Vast Voting Crunch Across States Sparks Election Day
Reports from multiple cities describe heavy early voting amid clear to fair weather. Prohibition amendments and statewide races dominate interest with predictions of record turnout in New York, California, and Ohio. Weather varies, with snow in Colorado and Wyoming and rain in others. polls open early and close by late afternoon.
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United States
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New Haven
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Connecticut
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Neb
Navy
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N.Y
New York
Republic
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Berts
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New York State
Nees
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Missouri
Hughes
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Lower
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Wio
Wyoming
Colorado
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Calc
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New Mexico
Albuquerque
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Mont
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ECORD
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Wash
Rewenues
Oregon
Portland
Ore
Ohio
Columbus
Dead voter Clarence Peterson Cast Ballot While Dead
In Signy City an apparent deceased voter Clarence Peterson voted yesterday after obtaining an absent ballot from the county auditor. A runaway horse struck his car, fatally injuring him, and he died early this morning. officials say his ballot will be counted under the law.
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Sioux City
Clarence Peterson
Signy City
Peterson
Autumn autoing and local notices in city in brief
City in Brief lists autumn autoing bargains at Buchanan’s and various local social notices. Eleanor Hansen, 402 Newell Street, is ill. J. T. Muldoon hosts Friday Bridge Club. W. F. Parrott leaves for Davenport and Rock Island on business. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Moore of Plainfield visit. the Cutlers plan a winter Florida home trip. a daughter is born to Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Snyder, 1331 Mulberry. Mrs. Ben Sorenson of Owatonna visits relatives. the Fry family from Plainfield see Mrs. Thompson and sister. W. W. Bates votes early. Dr. E. R. Shannon returns from Mt. Carroll visit. Harold I. Cole, Minneapolis, in city from Nashua where infant son was buried. Tabernacle chapter R A M holds convocation. fire crews hindered by wiring blaze on John Clemons line. The Holmeses plan California wintering. Box Social at St Mary’s auditorium Wednesday. Dr M. Heverly advertises at 301% West Fourth Street.
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Mulberry Street
Ben Sorenson
Owatonna
Minn
Bert Fry
Plainfield
E. R. Shannon
Eunice Shannon
St. Frances Academy
Mt. Carroll
Harold I. Cole
Minneapolis
Nashua
Rain Threatens to Mar Iowa Election
Stormy, overcast conditions spread across Iowa on Election Day with light rains in a diagonal belt from northwest to south. Forecasters warned that continued rain could affect voter turnout and outdoor events across Des Moines and rural precincts.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Von Bernstorff Visits Deutschland in New London
Countess von Bernstorff wife of the German ambassador inspected the undersea liner Deutschland in New London. It was her first visit aboard a submarine as officials noted the trip was social. The ambassador accompanied his wife to the pier while the sub was loaded for a transatlantic voyage.
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New London
Conn
Countess von Bernstorff
Deutschland
Koenig
Capt
Germany
Washington
New York
New York Votes on 10 Million Park Bond Plan
Albany voters consider issuing 10.9 million dollars in bonds to expand and beautify state parks. The plan aims to increase rainfall and even temperatures, conserve water, preserve timber, and maintain recreation grounds for residents, covering Adirondack, Catskill, and Interstate parks.
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Albany
New York
State Parks Committee
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Interstate
Voters turnout reported in Cedar Rapids and Waterloo
Polls opened under steady turnout as Cedar Rapids and Waterloo reported heavy early voting. In Waterloo observers expected a strong Republican tilt, while in Cedar Rapids a historic high vote across 20 precincts was anticipated with about a third of registered voters counted by noon.
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Sinking of Lanao Believed Justified
Washington reports officials doubt an American protest is warranted as the Lanao, sunk off Portugal by a submarine on October 28, carried contraband and was warned before crew were transferred. Registry dispute arises over whether the ship remained under the U S flag amid ownership changes. London dispatch adds Captain Henry Mainland, sole American aboard, says the vessel flew the American flag and was scuttled after crew evacuation.
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State Department
United States
Lanao
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Findlay-Miller Steamship Co
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Hans Hasmevrg
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Norway
London
Henry Mainland
U S Will Not Recognize New Polish Government Yet
Washington reports the United States will not consider recognizing any new Polish government until after the war. Changes now will be viewed as war measures, with recognition only at the end of hostilities. No official word on a Polish monarchy proclamation. Officials wonder about boundaries, independence, and Polish army recruitment.
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Washington
United States
Poland
Charles Norton Hunt to Describe Yellowstone Park Wonders
Charles Norton Hunt will lecture at First Presbyterian Church on the wonders of Yellowstone. The talk, described as vivid and informative, will be illustrated with slides and moving pictures of geysers and park scenes. Admission is free and the event starts at 8 p m with election returns announced as a special feature.
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Wyoming
Idaho
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Courier
Deutschland Gets Big Silver Shipment
New London Connecticut received over five and a half tons of silver bullion from the San Francisco mint. The metal was moved in five open wagons without guards to the German merchant submarine Deutschland at the state pier. Officials say the shipment, valued at about $130,000, was loaded for sea and sent on its way.
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Deutschland
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Americans Flee Chihuahua City
From every part of Chihuahua Americans and other foreigners are fleeing to the border today panic stricken by Villista atrocities. Only four Americans remain in Chihuahua City. Mining companies notified their remaining employees to flee Mexico immediately. Foreign consuls waited upon the Caranza commander to ascertain the facts. He assured them he had no intention of abandoning the city, but was preparing to fight.
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Chihuahua City
Mexico
Caihuahua City
Tax for Dogs in Brown County Kansas
On the Brown county Kansas assessment rolls the name F. E. Kelly from Kickapoo Reservation shows 36 dogs valued at 100 each, plus hogs cattle and implements totaling 3510 dollars. County officials questioned the dog count, and Kelly agreed to pay personal taxes on 20 dogs in addition to the regular dog tax.
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F. E. Kelly
Kickapoo
Kelly
John Mathewson
G T A B L FE Announces Wednesday Meeting
The regular meeting of G T A to the B of L FE will be held in Engineers' Hall at 2:30 p m on Wednesday.
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Engineers” Hall
Dream House on Wirth Avenue Sold and Torn Down
The New York Times reports the grand brownstone at the southeast corner of Seventy fourth Street and Fifth Avenue, long owned by Rev. Alfred Duane Pell, is being demolished after a July sale to a syndicate of apartment operators. Originally the Pickhardt mansion, its construction began in 1851 but dragged on with multiple reworkings before abandonment in 1888 and eventual completion attempts, involving architects from Europe.
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Sys
New York Times
Seventy-fourth Street
Alfred Duane Pell
Fifth Avenue
Seventyfourth Street
Pickhardt
Wilhelm Pickhardt
Pickhardt & Kutthoff
Europe
Why Has Sausage Changed
Minneapolis Journal reflects on a half century of sausage by recalling its 19th or early 20th century peak scent and savor. The piece laments shift toward commercialization and altered recipes, noting beef and water dilution and a loss of sizzling flavor. It attributes change to economic motives and modern processing, then hints at lingering nostalgia for the old sausage.
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Minneapolis
Cali
Ben Warrison
Sodom
Election Day Peal Across Nation Warm for Season
Weather reports show generally fair conditions nationwide with only scattered showers in the upper Mississippi valley and snow in western Colombia. The air remains unusually mild for the period, though some regions report unsettled skies and light rain.
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Washington, D. C
Mississippi
Colombyo
Illegal Voting Rumors Spark Chicago Poll Irregularities
Federal investigations to begin after reports of ballot irregularities at Chicago polls. Confessions naming prominent politicians reportedly in federal inspectors' hands following minor arrests. Ballots found in a precinct before opening. irregularities alleged in wards with many registered African American and immigrant voters. Authorities urge local action.
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Chicago
Parsons
Waterloo Hosts Greater Iowa Officials Dinner Tour
Waterloo will entertain the Great Iowa association on November 16 during a state tour stop. A dinner at the Russell-Lamson Hotel is planned for Waterloo guests. Attending from the association are Col. G. Watson French president Parlet Sheldon vice president W G Haskell vice president Woodworth Clain secretary treasurer D Cass G H McNider and Ralph Barton members of the executive councils. The dinner will discuss association work across the state.
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Great Iowa Association
Russell-Lamson
Col. G. Watson French
Parlet Sheldon
W. G. Haskell
Woodworth Clain
Treagurer
Executive Counmriies
Minnesota farmer stores 35000 in potatoes with no guard
Moorhead Minn Nov 7 Thirty five thousand dollars stored in cellars on his farm and doesn't maintain a guard. E D Grant of Dilworth runs a potato business. He raised 16000 bushels on his own farm and bought 11000 more from neighbors. Potatoes worth about 1.26 a bushel locally, Grant expects rises to 1.60 and 1.76 awaiting higher prices.
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Moorhead
Minn
E. D. Grant
Dilworth
Grant
Remarkable living-organ delineation X ray trial
A British Medical Journal report from a London cable via the Toronto Globe describes a new X ray like technique in a casualty clearing station in France. James Shearer, 29, a sergeant in the medical corps, demonstrates imaging of soft organs in daylight, revealing brains vessels and abscesses while alive, before molecular death.
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Aclipsen
France
London
Toronto Globe
James Shearer
Meah's Ark and Other Vesevia in Ancient Ships
A compact antiquarian note surveys ancient ships across Greece Rome and Egypt. It recounts sizes of Noahs ark 450 by 75 by 45 feet a 420 foot Ptolemaic galley rowed by fifty rowers and the Thalamegua hull famed for beauty and imperial use.
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Ptolemy
Syracuse
David Garrick’s Sainted Fame in English Stage History
The London Chronicle recalls David Garrick born 1716 as the greatest English actor in both comedy and tragedy. Mrs Clive watched from the wings, exclaiming Hang it, he could act a grid iron. Rousseau honored Garrick with a special performance. The play opened with tragedy then comedy, ending with Hoessenn’s remark about crying and laughing without knowing the language.
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Garrick
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Englad
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London Chronicle
Burne Cottage at Ayr Restored as Burns Memorial
Trustees of Burne Cottage Ayr purchased the site in 1881 for 4000 pounds from Ayr Shoemakers. They removed the license and bell, rebuilt the cottage to Burns era, and created a new museum at the grounds corner. The collection includes a Kilmarnock edition valued at 1600 pounds and Burns family Bible bought for 1700 pounds.
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Ayr
Ayr Shoemakers
Ull
Burns
London Answers
Geography mishaps and a baker street joke at Chichester
The dialogue shows misnaming places from a guest list in Chichester where Hole and Spence joke about Korea. A bishop’s puzzled aside follows, while a London Standard note lists historic famines from 1446-7 Ireland to China 1878 with death tolls. Another quip about eye anatomy closes the fragment.
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Hole
Dean Spence
Dean Pigou
Chichester
Korea
Charing Cross
Spence
Baker Street
London
Ireland
Indias
China
Cheery Advice and Neighborly Talk in a Short Ad
A cheerful note on freedom of mind, routines, and exercise opens with Bacon quotes and mentions Mrs Crawford and Mrs Crabshaw. An advertisement hints that placing a small notice in the Evening Cook and Reporter yields results for local needs.
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Coork
The Result of a Friendly Game
A clergyman recounts a poker tale where young men gamble to excess. Dick Collins loses heavily to a bank clerk, rages, and later shoots himself after a confrontation fueled by debt. The narrator, who sought to return winnings, ends the game as the only survivor of a fatal night.
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Dick Collins
Flo
Fle
Fleldl
Sound based range finding via microphone system
The Philadelphia Record describes Edward F. Chandler’s invention using a series of microphones to locate ships by propeller vibrations. Attuned instruments at fixed intervals yield readings to calculate distance and course for surface or submarine craft and also apply to aviation for determining height and distance.
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Edward F. Chandler
Foot Dug From Sandstone Holds Human Shape In California Canal
A foot found in the Anderson Cottonwood Irrigation District canal at Sandstone, California, appears to be a woman's, buried twenty feet below the surface. Geologists note the imprint formed when an Indian maiden walked barefoot across the plain, later filled by sand and hardened into sandstone over ages.
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Thedding
Cal
Anderson Cottonwood
Asl
Redding
Irrigation District
A Cheap Discovery and City Charity Rankings
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch piece questions discovery costs of America, joking Columbus earned $2300 plus crew. It notes Rochester as the most generous U.S. city, followed by Hartford Reading Detroit Pittsburgh Utica Albany Lowell Richmond and Hinghamton, while Boston New York Philadelphia Chicago Minneapolis San Francisco St. Louis resist fundraising. It cites three and a half times more charities now versus two years ago, with war relief swelling lists, and church donations surpassing all other causes at $320 million last year with expectations to exceed a billion this year.
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Rochester
United States
Hartford
San Francisco
St. Louis
Help Wanted and Room Rentals Ad Oddities
Additional Want Ads for Heat Morlemn Furnished or Unfurnished light housekeeping rooms. Ales sleeping rooms, 108 Independence AVE Phhone 30983 Hed. Wanted Three or Four Furnished Heated rooms for night housekeeping About 30.00 month two adults F325 care Courier. For Rent Room Downstairs Modern unfurnished or will furnish for om oy two ladies. Call at 36 W. 7th 5t. Ecstalty Who Took Wheel From Di front of Russell Lamson return Western Union and avoid trouble. Bor Sais or trade Dart Truck. Wo trade for horse or for roadster. Phon 4g. For Sele or Trade Small Farm to Trad for house modern house to trade to auto S0-accro farm trade for howsa for trade for louse or auto Phono 648
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