Thanksgiving dinner costs rise across the board in New York
New York reports higher prices for Thanksgiving items with eggs and several dishes up from last year. Wholesale egg prices edged down slightly but fresh eggs remain above last year, while housewives and unions push for conservation. Other items including turkey, ducks, and geese show notable increases alongside wage hikes at Standard Oil of New Jersey and clothing firms, highlighting a broad rise in living costs.
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New York
Housewives’ League
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
American Clothing Manufacturers’ Association
John
Dillon
New York State Department of Foods and Markets
Wicks Committee
Trabue Acquitted in Stokes Murder Trial
Charles C. Trabue was acquitted today in Nashville Davidson County Criminal Court of murdering Harry S. Stokes on April 26. He testified self defense after entering Stokes’ private office seeking a signed retraction amid city hall scandal litigation. The verdict followed an exhaustive jury charge and lengthy testimony.
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Nashville
Tenn
Charles C. Trabue
Harry S. Stokes
Davidson County
A. B. Neill
Trabue
Stokes
City Hall
Negro lynched near Clarksville in Texas
Buck Thomas, accused of attacking Austin Bishop and his wife with a club, was taken from Deputy Sheriff William four miles west of Clarksville and hanged at a tree near the road. He had been held in Bonham jail since arrest five months ago and was en route to face the grand jury. The grand jury convened as Judge Denton called for an investigation.
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Clarsville
Tex
Buck Thomas
Austin Bishop
Bishop
William
Clarksville
Siegro
Bonham
Martin
Denton
Sunk by Austrians and Destroyed by Gun Fire
The Chemung was sunk November 26 by an Austrian submarine. The ship was torpedoed and shelled, but there was no loss of life. the crew escaped. The master Captain Duffy reported the vessel sunk 14 miles east of Cape Gata, all aboard safe.
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Washington, D. C
State Department
New York
Harriss, Magill & Company
Duffy
Cape Gata
Valencia
Weather Forecast for San Antonio and Vicinity
Tonight and Thursday expect fair skies and colder temperatures across San Antonio and surrounding areas. Lows will dip, with daytime highs lowered by the cold air.
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San Antonio
Weather for Tourists Capitals and Cities
Forecasts by The Light report temperatures for St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City New York and Washington. Conditions vary with clear and cloudy skies winds from northwest southwest and south with fairest to colder trends and chances of rain in New York and Washington.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
McDaniel Testifies in Murder Trial Kissed Wife Goodbye
Prosecutor Oscar D. McDaniel took the stand in Buchanan county court to defend himself against the murder charge of his wife Harriet Moss McDaniel. He described his movements the night of the crime, including leaving home at 7 45, visiting a roadhouse and Knuth Place, and returning to find his wife dying after a shot from under a tree. He denied assaulting his wife and rejected accusations of owning a blackjack. The cross examination covered his criminal practice and possible influence from a campaign against Lockwood, with a ruling on letters not yet questioned.
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ST. Joseph
Oscar D. McDaniel
Harriet Moss McDaniel
Buchanan County Court Room
D. L. McDaniel
McDaniel
C. F. Strop
Seventeenth
Buchanan Avenue
Knuth Place
Davey Hart
Charley
Hart
Bene
Strop
T. Barker
Lockwood
Barker
Brooklyn Clerk Freed After Advertisement Trial
Daniel Farrell of Brooklyn was released by the Chicago police after advertising in newspapers. He claimed he was in a local hotel lobby at the time of the killing of John Tiefenthaler, a saloon keeper, and secured thirty supporters for his story. The grand jury did not indict him.
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Chicago
Daniel Farrell
Brooklyn
John Tiefenthaler
Farrell
Kansas Woman Named to Represent Kansas in Electoral College
In Topeka Kansas Mrs R C Layman of Hutchinson is slated to become the first woman named as a presidential elector for Kansas The move follows praise for women who aided in Wilsons 37000 plurality and the elector will be chosen at a January meeting of ten electors in Topeka Kansas.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Huber Lardner
Democratic State Committee
R. C. Layman
Hutchinson
Washington
Layman
Wilosn
Lardner
Bank Robbers Hit Hazelton State Bank in Kansas
Four masked bandits forced entry at 4 a.m. into the Hazelton State Bank, blew the safe and escaped with about $12,000. They seized two night operators from the telephone office and drove away to avoid alarms, leaving a bottle of explosive wrapped in a Tulsa Globe dated November 26 near the scene.
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Hazelton
Kan
Submarine Contracts Awarded For Coast Defense and Fleet Vessels
Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced contracts for twenty seven coast defense and two fleet submarines. Electric Boat Co received eighteen coast defense subs at 697000 each, Lake Torpedo Boat six at 694000, California Ship Building Co three at 698000. One fleet sub went to Electric Boat at 1189000 and the other to Lake at 1195000.
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Washington, D. C
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
Electric Boat Company
Lake Torpedo Boat Company
California Ship Building Company
Lake Designs
The
Lake Company
Thanksgiving Day Weather Outlook
Major Allen Buell of the weather bureau forecasts a fair cool Thanksgiving Day. A cold front is expected by Thursday morning with lower temperatures and clearing skies but not extreme cold. A high pressure system over the east gulf and Atlantic and a low over the upper lakes shape the region, with unsettled conditions in parts of Indiana and North Carolina.
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Allen Buell
Weather Bureau
East Gulf
Atlantic
Mississippi
Upper Lakes
West Gulf
United States
Canada
Indiana
North Carolina
Lift of cattle embargo signals waning hoof and mouth scare
Fear of hoof and mouth disease waning among livestock men as Kansas City reports hint at containment. Chicago and East St Louis yards expect removal of cattle quarantine aside from immediate slaughter from Kansas Missouri and Nebraska. Arthur G. Leonard says International Live Stock Show begins here Saturday with extraordinary care for exhibits.
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Chicago
Central States
Kansas City
Union Stock Yards
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
East St. Louis
Arthur G. Leonard
Union Stock Yards and Transit Company
Bernard Heide
Federal roads program builds 562 miles of roadway
The annual report shows 562 miles of 15 foot roadway built under the federal public roads bureau by the year ending June 30, more than doubling the previous record.
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Washington, D. C
Federal Public Roads Bureau
Rotary Pie Parade Delivers for Soldiers at Fort Sam
Fourteen army trucks with racks loaded 300 pies each departed Travis Park to collect pies and cakes for the soldiers Thanksgiving dinner. Rotarians mapped routes, opened packages, and counted every pie and cake for redistribution to Fort Sam Houston and Camp Wilson.
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Travis Park
Fort Sam Houston
Camp Wilson
Leon Springs
Rotary
St. Anthony Hotel
W. S. Hendrick
W. J. Knox
Craig J. Adams
A. W. Norcross
Frank Jamey
Paul Bosselman
Phil Webster
Beacon Hill
Walton D. Hood
Gunter
S J. Anthony
Herbert Hayes
Elmer Abbey
Hugh McLellan
Max Blum
L. 8. Goodman
Bert J. McLean
Porter Loring
Harry Hertzberg
F. Finck
Frank M. Coleman
J. Frank Kline
H. A. Heyck
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Beatty to Lead Grand Fleet as Jellicoe Moves Up
In London on November 29 Admiral Sir John Jellicoe was named first sea lord and was replaced as Grand Fleet commander by Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty. Admiral Sir Henry B Jackson becomes president of the Royal Naval College Greenwich, with further admiralty board changes noted by A. J. Balfour.
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Admiral Beatty
Sir John
Grand Fleet
London
John R. Jellicoe
Admiralty
David Beatty
Jutland
Henry B. Jackson
Royal Naval College
Greenwich
House of Commons
A. J. Balfour
Balfour
Board of the Admiralty
Jellicoe
Beaty and Jackson
Henry Bradwardine Jackson
Lord Fisher
Refuse New Oath By Illinois National Guard Unit
A majority of the Second Battalion, Second Infantry, Illinois National Guard, back from border duty, refused to take the oath under the Hay-Chamberlain law. Three privates were placed in military custody for urging refusals, with no charges filed yet.
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Chicago
Second Infantry
Ulinois National Guard
Shortage of office boys hits New York firms
New York reports a shortage of juvenile office and errand boys as firms hire older men to fill roles. The scarcity is blamed on a boom in business, with want ads and window signs reading boys wanted illustrating the issue.
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New York
Plainer Fare Diet Plan For Chicago Health Squad
Chicago health department’s diet squad will use plainer meals for the remainder of a live well at low cost demonstration begun this week. Dr John Dill Robertson expects weekly cost to drop to about 25 cents per person while noting early diet gains and lower fat foods.
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Chicago
Chicago Health Department
John Dill Robertson
Robertson
Earthquake damages several Japanese cities
An earthquake in central Japan caused considerable damage in Kobe Osaka and Kyoto. The Kyoto railway station was damaged and several pedestrians were hurt by falling debris and damaged roofs in these towns.
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Japan
Tokio
Kobe
Osaka
Roumanian Defenses Crumble Near Bucharest amid Central Powers Drive
German and Austro Hungarian forces push toward Bucharest from the northwest and southwest as Roumanian troops retreat disorderly along the Wallachian front. Russians strike near Kirlibaba, claiming 700 prisoners, while Serbians gain heights near Grunishte and Italian and French actions press Monastir front.
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Associated Press
Bucharest
Curtea de Arges
Argenchu
Jassy
von Falkenhayn
Roumania
Danube
von Mackensen
Alt Valley
Zimnitza
Vedea
Giurgevo
Tchernavoda
Kirlibaba
Golden Bistritza
Carpathians
Moneastir
Paris
Grunishte
Cerna River
Monastir
Battle for Bucharest Looms as German Force Grows
Paris and Petrograd dispatches report Von Mackensen and Von Falkenhayn expanding from the Danube toward Bucharest. Romanian left flank is pressed to free the capital as Russian advances south of Kirlibaba yield high ground and 711 prisoners.
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Petrograd
London
von Mackensen
Danube
Zimnitza
von Falkenhayn
Roumania
Bucharest
Wallachia
Shumsky
Bourse Gazette
Campulung
Kirlibaba
Carpathians
War Office
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Weather Forecast
Hazelton Institution
Prospect
Major Buell
Rotarians
First Sea Lord of
Sir John Jellicoe
Myr
Second Illinois
N. Y
Teuton Forges
Berlin
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