Roumanias ultimatum to Austria nears amid Balkan war buildup
Roumania plans an ultimatum to Austria once 500,000 Allied troops are in the Balkans, with potential claims on Transylvania. In Italy, Monte Nero zone seized advancing toward Gorizia. Southern Serbia fights on as Austro German aid looms, with Uskub and Monastir areas hot as Bulgars face pressure.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Roumania
Austria
Balkans
Bucharest
Austrian
Transylvania
Suny
Rome
Monte Nero
Tolmino
Gorizia
Serbia
Athens
Saloniki
Strumnitza
Uskub
Monastir
Prilep
Babuna Pass
Kitchener Visit Spurs Italian Balkan Campaign Push
Rome dispatches say after Lord Kitchener met King Victor Emmanuel and General Cadorna at the front, Italy is ready to enter a large scale Balkan campaign. Censor limits details, with operations likely through Albania as interests sharpen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kitchener
Paris
Lord Kitchener
Victor Emmanuel
Cadorna
Rome
Italy
Balkan
Albania
Ital
Serbs Move Northern Army Into Montenegro and Albania
A Saloniki message confirms the Serb northern army retires into Montenegro and northern Albania with the southern line stretching from Debra toward Monastir and the Priley district. The front runs west to the Tzerna river in contact with French forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montenegro
Rome
Albania
Saloniki
Debra
Monastir
Priley
Tzerna River
Wisconsin Couple Back in Biloxi for Winter Visitor Streak
Judge and Mrs Erik Brown from Wisconsin arrive in Biloxi marking their thirty year run as Biloxi winter visitors. They first came thirty years ago and have spent every winter here since, departing their Waupac a home.
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Wisconsin
Biloxi
Miss
Erik Brown
Waupaca
Wis
Brown
Two Die As Train Dives Into Mississippi River
In Quincy Illinois the engine and fireman of Chicago Burlington and Quincy passenger No. 15 from St. Louis to St. Paul were drowned when the engine toppled into the Mississippi at an open draw bridge. Engineer Don Cannon saved the train by applying airbrakes as the locomotive sank. both Cannon and Fireman Atkins of Hannibal Missouri were lost and their bodies not recovered.
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Quincy
Ill
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Mississippi River
St. Louis
St. Paul
Don Cannon
Cannon
Atkins
Hannibal, Mo
Six Die in New Brunswick Farmhouse Slaying
A farmer Samuel Weitzmann his wife and daughter his son in law and two Polish farm hands were found shot dead in New Brunswick. Police believe one farm hand killed the others then killed himself after the massacre possibly tied to a milk delivery stoppage after Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Brunswick
Samuel Weitzmann
Weitzmann
David Kigner
T Gigner
O'Connor
O’connor
Port Engineers Survey Mobile Harbor Progress
Engineers Charles J. Hardy and RH B Wade of Ford Bacon Davis conducted a week of preliminary harbor survey work in Mobile. They visited river and bay fronts to study water depths and assess potential sites from land and water, preparing maps and files for city review.
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Mobile Harbor
City Commission
Charles J. Hardy
RH. B. Wade
Ford, Bacon & Davis
Conditio
Mobile Pen
Hardy
River Front
Bay Front
City of
Mobile
Old Spanish Trail Scout Car Sets Coast Speed Record
The Old Spanish Trail scout car, returning from Tampa via Lake City in 11 hours 15 minutes, establishes a new tourist speed record along the West Florida coast. Pledges of support flow from Gainesville and Tampa as Central Florida and Western Florida highway groups unite to form an All Florida Highway Association to coordinate the Gulf coast route. The Gainesville business community welcomes the trek and officials pledge cooperation for December conventions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Live Oak
Lake City
Spanish Trail
Tampa
Brooksville
Inverness
Ocala
Mcintosh
Gainesville
West Florida
Valdosta
Bainbridge
Thomasville
Gulf Coast Organization
Mobile
Florida
Central Florida Highway Association
Hillman
Western Florida Highway Association
All Florida Highway Association
Gulf Coast
T. Ed Bryan
Scout Party
Pasco
Pinellas
Safety Harbor
Hernando de Soto
Hillsborough County
South Florida
United States
Panama Canal
Tampa Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Pinellas County
L. P. Dickie
Los Angeles jeweler robbed of diamonds in New York
Benjamin Forer, Los Angeles diamond dealer, told police two men robbed him of $17,000 worth of diamonds this afternoon at Broadway and Wall Streets near the stock exchange. One man shouldered him. another grabbed the bag and vanished into the crowd. No good descriptions were obtained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Benjamin Forer
Los Angeles
Broadway
Wall Streets
Stock Exchange
Forer
Rural credit row spurs Glass battle in Congress
Washington, Nov. 27. The Federal Reserve Board advisory council may lose its existence as a bill to abolish the council is prepared by Chairman Carter Glass of the House Banking and Currency Committee. Glass says rural credit legislation remains the priority and a scientific measure will be crafted for the next session.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board Advisory Council
Charles A. Lyerly
Atlanta
C. T. Jaffray
Minneapolis
E. F. Swinney
Kansas City
J. Howard Andrey
Dallas
Archibald Rains
San Francisco
Levi L. Rue
Philadelphia
Rolla Wells
St. Louis
Glass
Carter Glass
House Banking and Currency Committee
Ard
Congress
Prohibition Cases Continued by Recorder Across Docket
All prohibition cases on the recorder's court docket were continued on Saturday. Disposition of 235 cases and 66 half drums of liquor seized on the schooner Oyster's Plant were postponed to December 1 at attorney B B Chamberlain's request who said a claimant would appear by then. Leon McKeon’s case was moved to December 3. William E Flinn and John Perry received a continuance to December 2. William H McCoy’s case was deferred to December 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Recorder’s Court
B. B. Chamberlain
Leon McKeon
Gunnison
Soles
William E. Flinn
Southern Hotel
John Perry
Weather Outlook for Alabama This Weekend
Fair conditions prevail on Sunday with moderate winds and a slight warmup. Monday promises continued fair weather as a cooler front lingers, with dry skies through the day.
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Alabama
Bed hauled from store brings pair to police station
In New York on November 27 Hugh McPhillips and Charles Steel forced open Sam Schlossman's furniture store, dragged a bed from the show window into the street, and slept there with their shoes off. They are to wake up tomorrow morning at the West Thirty seventh Street police station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hugh McPhillips
Charles Steel
Sam Schlossman
Governor Henderson Ends Bay Minette Fishing Trip
Governor Henderson returned to his Troy home for the weekend after a fishing trip in Baldwin County. He traveled to Montgomery this morning after the Bay Minette banquet and Thursday and Friday events in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Henderson
Troy
Baldwin County
Bay Minette
Bombardments Do Not Bring Rain Says Weather Bureau
Washington officials announce that firing guns in war zones does not cause rain. After fifteen months of observing European weather impacts, the Weather Bureau declares the old myth dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Weather Bureau
Europe
Windsor Hotel Raided. Gaming Outfit Found
Detectives led by Chief G. M. Van Liew raid the Windsor hotel on Saturday night and arrest A. E. Reynolds for exhibiting gaming paraphernalia. A warning bell was rung as officers entered. 26 beer bottles and scattered playing cards were found at Frank M. Harris 2021 2 Conti Street.
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Windsor Hotel
G. M. van Liew
A. E. Reynolds
Frank. M. Harris
Conti Street
Harris
Pope abandons plan for Christmas armistice
Paris dispatch says the pope gave up urging a Christmas armistice as all belligerents oppose it. In other items Coleman acquitted of perjury in city court. Linscott case reset to January 12. Cash vagrancy reset to January 15. Elijah Walker to be tried January 4. Soldier J C Yancey charged with grand larceny. F M Scott asserts $40 stolen in Mobile after a Fri night meet.
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Paris
Geneva
F. M. Scott
Mobile
Border Crisis Eases As Villa Flees Toward Chihuahua
Washington reports say Carranza now controls most of the border and Villa forces retreat toward Chihuahua. Nogales fighting stirs only minor casualties, with estimates varied and Obregon pursuing Villa to cut off retreat as Carranza troops advance.
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Washington
Carranza
War Department
Villa
Chihuahua
Sonora
Winslow
Los Mochis
Nogales
Obregon
Funston
State
Simpich
Rodriguez
Hermosillo
Juarez
Foot and Mouth Quarantine Lifted in Two States
The foot and mouth disease quarantine was removed in New Jersey and Massachusetts and partial in Illinois with McDonough County and parts of Bureau Cook DuPage Fulton Lake LaSalle Livingstone Marshall Stark and Warren still under ban.
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Washington
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Illinois
McDonough
Bureau
Cook
Dupage
Fulton, Lake
LaSalle
Livingstone
Marshall
Stark
Warren
Parachute Drop Test in London Proves Feasible
Colonel Maitland of the naval air service demonstrated parachute descent from an aeroplane at ten thousand feet. He admitted the test nearly cost him his life after a hundred foot fall before the parachute opened. His hands grew numb from cold and he nearly fell again before ground contact.
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London
Maitland
Naval Air Service
Anti Preparedness Speech Sparks Heat At Chicago
At a National Security League gathering in Chicago Senator James A. Reed of Missouri argued against immediate war danger and urged restraint. Protests from S Stanwood Menken and Henry Wood followed with calls for stronger readiness including camps reserves and bigger military academies.
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Chicago
National Security League
United States
James A. Reed
Missouri
Europe
Congress
Reed
Stanwood Menken
New York
League
Aance Secaia W. Butler
Spr
Illinois
Emily Wetten
Henry Wood
Washington
Ac Dent
Aero Club
London
England
Wood
Navy
Germany
Mexico
Lost items and rewards posted around town
Multiple lost notices listed with rewards including a gold mesh purse on Hammel street and Tuesday, Nov 28. four white crepe shirtwaists on Government Street. an octagon bronze medal engraved Henry Link. a diamond sunburst. a small black terrier puppy from Catherine Airedale area. a bunch of keys on St Francis Street. and other jewelry items. Rewards offered for return with no questions asked.
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Hammel’'suesday
N. Commerce Street
Government St
S. Broad St
Henry Link
Empire Theatre
M. C. An
Hammel’s
Commerce Street
St Anthony Street
Government Street
Prian Church
Empire Ward
Catherine
Airedale
Dr. Turner
Bell
St. Francis Street
Van
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W. Russell
Grand Bay
Harry Hawkshead
Russell
Satsuma
M. T. Parker
Grand Bay Orchards Company
Satsima
Wood-row Wilson
Andy
Don” Cannon
Georgia
James A. Emmet
Stout
Sarre Tert
Mir. Glass
Advisory Council of Federal
Reserve Board
Rose Goldman
Mary Fuerstein
William J. Enwright
Third Avenue
162D Street
Enright
Max Yager
Jacob Fuchs
Pope
Grisis
Villas
Ical Wien
Wiiss
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