Fuel Shortage Looms For San Antonio This Winter
San Antonio faces a grave fuel outlook with wood and coal shortages. Dealers report exhausted stocks due to a government contract for nearly 50 000 cords and increased military demand. Prices rise: wood expected at 8 per cord soon, coal about 9.50 per ton amid higher production costs and possible car shortages.
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San Antonio
R. M. Bacon
Sunset Wood & Coal Company
Mr. Bacon
Alabama
Texas
United States
Santonio
German cruisers Kronprinz Wilhelm and Prinz Friedrich reach Virginia Capes
MoveInterned steamers Kronprinz Wilhelm and Prinz Friedrich arrived off Old Point Virginia then moved toward the Philadelphia navy yard. Twelve battleships were to convoy, eight assigned to direct escort as the squadron proceeds for repairs and maneuvers. Early reports of steerage trouble and grounding at Wells Point were unverified.
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Newport News
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Prinz Fite Friedrich
Old Point
Virginia Capes
Philaelphia
Wilhelm
Wells Point
Hampton Roads
War relief contributions exceed Carnegie estimate
Washington September 29 The Carnegie Peace Foundation reports American gifts for European war relief have surpassed its prior nearly 29 million dollar total. A new compilation is ordered and will be released promptly. Early figures suggest the final total may double the Foundation’s March 1 tally.
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Washington, D. C
Carnegie Peace Foundation
Carnegie Foundation
Western railway shopmen to resume talks on eight hour day
In Kansas City on September 29 representatives of the western railway shopmen prepared to resume discussions on the eight hour day and wage increases.
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Kansas City
Western Railway
Woman Dies After Kerosene Fire at Home
Mrs Carrie Peterson, 26, died from burns after her clothing was set ablaze by kerosene at her home in St Louis. Boarder Phillip Bangert was arrested as police investigated a quarrel over her planned marriage to Fred Mathieu. An eight year old witness said Bangert threw a lamp at her mother.
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ST. Louis
Carrie Peterson
Phillip Bangert
Peterson
Fred Mathieu
Posse Hunts Fugitives After Florida Bank Robbery
Bert Alderman and Jim Tucker, implicated in the Homestead bank robbery and the killing of three possemen, are said to be hiding on a small island in Chokoloskee Bay. They are heavily armed and expected to resist capture or death. Lenand Rice, believed gang leader, was killed at Chokoloskee Island. Leland Rice had over $1000 on his body.
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Fort Myers
Fla
Bert Alderman
Jim Tucker
Homestead
Florida East Coast
Chokoloskee Bay
Frank Rice
Rice
Lenand
Chokoloskee Island
Powell
Fred Hirsch
Leland Rice
Woman Takes Poison in Chicago Hospital Vigil
Mrs. Anna Lossman Erickson Ruggles lies dying in a Chicago hospital after self poisoning. Her ex husband Eric Erickson and current husband Glenn Ruggles remain by her side through a long vigil. She left letters to each husband and to her mother before the act, to be released to the coroner.
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Chicago
Anna Lossman Erickson Ruggles
Eric Erickson
Glenn Ruggles
Wilson to Resume Press Conferences at Shadow Lawn
President Wilson plans to hold newspaper interviews twice weekly at Shadow Lawn resuming postwar practice. He will review the Fourth New Jersey regiment at Sea Girt then address Young Men's Democratic clubs from New York in the afternoon.
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Long Branch
N. J
Wilson
Shadow Lawn
New Jersey
Sea Girt
New York
Colonel William P. Evans Dies at Soldiers Home
Colonel William P. Evans A S A retired quartermaster at the soldiers home died in Washington D C He served in the Indian campaigns Porto Rico and the Philippines and was colonel of the Twenty fifth Infantry before his 1912 retirement He later edited the Infantry Journal Born in Wisconsin in 1853 he graduated from the Military Academy in 1878
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Washington, D. C
William P. Evans
Soldiers Home
Porto Rico
Philippines
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Infantry Journal
Wisconsin
Military Academy
San Antonio Area Weather Tonight and Saturday
For San Antonio and vicinity the forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Saturday with a rising temperature trend as the day progresses.
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San Antonio
Vicinity
Weather summary across major cities on Saturday
ST LOUIS 40 clear 12 mile northwest wind 64 high 64 low 40. CHICAGO 40 clear 10 mile northwest wind Saturday fair high 62 low 40. MILWAUKEE 34 clear 10 mile west wind Saturday high 50. KANSAS CITY 40 clear north wind Saturday high 66. NEW YORK 70 cloudy 18 mile south wind likely rain high 78 low 66. WASHINGTON 68.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Severe Cold Wave Grips Midwest States
Frost and heavy freezing weather spread across Missouri and neighboring states with temperatures dropping to 25 degrees in Hays Kansas. The cold snap extended from the Missouri border to the Southwest and as far south as Dallas, where 44 degrees marked a new minimum. The weather office forecast lighter frosts tonight with improving conditions.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Hays
Kan
Dallas
Weather Office
Guynemer Soars After Ten Thousand Feet Fall
Paris reports Second Lieutenant Georges Guynemer downed three German aeroplanes in two minutes thirty seconds. He fell ten thousand feet but landed unhurt after a shell shredded his wing. He battled a fourth and fifth German craft, then survived a dramatic crash-landing and continued fighting.
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Paris
Georges Guynemer
Guynemer
Bakery School Promotes Home Loaf and Modern Mixing
In Chicago on Sept. 29 the Woman's Association of Commerce bakery school announced that a sixteen-ounce loaf can be baked at home and that bread making has been eased by affordable mixing machinery and gas stoves. A second meeting will seek a federal wheat export embargo due to the short crop this afternoon.
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Chicago
Woman's Association of Commerce
May Withdraw Suit In Breach of Promise Case
Jacob Henkel a consulting engineer and widower offered to marry Miss Arina Kuhnel who filed a $50 000 breach of promise suit in New York County He filed a promise to appear at the marriage license bureau to wed next Monday and Miss Kuhnel will decide by Sunday whether to wed or withdraw the suit.
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New York
Jacob Henkel
Arina Kuhnel
New York County
Henkel
Miss Kuhnel
Kuhhnel
Roosevelt to Speak in Battle Creek in Campaign Push
Theodore Roosevelt will leave for Battle Creek Michigan to deliver his second campaign speech in a tent tomorrow. Republicans and Progressives unite for the event and plan a western trip starting in the second week of October with stops in Chicago Indianapolis Kansas City Denver and San Francisco.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Battle Creek
Mich
Chicago
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Denver
San Francisco
Bankers Press Agricultural Development in U. S.
At the American Bankers Association annual meeting B F Harris urges militant citizenship alongside farmer profits. Joseph Hirsch outlines nationwide agricultural betterment, county agents, farm demonstrations, and the Smith Lever act funding rising to 4.58 million by 1922 with 75 agents in Indiana Illinois and Minnesota. The South leads with Texas employing over 100 agents and a statewide plan to boost cotton storage and livestock production. Paul M Warburg warns of gold exports and fierce postwar capital competition as peace nears.
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Kansas City
United States
American Bankers’ Association
Association
Agricultural Commission
B. F. Harris
Champaign
Lil
Agricultural Committee
Congress
Wilson
Joseph Hirsch
Corpus Christi
Tex
Hirsch
South
Mr. Hirsch
Europe
Federal
Department of Agriculture
Indiana
Ilinois
Minnesota
Michigan
Missouri
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Union
Leaders refuse to admit strike failure in New York crisis
Labor union officials who sought a general strike in New York and Westchester refused to admit defeat and claimed about 200000 workers had quit. They postponed further calls until Monday for a federated unions meeting, citing time for unions to study the strike call. The allied building trades and teamsters unions also delayed their decisions, alongside 10000 brewery workers and machinists on the outside.
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New York
Westchester County
Hugh Frayne
Joint Labor Conference Committee
Allied Building Trades
Teamsters’ Union
Looney Seeks Injunction Modification in Atlanta
Attorney General B F Looney traveled to Atlanta to ask Judge Pardee for a modification of a railroad injunction. He aims to expand intrastate rate limits nationwide rather than just East Texas. The move followed a failed attempt to secure relief from Judge Gordon Russell in Sherman.
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Austin
Tex
B. F. Looney
Atlanta
Pardee
Railroad Commission
Looney
East Texas
Shreveport
Gordon Russell
Sherman
Mrs Small murdered in Ossipee fire and rope strangling
Mrs Frederick L Small wife of a Boston real estate broker was found murdered in the Ossipee Lake summer home fire ruins. She had been beaten and strangled with a rope. the fire was believed to cover the crime. Sheriff Chandler arrested her husband on instructions awaiting county solicitor guidance.
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Mountain View
N. H
Frederick L. Small
Boston
Lake Ossipee
Small
Chandler
First Touch of Fall Brings Norther to Central U S
Major Allen Buell of the local weather bureau notes the first touch of fall with a norther causing cooler nights and 56 degree Friday morning. The cold front stretches across the central and western U S with frost lines nearing Missouri and North Texas and heavy frosts in Oklahoma. Temperatures are expected to rise after Saturday morning.
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Oklahoma
Missouri
Texas
Machine records every heart motion at X Ray Society meet
A new electrocardiograph was exhibited by Chicago physicians at the American X Ray Society convention. The device records all heart motions and promises precise data for diagnosing heart disease.
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Chicago
Bank Robbery Strikes Caron Saskatchewan Bank With $9000 Loot
Robbers entered Caron 18 miles west of Moose Jaw late last night, cut telegraph and telephone wires, overpowered the Bank of Hamilton watchman, blew the safe and escaped with 9000 dollars. No trace of the four robbers found today.
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Moose Jaw
Sask
Caron
Here
Bank of Hamilton
British Forces Capture Farm at Le Sars in Somme
British troops on the Somme front seized a strongly defended farm 500 yards southwest of Le Sars after a night of quiet fighting. The war office also notes gains between Fregicourt and Morval and reports a large ammunition dump explosion north of Thiepval.
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London
Somme
le Sars
War Office
Paris
Fregicourt
Morval
Sailly
Peronne
Bapaume
Thiepval
Schwaben
Hessian Trench
Ytres
Bertincourt
French Report Gains In Somme Front Actions
Paris dispatch reports further progress by French forces between Fregicourt and Morval on the Somme front. In Saloniki, Serbian troops repulsed four Bulgarian attacks on Kaimakcalan as noted by the war office.
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Paris
Fregicourt
Morval
Somme
War Office
Saloniki
Kaimakcalan
Warship Hydra Defects to Greek Revolutionists in Piraeus
The Greek warship Hydra defected to the revolutionaries at Piraeus early today. Civilian- dressed boarding party forced loyal officers to surrender and towed Hydra to Salamis Bay where allied ships are stationed. The marine minister condemned the act while noting the attackers’ uncertain allegiance.
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Piraeus
London
Hydra
Venizelist
Salamis Bay
Associated Press
Joffre Congratulates Haig on Somme Successes
General Joffre, French army commander, sends a message to General Sir Douglas Haig, British commander in France and Belgium, praising recent Allied successes since the Somme offensive and stating they guarantee final victory as enemy forces are shaken both physically and morally.
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France
London
Joffre
Douglas Haig
Belgium
Somme
Kilkis Desertion Report Linked to Greek Revolution
A report from Athens indicates that the Kilkis, once the Idaho, has deserted to the revolutionists. The Greek ministry of marine denies the claim.
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Athens
London
Kilkis
United States
Idaho
Ministry of Marine
General Von Wandel Removed From German War Ministry
Berlin report states General Von Wandel deputy minister for war has been dismissed from the war ministry by official government statement. Authorities did not reveal reasons for the dismissal announced today in Berlin via London.
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Berlin
London
von Wandel
War Ministry
Iron and Steel Reach New Highs in Market Parade
New York September 29. Iron and steel stocks led the day with widespread demand and a new high for Republic Iron and Steel. United States Steel and others advanced to near record levels as gains ranged from one to five points. Afternoon trading boosted prices further with United States Steel hitting a new peak of 1205 8. Rails and Union Pacific also showed notable activity as profits flowed into remaining issues.
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New York
United States Steel
Republic Iron and Steel
Whic
Lackawanna, Crucible
Schloss-Sheffield
Gulf States Steels
Colorado
Great Northern
American Car
Railway Steel Springs
American
Baldwin
Union Pacific
Mexico City article on talks shields Mexican sovereignty
A Mexico City newspaper quoting Mexican commissioner says conferences will avoid touching interior Mexico issues. Discussion will focus only on withdrawing the American punitive expedition. The piece notes a restrained stance by the Mexican commissioners and praises General Carranza while predicting rapid American troop withdrawal.
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Laredo
Tex
Mexico City
New London
Conn
Mexico
Carranza
Trevino
Concerts on plazas plan for Military Day celebrations
Rotarians finalized arrangements for a series of band concerts on city plazas during Military Day October 4. The meeting at the St. Anthony Hotel noted funds secured for decorations and a marching route lined with flags. Banquet plates dwindled to a few of 150, with all meals to be provided by Saturday. Enthusiasm and broad civic cooperation marked the session.
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Rotarians
St. Anthony Hotel
Asame
Parker to Aid Wilson in campaign speeches
John M. Parker the Progressive nominee for vice president offered to speak for President Wilson. His offer was accepted. He will campaign in Ohio New York and New Jersey. The president received Parker’s letter today per an administration official.
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Long Branch
N. J
John M. Parker
Wilson
Ohio
New York
New Jersey
British and German Fronts in World War I Speech
London dispatch reports Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg telling the Reichstag allied line holds at Somme while admitting Allied gains. He predicts costly future battles on the western and eastern fronts and notes Romania’s king died amid betrayal fears as Turkey and Bulgaria may yet stay out of the war.
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London
Somme
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Reichstag
Reuters
Amsterdam
Roumania
Entente
Roum
Turkey
Bulgaria
Italy
Reichstag Opens as War Climax Seen in Germany
Berlin reports state that the Reichstag opened amid applause as Kaempf spoke on war’s climax and Germany’s strong position. Bethmann-Hollweg warned of Roumania’s entry and outlined alliance obligations while Bratiano pursued gains amid shifting loyalties and the crown’s strain.
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W. P. Evans
Netewe
Weather Forecast
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Hold Bakery School
Women of
Roosevelt
U. C
Hoth
Bankers
Paul M. Warburg
Federal Reserve Board
New World
American X-Ray Society
Mingr
Teuton
West Front
Haig
General von Wandel
N. Y
Parker
von Hollweg
Sayville
Kaempf
Germany
Presid
Deuland
Bremen
Berl
Turtukai
von Bethmann- Hollweg
Austria-Hungary
Rowomania
Carlos
de Marche
Serbia
Crown Council
Ente
Bratiano
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