Bankers Convene as Goebel Seeks Presidency
At the American Bankers Association convention in Kansas City bankers organized a state bank section and prepared for checks and reserve law tweaks. P W Goebel of Kansas City Kan unopposed for president. Robert F Maddox of Atlanta campaigned for vice president as the centennial savings banks session opened.
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American Bankers’ Association
State Bank
Association
Boston
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Reserve Banks
George W. Rogers
Little Rock
Ark
P. W. Goebel
Kan
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Regret Expressed Over Mexican Border Patrol Incident
Major General Funston informed the War Department that he ordered an expression of regret to Mexican authorities for Corporal Rogers of B Troop Texas Cavalry crossing into Mexico with a seven man patrol on September 21. Colonel Gaston was tasked to try the corporal for disobeying orders after Mexican forces fired on the patrol. The unit returned to the American side with one horse lost, and no reason for the crossing was given.
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Washington, D. C
Funston
War Department
Rogers
B Troop
Texas Cavalry
Mexico
Gaston
Big Bend
Price of Bread Increase Announced by Largest New York Baker
The city’s largest baking company said its five cent loaf will rise to six cents next Monday while gaining more weight. A smaller loaf remains at five cents. National Bread Committee delegates from Chicago and Buffalo attend a conference with Housewives League officers on a wheat embargo.
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New York
National Bread Committee
Chicago
Buffalo
Housewives League
German Farmers Face Bankrupt Over War Debt
London dispatch reports small investors shun the new German war loan, citing a Cologne Gazette summary via Reuters Amsterdam. The article claims German farmers must endure bankruptcy due to the war’s enormous costs.
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London
Reuter Amsterdam
Cologne Gazette
Germany
Lawyer seeks injunction against Texas railroad intrastate rates
In Sherman Texas Attorney General Looney filed a petition asking Judge Gordon Russell in federal court to enjoin railroads from enforcing new intrastate rates. Railroads contest federal jurisdiction and ICC order defenses while a state court injunction already requires the rates to take effect. Judge Russell said a decision would come later this afternoon.
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Sherman
Tex
Texas
Gordon Rusell
Looney
United States Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Russell
Cut Into Jewelry Safe In Baltimore Heist
Burglars defying hourly night watchman visits cut into the inner recess of a 3000 pound safe at Siemen & Norwig jewelry store, stealing gems valued at 15000. They lowered from the second floor through floor and ceiling using a rope and attacked a steel plate behind a concrete backing to access a second hole.
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Baltimore
Siemen & Norwig
Muster Out Negroes and Wyoming Troops Ordered to San Antonio
The Eighth Illinois infantry will be mustered out of federal service and replaced in the Twelfth provisional division by the First Wyoming troops. Wyoming units entrain immediately for San Antonio and will arrive later this week. The Illinois regiment now near Austin will return to San Antonio then depart north to be mustered out in Springfield, Illinois.
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Eighth Illinois Infantry
Wyoming
San Antonio
Fort Sam Houston
Austin
Springfield
Ill
Bomb Blast Hits Chicago Theater Amid Rivalry Unrest
A timed bomb exploded behind a moving picture theater in Chicago early today, shattering plate glass, rattling buildings, and heavily damaging the venue. Police attribute the attack to clashes between rival movie operators unions.
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Chicago
Earl of Essex Dead in New Market Bed
The seventh Earl of Essex George Devereux de Vere Capell aged 59 is reported dead in his New Market residence after a period of illness. He married Adele Grant in 1893.
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London
Earl of Essex
Newmarket
George Devereux de Vere Capell
Adele Grant
Beach Grant
New Or
Episcopal group urges replacing damn with condemn in prayer book
A commission on revision of the Episcopal prayer book recommends removing the word damn and substituting condemn. The report will be presented at the triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in St. Louis next month.
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New York
Commission On Revision
Protestant Episcopal Church
St. Louis
Weather Forecasts For Tourists Across U.S.
Readable forecast snippets for major cities include St Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City New York and Washington. Forecasts show clear or cloudy skies with temperatures ranging from the mid 50s to mid 60s and variable winds with chances of rain in some locales.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Bitter political fight in Tarrant settles at the polls
In Fort Worth Texas a fierce Tarant county contest between anti and Prohibition forces unfolds with heavy turnout. Police guard polling places as clashes flare between factions and officials. By ten o’clock many precincts have cast half their expected votes.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Tarrant County
Tyra
Jamieson
Pro
Labor unions vote on general strike in New York
About 100000 workers meet to vote on joining the proposed general strike set for Wednesday morning. Ernest Bohm says unions representing 179500 workers have already voted to quit. Leaders will hear local reports. machinists metal workers laundrymen and butchers among voters. He expects a two day strike if it goes ahead to pressure traction companies to arbitrate.
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New York
Ernest Bohm
Conference of Labor Leaders
Bohm
Report of Villa attack on Chihuahua confirmed by Carranza officers
Carranza officers who were in Chihuahua during Villa’s Hidalgo day assault confirm the attack details, supporting General Bell’s account. Funston and Washington dispute persists, Trevino calls Bell report a lie, while Funston maintains credence in the stories from El Paso. Army officials monitor Villa’s movements as he remains a factor in the Mexican situation.
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Hidalgo
Chihuahua
Carranza
General Funston
General Bell
el Paso
Bell
War Department
Washington
Longest Ballot Yet For Mexican Border Soldiers
New York state soldiers on the Mexican border will vote with an eight foot ballot on election day. It will be the longest ever used in a combined national and state election and the first war ballot since 1898. A car load of election supplies will head to the border around October 20 and a bureau representative will later go to finalize polling arrangements for soldiers.
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Albany
N. Y
New York State
Hugo
Election Bureau
Berlin Admits Two Zeppelins Lost in Raid
Berlin reports two Zeppelins were shot down in London during the September 23 24 raid. Thirty deaths are listed in the casualty roll. The official release notes large fires across London and the midland counties caused by incendiary shell fire from multiple batteries.
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Berlin
London
British Channel
German Zeppelin Raid Criticized by Official Press Bureau
London reports the Official Press Bureau rebutting the German official account of a Zeppelin raid. It states that no anti aircraft defenses or military targets were damaged and labels the German report as full of misstatements.
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London
Zeppelins Kill Thirty In London Raids
Twelve Zeppelins raided London and southeast England killing thirty people and wounding 110. Two airships were shot down in Essex. one crew killed, the other captured. Fifty more wounded or dead in the provinces.
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London
England
Essex
Mangold
Essex County
French Air Attacks Report Bombs in Lune Region
Paris dispatch says enemy planes dropped about ten bombs after 8 30 p m in the Lune region during recent air activity. Public reaction and defense measures noted as authorities assess damage and response.
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Paris
London
Lune
French Air Attacks Report Aerial Combat Details
The report describes enemy and French air actions with several bombings and aircraft losses. One enemy plane was downed near Miserey, three others damaged and forced to land, and 12 French aviators dropped 98 shells on Guiscard station. That night seven French airmen dropped fifty 120 mm bombs on Thionville Rombach factories and Audun le Roman station, with flames seen after Rombach.
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Audun-Le-Roman
Rombach
Belgian coasts shelled by British forces
British monitors and destroyers bombarded the Belgium coast Sunday between Heyst and Bruges, according to a Reuters dispatch from Flushing.
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London
Belgium
Heyst
Bruges
Reuter
Flushing
Venizelos Reported to Have Gone to Saloniki
A London filed Athens dispatch says former Greek premier Venizelos has gone to Saloniki. Crete’s guard of sixty nine of eighty members has deserted, leaving eleven loyalists ready to follow Venizelos if he joins the movement. Armed Cretans about 20,000 control the island with insurgents in Canea taking government buildings.
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London
A _ dispatch
The
Star
Athens
Venizelos
Greece
Saloniki
Constantine
Venizelo
Crete
Canea
Insurgents seize Crete under 30 000 strong force
Reuters dispatch from Athens reports that fully armed Cretan insurgents totaling about 30 000 control the island. Canea Heraklion and other coastal towns are in their possession as Greek authorities surrender government buildings to Separatist leaders.
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London
Reuter
Athens
Canea
Hercaclion
Trading on the New York Stock Exchange Surges Past Two Million Shares
For the first time in nearly a decade the NYSE traded over 2,000,000 shares in a day. United States Steel and copper shares led gains with new high records, while rails rose 1 to 2 points as profit taking surfaced on broader volume.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
United States Steel
United States
Maxwell Motors
Studebaker
Maxwell
Bread Famine Hits Vienna Amid Shortage
Vienna faces bread famine for several days due to transport problems. An official decree bans hotels and restaurants in Vienna and Lower Austria from supplying bread. guests must bring their own.
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Vienna
Zurich
Switzerland
London
Lower Austria
Roumanian Front Stalled as Von Mackensen Fails
Reports from London indicate a stalemate along the Constanta-Tchernaveda line in Dobrudja with heavy rains hampering operations. Roumanians gain on the left flank near the sea while Transylvania yields 7000 prisoners after a Hermannstadt attack. Mecca reports Taif fortress surrender.
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London
Dobrudja
Transylvania
Hermannstadt
Petrograd
Caucasus
War Office
Alpine
Reuter
Cairo
Shereff
Mecca
Taif
Roumanians Report Gains in Transylvania and Dobrudja
The war office releases a statement from Bucharest noting advances on the Caliman mountains and at Hermanstadt with captures including 73 prisoners and five machine guns. In Jiu valley minor actions yield two machine guns and 48 officers with 6836 men total. on the southern front, Danube artillery exchanges continue as our left flank advances capturing one officer and 53 men.
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Bucharest
London
Transylvania
Dobrudja
War Office
Caliman
Hermanstadt
Jiu
Danube
Verdun Front Attacked Near Vaux-Chapitre Wood
German assault on the Verdun front near Vaux-Chapitre wood failed, according to the war office. Russian forces on the Macedonian front captured Hill 916 west of Florina after a Bulgarian stronghold was defended by French and Russian guns and bayonets.
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Paris
London
Verdun
Vaux-Chapitre Wood
War Office
Florina
Miners' Conferences Continue Over Missouri and Adjacent Districts
Miners' conferences for Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas districts continued with no immediate completion expected. Operators reported progress, focusing on mine conditions while wage schedules remain settled in recent general conferences.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Student Battery Mustered Out
Springfield Illinois September 25 119 members of F battery Illinois light artillery mostly University of Illinois students were mustered out today and left for home at noon
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Springfield
Ill
F Battery
Illinois Artillery
University of Illinois
American exports set world record at $510 million for August
Washington D C September 25 American exports rose to 510000000 in August a new world and national high. The August export total surpassed the May peak by 35009000 and June by 45000000 while imports fell to 199247391. The favorable trade balance reached 311000000 for August with total exports for the year to August at 4750000000.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce
United States
Mexicans Demand U S Troop Withdrawal in Border Talks
In New London on September 25 the Mexican and American joint commission began its fourth week of border inquiry. Mexican delegates pressed that their army can keep peace in Northern Mexico and urged U S troops withdraw to improve relation. Americans called for more study of Mexico internal affairs as War Department reports cite rising Chihuahua outlawry.
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New London
Conn
Mexican and American Joint Commission
Mexico
War Department
Chihuahua
Villa
Mexicans Hold Soldier for Murder in El Valle
A Caranza sergeant was shot and killed by an American trooper of the Fifth Cavalry at El Valle Chi huahua. The American was held prisoner after Pershing demanded his release. Seven Carranza soldiers entered the saloon with side arms during the incident. The incident followed a toast to the United States. General Pershing sent Captain Reed to confer with the Carranza commander. Unconfirmed reports state the Carranza commander refused to release the trooper and holds him incommunicado on murder charges.
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EL Paso
Tex
el Valle
Chihuahua
Fifth Cavalry
Columbus
N. M
J. J. Pershing
United States
Pershing
Reed
President Wilson Addresses Grain Dealers Convention
President Wilson spoke at the grain dealers convention in Baltimore asserting support for tariff policy and federal reserve, praising American trade and urging excellence. He defended tariff reforms and supported the tariff commission while pledging openness to factual investigations, even if painful.
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Baltimore
Wilson
Grain Dealers
Federal Reserve
America
Tariff Commission
San Antonio Flood Warnings Backed by Relief Work
High water from Olmos Creek and the Alazan Creek threatened San Antonio but widening the river and clearing obstructions prevented a repeat of two years ago floods. Police and fire crews, with Fort Sam Houston troops, coordinated warnings and sheltering as floodwaters receded after cresting near Martin Street.
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Martin Street
Alazan
San Fernando Street
San Marcos Street
Commerce Street
M Berg
Fort Sam H
Alazan ¢ F
Hall
Olmos Valley
Sions
Antonio
Biden
Olmos
Martinez
San Pedro
Lanscaster
Wright
F. L. Hillyer
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West End
Alazan Creek
Ruiz
Isler
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