Poster Campaign Ends At Publicity Depot In London
The Publicity Department at Whitehall closes its vast war poster drive in London. From the original Lord Kitchener appeal for 300000 men, over five hundred posters circulated, including humorous and provocative designs. The campaign helped raise new armies, though debate continues on whether the expenditure produced worthwhile recruits.
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Allies in Retreat Guard Frontier in Transylvania Front
Romanian forces from Hermannstadt to Kronstadt withdraw to the Carpathian frontier to defend the four passes into Kronstadt as Austro German troops push from Geister forest and advance in Transylvania. Kronstadt recaptured by Austro German troops amid Romanian falls back toward frontier. Serbians report repulses against Bulgarians on the Macedonian front near Cerna river.
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Berlin
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War Office
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Alt Valley
Sofia
Cerna
Monaatir
Austrian Battleship Sunk Report Circulates in Pola Harbor
Reports from Pola in the Adriatic claim an Austrian battleship was blown up in the harbor. Pola serves as Austria's naval base and lies about 60 miles south of the area where Austrian submarines have attacked allied merchantmen and warships in the Mediterranean.
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Pola
Austria
Adriatic
Mediterranean
Wilson Names 8 Hour Board Members
President Wilson selects Major General Goethals governor of the Panama Canal Zone George Rebbe federal trade commissioner and Commissioner Clark of the Interstate Commerce Commission to join the eight hour law investigation board. Selections were made days ago and await acceptance.
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Goethals
Panama Canal Zone
George Rebbe
Federal Trade
Clark
Interstate Commerce Board
Wilson
Congress
Ward liner Antilia passengers safe after fire report
The Ward line steamer Antilia en route from Guantanamo to New York is confirmed safe near Hampton Roads after a fire alert 120 miles off the Virginia capes. Coast guard cutter Mob Becomes involved as authorities assess the incident.
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Ward Line
Guantanamo
New York
Virginia Capes
Hampton Roads
United States Coast Guard
Slayer Is Given Life In Prison For Serial Murders
Scott Mansell alias James C Allerton pleads guilty to multiple murders in Grand Rapids Michigan. Sentenced by Judge McDonald to life without parole after confessing to the Elmira New York and Westboro Wisconsin killings and suspected other slayings across the United States and Canada. He is described as aged sixty four in poor health and imprisoned in Jackson.
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James C. Allerton
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Scott Mauser
Mancesona
James
Allerton
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Canada
Mansell
Anna St. John
Elmira
N. Y
Westboro
Wis
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Mausell
McDonald
U S.exports Grow as Commerce Reports Record Gains
Washington reports a surge in U S exports in the first eight months of the calendar year. The department of commerce shows exports totaling 3 486 960 212 dollars, up 1 205 082 010 from the previous year with a trade surplus near 1 730 000 000 dollars. United Kingdom leads with about one third of shipments.
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United States
Department of Commerce
Department
United Kingdom
Passenger RNG Used for Transport Duty in the Med
An early dispatch notes that a passenger carrying RNG was deployed for transport duty in the Mediterranean. The report mentions a common maritime admiralty line and records that twelve of the crew were involved in the operations.
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Common Herd Admiralty
Nine Die In Fire At Christian Brothers College
Nine men are known to have died in a Giré fire that destroyed the central portion of the Christian Brothers College building in St. Louis. Two dead were elderly priests, five were firemen, and 195 students with 30 faculty were evacuated from the dining hall after a flame alarm by Brother Abban. The fire caused an estimated loss of over 300000 dollars, wrecking the central structure but sparing two wings. the natural history and curio museum were destroyed.
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Ourse
Morrisonville
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Natural History and Curio Museum
Gerard not peace envoy denies German peace bid report
Acting Secretary Polk says no truth to New York Evening Post claim that Germany would ask President Wilson to mediate peace. He notes Ambassador Gerard is en route to the United States with no message from the Kaiser for President Wilson.
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New York Evening Post
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New York Post
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Priest Killed Bishop Hurt in Illinois Train Collision
Peoria Illinois October 6 Father Schuets was killed and Bishop Dunne and Fa ten miles north of here on Wednesday. The clergymen were on their way to a mission when the crash occurred.
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SIX VICTIMS SAVED AS GERMAN SUB SINKS SHIPS
Four American destroyers arrived at Newport with 216 survivors from seven ships sunk off Nantucket by a German submarine. The sunken vessels included four British steamers and two neutral ships, with no known loss of life. The U 35 is suspected. two subs may operate near the U.S. coast.
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Bentham
Jenkins
Ericsson
West Point
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Prohibition Party Eyes New National Organization
A Statement from the publicity department says preliminary steps in the last thirty days aim to form a new national party expected to hold power in the United States. Lincoln Drake Bulldogs play a season opener, winning 63 to 0 after three quarters of old fashioned football and a few forward passes.
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Man reads and writes to win a scholar fate
A fragment from London Answers cites a tale of a forty two year old who learns to read for love of a woman and becomes educated in two years. A bus conductor notes equal chances and a friend named Jim who moves ahead as the driver of the bus.
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London
Tender Skinned Babies And Bicycles In Wartime Britain
Curtailed by lingering ad copy and stray snippets the page notes Cuticura Soap free samples for babies address postal requests in Boston. It then surveys bicycle use by princesses and munition workers in England as petrol shortage prompts transport shifts. A joke about a bankrupt telephone company follows with rural West anecdotes.
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It Takes a Strong Man and a Studio Pay Question
An Asatstateat director faces a pay charge issue at a movie studio. Last week a director called to Glen White, asking to break a half dollar. White refused, declaring he is no Samson.
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