Vienna in Mourning as War Worsens and News Barred
Alexander Rome reports from Vienna on a city steeped in sorrow as 70,000 wounded crowd hospitals across the capital. Citizens face censorship of war news, while mothers and children endure loss, hunger, and fear amid bombardment, with the Red Cross overwhelmed and authorities clamping down on information.
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Alice Rome
United Press
Ministry of War
Reece
Trilns
Hospitate
Red Cross
Europe
Praterstragse
Gallela
Hessian Prince Shot In Back Say Allies
Calais dispatch reports Prince Max of Hesse killed in action after a seizure of a small town by Prussian forces. Allies describe five revolver wounds and burial in a rough coffin before body sent to German lines. Calais endures mass displacement as Belgian refugees flood harbor and quays.
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Calais
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Stara
Turkey Allied With Germany Becomes War Participant
Turkey, the tenth nation drawn into the titanic struggle, may mobilize 600 000 to 700 000 troops with 200 000 officers under German supervision. German officers arrive with siege guns and ammunition as Turkish gunboats raid Odessa and sink Russian and French ships, prompting diplomatic strain and fears of a broader war.
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Constantinople
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Eebback
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Rusela
War News From Front Lines Across Europe
Reports from the front describe Belgian forces slowing German advances by flooding river dykes while Belgians shell retreating troops. British and French lines endure heavy fighting near La Bassée Canal as Austro German units retreat along the Vistula. Boer revolts expand in the Orange Free State and Transvaal with several capitulations reported. A hospital ship wreck near Whitby endangers many lives and a new British Sea Lord is appointed to the Admiralty.
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Cape
Emden in Glorious Feat In Major Ocean Raid
British dispatches from Tokyo report Emden, the German raider, raided Georgetown Penang harbor in the Straits Settlements. She fired torpedoes sinking the Russian cruiser Jemptchug and a French destroyer, while two hundred crew members died. The raid increases ships destroyed by Emden and Karlsruhe to 43.
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Tokyo
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Penang
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Ths
Retreat Deepens as German Corps Fall Back at Vistula
Petrograd reports the German army corps on the Vistula's left bank retreating toward Poland as Russian forces press the offensive. The official communique dated October 23 notes the breaking of German resistance.
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Vistula
Poland
Ofld-Chtat
Dats
Tallaws
The Charm of Motherhood
An article extols motherhood and warns women to prepare for childbirth using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It urges reliance on the remedy to restore health and vigor, offering confidential advice from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. and promising private assistance from a woman.
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Bigdia E. Pinkham
Lydia E
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lyon
Mast
Greek Meets Greek Watch Joke in Corner Store Tale
A humorous tale recalls two aging substitutes ignorant of time. Uncle Ben’s friend gifts a coveted watch. Pats taunts Hen at the corner store, asking the time, the other man reveals the watch, and Pete jokes with a brisk retort about the claim.
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Old Pats
Hig Inquisitor
Pete
Yarybody
Magasine
Stork Explains Memory Tale At Berlin Gardens
In a Berlin garden scene, Gretchen notices a white bird in a cage. She tosses candy and the bird inches its head through the wire for more. Gretchen exclaims with wonder as her mother points to the cage sign reading The Stork.
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Berlin
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Gretchen
Sams
Siamma
Mer
Sings the War Breaks Out In Silly Verse
Fragmentary lines echo a wartime spoof with garbled names and a joke about finding an automobile. The text includes quips like De Geter and Myery and wordplay on heroics, presented as a lighthearted, streetcorner lyric.
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Basko
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