Americans Join Battle as UK Rails Help Turn Tide
American army engineers in France escaped German flanking by taking shell-hole cover near Gouzencourt and later fought with British forces. Major Kerth in Petrograd seeks U S protest over armistice talks. National Guardsmen from all states arrive in France and train near the front. Lieutenant Patrick O'Brien, 27, from Momence, Illinois, escaped a German POW camp and reached London.
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Gouzencourt
France
Kerth
Petrograd
Francis
United States
Entente
Russia
Germany
Patrick O'Brien
Momence
British Flying Corps
Western Front
London
Government War Measures Spread Across Washington
Secretary McAdoo opens the sale of war savings certificates as the fuel administration issues a coal delivery guide for government orders. Wilson raises anthracite coal prices by 35 cents a ton to support miners. Six National Army generals promoted to major generals. Draft rules harshen penalties for failure to register. National defense urges labor policy and an anti evasion drive by federal agents. A troop train wreck near Granger Tennessee injures about 80 soldiers. Investigation into the crash follows.
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The
Fuel Administration
Washington
Wilson
Council of National Defense
L. C. Marshall
Rockford
Granger
Camp Grant
Hig
European War News From Traparanda to Moscow Front
Dispatches report General Kaledines and 190000 Cossacks advancing toward Moscow after capturing Rostov on Don. British repulsed nine German counter attacks at Masnieres amid intense fighting and heavy German losses. Turkish assaults northwest of Jerusalem repelled with high losses. London report notes 1500 unionist delegates deploring Lansdowne letter. Cambrai front sees German progress then British recapture Bourlon wood area. November casualties exceed prior months with 120579 British officers and men killed wounded or missing. Lansdowne urges peace talks before further ruin. Bolshevik emissaries’ visit hints at a possible Russian truce. Austria signals willingness to follow Germany.
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London War Office
Palestine
Jerusalem
London
Britain
Washington
Germany
Austria
Laas
Illinois News Nuggets A mix of labor strikes and regional notes
Idle coal miners near Assumption protest wage increases under the national agreement. Chaddock school board rents a 187 acre farm for student labor with crop proceeds funding a dormitory. Fundraising underway for a memorial shaft to Dr. Orlando Godhour. Hog and calf thefts plague Rock Island farmers. Four minute men campaign against German lies and propaganda in Chicago. Camp Grant sent 600 men to aviation training in the South. Inventor Samuel Strobl faces murder-for-estate charges in Chicago. Carrie Crickett found dead in Chicago. husband and boarder held. Dr. James D. Banta jailed at Fort Leavenworth for narcotics law violation. High speed boats for anti-submarine duties delivered from Great Lakes. German Reform Church minister move to Freeport. Salt cure for soft corn touted by Hooppole farmers. Masonic cathedral cornerstone to be laid Dec 5. Jim Lewis arrested in Memphis? after shooting policemen. Lincoln mantel to be preserved in state museum. East St. Louis vote fraud probe yields potential indictments. Jeopardy over arrest posse returns to Duquoin unsatisfied.
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Assumption
Assumption Coal Company
Chaddock School Board
Big Brothers
Freeport
Orlando M. Godhour
Landers
Rock Island
Chicago
George R. Jones
Camp Grant
South
Samuel Strobl
John Swatik
Strobl
Robert B. Berg
George Schmidt
Svatik
Berg
Schmidt
Carrie Crickett
Iva Crickett
James D. Banta
Fort Leavenworth
Great Lakes
Bureau of Navigation
Thomas Z. Fagan
Aviation Corps
Great Lakes Training Station
H. Lehmann
Slater
German Reformed Church
I. Traeger
Oshkosh
Wis
Hooppole
Rockford Lodge
A. I
A. M
Scroggin
Jim Lewis
Dugquoin
Illinois Central
Memphis
Tenn
Lincoln
Mary Todd
Ninian Edwards
South Second Street
Springfield
State Historical Museum
Capitol
Emmerson
East St. Louis
L. N. Bundy
Bundy
C. A. Karch
Brundage
H. Hopkins
Oswego
United Mine Workers’ Union of America
Belleville
Miyois Food Administration
Reinhold Faust
Auditorium Theater
Bessie Duffy
Peoria
John Renfield
E. M. Armstrong
Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway
Red Cross
Adams Express Company
E. B. Mayhew
Illinois
Kewanee
Cleveland
General Assembly
John B. Meig
Maita
Frank Dewey
Dewey
Departments of Health
L. W. ¥. Kennon
Eighty-sixth Division
Rockford
Thomas H. Barry
War Department
Washington
Butler Lee
Danville
Westville
Grape Creek
Hanover
Jo Daviess County
Elizabeth
Galena
State Board of Health
Farmers’ National Bank
Minooka
Mastodon tooth found on Oswego farm and other 1919 items
A mastodon tooth weighing five pounds six ounces was unearthed on the farm of H Hopkins in Oswego. The report also notes plans for a $50000 Miners hospital in Springfield funded by the United Mine Workers, and multiple court, crime, and war detail items across Illinois.
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Oswego
Minere Plan Hospital
Three Die After South Interurban Collision Near Lansing
A south interurban struck a car at Willoughby crossing near Lansing Michigan killing all three occupants Grace Clements 20 George Edison Clements 11 and Lyle Hermon 23 all residents of Lansing Also killed was Mrs Helen Studebaker Henderson wife of Lucius Henderson and daughter of Jacob Studebaker founder of Studebaker corporation in New Rochelle New York In Illinois eighteen miners died in a gas explosion at Old Ben Mining No 11 near Christopher.
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South Interurban Limited
Willoughby Crossing
Lansing
Mich
Grace Clements
George Edison Clements
Lyle Hermon
Helen Studebaker Henderson
Jacob F. Studebaker
The
Studebaker Corporation
Lucius Henderson
New Rochelle
N. Y
Rochelle
Old Ben Mining Corporation
Christopher, Ill
Bolshevik Government Falls in Petrograd
Petrograd dispatch reports Lenine era ends with a coalition cabinet of advanced socialists including Bolsheviks. Mexican federal forces at Ojinaga repulse Villa attackers near Laguna with heavy losses. Juarez announces Sweden's Doctor Westman resigns amid Luxburg Stockholm message links. Copenhagen dispatch notes Nordic rulers fear Norway’s entry into war and potential German occupation of Denmark.
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Nikolai Lenine
Petrograd
London Daily Chronicle
Ojinaga
Laguna
Juarez
Mex
Copenhagen
Christiania
Norway
Denmark
Women Aid War Effort With Four Million Dollar Plan
The Young Women's Christian Association launches a bold war time program to spend four million dollars for women and girls. Within two months of the war declaration, a 50 year old organization fields a wartime council to aid women at home and abroad. Hostess houses near training camps and emergency housing for women replacing men in industry are key needs. Twenty workers are already in Europe with more en route to operate cafeterias in France and Russia and to provide rest spaces for nurses at the front.
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Young Woman's Christian Association
New York
War Work Council
Europe
France
Russia
Do you believe in self help asks Practical Theory
A quip from Practical Theory questions belief in self help with a sly reply that there is always something visible to use for assistance. The exchange riffs on self reliance and available resources.
Me Trust Hat Sign A Woman Favored Style Insight
A quirky remark notes that a hat less resembles a conventional style appeals more to a woman. The piece highlights a hat reading Me Trust as a sign of unconventional taste.
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U. S
Teutonic War News
Union
McAdoo
National Army
George Ul, Cameron
George W. Read
Charles T. Menoher
Charles C. Batlou
Andre Brewster
Charles A. Muir
Crowder
War Trade Board
Traparanda
Sweden
Kaledines
Rostov-on-Don
Moscow
Marquis of Lansdowne
Bonar Law
Asquith
Balfour
Paris
Wield Marshal Ualy
Cambrai
Bourlonwood
Mouevres
Cambrai-Bapaume
la Vacquerie
Couzeaucourt
Alse
Pubvcntion
Tie
Ilinois
Westman
Luxburg
Stockholm
Cascara
Dodd
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