War Council Meeting and Allied Unity Conference
Premier Lloyd George and American delegates held a high level inter allied war council meeting in London as the Anglo American talks continued. Bonar Law confirmed President Wilson sent Colonel House and General Bliss to the supreme war council, signaling coordinated Allied planning.
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London
Bomar Law
House of Commans
Presiddent Wilson
House
General Bliss
Inter-Allied War Council
Bonar Law
W. M. R. Pringle
United States
Wilson
G[olone
Washington
Colonel House
Supreme War Council
Lord Reading
Lloyd George
America
Lord George
Government shipbuilding ramps up output for wartime fleet
The Shipping Board reports 20 000 merchant ships were completed last week raising total output since the Aug 4 commandeering order to 28 vessels of 169 000 tons. Speeds in processing are under way and more ships will be completed from yards at a faster rate. The first government fleet ship is due Nov 24.
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Hippins Board
Shipping Board
Pennsylvania 1A Campaign Opens Local Food Drive
The Fable Safety Food Department launches Home-Growing For Home Consumption to boost county self support in 1918. The plan aims to curb the market and establish a local distribution system across Pennsylvania counties.
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Fable Safety Food Department
Pennsylvania campaign to boost home food production in 1918
The Food Supply Department of the Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety urges all agricultural districts to grow enough farm, garden, dairy and meat products to feed themselves in 1918. A statewide food survey will map each county’s home-growing capacity and identify areas able to supply others or unable to meet home needs.
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Pennsylvania
Food Supply Department
Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety
Maneni
Fire Hs One Family Hard
Robert Roth returned from an army camp disabled and burned in a lantern explosion that nearly destroyed his Brimfield home. His brother and sister in law Jacob Roth Jr died in a Kent fire last Friday that consumed their residence.
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Kent
Robert Roth
Chillicothe
Brimfield
Jacob"Roth, Jr
Local Doctors Enter Army Service in Ellwood City
Four of Ellwood City’s seven active physicians have joined the U S Army reducing local medical staff. The 19 000 population faces a shortage of qualified doctors to treat the sick and wounded.
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New Castle
Ellwood City
United States Army
Potatoes Frozen On Farm in Ward Dickinson County
Escanaba reports twenty thousand bushels of potatoes frozen in the ground on T. W. Carpenter’s Ward Dickinson County farm. Half the crop is ruined as labor shortages delayed harvest and the crop was harvested late.
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Escanaba, Mich
T. W. Carpenter
Ward
Dickison County
German bill seeks 15.09 billion mark war credit
Amsterdam reports a German reichstag bill authorizes the chancellor to dispose of a credit of 15 090 000 000 marks for extraordinary expenses. The measure aims to fund wartime needs as Berlin dispatches note.
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Amsterdam
Reichstag
Berlin
Street Railway to Charge Six Cents on Long Island
Albany reports the Huntington Railroad Company won approval from the upstate Public Service Commission to raise fares from five to six cents. The line runs between Huntington Harbor and Amityville, Long Island. The commission held that rates must yield reasonable compensation for service and may be reopened if conditions change.
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Albany
Huntington Railroad Company
Upetara Public Service Commission
Huntington Harbor
Amityville
L. I
Huntington Railroad
Public Service Commission
Commission
Father Some Fighter Although 92 He Wallops His 61 Year Old Son
In Salem Massachusetts Judge Mattis presided over Thomas Chadwick of Manchester New Hampshire 92 and his son William 61 charged with mutual assault and battery after a food conservation clash. Both received admonitions to avoid further quarrels as police separated them.
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Salem
Mass
Battis
Chadwick
Attempt to wreck steamer War Castle near Manitowoc
Federal officers say an attempt was made to wreck the steamer War Castle at the Manitowoc Ship Building yard. While engines were tested, the vessel moored with no lines. one rope was cut and another broken, risking a crash into a railroad ridge and likely total loss.
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Manitowoc
Wis
War Castle
Manitowoc Ship Building Company
Women get municipal vote on same terms as parliamentary rights
London reports the Simmons house unanimously voting to extend the municipal franchise to women on par with existing parliamentary rights. The decision aligns local suffrage with national gender equality standards as of November 21.
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London
House of Simmons
Women Do Domestic and Farm Work in Wartime Army
Recruits join England's Woman's Land Army to fill roles abandoned by men sent to war. At St Augustine College Canterbury, young women live in a monastic setting and study milking and farm tasks in a thirteenth century dining hall, illustrating wartime training and service.
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Lear
England
Woman's
St. Augustine College
Canterbury
Embargo on Russia Hinges on Bolshevik Victory and Stability
Afton Tidningen reports Russia may quit official participation as U S embargo on shipments to Russia persists until a government Washington can recognize. Provisional Russian aid totals reach 325 million with 191 million advanced for supplies and six transport vessels awaiting coal. Russia’s railway chief Stevens leaves Petrograd for Vladivostok amid rehabilitation efforts.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Germany
Thomas D. Jones
War Trade Board
White House
Nicholas
State Department
John F. Stevens
American’ Railway Commission
Petrograd
Vladivostok
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British War Council
Italy
Atlantic
France
Europe
Street Railway
Fl. Y
Mabel H. F. Bancroft
Fast Orange
N. J
Infant Welfare Commission
Paris
Portugal
Spain
Alphonso
Bernardino Machado
Alphonso of
Siam
Madrid
Stockholm
U.S
Afton Tidningen
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