World War News From Front Lines and Disclosures
Russian forces push toward Bucharest as German and Austro German troops close in from northwest and southwest. Romanian towns Tromana and Campulung reported captured with 1,200 Romanians taken prisoner. Greek government offers six mountain batteries. Entente seeks reparations. Russian troops arrive in Bucharest area. British casualties for November numbered 74,650 with 2,351 officers.
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Bucharest
Petrograd
Bavoty
Entente
Athens
Piraeus
de Fournet
Carpathian Asses
Galicia
Black Sea
Falkenhayn
Mackensen
London
Kirlibaba
Carpathians
Pretrograd
Carranza Forces Reoccupy Chihuahua City in Mexico
Announcement from Juarez confirms Carranza troops have reentered Chihuahua, driving out Villa bandits. Report notes ongoing unrest and strategic shifts in the Mexican conflict as forces consolidate control.
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Juarez
Mex
Carranza
Chihuahua
Statue of Liberty banquet theme Peace and Liberty remarks
President Wilson spoke at the Liberty illumination banquet asserting peace comes with liberty. Two men were arrested for attempting or seeing the President. Mayo Clinic research in Rochester announced findings on infantile paralysis germ and possible link to streptococcal forms. A Baltimore & Ohio freight train collided with a street car in Springfield killing Miss Sarah Morgan and injuring others. Charles Westcott, besieged by police in Philadelphia, died by suicide after murdering a woman and wounding two officers. Louis Pitli of St. Louis had his automobile stolen, with his four year old daughter sleeping in the back seat and later abducted.
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Wilson
New York Harbor
President Wilson
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Sarah Morgan
Baltimore & Ohio
Springfield
Philadelphia
Charles Westcott
Louis Pitli
St. Louis
Vitti
Washington reports German sub commander claims Marina incident
The German submarine command er reports to its government that it took the Marina as a British transport after sinking the horse ship with six Americans lost. Germany seeks US information on the ship status and offers indemnity if owed. Also noted are martial law in Santo Domingo and a move to establish a military government.
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Washington
Marina
Germany
United States
Republic of Santo Domingo
Daniels
Clarry F. Knapp
Dominican
Republic
England Faces Political Crisis As Lloyd George Resigns
The London Morning Post reports Japan lends 500000 dollars to bolster British credit in the United States amid a sharpened political crisis. David Lloyd George reportedly tendered his resignation as war secretary, not yet accepted, with Asquith set to advise the king on government reconstruction.
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London Morning Post
Japan
England
United States
London
David Liloyd-George
Asquith
President Wilson urges rapid rail labor settlement and reform
In a joint session President Wilson urges Congress to act quickly on rail labor disputes. He recommends enlarging the Interstate Commerce Commission, establishing an eight hour day for interstate railway workers, and authorizing a presidential commission to study results. He also calls for public investigation before strikes and war-time railway control, plus election finance reform and Puerto Rico changes.
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Washington
Senate
House
Wilson
Congress
Union
Interstate Commerce Commission
House of Representatives
Interstate Ecommerce Commission
United States
Commission
Porto Rico
Explosive Method Used to Cut Mast-Size Trees
The Engineering Record describes using dynamite to cut tree tops for logging masts. A rigger climbs the trunk to the desired cut point, ties a chain of dynamite cartridges around the trunk, affixes a blasting cap with fuse, and descends before detonation. The blast hurls the top from the trunk, leaving the tree ready for rigging and dragging.
All He Saw of Battle
A bluejacket recounts Jutland and a railway compartment tale. He notes respect from all aboard a train, reveals he is a stoker, and jokes that much of the bloody battle was nothing but coal.
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Bluejacket
Jutland
Stoker
London Mail
Not to Be Thought Of Fashionable Dames Discuss Weight Loss
Fashionable women speak openly about weight reduction efforts while denying any attempt to cut expenses, insisting their motives are personal and not financial. The exchange highlights social norms around dieting and public scrutiny in polite society.
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Porto Rico
Unsatisfactory Remedy Poem
A doctor tells a man that steady work prevents worry while the speaker confesses gout worsens with steady labor. The dialogue-like fragment contrasts medical advice with the speaker’s stubborn complaint.
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Henry
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Berlin
Malta
Karnay
Saloniki
Tromana
Campulung
Torzburg Pass
Macedonia
Jlill No
Monastir
Paris War Office
Oliver Us
Chicago
Charles W. Wax
Oliver
Wax
New York
James W. Osborne
Rae Tanzer
Osborne
Tanzer
Martin Wright
Morter C. Jones
Vermilion County
Indiana
Cayugs
Supreme Court of Missouri
George A. Kimmel Insurance
Kimmel
New York Life Insurance Company
Minneapolis
J. P. Morgan & Co
Ilinois Public Utilities Commission
the Utilities Commission
Central States
Des Moines
George W. Clark
Bo. B. Chassell
Plymouth County
State
Michigan
Brennan
Amarillo
Tex
R. B. Armstrong
Phoenix
Ariz
Federal Trade Commission
Europe
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