Two Millions Dodge AIDS Democrats Campaign Funds
Supplemental reports show Republicans $2,012,535 and Democrats $1,310,729 as of Oct 30. Major contributors include H C Frick and Harry Payne Whitney at $25,000 each and the Union League Club groups with $33,250 combined. Other large donors include Charles Warren Fairbanks and Eugene Meyer Jr. at $10,000 each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Republican National Campaign Fund
Democratic Campaign Fund
Democratic Committee
Republican Committee
H. C. Frick
Harry Payne Whitney
Union League Club
Philadelphia
New York
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Eugene Meyer Jr
A. W. Mellon
R. B. Mellon
Herman G. Fleitman
Leroy Frost
George R. Sheldon
Robert W. Geeler
J. Horace Harding
Charles McKnight
Charles G. Dawes
E. M. Byers
W. P. Snyder
Democratic National Campaign Fund
House
Marsh
Democratic National Committee
Cleveland H. Dodge
Edward L. Doheny
Thomas D. Jones
David B. Jones
Chicago
Roger C. Sullivan
Alvin Untermyer
Frederick C. Penfield
Charles J. Peabody
F. 8. Peabody
F. B. Lynch
M. A. Coolidge
Georges. Mead
Frederick Johson
James Lewis Taylor
Total merchant ships sunk reach 1820 in war period
The Journal of Commerce reports 1820 merchant ships sunk in 27 months of war ending November 1, totaling about 328,584 gross tons. October alone saw 127 ships sunk, with Norway losing 56 ships and 67,333 tons while Great Britain suffered 115,546 tons across 38 ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Journal of Commerce
Norway
Great Britain
Cuban vote in doubt as Menocal Zayas claim provinces
Havana reports of the November election show conservative candidate Menocal and Liberal nominee Dr Alfredo Zayas claiming victory. Zayas cites a 2000 vote majority while Conservatives claim four provinces won, Havana province leaning Liberal. Alberto Barrera elected Havana governor and Manuel Varona Suarez named mayor.
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Havana
Mario G. Menocal
Alfredo Zayas
Liberal Party
Yesteray
Repubc
Zayas
Alberto Barrera
Manuel
Varona Suarez
Shackleton Heads for Antarctic Relief Mission From Panama
Sir Ernest Shackleton arrived in New Orleans from Panama aboard the Parismina and left for San Francisco to join a relief expedition for ten Shackleton party members stranded near the Antarctic. He plans to sail later to Wellington New Zealand and Dunedin before the Antarctic voyage on the Aurora. He intends to return to England and enter the war after the rescue.
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New Orleans
Sir Ernest Shackleton
United Fruit
Panama
San Francisco
Shackleton
Wellingwaton
N. Z
Dunedin
Sir Ernest
England
Ross Sea
Women to Bake for Soldiers at Fort Sam Houston Dinner
San Antonio Rotarians heard plans to ask women citywide to bake pies cakes and cookies for Thanksgiving at Fort Sam Houston and Camp Wilson. A committee led by Col. Wilson Hendrick will organize pledges stations and distribution for about 15 009 soldiers while General Crozier urged universal military training and a citizen soldiery to supplement a small standing army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Fort Sam Houston
Camp Wilson
Rotary Club
St. Anthony Hotel
John B. Carrington
Chamber of Commerce
George C. Holmgreen
Texas
Col. Wilson
Hendrick
Notary Clu
Crozier
William Crozier
United States Army
Rotarians
Navy
United States
H. A. Clapp
Texas Industrial Congress
Congress
Chicago Probes Egg Corner Fueling Higher Prices
Chicago officials pursue charges over a $7,000,000 egg corner pushing egg prices to 45 cents a dozen. District Attorney Cline and DOJ investigator Clinton G. Clabaugh will review grocers’ alleged Sherman act violations. National conference on marketing to study market conditions, and a bill for federal cold storage control was proposed for Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cline
Clinton G. Clabaugh
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
National Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Ired A. Britton
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Weather forecast for San Antonio and vicinity
Tonight and Saturday expect fair skies. Light winds. No precipitation anticipated. Highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s.
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San Antonio and Vicinity
Weather for Tourists: City Forecasts From The Light
In St Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City New York and Washington temperatures range from 42 to 64 with clear or partly cloudy skies. Winds vary from 6 to 28 miles per hour and Saturday is expected cloudy in several cities.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Idea Originated Highlighting Rotary Spirit at Camp Wilson
Men in ranks deserve recognition says a Rotarian who proposed bringing home cooking to Camp Wilson. The plan let mothers bake cakes pies and cookies for sons of other mothers, a gesture born in Rotary circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
Camp Wilson
Carlstrom Reaches New York After Record Flight
Victor Carlstrom completes a nonstop air mail flight from Hammondsport to Governors Island in 315 miles at 137 mph average setting a new record. He earlier stopped at Erie and Hammondsport and was greeted by Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood and Aero Club figures. A Koch letter for President Wilson was carried to Long Branch by a messenger.
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New York
Victor Carlstrom
Chicago
New York Times
Governors Island
Erie
Hammondsport
N. Y
Carlstrom
Eve Thompson
Wilson
Long Branch
Jules Vedrines
Victor Carlstrom Resumes Flight to Governors Island
Victor Carlstrom, who landed in HAMMON RT New York after a Chicago to New York mail flight, resumed his journey at 6:35 a m today. He passed Elmira at 6:57, Waverly at 7:03, Oswego at 7:14, aiming for Governors Island around 9:30 a m.
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Hammon
N. Y
Victor Carlstrom
Chicago
New York
New York Times
Elmira
Waverly
Oswego
Carlstrom
Governors Island
No American Corps Title Likely to be Dropped
State Department officials will informally urge the French foreign office to drop the term American Corps from official communiques citing neutrality concerns. The issue arises after protests over using the name that could place the United States in an awkward position with Paris. The matter echoes prior pressure when British authorities withdrew the American Legion label from a Canadian recruitment in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
State Department
Foreign Office
Paris
Kiffen Rockwell
United States
Washington
Great Britain
American Legion
President Wilson Returns to Long Branch After New York Campaign
President Wilson arrived in Long Branch this afternoon after speaking in New York. He traveled aboard the naval yacht Mayflower to Atlantic Highlands and then to Shadow Lawn by car with Mrs. Wilson. He will speak tomorrow on Old Home Day and vote Tuesday at Princeton, with returns that night at Shadow Lawn.
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Long Branch
N. J
Wilson
New York
Atlantic Highlands
Shadow Lawn
Verdun Fort Vaux Recovered As French Forces Advance
Paris reports Fort Vaux is back in French hands and Douaumont secured, completing the ring around Verdun after Germans evacuated Fort Vaux overnight. The Italian front costs Austrians 15 000 men with prisoners taken, while battles on the Somme and Galicia persist with heavy casualties.
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Rome
French take Fort Vaux after German evacuation
Paris reports Fort Vaux fell to French control last evening after German withdrawal. British forces followed Balkan gains by assaulting the village of Alitsa on the Struma’s left bank, Greek Macedonia, in today’s official French war department release.
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Paris
Fort Vaux
War Office
Struma
Greek Macedonia
Alitsa
French
War Department
Orange Chosen for 1917 DAR State Convention
Orange Texas was selected at noon today to host the 1917 state convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The event concluded with the delegates turned over to the local entertainment committees. Orange has no chapter yet but one is forming. Officers will be elected next year.
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Orange
Fort Worth
Tex
the Daughters of the American Revolution
French Lose Gains on Somme Front in New Setbacks
Berlin reports portions of Sailly-Saillisel retaken by Germans after French had recaptured them. Allies fail to advance east of Gueudecourt and near St. Pierre Vaast wood. Russian forces incur heavy losses while seven charges to retake positions near Narayavka, southeast of Lemberg fail. Austro German forces push further into Roumania near Predeal area.
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Somme
Berlin
Sailly-Saillisel
Gueudecourt
St. Pierre-Vaast Wood
Rothenthurn Pass
Predeal
Galicia
Lemburg
Narayavka
Sofia
Cerna River
Sayville
War Office
St. Pierre Vaast Wood
Lemberg
Roumania
Parker Given 30 Year Sentence in Texas Killing Case
Canton Texas November 3 A district court jury found R B Parker guilty in the Warren McWilliams killing on September 20 and assessed a 30 year term in the penitentiary for Parker.
Bombs Dropped on San Pietro Fortifications by Italian Dirigible
An Italian dirigible airship dropped seventeen bombs on fortifications and warships in San Pietro in Sebenico Bay on November 1. It returned unharmed despite heavy Austrian coast battery fire. San Pietro lies on Brazza island in the Dalmatian archipelago, southeast of Trieste. Roumanians report success along the Hungarian frontier, driving Austrians and Germans across the border at Table Butzi and capturing Mount Siriul and Tatrumio in Bubu Valley.
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Rome
Paris
San Pietro
Sebenico Bay
Island of
Brazza
Dalmatian Islands
Adriatic Sea
Triest
Bucharest
VialLondon
War Office
Germany
Table Butzi
Bubeu
Mount Siriul
Taturumio
Will of Marie Zinsser Makes Cook Test a Condition
The New York will leaves 10 000 to three granddaughters on condition they cook an acceptable meal before age twenty one. If failing, share reverts to residuary estate for three sons. Beneficiaries include Helen Zinsser Bryn Mawr Peggy Zinsser Smith and 9 year old Margaret Zinsser, with Ellen Zinsser already meeting the test.
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New York
Marie Zinsser
Hans Zinsser
Columbia University
Helen Zinsser
Bryn Mawr College
Peggy Zinsser
Smith College
Margaret Zinsser
Ellen Zinsser
Smith
Secretary Grew to ask Germany about Rowanmore sinking
Ask about the Rowanmore sinking off Cape Clear on October 28 and related loss details. Secretary Grew, acting as charge in Berlin, will request information from the German government. Americans on board Rowanmore survived. six Americans aboard the Marina were drowned.
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Berlin
London
Joseph C. Grew
Gerard
Cape Clear
Marina
Washington
Rowanamoore
Rowanmore
Villistas Cut Off Ears Report Reaches Laredo
Passengers from Torreon report that many Carranza soldiers arriving in Laredo have had their ears removed by Villista followers. The passengers say this treatment, not death, is used on de facto government troops captured by Villa supporters who refuse to join his cause.
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Laredo
Tex
Torreon
Carranza
Villa
Villistas
Panama Coal Prices Up
Panama canal authorities issue formal notice of coal price rise by 60 cents per ton for merchant ships passing the canal. New rates set at 8 dollars per ton at Cristobal Colon and 9.50 dollars at Balboa, effective December 1 after old price coal is exhausted.
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Washington, D. C
Panama Canal
Cristobal
Colon
Balboa
Auto Accident Fatal to One in San Angelo
In San Angelo Texas at midnight Mrs Eva T Bramber wife of a Schliecher county ranchman died and her husband suffered serious injuries in a car crash that demolished the vehicle.
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San Angelo
Tex
Eva T. Brambler
Schleicher County
Germans May Submit Offer to Carry Mail
German merchant submarine Deutschland may be enlisted to carry mail to Germany. The Post Office Department stands ready to accept a undersea mail service proposal and Count Von Bernstorff requested updates through German agents. Embassy officials report official mail pouches on board and sorting of dispatches continues with unclear delay in sending first class mail.
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Washington, D. C
Germany
Post Office Department
Count von Bernstorff
Postoffice Department
New London
George Ahrens
United States
Bremen
Deutschland
Work unloading German submarine Deutschland progresses in New London
Eighty Negro stevedores from Baltimore are unloading cargo from the Deutschland and placing it in the Eastern Forwarding Company warehouse on the state pier where the submarine is moored in New London.
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New London
Conn
Deutschland
Baltimore
Eastern Forwarding Company
Dynamite Plot in New York Charged
Police announce six men, including former subway guards and union members, were arrested for bringing dynamite into New York and plotting attacks on two Interborough Rapid Transit subway stations. A confession links the planned blows to Fifty-ninth Street Broadway and City Hall stations, with purchases made in Kenvil New Jersey.
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New York
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
One
Hundred and Tenth Street
Fifty-ninth Street
Broadway
City Hall
Kenvil
N. J
Central Park
James A. Merna
Thomas J. McGuire
Caldwell
Merna
James L. Herlihy
McGuire
Herlihy
George Pollok
Bread Prices Rise in Oklahoma City to Six Cents
Oklahoma City bakers raise the price of the regulation five cent loaf of bread from five to six cents signaling higher grocery costs in the city.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Tractors to Supply Big Bend Troops With Caterpillar Haulers
The army will use a Holt Caterpillar tractor with four trailers to move 90,000 to 100,000 pounds of supplies in the Big Bend district where rough terrain and no roads hinder motor trucks. Built for government orders, the unit travels up to 3.5 miles per hour and requires four operators.
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Somme
Big Bend
Germany
Tractor Company No. 1
Holt Manufacturing Company
Peoria
Marfa
Ors
Harry L. Rogers
Southern Department
Rogers
Quartermaster Corps
Mexican unrest spills into border rail link near Juarez
Passengers from Chihuahua City arrived in Juarez reporting Villa forces near Sierra in the Laguna district and ongoing skirmishes with Carranza troops. They confirmed bandits hanged railway guards after Monday’s Juarez train robbery.
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EL Paso
Tex
Chihuahua City
Juarez
International Bridge
Villa
Sierra
Laguna
Carranza
Chihuahua
Notices posted claim bandit danger ends Tampico train service
Visitors from the Mexican interior report notices in San Luis Potosi stating that train service to Tampico has been abolished due to danger from bandit depredations.
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Laredo
Tex
San Luis Potosi
Tampico
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Explorer
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Antarctic
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U. S
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Verdun
Erench
Vaux
Teutons
Douaumont
Rothenthurm Pass
Canal
Bernstorff
U. S. Army
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