Monastir falls as Allied forces enter city
Monastir in Serbian Macedonia evacuated by German and Bulgarian troops after Saturday night and immediately occupied by allied forces. Paris reports the Balkan fighting highlight a turning point with Entente gains in Macedonia and shifting fronts across Rumaila and Romania as winter weather settles.
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Paris
Monastir
London
Serbian Macedonia
Berlin
Sayville
MuInam
France
Rumamia Aagam
Supreme Court model eyed for international justice
President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University suggested the U S Supreme Court as a model for an international court of justice at a World Court League luncheon in New York on November 21. Dr Butler argued independence from government is essential and German officials would deem it inconceivable. Theodore Marburg, former American minister to Belgium, said the aims of the World Court League and Enforce Peace League were not in conflict.
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New York
United States Supreme Court
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
International Court of Justice
Dr. Butler
World Court League
Supreme Court
Theodore Marburg
Begium
League
Germans Near Craiova In Romania Advance
The German war office reports Totonic troops approaching Craiova the capital of Western Wallachia, located 126 miles west of Bucharest, as part of military operations in Romania.
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Craiova
Berlin
Yville
German War Office
Romania
Wallachia
Bucharest
Wilson Finishes Annual Message Preview Summary
President Wilson near completion of his annual message to Congress. The focus will be domestic policy with bills on railroad reform after last August’s threat, export supplier cooperatives, conservation, a corruption measure, and the Porto Rico bill. Governor Yager of Porto Rico seeks action before Christmas recess. citizenship for Porto Ricans remains a contentious issue.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Porto Rico
Arthur Wager
White House
Yager
North Dakota Considers State Coal Commission
Fargo N D Nov 21 Creation of a state coal commission with representatives from multiple commercial centers is proposed to prevent a coal shortage as calls for supplies rise from numerous towns and the situation is called grave.
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Fargo
N. D
State Coal Commission
North Dakota
No Relief in Demurrage Raise
Chicago Nov 21 Witnesses before the Illinois public utilities commission agreed that the car shortage could be solved if consignors unloaded cars quickly. Testimony showed raising demurrage rates has little effect. W H Rotchford testified on a proposed scale of 2 1st day 3 2nd 4 3rd and 5 daily after. current rate is 1 after 48 hours.
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Chicago
Ilinois Public Utilities Commission
W. H. Rotchford
Western
Consignees
Chicaxzo Association of Commerce
Trainmen Injured As Dixie Flyer Jumps Track Near Wauhatchie
Three crewmembers were injured when the Dixie Flyer on the Nashville line jumped the track near Wauhatchie Tennessee Monday night. Six of ten cars derailed but no passengers were hurt. Officials cite spreading rails as the cause.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Chicago
Jacksonville
Fla
Chattanooga and St. Louis
Wauhatchia
Labor Aid for 8 Hour Law Fight
Heads of railroad employes brotherhoods meet with President Wilson to back the Adamson eight hour law and pledge aid against injunctions. They plan a joint AFL effort, discuss rail legislation, and aim to secure wage considerations in freight-rate cases while resisting any challenge to the eight hour law’s constitutionality.
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Washington
Wilson
Gregory
American Federation of Labor
G. Carroll Todd
Sssistant
Underwood
Frank Hagerman
Fixausas Cty
Union Pacific
Atchison
Topeka
Santa Fe
Brotherhoods
A. F
Baltimore
Adamson
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Evansville
Brotherhood
Mr. Wilson
Warren S. Stone
Engineers
Georgia
Thaw Gives Details Of Prince's Death
Lieut William Thaw and C C Johnson, returning Americans, recount Norman Prince's fatal last flight with French forces on the western front. They saw his plane grapple with wires after an air engagement and crash, noting his fatal injuries. The aviators also report 21 German aircraft downed by Franco-American units.
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New York
William Thaw
la Touraine
Lieut. Thaw
C. C. Johnson
Norman Prince
Prince
Daniels Awards Contracts For Armor And Plans
Secretary Daniels awarded armor plate contracts for the Colorado Maryland Washington and West Virginia to Bethlehem and Carnegie Steel. The 1918 naval estimates seek 379 million dollars, the largest in US history, funding battleships cruisers destroyers submarines and submarines tenders while plans for an ammunition ship proceed for the first time.
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Washington
Daniels
House Naval Committee
Congress
Navy Department
Colorado
Maryland
West Virginia
Bethlehem
Carnegie Steel
Pennsylvania
Department
House
Strauss
Europe
Navy
Admiral Strauss
Electric Boat Company
Electric Company
Seattle Construction and Drydock Company
Seattle
Bloodhounds in Posse Seek Suspect in double slaying
Lexington reports posses with bloodhounds scouring the area for the slayer of Callie Havener 22 and Rebecca Boatright 20, who were found shot to death at Boatright's home late Sunday.
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Lexington
Callie Havener
Rebecca Boatright
Bet on War End By October 1916 Liquidated in Amsterdam
In Amsterdam a $120,000 wager settled on whether the war would end before October 1916. Stock exchange groups made the bet last year and insured their risk with 10 percent premium policies. Winners receive $108,000. losers owe $12,000, with the insurance syndicate bearing the main loss.
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Mstierdam
Amsterdam
Stock Exchange
Special Health Train to fumigate Atchison Santa Fe cars
A four car special train will depart Fort Madison within 36 hours to inspect and disinfect bunk cars and bunk houses used by Mexican section hands and inmates to curb typhus fever. Doctors J P Kaster and M F Boyd will lead a large team in rubber suits with disinfectant tanks, following four typhus cases and one death.
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Fort Madison
Towa
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
J. P. Kaster
Fopska, Mkas
M. F. Boyd
Iowa State Board of Health
Labor Confronters Injunctions Across Nation
Baltimore reports labor leaders denounce injunctions as strident tool against strikes. AFL convention votes to make injunction questions central in politics while endorsing a Massachusetts ruling that labor is property and urging disregard of any injunction tied to employer labor relations. Topeka notes typhus case: Jesus Lopez, a Mexican railroad worker, quarantined with family. box car fumigated.
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Baltimore
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Committee On the Executive Council
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Topeka
Kan
Jesus Lopez
One Switchman in Every Five Killed
New York statistics on railroad switchmen and yardmen show 2243 killed or injured in July to September 1915. The year total reached 9,732, about one in five of 45,000 workers. W H O Keefe of Michigan Central testified that an eight hour day is unworkable.
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New York
Board of Arbitration
United States
W. H. O’keefe
Michigan Central Railroad
Explosion Claims Three Lives in Fairfield Fire
Bridgeport Conn Nov 21 Three deaths have occurred and three others are expected from the burning of the homes of Joseph Razse in Fairfield The father mother and a three year old girl are believed dying of burns Two small boys died soon after and a baby born to Mrs Razse in the hospital died later The fire started from an explosion of kerosene
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Bridgeport
Conn
Joseph Razse
Fairfield
Case against McDaniel advances in Missouri court
In St Joseph Missouri on November 21 prosecutors laid out circumstantial detail in the murder of Harriet Moss McDaniel wife of prosecutor Oscar D McDaniel A key witness Dagmar Krucker former wife of a St Joseph businessman was subpoenaed as a state witness Bloodstained pillow case from the slain woman was shown to the court provoking an emotional reaction from family members The defense pressed for motives and alleged rival suspects while the state sought to refute theories of robbers entering the home prior to the July 14 attack
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ST. Joseph
Oscar D. McDaniel
Criminal Court
Harriet Moss McDaniel
McDaniel
Dagmar Krucker
W. H. Heath
Irington
McPaniel
Bane MM. Lockwood
Harriet Moss
Ailense Moss
Commend Papers That Decline Liquor Ads in 1900s
The National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in its annual session praised daily newspapers and 68 weeklies that refuse liquor advertising. It urged papers to drop such ads when contracts end. It also backed equal political rights for women and viewing the ballot as a tool to curb liquor traffic, supports living wages and equal pay, and reaffirmed the push for constitutional prohibition.
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Ndianapolis
Tndd
National Women’s Christian Tardenry
Union
Amb
Physician of Northeast Missouri Dies in Memphis
Dr. John E. B. Parrish, a leading physician of northeast Missouri, died at his Memphis home Monday morning after years of poor health. He leaves a widow and a son, Dr. Parrish, also a Memphis physician. Funeral services will be at the First Presbyterian church at 2 oclock Wednesday afternoon.
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Memphis
John EB. Parrish
Missouri
Parrish
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