000 available for duty and 806,000 reserves. Turkey lists 725,000 total war strength with 2,000,000 available for duty and 350,000 reserves. Navy figures cite Italy with 7 modern battleships and 29,941 sailors. Turkey with 5 old battleships and 30,800 sailors.
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Turkey
Italy
Italian Turkish quarrel over Tripoli ends in declared war
Italy accuses Ottoman Turkey of failing to protect thousands of Italians in Tripoli and asserts readiness to act. Arabs oppose Italian encroachments and threaten Italians. After Italy's ultimatum to Turkey, Rome reports Turkey's reply unsatisfactory and war is declared.
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Tripoli
Africa
Italy
Turkey
Rome
Mob lynches white man in Desha county jail
In Dumas Arkansas a mob 50 to 100 men overpowered deputies at the Desha county jail and hanged Charles Malpass Sr. after a battle at his home that killed Sheriff W D Preston Deputy Sheriff Barney Stiel and two mulatto sons. Malpass and his wife being attacked, the mob dispersed quietly as authorities report unknown members.
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Sheri Barney Stiel
Malpass
Charles Malpass
Imegress
Mug Latto
Nation's Health Worth 540 Billion, Wiley States
Dr Harvey W Wiley of Washington DC, head of the agricultural department chemistry bureau, told the National Conservation congress in Kansas City that the health of the nation is worth 540 billion dollars. He based the figure on 600 dollars per person per year for 45,000 wage earners, each a 12000 dollar capital earning five percent.
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Kansas City
Harvey W. Wiley
Washington, D. C
Federal Agricultural Department
Chemistry Bureau
Wiley Pure Food
National Conservation Congress
Sea Island Growers Postpone Meeting in Valdosta
Sea Island Cotton Growers convention in Valdosta Ga was indefinitely postponed due to the absence of Charles S Barrett president of the Farmers union. Delegates reported the entire sea island cotton crop had opened and is nearly out of the fields though harvest normally continues after Christmas.
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Sea Island
Valdosta, Ga
Sea Island Cotton Growers
Charles S. Barrett
Farmers’ Union
Lumber Combine Rules Threaten Twenty States Trade
Government sues to enjoin the Lumber Secretaries Bureau of Information and sixteen associations alleging spying blacklists and territorial divisions. The suit claims a conspiracy to fix prices and restrain trade across twenty states including Georgia Alabama Tennessee Mississippi Louisiana with involved groups in Colorado Wyoming Michigan Indiana Ohio Illinois Wisconsin Nebraska and Texas.
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Denver
Lumber Trust
Chicago
Lumber Secretaries’ Bureau of Information
United States
Department of Justice
Lumber “Trust
Michigan Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association
Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association
Secretaries’ Bureau
Colorado and Wyoming Lumber Dealers’ Association
Central Bureau
Colorado
Wyoming
Clearing House
Northwestern Lumber Association
Southwestern Lumber Dealers’ Association
Michigan
Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association
Indiana
Ohio
Illinois
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Western Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association
Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association of
Tennessee
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Pennsylvania Lumber Dealers’ Association
The
Lumbermen’s Association of
Texas
Retail Lumber Association of
West Tennessee
Kentucky
Cotton Dealers Confer in Troy on Buying and Selling Practices
Cotton dealers from New England and the South and Southwest met in Troy New York to discuss the best methods for buying and selling cotton. The conference considered ways to adjust price differences between southern shippers and New England buyers and promised an issued statement once a definite understanding is reached.
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Troy
N. Y
White Hope
New England
Flood Devastates Austin Valley Killing and Wrecking Homes
The Austin flood and ensuing fire leave a ghost town scene with three hundred or more believed dead and property losses around six million dollars. Costello and surrounding towns suffer extensive damage while Wharton remains largely intact. Dozens of buildings and mills are wiped out in the Allegheny valley.
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Austin
Allegheny
Austin and Costello
Costello
Wharton
Rapid Temperature Changes Across Regions Reported
The weather bureau bulletin notes rapid temperature swings expected in northern United States with milder warmth in the South and Pacific coast. Above normal precipitation predicted overall except Gulf and South Atlantic coasts. Unsettled conditions and rain focus early week east of the Rockies, then move through the Central Valley to the Eastern states, following a cold spell with frost in the Northwest and Northern states.
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Washington
United States
Pacific Coast
Weather Bureau
Gulf
South Atlantic
Rocky Mountains
Rockies
Central Valley
Eight Dias Children Die In House Fire Near Indiana Pa
Eight children of Mr and Mrs William Dias aged 13 years to 3 months died when fire destroyed the family home at Heshbon near Indiana Pennsylvania. The parents discovered the blaze and tried to save them but could not reach the beds. They escaped to the first floor.
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Indiana
William Dias
Heshbon
United States Pending Formal Neutrality Proclamation
Washington reports the American neutrality declaration in the Italian Turkish war awaits the President's signature before issuance. The State Department is ready to publish the proclamation the moment approval is received, prepared by Acting Secretary of State Atlee at the onset of hostilities.
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America
Washington
State Department
Atlee
Fowler Abandons Transcontinental Flight At Gap
Emigrant Gap California aviator Robert G Fowler quits his attempt to cross the continent as engines fail to bite in the thin air over the Sierra Nevada.
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Fowler
Emigrant Gap
Cal
Robert G. Fowler
Sierras
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A. W. Graham
Olga
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Inter- Eat
W. A. Hayes
Hillsboro
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Manchester
Franklin W. Hobbs
Brookline
Mass
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers
Hobbs
Lumber Combine
Southern
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