Italian Capture Tobruk as Turkish Forces Retreat
Ti Mattino reports Italian bombardment of Tobruk with twelve inch guns, marines land, fort falls, flag raised. Turks withdraw to nearby heights. About 24,060 Italian troops from Turin prepare to embark for Tripoli with convoys to Sebda Bangazi Derna and Tobruk. large naval escort and global naval attaches accompany the movement.
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Naples
Italy
Ti Mattino
Tobrik
Tripoli
Turin
Sebda
Bangazi
Derna
Tobruk
Milan
United States
Japan
China
Turkish Forces Retreat Toward Gharien Near Tripoli
Turkish troops under Munir Pasha retreat about one and a half days toward Gharien. Negotiations with Italians and British reported. Army weakened by water and provisions shortage. Camel corps returned, governors and officials sent away. Two powder magazines exploded. Town orderly, looting stopped.
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Tripoli
Munir Pasha
Gharien
Ottoman cabinet orders Italian establishments closed
Constantinople October 11. The cabinet decided to close all Italian industrial financial and scholastic establishments in the Ottoman empire. It also ordered seizure of all Italian steamships found in Turkish waters.
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Constantinople
Ottoman Empire
Turkish
Turkish Warships Ready for Action
German steamer captain reports from Rhodes seeing four Turkish warships with steam up and ready to sail after arrival in Naples from Odessa.
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Naples
Get
Odessa
Rhodes
Ohio convict surrenders after escape from Ohio Penitentiary
Orville Cashertine, who fled the Ohio penitentiary months ago, surrendered at the Dublin Georgia county jail to Sheriff Gilbert. He said fear of capture haunted him and he asked Ohio authorities be notified. He had been sentenced to fifteen years for burglary and had served forty seven months.
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Dublin
Orville Casherline
Ohio
Sherif Gilbert
Cashertine
Ohio Wesleyan professor L L Hudson dies in Delaware
Professor L L Hudson head of the business college at Ohio Wesleyan University died in Delaware. The text notes a separate incident where a Seaboard Air Line passenger train derailed moving east of Cordele Georgia injuring twenty one persons. It also mentions the National American Woman Suffrage convention scheduled in Louisville Kentucky from December 19 to 23.
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L. L. Hudson
Business College
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware
Seaboard Air Line
Cordele
National American Woman Suffrage Society
Louisville
Det
Duel in Kenton Leaves Two Wounded
In Kenton Ohio on October 11 William Yaad and Michael Hickman fought a shotgun duel. Hickman suffered serious abdominal injuries and Vevel sustained a wound to the right arm.
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Kenton
William Yaad
Michael Hickman
Hickman
Vevel
Peace Shaft Unveiled In Piedmont Park Parade Featured
Soldiers from three wars and seven states joined spectators in Atlanta Georgia for the unveiling of a peace monument honoring the Gate City guards 1879 mission. Governor Baldwin of Connecticut was principal speaker as a parade of military groups preceded the ceremony.
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Atlanta
Piedmont Park
Gate City
Baldwin
Connecticut
Darrah Heads Masons in Illinois Grand Lodge
Delmar Darrah of Bloomington elected grand master of the Illinois Grand Lodge A F and A M at Medinah Temple Dearborn Avenue and West Walton Place Chicago with 1700 delegates and 110000 members represented. Darrah succeeds Albert B Ashley of Decatur as head of the group. Officials report membership rose by a sizeable amount during the last year.
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Chicago
Delmar
Darrah
Bloomington
Grand Lodge
Illinois
Medinah Temple
Dearborn Avenue
West Walton Place
Myr
Albert B. Ashley
Decatur
Lincoln Memorial Unveiled at Army of the Tennessee Reunion
The opening day in Council Bluffs Iowa features the unveiling of the Lincoln memorial on the site where Abraham Lincoln once visited with Major General Grenville M Dodge fifty years ago. The event commemorates forty seven entries of the Army of the Tennessee and its fifty year history. The monument was gifted by the Iowa Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Council Bluffs
Army of the Tennessee
Grenville M. Dodge
Iowa Daughters of the American Revolution
Family Asphyxiated in Davenport Home
In Davenport on October 11, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Grace and their young daughter were found dead in a one room home from asphyxiation by gas escaping an open jet.
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Davenport
Roy Grace
Train Wreck Near Burnside Sparks Strike Breaker Return
Chicago October 11 A freight wreck on the Hilnels Central at Eighty Seventh Street killed one and injured several as rails spread The Burnside shops near the scene housed about 310 workers on strike Ninety five non union men were brought in but ordered back to New York within hours union picketers cheered labeling the newcomers incompetent and blamed the wreck on a plot against the road.
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Chicago
Hilnels Central
Eighty- Seventh Street
Burnside
Lernside
New York
Street Car Strike Ordered in Des Moines
Des Moines Indiana October 11 Des Moines City railway employees were ordered to strike at 1 30 this morning by the executive committee of the union.
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Des Moines
Des Moines City Railway
Respite Delays McNamara Case Jury Trial
Los Angeles October 11 The McNamara murder case pause comes as a state constitutional amendment election halts court action. John J and James B McNamara await jury selection to determine guilt in the Times plant explosion that killed twenty one and left nineteen indicted.
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Los Angeles
Crminal Law
McNamara
John J. McNamara
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers’ Union
James B. McNamara
Los Angeles Times
Diet and Health Hints by Dr Allen on minerals
Dr Allen outlines mineral nutrients essential for bones and digestion. Calcium from milk figs eggs coconut beechnuts onions wheat rye meat potatoes corn supports bone formation while chlorine aids gastric fluid and oxygenation of the brood. Silicon fluorine magnesium and other sources include lettuce cabbage nuts oats barley and beans.
Babies Fall Ill After Pet and Poultry Deaths in Indiana
Indianapolis reports eighty three infantile paralysis cases with deaths of family pets or kept fowls preceding children’s illness. Washington probate records reveal Admiral Schley's will divides estate equally among his three children and Mrs Schley.
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Indianapolis
Schley
Washington
Admiral Schley
Plot to Sell Votes Ties Lorimer Probe to Deneen
Senate inquiry resumes into Senator William Lorimer's election with witness Senator Frank Landee. Attorney Elbridge Hancey presses to connect Governor Charles Deneen to efforts to push a Lorimer prosecution, alleging offers of ten Democratic votes and patronage in exchange for supporting Lorimer. The exchange features clashes over testimony and potential broader conspiracy claims.
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Elbridge Hancey
Deneen
Senator Lorimer
Illinois
Chicago
William Lorimer
Charles 8
United States Senate
Lorimer
Frank A. Landee
Moline
Alfred Austrian
Chicago Tribune
Landee
Senatorlea
Tennessee
Hancey
Miingis
Cmd
Eelpior
Senate
Helm
John H. Marble
Senate Committee
John M. Peffers
Hopkins
Aurora
George M. McCormick
Fltnets
Petters
McCormick
Loriner
Taft Addresses Seattle Open Air Meeting in Washington Visit
President Taft drew a large Seattle crowd discussing government business and antitrust enforcement. He urged Alaska self governance, spoke at Fourth Avenue square, and toured Navy Yard plans before a Tacoma public meeting.
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Seattle
Wash
Taft
Alaska
Tacoma
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Wiliam B. Humphrey
Taft Snowden
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Philadelphia
High
State University
Fourth Avenue
Jefferson
Lie
Peet
Richard A. Ballinger
Vice President Sherman Guest of Honor at Rushville Gala
In Rushville Indiana on October 11 Vice President Sherman attended a grand civic gala hosted by James K Watson former congressman and House whip. Democratic and Republican factions staged separate receptions and meetings with Kern and Shively among the attendees.
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Sherman
Rushville
Ind
Shermen
James Ki. Watson
House
Kern
Shively
Republians
Watson
Republic
Supreme Court Tackles Coal Trust Case Again
The U S Supreme Court revisits the coal trust dispute involving major railroads and mining firms. Originating in Eastern Pennsylvania, the case seeks to dissolve the trio of coal carriers and their allied concerns, challenging adherence to the anti trust statute.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the
United States
Tegan
Eircuit
Pennsylvania
Eer
Templeron Company
Temple Iron Company
Explosion Claims Two Men in Kansas City Dynamite Work
Two men were killed and five injured by a premature dynamite blast during excavations for the new Union station in Kansas City Missouri. The accident occurred October 1 as crews worked at the site. Local authorities investigated the blast and identified the victims.
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Kansas City
Union Station
Beulah Binford Sues Over Murder Case Ties
New York reporting Oct 11 notes Beulah Binford linked to the murder case of Henry Clay Beattie Jr plotting through theater and vaudeville appearances as the trial unfolds.
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New York
Beulah Binford
Henry Clay ‘Beattie, Jr
Mayor Delbert Dumas Guilty of Arson Controversy
Dr Delbert Dumas mayor of Cass Lake faces a delayed sentence after arson verdict as higher court reviews the case. Authorities withheld final sentencing pending Supreme Court action.
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Ming
Delbert Dumas
Cass Lake
Mins
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