Russian Victory at Augustowo Ends German Push
The Russian general staff announced a victory at Augustowo on October 3 with German defeat complete. Turkish actions close the Dardanelles Bosphorus fortified with mines and artillery. Turkey also shells Black Sea forts. Allied forces push near Arras as Von Kluck’s offensive stalls. Paris buzzes with rumors of major French gains at the Aisne.
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Petrograd
Augustowo
Turkey
Russia
Dardanelles
Goeben
Breslau
Black Sea
Bosphorus
Kills
Rive
Karaburun
von Kluck
Roye
Arras
Paris
the Aisne
London Times
Earthquake Shock Felt Across Windward Islands
A prolonged quake rattled Windward and Leeward islands with Antigua Guadeloupe Dominica St. Lucia and St. Vincent reporting severe shaking. No damage details available. Onboard the Lusitania sailing to New York are most of the Americans who earlier traveled to Europe with Brig General Breckenridge for relief work. An epidemic of cholera has begun in Trieste driving residents to flee.
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Windward
Leeward Islands
Antigua
Guadeloupe
Dominica
St. Lucia
St. Vincent
Liverpool
New York
Lusitania
Tennessee
Breckenridge
Europe
Trieste
City
Noted Figures In News Amid War and Scandal
Personal Max Linder phone confirms he is alive and convalescent after war injuries. Mrs. Hardwick and two nieces escape unharmed from an auto plunge in Rock Creek park. she has a broken collar bone. Frank Liles’s suicide shocks readers amid hunting circles. A society wedding in New York unites Alice Lit tle and Saburo Kurusu. Nellie Higgs acquitted of Willlis murder on train. Anthony Petras acquitted in Theresa Hollander case. Aviator William D Piellar dies in Hempstead Plains crash.
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Thomas Hardwick
Representative Hardwick
Georgia
Rock Creek Park
Washington
Peace Prayers Rise Across Nation as Wilson Endorses Senators
Washington crowds join nationwide Sunday prayers to end the war. President Wilson endorses Senator Shively of Indiana and Chamberlain of Oregon for re election to the U S Senate in Washington.
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Wilson
Washington
United States
Hemisphere
Senator Shively
Indiana
Chamberlain
Oregon
U. S. Senate
Villa resumes campaign as Carranza refuses to resign
Gen Francisco Villa moves to prepare a campaign against Mexico City after Carranza refuses to resign as first chief of the constitutionalists. Carranza vows to send 100 000 troops. Vera Cruz evacuation slips from October 1 to October 11 at earliest, delaying American departure. An armistice is said to be declared across Mexico with Aguas Calientes as a neutral zone. Elections planned between October 5 and 10.
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Mexico City
Carranza
Constitutionalists
Francisco Villa
Villa
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Luis Aguirre Benavides
Aguas Calientes
Local Suspect Arrested After Fatal Car Incident
Nettie Wallace, 19, of Bradley 1 accuses Rich Sawyer of throwing her from his speeding auto and dies. Police arrest S. L. Sawyer who denies guilt claiming she fell from the car. A fire destroyed the entire business section of Duke Center Pennsylvania, starting at the Duke hotel and causing heavy losses.
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Rich” Sawyer
Nettie Wallace
Bradley
S. L. Sawyer
Duke Center
Duke Hotel
Illinois News Brevities Roundup From Duquoin to Joliet
A digest of obituaries and notices across Illinois: Duquoin sees death of three elderly residents Hiram Slawson 89 Mrs Margaret Wolf 86 and Mrs Katherine Linze 78. Bloomington records Justice William Hendrix 75 known as marrying squire dies. Georgetown incorp votes favor wet town pending license fee 500. Joliet recalls forger Little Jeff Sharun parole board hearing. Pana marks Jefferson Minnis and wife 63rd anniversary. Rev Joseph Tonnello reports travel perils. Springfield envisions a $3 075 million deep waterway linking Illinois river and canal with locks dams and new channels from Tas Salle to Starved Rock.
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Duquoin
Hiram Slawson
Margaret Wolf
Katherine Linze
Bloomington
William B. Hendrix
Squire
James Forester
Illinois
George A. Walden
Oak Park
H. M. Schemmer
Blue Island
W. J. Merriman
Chicago
C. H. Newcomer
Urbana
Daniel Dinneen
Decatur
T. J. Johnson
East St. Louis
Georgetown
Christian County
Bulpitt
Jerseyville
Joliet
Little Jeff’ Sharun
Sharun
Illinois State Penitentiary
Federal Parole Board
Sharon
Pana
Jefferson Minnis
Taylorville
Minnis
Springfield
Yorktown
Washington
America
Dunne
Illinois River
Tas Salle
Starved Rock
Michigan Canal
Walbridge Creek
Marseilles
Minois
Dresden
Sanitary District
Lockport
la Salle
Easy for a pretty woman to interest a man ad
A fragmented advertisement style item notes a maxim about romance and a joke about Christmas spending. It mentions Dr Pierce's Pellets described as sugar coated and easy to take for stomach liver and bowels. The tone blends social quip with a patent medicine pitch.
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Dr. Pierce
Quick Vaudeville Drummer Line Sparks Banter
A brief gag from a vaudeville theater recalls a drummer who must strike the drum precisely as the fat comedian lands a joke. The exchange humorously notes the precision required in the role.
Wilson story at Staunton crowds ends in laughter
President Wilson recalled an incident at Staunton Virginia where a small boy shouted Where is it. Where is it. The president paused his speech and replied I am it with a smile. The boy retorted I thought it was a dog fight Upshaw exclaimed in disappointment.
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Wilson
Staunton
Baldwin Seminary
Upshaw
A Clergyman's Testimony On Dodds Kidney Pills
Rev Edmund Heslop of Wigton Pennsylvania suffered dropsy for a year with swollen limbs and dizziness. After using five boxes, swelling vanished and he felt revived. He endorses Dodds Kidney Pills and remains convinced. Correspond with Heslop about the remedy and ordering details.
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Edmund Heslop
Wigton
EH. Heslop
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
Not So Very Strange Stray Story Quip
A wry quip about a loan and repayment circulates in Stray Stories. The speaker notes that Jones borrowed a dollar yesterday and paid back the same dollar today, highlighting the futility of changing the money. The remark underscores a common belief about wisdom without children.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Helps Young Women
Miss Bertha A Penguin of Sterling Connecticut reports relief from monthly fainting and female weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Miss Lavisa Myres of Massena New York says the tonic cured anemia and exhaustion with pimples and poor color. The notice urges young girls with painful or irregular periods to seek restoration to health with the product.
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Miss Bertha A. Penguin
Sterling, Conn
Massena, N
Lydia E. Pinkham
Miss Lavisa Myres
Massena, N.Y
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London
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Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Belle Isle
Port Louis
Aisne River
Aisne
Battle of the Aisne
War Office of the Republic
Berlin
Schermening
Emil Henigst
Oskar Reuter
France
Shea
Elsinor
Leipzig
Chile
Gallopagos Islands
Fort Vaelhem
Flanders
Antwerp
Her- Hin
van Kluck
Max Linder
Battle of
Frank L. Wiles
Alice Jay Little
James Jay Little
Saburo Kurusu
Margaret A. Little
Nellie Higgs
Cicago
W. W. Willis
Higgs
Willis
Illinois Central
Anthony Petras
Theresa Hollander
Kane County
William Dpiellar
Hempstead Plains
E. Heslop
Sterling
Carter
Parker
Rex
Chas. H. Fletcher
W. F. Young
P. D.F
Temple St
Mass
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