Legalistas plan uprising in Chihuahua to topple Carranza
British and American military circles report a Legalista organized bid to seize Juarez and strike Carranza garrisons in Chihuahua. The plan allegedly involves Villa aligned factions and anti Carranza groups to show the world Carranza weakness and press recognition policy. Juarez garrison is small and mutinous, aiding the movement's aims. Joe Ysabel Robles is cited as a leader coordinating anti Carranza factions.
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San Antonio
Chihuahua
Legalista
Carranza
Juarez
Villa
Felixistas
Zapatistas
Legalista Movement
Mexico
Legalistas
United States
Carranga
Juarez Garrison
Atlanticity
Joe Ysabel Robles
Five ships sunk claim questioned by Admiral Gleaves
Washington October 12 Rear Admiral Gleaves of the Atlantic destroyer flotilla expresses belief that no steamer Kingston or Kingstonian was sunk off Nantucket. After days of search no such vessel found and only five ships may have gone down. He notes survivors accounted for and credits mistaken identity with Knudson.
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Washington, D. C
Gleaves
Atlantic Destroyer Flotilla
Kingston
Nantucket
Montauk Point
Kingstonian
Knudson
President Wilson welcomed in Indianapolis on campaign swing
President Wilson arrived in Indianapolis for a midwestern campaign visit to address farmers and good roads advocates. He spoke briefly and declined to give speeches, greeting crowds along a packed parade route before heading to a private car for the Long Branch departure.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Wilson
st@e fairgrounds
Long Branch
N. J
Ohio
Indiana
Dayton
Richmond
Duke of Connaught and Family Leave for Home
The Duke of Connaught with Princess Patricia and the Duchess depart for home in a royal departure scene. The trio is photographed leaving, signaling the end of their official visit.
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Duke of Connaught
Warships Patrol Coast As Ships Await Orders
New York dispatch reports American naval patrols off the Jersey coast with a destroyer circulating the Manamar at dawn. Eight or more entente flag vessels wait for agents to advise if it is safe to sail for Europe amid German submarine threats. Adriatic prepared to depart for Liverpool despite prior postponement.
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North Atlantic
McDonald
Manamar
Cuban
Jersey
MccDonald
Europe
White Star Line
Atlantic Transport Line
Cunard Line
Pannonia
London
Gravesend Bay
Adriatic
Liverpool
Boston World Series win ends Brooklyn series 4 to 1
The Boston Red Sox defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 4 to 1 at Braves Field to clinch the World Series. Attendance surpassed forty thousand as Boston leads 3 games to 1 with strong fielding and pitching from Shore and Cady and early runs on Gardner and Hooper scoring on key hits.
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RED Sox
Braves
Mass
Boston ‘Red Sox
Brooklyn
Larry Gardner
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Carrigan
Pennock
Wyckoff
Mails
Appleton
Shore
Ruth
Bostons
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Smith
Cady
Meyers
Hooper
Janvrin
Shorten
Hoblitzel
Lewis
Gardner
Scott
Daubert
Stengel
Wheat
Cutshaw
Mowrey
Olson
Connolly
O'Day
Quigley
Dineen
Myers
Hoblitzer
Brooklyn Pfeffer
Oriole Olson
Lewis Olson
Ty Cobb
Lea
Merkle
Dell
Solan
Bayonne Plant Strike Locks Down Constable Hook
Bayonne New Jersey workers from Standard Oil Tidewater Vacuum Pacific Coast Borax and General Chemical plants form a dead line near Constable Hook. About 12 000 men quit work triggering clashes with police and fire crews as guards protect plant facilities and city leaders report ongoing labor war. A woman spectator was killed and several dozen strikers wounded in yesterday’s clashes.
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Bayonne
N. J
Constable Hook
Standard Oil Company
Tidewater Oil Company
Vacuum Oil Company
Pacific Coast Borax Company
General Chemical Company
Believe Watson Guilty
Local business men and others testified that Watson could not receive a fair trial in McLennan county They stated they believed his guilt from what they read and heard but would be persuaded by new evidence The defense says many witnesses remain to show prejudice in the county against Watson
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Waco, Tex
T. R. Watson
McLennan County
Watson
Health of troops shows weeklong improvement on Mexican border
Washington report from the War Department notes the national guard and regular army troops in the Mexican border area improved for the week ending October 7. Militia sickness at 1.91 percent with three deaths. regulars at 3.23 percent with five deaths.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Dove Bears Name U 58 Edgewater Mystery
A white dove with a yellow metal band marked U-58 was caught in a Edgewater New Jersey office window. Police hold the bird while they determine its origin after the submarine raid off Nantucket last Sunday.
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Edgewater
N. J
Nantucket
War Loan Success in Paris Indicates Strong Demand
Paris reports the Bank of France received 16 million francs in gold last week in exchange for paper and bonds. The sum, three times the recent monthly average, is viewed as evidence of the war loan's success and market appetite.
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Paris
Bank of France
Weather Snapshot for San Antonio Tonight and Friday
Tonight and Friday in San Antonio and nearby areas expect partly cloudy skies. Temperatures cooler overnight with mild afternoon warmth and light winds shaping a calm weather pattern for the period.
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San Antonio
Vicinity
Weather Forecasts by The Light
Forecasts for multiple cities including St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City and New York with temperatures winds and rain likelihood. Friday outlooks show cloudy conditions in most cities with possible rain and variable highs and lows across the region.
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T. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
President Wilson Tours Midwest Declines Speeches
President Wilson greeted by cheering crowds in Dayton and Richmond as he travels by private car to Indianapolis. He declines political speeches but voices support for national defense and announces an Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense. Members include Willard Compers Baruch Rosenwald and others.
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Richmond
Ind
Dayton
Ohio
Indianapolis
Tumulty
Carey T. Grayson
White House
Council of National Defense
Congress
Daniel Willard
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Samuel Compers
American Federation of Labor
Franklin H. Martin
Chicago
Howard E. Coffin
Detroit
Bernard Baruch
New York
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Naval Consulting Board
Mexican peons uneasy over Villa feared by Americans too
An El Paso dispatch cites a Mexican Protestant missionary narrator who says peasants fear Villa yet would back him if U S forces advance south. He describes starvation in Zacatecas, devalued Carranza money, and refugees blocked by Carranza recruiters en route to the United States. Typhus spreads in interior states.
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EL Paso
Tex
Villa
Mexico
Zacatecas
United States
Chihuahua City
Carranga
Exicans
Carranza
German Casualties Reach 3.56 Million Through September
An official British compilation released in London cites German war casualties from the start of the conflict through September totaling 3,556,018. It notes 179,684 German losses in September alone, based on German official casualty lists.
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London
German Socialists seek interpellation over war propaganda funds
A Berne telegram reports German Socialists plan to question Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg about alleged wartime newspaper propaganda spending totaling 200 million marks in two years. One fifth supposedly funded in America with large sums also used in Greece and Turkey.
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London
von Bethmann-Hollweg
America
Greece
Turkey
Greek provisional government to appoint war minister
General Zimbrakatis has been named minister of war in the Greek provisional government formed at Saloniki. He took the oath of allegiance in the presence of Venizelos Counselor Doundouriotis and Danglis. The government seat is undecided but likely Mytilene.
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London
Zimbrakatis
Saloniki
Reuter
Venizelos
Coundouriotis
Panyotis Danglis
Connaughts Leave Ottawa for England Hidden Sailing Date
The Duke of Connaught retiring governor general of Canada with the Duchess of Connaught and Princess Patricia left Ottawa to return to England. Due to war conditions, the sailing date is withheld.
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England
Ottawa
Ont
Duke of Connaught
Governor General of
Canada
Duchess of Connaught
Patricia
Gerard Denies Warning Wilson On Submarine Threat
James W. Gerard, United States ambassador to Germany, arrives in New York and issues a statement denying his homecoming was to warn President Wilson about Germany's submarine warfare. He asserts relations between the U.S. and Germany remain friendly and stable.
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New York
James W. Gerard
United States
Germany
Washington
Berliner Tageblatt
Copenhagen
Dickinson Sets New Memphis to Chicago Rail Record
Jacob M. Dickinson, Rock Island receiver and former secretary of war, beat the fast train schedule by arriving in Chicago at 10 53 p m after 533 miles from Memphis in ten hours and fifty minutes. He traveled in a special car to reach his wife who fell ill yesterday.
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Chicago
Jacob M. Dickinson
Rock Island Lines
Memphis
Illinois Central Railroad
John MacDonald of Kansas Educational Journal dies at 73
TOPEKA Oct 12 John MacDonald editor and owner of the Western School Journal and a prominent Kansas educator died suddenly in Topeka He was 73 and had lived in Kansas for forty six years He was born on the Island of Lewis in the Hebrides.
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Topeka
Kas
John MacDonald
The
Western School Journal
Kansas
MacDonald
Island of Lewis
Navy Adopts Plans to Use Full Strength for Neutrality
The Navy Department completed a definite plan to employ the entire destroyer force, light cruisers, tugs, and auxiliary craft to defend American waters and block shore radio contact if neutrality violations persist after a German raid. Mobilizing privately owned coast motorboats was considered but faced obstacles. Naval militia are assigned to reserve ships as needed.
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Washington, D. C
Atlantic
Navy Department
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