Whitman Predicted Victory Amid Nationwide Election Hype
Conservative nonpartisan observers forecast a narrow Democratic edge in the next House while Whitman is tipped to win New York's gubernatorial race. Pennsylvania politics show a bitter contest with Pfeiffer and Branaugh tied factions and strong GOP efforts in four states. Senate prospects remain unclear as campaigns emphasize local issues and party power across key states.
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Record Vote In Ohio Sparks Statewide Attention On Prohibition
The Washington Post reports Ohio faces a heated dry wet issue that could dwarf other races. Prohibition dominates politics as party lines blur and progressives struggle to gain influence, potentially shaping the governorship and Senate outcomes.
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Balkan Crisis Draws U S In To Protect Consuls In Turkey
Allies seek clarifications as war rumors swirl over Russia and Turkey. Morgenthau reports Russian consuls barred from leaving the Ottoman empire, while Britain and France assign Turkish interests to the American embassy. Servia aims to protect its interests in Constantinople with U S mediation amid rising tensions.
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Ite Home Office
New York
Rockefeller Foundation Readies Massive Belgian Relief
The Mackefeller Foundation plans to spend millions to aid noncombatants in war ridden Europe. A chartered steamer, the Massapequa, sails from New York with 1,000 tons of provisions and a commission led by Wickliffe Rose to study relief needs and routes.
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Wicliffe Rose
International Health Commission
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Belgian Relief Commission
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London
Swallows False Teeth During Sleep Inspires Hospital X ray Finding
Nev Grnes, a 50 year old Wilmington musician, swallowed his false teeth while asleep. He awoke to a sensation in his stomach and later confirmed the loss when doctors located the teeth in his stomach by X ray. An operation was planned at Philadelphia hospital.
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Hiladelphia
Twins Share One Body Born In South Side Home
A remarkable medical abnormality surfaced in a coroner's report on the death of twin daughters of Anthony Makowski, a South Side mill laborer. The infants were conjoined front to back with a single body, two heads, and two hearts, livers, and abdomens. The parents, Russian, had been married about eighteen months with no prior known birth defects.
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Train Kills Three In Auto At Street Crossing
Three killed and one badly injured when a car carrying Dr Gerald West Mrs James West and Miss Gernaline Johnson was struck by a New York and New Jersey Railroad train at the Alice street crossing in Gramercyville. The victims are named with ages and addresses. Miss Johnson visiting from Washington DC.
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Gerald West
New York City
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Garherville
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Gehraliine Johnson
Washington, D. C
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Garneryville
Wests
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Portner
Tarnerville
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Gerald M. Johnson
Northumberland Apartments
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H. J. B. Johnson
Jefferson Place
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Woodward Apartments
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Sixteenth Street
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John 5. Spruana
Wilmington
Del
Germany Plans Large War Loan to Support Turkey
Reuters reported from Copenhagen that Germany considers a substantial war loan to back Turkey. Circles in Berlin anticipate funds totaling about 1.25 billion dollars as part of wartime financing, while a separate 50 million dollars is noted for Turkey.
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Allies Open Way to Bruges as Germans Retreat
Allied forces recaptured Roulees and loom toward Bruges while German troops dig new trenches near Ghent. Reports claim enormous German losses since Ostend occupation, with 150000 killed or wounded and many ships batteries destroyed. Casualties mount as floods hamper German retreat along the coast. allies press toward the coast while German units flee to reform elsewhere.
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Wine Drenches Farm in Fire Rescue Effort
Special to The Washington Post reports 2000 gallons of wine poured over William Skxrumm's farmhouse to halt a blaze at Bargainiany farm in Atlantic City area. The fumes suffocated about 1000 poultry and polluted two wells, while a barn burned, causing $35,000 loss.
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Atlantic
Atlantic City
Doctor undergoes forty sixth operation amid hazardous X ray work
Dr Baetjer a Johns Hopkins University radiologist who suffered loss of four fingers and two fingers on the other hand and sight in one eye during X ray research is again hospitalized after his forty sixth operation. A malignant growth is suspected as the cause. The article notes his house burned earlier. A $1.00 fare is advertised for a Sunday excursion to Frederick Antietam and Hagerstown via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
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Turkish Forces Cross Egyptian Border Invasion Threat
News from London reports Turkish troops have crossed into Egypt after mobilizing eight army corps on the frontier. The Turkish fleet also continues to menace Russian towns and shipping in the Black Sea.
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Entire Islamic World Calls for Unified War Front
Turkish envoy Yussuf Bers declared in Berlin that twenty five million Turks and three hundred million Mohammedans will join the Islamic world to unite with Germany in the world war. He spoke amid calls of mass solidarity and pledged solidarity with allied powers against common foes.
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Boer Rebels in Transvaal Crushed by Trick
Report from Transvaal district states Sol Alberts defeated rebels near Theichtenburg, killing 1, wounding 39, and capturing 348. Commandant de Villiers led reconnoiter and was wounded. rebels captured men and rifles before Alberts’ force halted them. Durban says government granted rebel leaders a five day armistice order to arrange surrender.
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Russian Front Advances as German Attacks Falter
Petrograd reports Russian forces beyond the Vistula advancing victoriously along the front. In East Prussia and the region around Bakalarzevo German assaults ceased after heavy losses. Russians claim gains near Vetrikau Opotezne and Cygarets with prisoners, guns, convoys, and supplies captured.
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German gunfire kills Sir Frank Stantey Tone of Tenth Hussars
London reports a royal headquarter list dated October lists 17 officers killed and 24 wounded. Sir Frank Stantey Tone captain of the Tenth Hussars is credited among the dead. Mentioned wounded include Lt. Col. Gordon of the Sikh regiments and others in the Sikh units.
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Turkey Defies Allied Powers War Threat Looms Balkan Crisis
Turkish defiance in the Black Sea and alliance with Austria and Germany signals a widening conflict. Britain and Russia warn of consequences as embassies demand explanations and rail tensions rise. Turkey faces ultimatums over the Goeben and Breslau and possible entry of Italy.
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Suffragists Spend Most Money in Statewide Campaign
Voters see accounts showing suffrage groups allocated funds across counties with receipts dated November. Expenditures were tracked outside major cities as leaders urged action ahead of a statewide vote on suffrage.
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Cuba's election tranquil amid factional delay in returns
Reports from Habana indicate calm election mood but sectional disputes slow tallying of congressional and municipal contests. President and opposition argued over registration and early administration amid local disputes at Puerto Padre and other sites, testing the government's handling of the vote.
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