U S Unity Urged with Allies as War News Flows
President Wilson cables Col. House urging united plain and control among allies to maximize U S wartime resources. Pershing visits front graves of trench raid victims while draft rulings purge appeals and auto cancel exemptions. Kansas City missing since Sept 5 feared sunk by submarines. American patrol ambushes German troops in No Man’s Land after trench raid.
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Wilson
Edward M. House
London
United States
Colonel House
Pershing
France
Kansas City
Washington
Daniels
J. H. A. Muir
No Man’s Land
Hoover Says Food Speculator Must Go Our Duty as Loyal Americans
Washington activists quote the food boss urging removal of the speculator and hoarder as a patriotic duty. Edison and Hurley discuss rapid emergency fleet plans, including converting sailing vessels to steamers within thirty days. McAdoo announces a new taxpayer cooperation division in the internal revenue bureau to explain war revenue questions.
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Nferber Hoover
Washington
Thomas A. Edison
Naval Consulting Board
Hurley
Shipping Board
Tadison
Internal Revenue Bureau
McAdoo
Espionage Guilty Rulings Lead to Prison Terms
A federal jury in Auburn New York found four men including Clinton Pierce Angelo Cree and Charles Zellman guilty of espionage. Jacob Yellin a Detroit youth was convicted in Detroit for sending a threatening ransom letter to the son of an automobile maker. Yellin received five years in Leavenworth and a $1000 fine. Mme Marguerite Ober sues the Metropolitan Opera for breach of contract after being discharged for wartime policy on German operas. A hold up at the G W Farrell Limestone plant in Tfilisville Pa ends with a guard dead and $17000 stolen.
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Albany Socialiste
Clinton T. Pierce
Angelo Cree
Charles
Zellman
Charles Nelson
United States District Court
Auburn, N. Y
Jacob Yellin
Detroit
Mich
Bradset Ford
Automobile Ma
Yollin
Leavenworth
Mme
Marguerite Ober
Metropolitan Opera Company
New York
German light cruisers flee as British ships close in
British admiralty reports German light cruisers fleeing Helgoland with one in flames and another damaged. a German minesweeper sunk. Italian troops halt Austro-German crossings of the Piave. Austro-German forces pushed from the west bank of the Fagare zone. British forces claim capture of Jaffa in Palestine after a Turkish resistance. Goeben hit during air raid on Gallipoli and Constantinople. Russian fronts see Tsarskoe-Selo-Pulkova clash with siege at Moscow. Nice hosts rail convoys of French and British troops into Italy under General Fayolle. Piave embattled as Austro-German drive continues. Shipping losses rise with only one British merchant vessel sunk over the week. Dutch trawler Halbertije torpedoed off the Dutch coast. Passchendaele ridge sees heavy German casualties as Canadians launch a barrage counterattack. Two German aircraft downed in a British seaplane raid. depot at Tlandsnema bombed.
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Helgoland
Elgoland
Piave River
Fagare
Rome
Foreign Army Marches on Petrograd to Oust Bolsheviks
A new multinational army reportedly moves from the front toward Petrograd to free the city from Bolshevik control. Commanded by Star Captain Pavloff of the Social-Democratic workers party, the force aims to seize the capital.
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Gatcchina
Vetrograd
Star
Pavloff
Social-Democratic Workmen's Party
Waterfront Prohibition for Enemy Aliens by U S Marshal McCarthy
United States Marshal McCarthy posts orders barring enemy aliens from streets along New York's waterfront, enforcing security measures amid ongoing wartime concerns.
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New York
United States
McCarthy
Parcel post to France for troops extended year round
Washington reports Otto Praeger clarifies parcel post rules for American Expeditionary Forces in France. Parcels up to seven pounds may be mailed directly. Christmas boxes up to twenty pounds via Hoboken must arrive by December 5 while year round parcels face no holiday deadline.
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Washington
France
Otto Praeger
Europe
War Department
Port of Embarkation
Pier 1
Hoboken
New Jersey
N. J
Post Office Department
Prtrcel Post
United States
Post Office
War Departments
Accompaniment Device Uses Paper Reel to Display Lyrics
Singers can use phonographs to play accompaniments with a new attachment. The device displays the words of songs on a paper reel while the record plays.
Green's August Flower Promises Quick Digestive Relief
Green's August Flower has been a household remedy for constipation and liver troubles for decades. It claims to relieve nervous dyspepsia indigestion and related symptoms with a few doses, describing itself as a gentle laxative available worldwide and advertised in Holland's production figures.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Ad
Soft clear skins claim in an ad urging daily face washing with Cuticura Soap and hot water and applying Cuticura Ointment for pimples or dandruff. Promises a free sample by mail with a book and notes Boston department address.
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Dept. L
Boston
Natural Mistake and Wry Quips in a Dinner Scene
A humorous dialogue where a waiter admits soup misclassification blaming celery tops as feathers. The exchange includes a proverb about helping a friend and a quip about a wife's temper and a husband's reception. The piece blends whimsy with social observation in a lighthearted mood.
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Teutonic War News
Crowder
A. BD. Parrel
G. W. Farrell Limestone Company
Tfilisville
Farrell
Jaffa
Mediterranean
Palestine
Gallipoli Peninsula
Constantinople
Goeben
Sultan Selim
Serensky
Gatchina
Tsarskoe- Selo
Tsarskoe-Selo
Pulkova
Petrograd
Kremilm
Moscow
Nice
Italy
Fayolle
Berlin
Asiago
Piave
Venice
Germany
Amsterdam
London Daily Mail
Halbertije
Passchendsele Ridge
Tlandsnema
Zurich
Switzerland
Tloyd-George
House of Commons
Dodd
Bright
SPOHN
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen, Ind
U.S.A
Mother Gray
Mother Gray Co
le Roy
Holland
Seopa Br
David Roberts Vet, Co
Grand Avenue
Waukesha, Wie
Lorida
Fea Far
Manasota
Manatee County
Manasota Land and Timber Company
Baltimore
Sarasots
Old Colony Life Insurance Company
OLD Colony Building
Chicago
Old Colony Life
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Western
Ottawa
Can
C. J. Broughton
Freom
W. Adams
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