Republicans win in Maine by ten thousand votes
Maine returns show Milliken as governor elect with a 13 355 plurality over Curtis. Republicans gain a solid delegation to Congress and will control both state chambers with a strong working majority.
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Portland
Carl E. Milliken
Oakley C. Curtis
Second Maine Infantry
Milliken
Congress
Frederick Hale
Bert M. Fernald
United States Senate
State Senate
United States
Curtis
Hale
Fernald
Johnson
Sills
Goodall
Stevens
White
McGillicuddy
Peters
Barker
Herey
Pierce
G O P Leaders Elated Over Maine Result
New York Republicans celebrate Maine election gains as Governor vote signals a united party. Democratic leaders concede statewide impact, predicting a Democratic victory in November while noting the difficult political year for Republicans and referencing historical precedents.
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New York
Maine
Reynolds
Wilson
Cleveland
Democratic Victory in Maine Reported by Daniels
Washington September 12 Secretary Daniels calls Maine election a Democratic victory noting Milliken led Republican candidates for governor with 77 000 votes and GOP senators trailed by about 7 000. He says Progressives will shift to Democrats nationwide and Maine reflected that trend.
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Washington, D. C
Maine
Eretary Daniels
Milliken
Daniels
New York
Illinois
Illinois Primary Spirited Races Draw Record Funding
The wide Illinois primary campaign ends today with observers forecasting the most hotly contested race in state history. Candidates spent an estimated 2.5 million dollars on campaigns. party leaders expect a strong turnout across the state. Former U.S. Senator Lorimer, allied with the regular organization and allied leaders, seeks a Republican nomination in the Sixth district after a four term Congress tenure.
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Chicago
Ill
Politi
Ate
Illinois
Cemrats
United States
Wil Lorimer
Mis
Congress
Pleasant Seasonable Change Expected After Showers
Major Allen Buell of the weather bureau predicts a stormy pattern will give way to a pleasant seasonable change by Tuesday night or Wednesday. A high pressure cold air mass from the west chases heat from the South and Southwest while West Indian disturbances influence the Gulf and a second storm tracks from the Mississippi valley to the Canadian border. Rain is falling across the central United States with showers expected locally as the system moves off and cooler air arrives.
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Allen Buell
Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountain
Bahamas
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi Valley
Canadian
United States
Ripley Plans Suit to Test Eight-Hour Law
E. P. Ripley president of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe announced in New York that he would sue to test the constitutionality of the new eight hour law. He predicted other western railroads would follow and called the law confiscatory and a violation of freedom of contract. Transfered to attend a director’s meeting. Officials of Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe railway in Galveston issued notices that the eight hour rule would not be observed except by court order.
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New York
E. P. Ripley
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Ripley
Galveston
Tex
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Light frosts forecast for northwest Oklahoma tonight
Oklahoma City Sept 12 Light frosts for the northwest portion of Oklahoma tonight were forecast by the local weather bureau. Officials say slight damage to alfalfa and fetTERita crops in that section is probable.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
Governor Denies Parole for Abilene Banker Flack
Governor Capper refused a parole for John A. Flack an Abilene banker who has spent three years in the state penitentiary for embezzlement. The state patrol board had recommended clemency but the governor deemed parole not warranted.
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Topeka
Kan
Capper
John A. Flack
Abilene
State Penitentiary
State Patrol Board
Flack
Aransas County Votes Dry in Local Option Election
Corpus Christi Texas Sept 12 Aransas County Texas has moved into the prohibition column the drys winning in a local option election by a majority of fifty six votes. The county four years ago voted prohibition but for the past two years it has been wet.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Aransas County
Texas
Motorman Fined for Speeding on Hemphill Line
Fort Worth police fined a Hemphill line motorman 25 dollars for speeding as part of a city wide anti speeding drive.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Hemphill
Unsettled Showers Predicted Tonight in San Antonio Area
For San Antonio and vicinity tonight and Wednesday expect unsettled showers. Forecasters call for scattered rain with possible brief downpours and cool, breezy conditions shaping midweek plans.
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San Antonio
Regional City Forecasts From The Light Service
ST LOUIS 72 cloudy 12 mile south wind rain low last 24 hours 70 high 86 CHICAGO 74 cloudy 14 mile south wind rain lowest last 24 hours 72 high MILWAUKEE 62 cloudy 6 mile northeast wind rain lowest last 24 hours 62 high 78 KANSAS CITY 60 cloudy 10 mile west wind rain low last 24 hours 60 high 82 NEW YORK 62 clear 6 mile northeast wind rain Wednesday lowest last 24 hours 68 high 70 WASHINGTON 60 cloudy north wind rain Wednesday lowest last 34 hours 62 high 7
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Allies Defeat Bulgarians New Offensive Reported On Struma Front
Entente forces from the Macedonian front claim a Bulgarian rout after a 36 hour battle with French and British troops advancing on the Struma front in Greece. Greek Premier Zaimis resigns amid diplomatic shifts as king Ferdinand of Bulgaria visits William II.
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London
Athens
Struma
Macedonia
Nephore
Yenimiah
Demir- Hissar
Deiran
Makukovo
Near East
Zaimis
Greece
Entente
Ferdinand of
Bulgaria
William
Reuter
Crown Prince Rupprecht Takes Over Somme Front Command
Berlin reports Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria has assumed overcommand of German armies on the Somme front and directs operations against the Anglo French offensive. The western front is divided into three sectors under princely commanders, with Von Hindenburg as chief of staff. Duke Albrecht previously led the northern sector.
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Berlin
London
Prince Rupprecht
Bavaria
Somme
Rupprecht
Associated Press
Albrecht
Kingdom of
Wuerttemberg
Belgium
Lorraine
Germany
Bulgarians Return Forts to Greeks at Kavala Seaport
Paris dispatch reports from a semi official source that Bulgaria evacuated all forts at the Greek seaport Kavala last month. The forts, deemed of no value after Entente ships arrived, were handed over to the Greeks as naval dominance by allied vessels increased.
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Paris
Petit Parisien
Kavala
Miners Strike Believed Averted in Kansas City
In Kansas City on September 12, major gaps between coal miners and operators were bridged at the general conference. A miner proposed clause was accepted and operators said the danger of a general strike had passed, with one minor clause still to be settled.
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Kansas City
Women Open Inquiry Into High Cost Bread In Chicago
Chicago clubwomen announced an inquiry into bread prices, joining federal authorities, the State's attorney's office, and the city weights department in the probe. Bakers reportedly cut the five-cent loaf size by one third instead of raising prices, and officials note stamps for half-pound loaves replace the three-quarters-pound stamps. U S District Attorney Clyne, investigating under Sherman anti trust laws, said bakers reduced the loaf weight a week earlier.
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Chicago
State's Attorney's Office
United States
Clyne
President Wilson Stays At Bedside in New London
President Wilson remained at his sister’s bedside in New London as Mrs. Anna E. Howe’ s illness grew more serious. He awaited word on her condition and planned to receive members of the American and Mexican joint commission aboard the naval yacht Mayflower.
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New London
Conn
Wilson
Anna E. Howe
Maine
King Constantine expresses regret over legation attack
In Athens the king apologized for the assault on the French legation during an entente ministers meeting. A Greek Egyptian, Canelopoulos, admitted being hired with forty others to cause trouble as labor unrest grows with streetcar and postal workers threatening strikes over rising living costs. The premier offered to resign, then withdrew at the king’s request.
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Athens
Greece
London
Constantine
Count Mercati
Canelopoulos
Piraeus
Contraband Seized From Zee landie in North Sea
The Zeelandie, a Dutch motor steamer of 7995 tons, was reported captured by a German submarine in the North Sea with contraband from Rotterdam to London. No Zee landie is listed in shipping records. the Zeelandie last sailed from Amsterdam on August 16 bound for Buenos Aires.
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North Sea
Berlin
Sayville
Zeelandie
Rotterdam
London
Overseas
Zeelandia
Amsterdam
Buenos Aires
British Violate Philippine Waters Protest To Great Britain
Washington reports a British torpedo boat halted and examined the Philippine steamer Cebu inside territorial waters near Carabao Island. The Cebu’s manifest and passenger list were taken, logs noted the boarding at 3:50 a.m. on September 11, 1916. The incident prompts a formal protest and calls for tightened patrols near the islands.
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Washington, D. C
Cebu
Philippines
War Department
Harrison
State Department
Great Britain
Carahao Island
Bailes
Bady
Leutenant
Carabao Island
San Antonio Opens 18 hole Municipal Golf Course
J B Eddleman chosen as course manager after a city committee meeting led by Mayor Brown and Commissioner Lambert. The city will pay 125 dollars monthly, with locker fees set to fund upkeep, and new rules to be issued for players. A winter tourney and a national event are proposed to showcase San Antonio golf.
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San Antonio
Citizens’ Committee
Brown
Lambert
Chamber of Commerce
J. B. Eddleman
New 4
John B. Carrington
L. B. Clegg
Frank Lewis
Eddleman
Carrington
Nearly 19000 Guardsmen Discharged by War Department
The War Department has discharged about 15 000 national guardsmen since federal service began. As of August 31 9446 were discharged for disability 4919 for dependent families 146 to return to civil service and others for various reasons. Discharges by department totaled 2016 Southern 341 Western 959 Central and 10394 Eastern. Officials noted the figures are not a criticism and represent about 10 percent of the total.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Fire erupts in Missouri state penitentiary stockade
Jefferson City Sept 12 A third incendiary blaze in two months damages a three story stockade building housing a clothing company at the Missouri state penitentiary. Authorities believe convicts started the fire causing an estimated 160000 dollar loss.
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Jefferson City
Missouri State Penitentiary
Two Killed in Bus Trolley Collision in Bronx
Two men died and twelve were hurt when two automobile buses collided with a West Farms car in the Bronx this morning. Police say a strikebreaking motorman operated the car, which jumped the track at a curve. the victims were passengers in the two buses.
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New York
West Farms
Bronx
Tropical Storm Gathers Along Atlantic Coast
A tropical disturbance centered near the Bahamas is forecast to move northeastward. Strong east to north winds are expected along the South Atlantic coast within the next thirty six hours, with storm warnings posted from the Virginia Capes to Jupiter Florida.
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Washington, D. C
Atlantic
Virginia Capes
Jupiter
Fla
Bahama Islands
South Atlantic
Submarine Germany to Send Another Merchant Vessel
Reports from Bremen indicate a further merchant submarine is to depart for the United States at month end. Directors of Ocean Navigation, owners of the Deutschland, say none of the projected sister ships have been completed. When asked about Bremen's arrival, director Phillip Heineken replied only that “the gods know” and declined to comment further.
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Berlin
London
Bremen
United States
Deutschland
Phillip Heineken
Ocean Navigation Company
America
Heineken
Straus credits pasteurized milk with preventing infantile paralysis
Nathan Straus announces in a letter to Surgeon General Blue that none of the 2500 babies fed his pasteurized milk in New York have contracted infantile paralysis. He states the babies’ condition is no different from other infants except for receiving safe milk.
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New York
Nathan Straus
Surgeon General Blue
Mr. Straus
Norwegian Steamer Arrives After Bermuda Coal Blockade
Refused coal by Britain, the Norwegian steamer Bjorn Bjornson was held in Bermuda for nineteen days. It arrived in Newport News after a tug from Norfolk coalayed it, despite prior British refusal to supply coal.
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Newport News
Bjjornstein Bjornson
Bermuda
Norfolk
British Capture Ginchy on the Somme Front
Official notice reports the town of Ginchy seized from German forces on the Somme. The British war office announced the capture on Sunday confirming the advance.
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Berlin
Ginchy
Somme
British War Office
Boar Proposes Long Term Building Program Plan
A proposed building program outlines a plan to take about three years to complete. Officials say initial steps will begin soon and require a prolonged effort to meet the projected milestones.
Fort Sam Houston to get vast supply depot complex at $750000
A board under General Funston with top officers from the Southern Department begins planning a major Fort Sam Houston supply depot. The project aims to create the nation’s most extensive post warehouses and terminals, with construction potentially spanning three years and contracts due by June 30, 1917.
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General Funston
Fort Sam Houston
Army
Regal
Ste
New Braunfels Avenue
Infantry Post
Sout
Wilson Street
L. B. Clegg
James Davis
Chamber Commerce
Con
Army Board
Cat
Medical
Department
Corps of Engineers
Ordnance Department
Signal Corps
Harry Is Rogers
Southern Department
Fed
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