Rupture of Diplomatic Relations Follows Open Attack on Serbia
Balkan war news reports a Austro German army about 400000 men began offensive against Serbia from north and west. Bulgarian entry with Russia tensions. Greece hesitates. Saloniki supplied by Allied forces. Russia allegedly attacks Bukowina as Dvinsk front shows gains for Germany while French and German claims clash over progress in Champagne.
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London
Balkans
Bulgaria
Sofia
Drina
Danube
Saloniki
Serbia
Salonikd
Nish
Greece
Constantine
Venizelos
Turkey
Asia
Belegaria
Ferdinand
Radoslavoff
Austria
Germany
Russia
Italy
Rome
Rumania
Balkan
Bukowina
Czernowitz
Dvinsk
von Hindenburg
Ipetife
Challerange- Bard@scourt
St. Marie
Bankers Hear Farmer Needs At Farm Credit Meet
farmers from northern central and southern states spoke to 200 bankers in St. Louis at the Farm Mortgage Bankers Association convention. Peter Jansen Dan G Hughes and Mrs G H Mathis voiced agricultural concerns as William McC Martin outlined how federal reserve rediscount rates stabilize rural credit and lower loan costs for farmers and banks alike.
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ST. Louis
Farm Mortgage Bankers’ Association _ of America
Peter’ Jansen
Nebraska
Dan G. Hughes
Elevator Again An Operation
Augusta and Plymouth elevators ordered not to ship grain after foot and mouth outbreak at Colmar. Coe Dawkins & Co., local buyers, paused grain purchases. Dr Cale of Macomb issued a permit allowing shipments only if grain not raised within five miles of an infected farm, with affidavits to that effect.
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Augusta
Colmar
Plymouth
COE. Dawkins & Co
Cale
Macomb
Tésship
President Wilson to wed Mrs Galt within two months
Washington reports show President Wilson and Mrs. Norman Galt planning a private church or home ceremony within two months before Congress convenes in December. They will not wed at the White House due to formality. guests include family and close friends. a modest honeymoon is planned with possible trips to San Francisco and San Diego expositions and a Mayflower voyage.
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Washington
Wilson
Norman Galt
United States
White House
Mrs. Galt
W.H. Bolling
House
Philadelphia
Galt
Seaboard Air Line Plans Big Consolidation
Directors approve a merger with the Carolina Atlantic and Western railway and a $300 million mortgage. The consolidated company will be named the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company with authorized capital of $100 million, split into 1,000,000 shares with $27.28 million preferred and $40.041 million common issued.
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New York
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Carolina, Atlantic & Western Railway
D. Warfield
Consolidated Company
Seaboard Air Line. Railway Company
Defeat Carranza Force at Bavispe Pass
The advance guard of Villa’s army under Col Pablo Lopez met and defeated a Carranza force Sunday night at Bavispe Pass in western Sonora. The engagement lasted a day, but details were not provided in the message received by Col Hipoli, Villa’s financial agent at Juarez.
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Carranza
Paso
Tex
Villa
Col Pablo
Lopez
Bavispe Pass
Sonora
Hipolito Villa
Juarez
Rockefeller Jr to Speak at Colorado Chamber Luncheon
Denver Oct 7 John D Rockefeller Jr will deliver a speech during his Colorado visit as guest of honor at the Chamber of Commerce weekly luncheon. The gathering of businessmen will hear him speak at a local hotel.
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Denver
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Colorado
Chamber of Commerce
US Likely to Recognize Carranza Regime Soon
Conference of Pan American diplomats led by Secretary Lansing debates Mexico’s future amid questions of material and moral capacity. Washington believes Carranza’s military hold and pledges to protect foreigners meet recognition criteria, with plans to inform other nations as the meeting nears a likely decision.
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Washington
Carranza
Mexico
United States
Lansing
Washington Administration
Madero
Officers Elected at IBEW Convention in St Paul
The full inside administration led by President Frank J. McNulty of Springfield Illinois was elected late tonight at the convention's closing session after a temporary compromise between outside and inside delegates over district councils.
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ST. Paul
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Frank J. McNulty
Springfield
Ill
World Series Play by Play On The Whig Board
Quincy fans invited to witness World Series games with minute by minute play by play on the Whig bulletin board. Reports begin at 12:30 each afternoon and continue until the game ends as the Associated Press wire stays hot for the event.
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Quincy
Whig
The
Associated Press
Alexander
Hooper
Red Sox
Lawson Granted Bail In Murder Case In 1913 Riot
Colorado Supreme Court admitted John R. Lawson to bail of 35000 after a long appeal process. Lawson, a United Mine Workers official, was convicted of first degree murder in the killing of deputy sheriff John Nimmo during a riot near Ludlow in October 1913 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He remains jailed in Trinidad after a prior denial of a new trial, with Judge Granby Hillyer removed from strike cases. The decision sparked statements from John D. Rockefeller Jr. praising any step toward industrial peace.
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Denver
Colorado Supreme Court
John
R.lawson
Lawson
John Nimmo
Ludlow
Supreme Court
United Mine Workers of America
Trinidad
Granby
Hillyer
John, D. Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeller
Army of Indians and guards deployed to Clifton miners strike
Arizona National Guard of 1200 men was placed on readiness by Gov. Hunt to move to Clifton at a moment’s notice. Company F, including 70 Indian students from the Phoenix Indian School, departed for Clifton where 8,000 copper miners have been on strike for nearly a month. Additional troops may follow. Sheriff Cash said dispatches were sent to Clifton to assure mining officials they could return for safe conferences. The Western Federation of Miners local reportedly censored news to newspapers, though other sources said no censorship was in effect. Gov. Hunt dismissed rumors that non-union workers were being recruited to replace strikers.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona National Guard
Clifton
el Paso
Phoenix Indian School
Western’ Federation of Miners
Gov. Hunt
Arizona
Morenci
Earthquake Shocks Felt in San Francisco
A well defined earthquake shock was felt at 9 26 tonight with two distinct tremors causing slight building sway and rattling doors and windows. A milder disturbance followed at 9 35. No damage reported and no confirmations from other parts of the state, suggesting limited reach compared with last Saturday’s Pacific coast quakes.
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Sanfrancisco
Pacific Coast
Utah
New York Auto Driver Harry Grant Dies From Injuries
Harry F. Grant, a noted auto racing driver, died tonight from severe burns sustained ten days earlier while practicing for the Astor Cup race at Sheepshead Bay speedway. Grant had won the Vanderbilt Cup in 1909 and 1910.
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New York
Harry F. Grant
Sheepshead, Bay Speedway
eGrant
Record Crop Prospects Across Major American Crops
The October crop report forecasts record harvests for corn and wheat with corn valued at over 2.1 billion dollars at October prices. Yields for oats, barley, rye, sweet potatoes, rice, tobacco and hay are also projected to reach new highs though some crops face weather-related reductions. Wheat quality suffered from harvest time rain, reducing milling suitability. Potatoes and tobacco forecasts show declines or adjustments, but tobacco may exceed the 1909 record and oats, barley, sweet potatoes, rice and hay edge past historic highs.
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Washington
DETAINS OF ALLIES LOAN PERFECTED
New York October 7 minor details in the closing of the five billion dollar loan to Great Britain and France occupied the Anglo French financial commission. Lord Reading and associates visited J. P. Morgan & Company, agents for the underwriters, and it was thought the loan contract would be signed this week. Despite closed books two days, applicants from the west and middle west continued sending in bonds. Lord Reading and his aides expect to depart for Europe within a week.
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New York
Great Britain
France
Anglo- French Financial Commission
Lord Reading
J. P. Morgan & Company
Morgan
West
Middle West
Europe
Conclude Argument On Western Passenger Fare Increase
Counsel for western railroads and state railroad commissions concluded arguments before the interstate commerce commission on a proposed passenger fare rise in the western territory. The plan would add about one half cent per mile and carriers expect annual revenue gains between 10 and 17 million dollars.
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Washington
Western Railroads
Interstate Commerce Commission
Western Territory
Wall Street Markets Surge Amid Broad Buy Wave
Oct 7 reports a swift stock market rally led by Bethlehem Steel Baldwin Locomotive Crucible Steel Westinghouse and other majors with gains from 5 to 15 points despite bank and trust company curbs. Brokers from Chicago Cleveland Pittsburgh and other cities pushed heavy buying as public funds flooded exchanges.
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New York
Wall Street
Bethlehem Steel
Crucible Steel
Baldwin Locomotive
Westinghouse
The
Stock Exchange
America
Chicago
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Louisville
Kansas City
Denver
Germans seek probe into Baralong killings at sea
New Orleans dispatch reports Count Von Bernstorff instructed the German consulate to investigate affidavits from a British river steamer crew alleging that British marines aboard Baralong killed the captain and ten crew of the sunken German submarine after it fired on the Nicosian off Lundy on August 19. affidavits from Curran Clarke Palen and others allege the Baralong, claimed to fly the American flag, sank the submarine and shot six in the water. American and British officials declined to comment.
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New Orleans
Count von Bernstorff
Washington
Nicosian
Baralong
James G. Curran
Chicago
Edward+Clarke
Detroit
ma+arines
Curran
Leroy Young
Liverpool
Manning
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Federal Reserve System
Southern Railroads
Conbine
Seaboard Air Line
Carolina, Atlantic and Western
Ake
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National Guard
San Francisco
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