Garfield Announces Plan of Penalties for Non Union Districts
Washington November reports the fuel administration will penalize non union mining districts to deter strikes and lockouts. Operators must collect fines for strikes and forward funds to the Red Cross. failures to adopt penalties may withhold coal price increases. Legal actions to follow.
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Fuel Administration
Red Cross
Southwest
Washington
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
The
Department of Justice
First U. S. Insurance Policy For Capt. Smith
The United States Government issued its first life and disability policy to Captain Earl Hamilton Smith U S O R a former Washington newspaper man now with General Pershing in France. The $40 000 policy is the maximum under the pension law for military personnel. Policy No 1 was issued to him after blanks were sent to the War Risk Insurance Bureau. He applied from France by cable.
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United States
Earl Hamilton Smith
Washington
General Pershing
France
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Smith
Must Sing U S Anthem Providence Police Block License
Providence New Jersey November 1 The police commission withheld granting a license for a concert by Freida Hempel pending a promise she will sing The Star Spangled Banner If she does not know it she must learn it by Sunday the commission chairman said This city visit last spring saw Hempel refuse to include the anthem in her program prompting the stand
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Providence
R. 1
Sunda
Freida Hempel
Hempel
Wisconsin Anti-Saloon league proposes beerless day
The Wisconsin Anti-Saloon league adopted a resolution urging Governor to call for a beerless day. All drinkers would reduce beer consumption by one glass daily and observe one day per week as beerless day, with Sunday named as cheerless day when sale of intoxicants is already a misdemeanor.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin Anti-Saloon League
Phili
Bigelow Vengeance Plan Emerges After Horsewhipping
In Kentucky the Want Bigelow Avenged movement plans a public meeting Sunday night in Newport to urge the mayor, commissioners, and the Kentucky governor to aid in capturing the Ku Klux party members behind the assault on Bigelow. Officials lack a definite clue as to suspects. Bigelow remains in hospital with severe lacerations and nervous shock. doctors expect a week or longer before discharge.
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Bigelow
Newport
Washington Goes Dry After Halloween Jittery Night
Washington ends a dry Halloween with a noisy jerrymaker led celebration. Saloons and hotel bars closed early or shut their doors before midnight as a new federal ban took effect in the District of Columbia. The law bars manufacture sale or giving away alcohol and bans public drinking while allowing personal importation.
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Washington
Osed
Congress
District of Columbia
Plane Houses for War Workers in Washington
A federal housing plan to house thousands of workers on government war contracts was presented to President Wilson by a special committee of the Council of National Defense led by AFL head Gompers. The committee’s report follows a survey of housing needs in several cities and will not be released until Wilson approves it.
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Nev
Wilson
Council of National Defense
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Wisconsin German Professor Is Dismissed
Madison Wisconsin Professor Ernest Feise a German assistant head of the German department at the University of Wisconsin was removed last night for alleged offensive and scurrilous remarks against the United States government.
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Madison, Wis
Ernest Feise
University of Wisconsin
United States
Diphtheria Cases Reported In Chicago
Chicago reports sixty nine new diphtheria cases in the last 48 hours along with two new infantile paralysis cases, reflecting a sharp local rise in infectious diseases.
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Chicago
Praise from Major General as Marines reviewed at Warrenton
Major General Barnett praised the U S Marine Corps and reviewed Marine camps at Warrenton Virginia. He told recruits the country is proud of the Marines and compared them to the famous French chasseurs noting superior leadership potential and promotion opportunities.
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Barnett
Wuanlo
Daniels
France
Sweden Or Allies Entry Hinted By Bank Transfers
In a wartime financial speculation a Stockholm rumor suggests Sweden might join the Central Powers. Swedish bankers are said to be withdrawing U S banking activity to avoid sequestration if a break with the United States occurs. Earlier, similar German fund moves to Berlin accompanied a surge in marks as the United States cut relations with Germany.
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Sweden
United States
Germany
Berlin
German War Horror Mentioned as Schutzengrabenvernichtang Autym Bil
Dispatches from Washington describe a German term for a land battle machine used in the war. The word, rendered as schutzengrabenvernichtang autym bil, is said to mean a machine to suppress shooting trenches.
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Washington
Prisoners Harvest Potatoes at City Farm in Boston
Prisoners who worked near an acre at the city farm harvested 449 bushels of potatoes, averaging about 452 bushels per acre, in a display that impressed professional growers.
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Boston
City Farm
Resolution urges immediate aid to Italy in war effort
A Special meeting adopts a resolution urging immediate moral military and economic aid to Italy. It calls for transporting a contingency of American troops and war materiel to Italy and seizing Austrian ships when possible to aid Italy’s fight against Austria-Hungary. The document stresses Italy’s survival hinges on Allied support to maintain democracy.
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Sion
Congress
Board of True
American Defense Society
Italy
United States
Chicago Firemen Held for Burglary
Chicago firemen were arrested on orders from State’s Attorney Hoyne for allegedly taking part in a dozen burglaries. The men purportedly used their uniforms to gain access and gather information before robbing safes or sharing details with outside professionals.
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Chicago
Hoyne
Camp Dix Wild West Show Aids Military Horse Forces
Camp Dix near Wrightstown New Jersey braces for a rapid buildup with over 10 000 horses expected from the West and more than a thousand men assigned to manage them Negro regiments arriving soon from New York New Jersey and Florida amid a large mobilization effort.
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Camp Dix
Wrightstown
N. J
National Army
New York
New Jersey
Florida
Coal Famine Tightens Supply in Minnesota City
November 1 report from Virginia Minnesota notes coal shortages severe across the region with only one ton available per order even for large buildings. The hard coal situation is described as the worst in the range’s history.
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Minnesota
Virginia
Minn
Bear Treed Norristown Hunter in Camden County
George W. Groff of Norristown was treed by a bear while hunting in Camden County. Companions came to his aid as the bear clung to its position.
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Norristown
George W. Groff
Camden County
Chamber groups back federal regulation of railroad securities
Washington November 1. Affiliated trade and commercial organizations of the chamber of commerce of the United States endorsed federal regulation of rail road securities and recommended further railroad legislation in a referendum. The vote supported the chamber's railroad committee report.
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United States
Chamber
Railroad Committee
Pugilist Dies of Ring Injuries in Dayton Match
Dayton Ohio reports the death of 43 year old Yowen Stein of Hamilton Georgia after a fall in the final minute of a bout with Battling Hess of Port Wayne Indiana at the Dayton Gymnastic Club. Hess was opponent in the fatal fight.
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Hamilton
Hess
Port Wayne Ind
Dayton Gymnastic Club
Pension Department Records Nine Hundred Thousand Pensioners
London reports 900,005 pensioners listed on the British pension department books per a statement by John Hodge the minister of pensions. The number reflects welfare claims under the current administration and signals ongoing coverage for elderly and disabled citizens.
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London
British Pension Department
John Hodge
Pensions
Villa Bandits Blow Up Train South of San Luis Potasi
Villa bandits wrecked a southbound train near San Luis Potasi Mex injuring six cars with dynamite according to a wartime revolvy report. Authorities report the cars were jolted by an automobile in a collision.
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Tae
Nev
Villa Bandits
San Luis Potasi
Mex
Fire at Baltimore Terminal Ties Up Rail Line Loss Estimated at 4 Million
Baltimore officials report two men detained by the department of justice as investigators probe a major blaze at the Baltimore and Ohio terminals. Loss to the railroad topples to about 4 million with piers eight and nine destroyed. Freight and reconstruction plans proceed, while steamer damage and cargo losses reach hundreds of thousands.
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Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio
Department of Justice
Harris
Ulijer
Thompson
Locust Point
Furness Steamship Company
H. P. Munroe
Bureau of Mines
Washington
Bombe
Philadelphia
Dmpact
Workers Recall Smallpox Vaccine Over Tetanus Fear
Health officers were asked by vaccine manufacturers to return batches sent to St Paul for smallpox vaccination after tests showed some vials might contain tetanus germs. The samples were sent to Washington for analysis. The cause of contamination remains unexplained, with a suggestion that enemies of the country could be involved.
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St Paul
Sarrta Maria Caravel Sold to Moving Picture Firm
Sarrta Maria, a replica caravel of Columbus's voyage, bought for $940.40 by a moving picture concern in Chicago. The sale settles a claim from the Neville Cannerys company of Halifax, whose vessel had long been tied at Halifax after a failed Panama exposition voyage.
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Chicago
America
Moving Picture
Neville Canneries Company
Halifax
Can
Ince
Sam
Broken Bottle Kills Man in Wilkes-Barre
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania on November 1 a bottle carried in a man's hip pocket shattered and caused fatal wounds. Stenfexs Shuper, 45, of the city died later at Mercy Hospital after the broken bottle cut him. The bottle had been forgotten and its glass broke, but attempts to halt bleeding failed.
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Wilkes-Barre
Stenfexs Shuper
Shu
Mercy Hospital
Shuper
Mexico seeks embargo relief through Washington mission
Mexico City reports Former finance minister Luis Cabrera will travel to Washington to carry out a commission for President Carranza. The mission aims to obtain relief from embargoes and secure imports for Mexico as it faces tariff and trade pressures.
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Mexico City
Luis Cabrera
Washington
Carranza
Senor Cabrera
Café
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