Global events recall and wartime policy shifts
A digest of world and domestic notes: China protests a US Japan treaty clause via its minister Dr. K Wellington Koo. Rhode Island’s Governor Boeckman travels to London to convey a message to American troops. Wilson implements bread standardization with license rules aimed at lowering loaf prices. Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani dies in Honolulu. Russia’s crisis not altering US relief stance. Suffragists urge WWI era Congress for woman suffrage, led by Anna Shaw. The draft questionnaire will classify nine million men, with all married men placed in the non-belligerent class.
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United States
Japan
China
State Department
K. Wellington Koo
Minster
R. L. Boeckman
Rhode
Wilson
New England
Food Administration
Liluokalani
Hawaii
Honolulu
Russia
National American Woman's Suffrage Association
Anna Monard Shaw
America
President Wilson appeals for labor unity in war effort
President Wilson urges full support of organized labor at the American Federation of Labor meeting in Buffalo, praising Samuel Gompers and urging cooperation across factions. He denounces pacifists and criticizes Germany, while noting Russia reforms and warning about German power.
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American Federation of Labor
Buffalo
N. Y
Samuel Gompers
Germany
Russia
R. N. Johnson
Royal Flying Corps
John J. Mahoney
139Th United States Aero Squadron
Fort Worth
Texas
Ohio
Secretary of State
Prohibition
Canada
Daniels
Bryan
Washington
District of Columbia
Brooklyn
Hans Berg
Appam
Fort McPherson
United States
War era turmoil and fires sweep New York headlines
Secret service agents uncover foodstuffs and other property valued at over 73000000 stored in New York City warehouses. A Washburn Wire factory fire in New York harbor area causes nearly two million in losses. Ohio women’s suffrage gains and various war news from Europe fill the page.
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Secret Service
New York City
Washburn Wire Company
United States
News Review of the Past Week
Edward W. Pickard surveys a turbulent week amid Russian upheaval with the fall of Kerensky, the rise of the Bolsheviks, and loyal Soviet women at Petrograd. He notes Italian retreats to the Livenza, Passchendaele gains for the British, Allied war aims at Paris, and Japan US talks on war supplies and China. The piece also covers U-boat activity, German political shifts, and the U.S. war mission to the Paris conference.
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Passchendaele Ridge
America
Paris
Edward W. Pickard
Kerensky
Russia
Nikolai Lenine
Bukhmete
Petrograd
Khronstadt
M. Bakhmeteff
Germany
Winter Palace
Aurora
St. Peter and St. Paul
Lenine
Leon Trotsky
Council of Soldiers
London
Moscow
Tallane
Livenza
Count Cadorna
Tagliamento
Piave
Dorna
Mincio
France
Great Britain
Italy
Venice
Cadorna
Passchendaele
Douglas Hinty
Flanders
Regnar
Aisne
Allette
Prench
General Allenby
Dlestine
Beersheba
Gagan
Alcedo
John T. Melvin
G. W. Childs Drexel
Philadelphia
Rochester
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Admiralty
von Hertling
Count von Hertling
Reichstag
Junkers
Submarine Debate Highlights Naval Architecture Meeting
Speakers at the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers predict subs will shape future defense with contra submarines and fleets off American coasts. Simon Lake cites the Deutschland and U-53 as examples while Cmdr Land argues subs can fight subs. Marely Hay questions Germany’s submarine totals and pace of output.
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New York
Society of Naval Architectes
Marine Manineers
Simon Lake
North Atlantic Seaboard
Land
United States Navy
Lake
Marely
Hay
Germany
Clemenceau Forms Rapid New French Cabinet
Paris reports a new French cabinet under Premier Georges Clemenceau finalized within 24 hours. The lineup includes Pinchon as foreign minister, Nall as justice, Pama interior, Klotz finance, Leygues marne, Clementel commerce, Claveille public works, Louch eur munitions, Laferrre instruction, Simon colonies, Coltiard labor, and Boret, a radical coalition vote approving party participation.
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Paris
M. Clemenceau
Poincare
George Clemenceau
Stephen Pinchon
Louis Nall
Jules Pama
Louis Klotz
Marne
George Leygues
Etienne Clementel
Albert Claveille
Louis Loucheur
Louis Lafferre
Henri Simon
Gcoltiard
Victor Boret
Cleménceau
Henry Ford Joins Shipping Board Staff
Henry Ford joins the Shipping Board staff as a special assistant to Charles Plez to apply his standardized production methods to shipbuilding. He will speed up the merchant fleet program by introducing multiple production techniques used in automobile manufacturing.
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Washington
Henry Ford
The
Shipping Board
Charles Plez
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Measles and Pneumonia Hit National Guard Camps
Health reports for the week ending November 9 show measles and pneumonia as the dominant illnesses among men in national guard and national army camps. Sick and injured rates were 339 per thousand in guard camps and 25.2 in army camps. Fort Funston Fort Riley Kansas reported 24 new pneumonia and nine new meningitis cases.
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Washington
National Guard
National Army
Camn Funston
Fort Riley
Kansas
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