Allied Armies Militate In Macedonia and Palestine Advances
Overwhelming Allied successes in Macedonia and Palestine overshadow other fronts as Serbian French British Italian and Greek troops push along a broad line. Serbian forces advance twenty miles in 48 hours and sixty miles since Sept. 15, while Italians free twenty villages and Greeks push ten miles along the Vardar valley. Doiran is captured by British forces as operations continue toward Monastir and Uskub with railway disruptions threatening enemy communications.
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Macedonia
Palestine
Vardar
Drenska
Planinna
Uskub
Saloniki
Gradsko-Puilep
Monastir
Veles
Vardar Gr
Ghergeli
Doiran
Weather Outlook for Pennsylvania and Washington
Weather report from Washington on September 24 notes general cloudiness tonight and Wednesday with likely rain in the northern portion of Pennsylvania. Stronger disturbance not specified. Forecast emphasizes unsettled conditions and potential rainfall.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Consul General Poole Safely Exits Russia for Finland
Washington reports Consul General Poole has left Moscow amid Bolshevik terror and is now in Finland. He was urged to depart by Secretary Lansing after efforts to protect French and British refugees. Poole will proceed to Stockholm after Helsingfors. Norwegian consuls in Moscow and Petrograd praised for aiding American exit.
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Washington
Poole
Moscow
Russia
Finland
State Department
Lansing
Helsingfor
Stockholm
Sweden
Christiania
Petrograd
Influenza Ravages Great Lakes Training Station
Spanish Flu devastates the Great Lakes training center with over two hundred deaths. Physicians and health officers mobilize to curb spread as colleges and schools impose quarantines.
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Cheago
Great Lakes
Passage of suffrage amendment foregone in Senate
Washington reports that leaders of suffrage groups expect the Senate to pass the suffrage amendment when taken up on Thursday. If approved, the amendment goes to state legislatures for ratification with a two thirds Senate vote required and three quarters of states needed for adoption.
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Senate
Washington
National Woman’s Party
Kaiser objects to American offer to France during Metz visit
The Kaiser, addressing Austrian officers, denounces American plans to cede Alasco Lorraine to France. He says the Americans are pursuing the promise, but vows that he and his army will answer the daring move and oppose the enemy.
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Copenhagen
Alasco
Lorraine
France
Metz
Daniels Foresees March With Marines Into Berlin
Secretary of the Navy Daniels told war workers in Philadelphia that he plans to march behind the Marine Band with General Pershing's troops into Berlin. He said the exact date is not set but the engagement is certain.
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Daniels
Pershing
Berlin
Philadelphia
Washington
Debate Over Bone Dry War Prohibition Amid Food Bill
Washington reports heated House debate over a food stimulation bill that would enact bone dry prohibition for the wartime period. If signed, the nation would be dry from July 1, 1919, until demobilization and return of American troops.
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Wilson
Washington
Ept
House
Senate
State Department
Congress
French Ambassador Presents Huge Vases to U.S. Senate
Washington dispatch reports Ambassador Jules Jusserand presented two large Sevres vases to the U.S. Senate as thanks for the cordial reception of the Joffre and Viviani missions. The Senate Vice President pledged perpetual friendship between the United States and France.
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U. S. Senate
Washington
Ambasssador
Jules J Dusser
United States Senate
Sevre
Joffre
Viviani
Senate
Marshal
United States
France
Fire at Willard Hotel Endangers Vice President and Guests
A morning blaze at the Willard Hotel caused $100,000 damage and endangered Vice President Marshall and other prominent guests. The fire, starting in the palm room likely from a short circuit, disrupted Peacock Alley and disabled the telephone system as guests fled through corridors.
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Washington
Marshall
Willard Hotel
Palm Room
Peacock Alley
Penn
F Street
Lieutenant 18 influenza victim reported dead
Washington reports Lieutenant Ivan M. Graham U S N has died in Quebec from influenza. He resided in San Diego California according to the navy department announcement.
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Washington
Ivan M. Graham
Quebec
Navy Department
San Diego
Calif
Serbians Advance Sixty Miles in Macedonia Front
Serbian forces claim a sixty mile advance in Macedonia with over 12 000 Bulgars and Germans captured along with 140 guns including three railway howitzers. Monastir and Ghergeli liberated. Prilep Gradsko railway line cut. Italian Greek and British units make gains as Allied effort widens front across Monastir to Lake Deiran.
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Earle C. Reeves
Sn.s
Endon
Macedonia
Monastir
Lake Deiran
Vardar
Prilep
Gradsko
Lne
Saloniki
Uskub
Prilen
London
Jordan
Amman
Essats
War Office
Haifa
Bay of Acre
Syria
Palestine
Ban on spooning ordered at Camp Meade Md
Washington Sept 24 Spoon ing has been banned at Camp Meade Md according to information received by the Y W C A War Work Council here Military police will immediately arrest any man or woman found with their arms around each other as stated in a general order read each evening at retreat to soldiers in the encampment.
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Washington
Camp Meade
Y. W. C. A. War Work Council
Americans Capture Entire Roche Garrison at St Hiliare
An American detachment under Captain C. F. Lee stormed St Hiliare Sunday night and seized the German garrison. The operation followed heavy bombardment between Marcheville and Butgneville. Six heavy machine guns and thirteen prisoners were taken. War correspondent Brown of the Washington Post was wounded in the hand.
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Henry G. Wales
Lorraine
C. F. Lee
St. Hiliare
Marcheville
Butgneville
Brown
Washington Post
Funeral of Cardinal Farley Notable Pageant in New York
The funeral of Cardinal John Farley at St Patrick Cathedral drew an immense Catholic presence from across the nation. Messages of condolence came from Pope Benedict XV President Wilson Governor Whitman and Mayor Hylan as three cardinals seven archbishops and six bishops attended. The service featured a solemn procession with archbishops and bishops from major sees and the Apostolic Delegate presiding. The burial oration was delivered by Bishop Thomas F Hickey with assistance from the cardinal’s nephew and a deacon and subdeacon.
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New York
John Cardinal Farley
St. Patricks Cathedral
Losis
Pope Benedict
Wilson
Whitman
Hylan
America
Cardinals Gibbons
Baltimore
O'Connell
Boston
Begin
Quebec
Bonano
Dennis G. Dougherty
Phila
John Shaw
New Orleans
Thomas F. Hickey
Rochester
Daniel F. Feehan
Fall River
John Farrelly
Cleveland
John J. McCord
Patrick Hayes
Army and Navy
Wiliam T. Rusel
Charleston
Thomas J. Walsh
Trenton
John Bonanza
Rome
Washington
Benanzo
John Farley
William Livingston
Epidemic Closes Boston Schools
Boston and nearby towns suspend classes at noon as influenza sweeps New England. Health officials Wim C Woodward William H Devine and Frank V Thompson ordered school closures in Boston Brookline Medford Winthrop Somerville and Dedham. In Somerville 4204 of 12235 pupils were absent yesterday due to flu.
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Boston
Mass
New England
Wim
C. Woodward
William H. Devine
Frank V. Thompson
Brookline
Medford
Winthroy
Somerville
Dedham
Board of Health
Ruling on bicycles will save 2500 tons of steel
The War Industries Board ordered elimination of certain bicycle styles and patterns. The new program, after a conference with manufacturers, will take effect October 1 and conserve at least 2500 tons of steel by banning racing models for youths and reducing metal parts. Color options drop to six varieties and nickel finishes on frames and forks end. Rubber grips, nickel or aluminum grips are forbidden.
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Washington
War Industries Board
Fourth Liberty Loan to be issued this evening
Washington reports the total Liberty Loan amount will be announced tonight by Secretary McAdoo in New York. Quotas have been prepared for all Federal Reserve districts and banks as the three week campaign starts September 28. Simultaneously hundreds of motion picture plays featuring famous film stars are being distributed to fourteen thousand theaters nationwide for the war effort.
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Washington
McAdoo
New York
Federal Reserve
Uncle Am
Senators demand public apology from Bak er critics
Senator Thompson of Kansas, back from the battle front, urged critics of Secretary Baker to apologize before the public. He noted 1,760,000 U S troops were in France and said the nation could raise more if needed.
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Washington
Baker
France
Thompson
Kansas
Americans Push Through German Lines Near Rembercourt
Report from the Lorraine Front notes heavy fighting near Rembercourt with American assaults meeting stubborn German resistance and five prisoners taken. Artillery bombardment across the Meuse Moselle area increases. Two German planes shot down and American patrols active before Laumont with Indian scouts praised for locating machine gun posts.
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Newton C. Parke
Lorraine
Meuse-Moselln
Rembercourt
Meuse-Moselle
Moselle
Prency
Lorraine Front
Lorrain
Laumont
Alsace
Techine
Huns Emplacing Some Big Guns On Lorraine Front
German artillery press on the Lorraine front shows increased activity as guns are moved into position after retreat along the Hindenburg line. German aviators raid and fight Allied air forces while American patrols and raid parties press the front through the night.
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Henry G. Wales
Lorraine Front
Hindenburg Line
No Plans Made for Funeral of Bishop Carrier
Baltimore message Sept 24 indicates Bishop Charles Warren Carrier Daltiur Bishop of Etolonia died on a train from an acute indigestion attack. Funeral plans likely will not be announced until Cardinal Gibbons reforms from New York and Cardinal Farley’s funeral is attended.
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Baltimore
Charles Warren Carrier
Etolonia
New York
Cardinal Gibbons
Carrier
Cardinal Farley
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