Italians Repel German Feint as Front Holds at Piave
Reports from the Piave front describe continued heavy artillery fighting with Italian batteries bombarding enemy boats. Gen. Scriven arrives at Italian HQ to study the situation with King Victor Emmanuel and Maj. Murphy coordinating Red Cross efforts. A German placard claims success but an Italian response counters by declaring you will never pass. Winter hampers the invaders as Italian, British, and French forces resist. Casualty figures rise with thousands of prisoners and many at risk in the ongoing battles. Civilians in captured areas are forced to work on fortifications.
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Konic
War Office
Piave
Associated Press
Italy
Briz
Scriven
United States Army
Rome
G. M. F. Murphy
Red Grass
Europe
Iit
Halianm
Furthhed
Vicenza
Elosses
Washington, D. C
Tagliamento
Piarend
Hindenburg
Conrad
Sette Communi
Krobatin
von Buelow
Brenta
Castelgoaberto
Melatta
Gallio
Stnday
Petrograd
Great Britain
Robert Cecil
Bourlon-Fontaine
Cambrai
Bourlon Wood
Etallans Pass
Maurice Ofi
British War Office
Paris
Aisne
Sapigneuf
Champagne
Carnillet
Arsonne
Aire
Meuse
Bethincourt
Vaux-les-Damloup
Alsace
London
Asthhoop
Scarpe River
Sammies Eat Old Fashioned Turkey Dinner
American soldiers in Paris and nearby bases shared a noontime Thanksgiving dinner. Officers have bought turkeys averaging 12 pounds from the surrounding countryside, with menus including soup turkey potatoes turnips peas bread butter pies fruit and coffee. Individual portions ranged from 1.25 to 1.5 pounds.
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Paris
Tate Witness Under Hot Fire at Means Trial
Concord, N C November 29 The defense in the Gaston B Means murder case prepared to resume cross examination of Willard J Rockefeller whose testimony the state partly relies on to suggest motive Rockefeller manager of a Chicago hotel where Means Mrs King and party stayed May to July testified yesterday after the defense blocked much proposed testimony The court allowed statements Mrs King made to Rockefeller at the hotel to be admitted in evidence implying Means controlled the woman and her money Rockefeller said he was tipped off by the government against Means a remark the judge ordered stricken as he testified he came to testify at the prosecutors request but not under compulsion
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Concord
N. C
Gaston B. Means
Maude A. King
Willard J. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Chicago
Means
Brrs
King
Party of Friends
Hayden Clements
E. T. Cansler
Deitch
Mrs. King
Cansler
Cline
20000 Pounds of Turkey for Camp Dodge
Camp Dodge Iowa observers Thanksgiving as routine training pauses. Nearly 20000 pounds of turkey prepared for the men with a pound each and abundant vegetable, pie and fixin's. Base hospital patients receive special dishes including fresh fruit and homemade jelly. Officers estimate ten tons of turkey and two tons of stuffing bread, plus 10000 pounds candied sweet potatoes and other deli cacies.
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Camp Dodge
National Army
Des Moines
Germans Spend Over $100000 in Trench Raids in France
American ordnance experts report German raids on American trenches in France have expended more than $100,000 in ammunition. The notes appear in a dispatch from the American Army in France dated November 28.
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France
Thanksgiving Feast Day for Fighting Men Quiet White House
Washington observed Thanksgiving with military hospitality as Hoover and Wilson hosted soldiers and sailors. Private homes, clubs, and churches welcomed guests, with a White House dinner aligned to Hoover's food rules and Union services attended by the president. In New York 30,000 service members were hosted citywide with entertainments and meals. Chicago saw crowds of 5,000 Jackies and thousands of soldiers dining at private homes, clubs, and hotels.
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D. C
Wilson
Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church
Wm. F. McDowell
White House
Hoover
U. 8
New York
United States
Five Boroughs
Madison Square Garden
Patriotic Service League
Chicago
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Fort Sheridan
Camp Grant
Small Arsenal Found in Local Junkyard
A Civil War era miniature arsenal was found in the Warner and Trugman junkyard at 104 Eleventh Street East. Officer W. S. Bracunier located a Springfield rifle while searching for salvage material. Police Chief J. D. Caldwell and Detective J. F. McSweeney unearthed five more rifles in working order and sixteen damaged others, with yard proprietors claiming no knowledge of the artillery. Tracks suggest someone loaded the guns into a wagon and discarded them near the Illinois Central railway.
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W. S. Brecunier
Warner & Trugman
Eleventh Street East
J. D. Caldwell
J. F. McSweeney
Illinois
Hold 8 Employes for Express Thefts
Chicago police say eight Adams Express Company workers held over eight months stole about 70000 in value. Julius Stahl, arrested recently, allegedly confessed, leading to the others’ arrests. About 40000 in loot was recovered, much found at Miss Ethel Palhanan’s home, including food phonographs and even a piano. An ad for beautiful gowns provided the first clue.
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Chicago
Adams Express Company
Julius Stahl
Ethel Palhanan
Uncle Sam Adds To Mrs Field Income Inheritance Case
Chicago reports a government allotment increases Mrs. Sil Young Field's monthly support by 25.50. As wife of Marshall Field Sil, she receives half the allotment since she did not waive it and cannot prove self support. Marshal Field estate value cited at 120 million. Field is a sergeant in a field artillery regiment stationed in Texas.
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Chicago
Marshall Field
Young Field
Texas
Field
Houston
Submarines Take Increased Toll of Allied Ships
London reports fourteen British merchantmen of 1600 tons or more and seven under 1600 tons sunk by mines or submarines last week, up from the previous week. The tally brings total British losses to 1,081 vessels since the Admiralty began weekly reporting. Paris notes three French steamers over 1800 tons and one under that tonnage sunk, plus one fishing vessel lost, with three steamers attacked unsuccessfully.
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London
Admiralty
Prench
Paris
3 Scandinavian Kings Confer on War Situation
Christiania Norways King Haakon and Sweden's King Gustave opened the Scandinavian conference with speeches as Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ministers met for hours. A banquet followed. Haakon toasted their monarchs and praised Danish willingness to suffer privations to aid peers. Gustave noted Sweden and Norway's separation and said their combined strength guards independence and self-determination.
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Christiania
Haakon
Norway
Gustave
Sweden
Kon
Europe
Sammies Gather Wood for Fuel in France
In France the American force relies on wood cutting and transport as fuel becomes scarce. Detachments operate deep in forests near the Swiss border, along the coast, and south, shipping logs by rail and motor for heating and cooking. Troops on hikes collect wood to supplement billets, rapidly delivering cords of fuel.
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Associated Press
France
Amazing Escape by Yankee Airman Captured and Fled
Lieut. Patrick O'Brien of Momence Illinois the first American in the British flying corps to escape from Germany after a train jump and 72 days as a fugitive. He evaded capture near the Holland frontier endured electrocution risk and reached London aided by Belgians and a Dutch consul. He earlier served in Canada and France and is now seeking transfer to the American flying corps.
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Holland
London
Patrick O'Brien
Momence
Chicago
British Flying Corps
Germany
O'Brien
Holland Frontier
Margaret O'Brien
Pays
American Flying Corps
San Diego
Cal
Victoria
B. G
France
Ines
French General Praises Yankee War Aptness in France
France, Nov 28. The division commander lauds the first American contingent for rapid mastery of war. He notes diverse backgrounds from clerks to farmers, all becoming first class soldiers with unwavering morale. Stories of patrols, injuries, and determination underline their zeal to defeat the Germans.
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Associated Press
France
No Man’s Land
Sammies to Wear Short Overcoats in France
American soldiers shed long field coats for shorter versions due to mud and movement limits. Troops report coats now end above the knees, replacing the previous mid calf length. Many have already shortened existing coats to adapt to conditions.
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France
United States
60000 Workers Vote on Strike in Stockyards
Chicago officials report a strike vote by about 60000 packinghouse workers across stockyards nationwide. The action, ordered by international unions, was telegraphed to Samuel Gompers of the AFL. The vote, returnable in 10 days, could lead to a strike if current negotiations with packers fail, though a vote does not guarantee a walkout.
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Chicago
United States
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
John Fitzpatrick
Chicago Federation of Labor
Camouflaged pumpkin pie and gingerless gingerbread tested on army transport
Washington D C November 29 Camouflaged pumpkinless pumpkin pie and gingerless gingerbread are the latest experiments in food conservation tested on an army transport. The reports say there was only one objection there wasnt enough. The recipes supplied by the national emergency food gardens commission were tested on the transport Grant with great success. The pie uses cornmeal Indian meal salt brown sugar cinnamon two eggs and ginger while the gingerbread is gingerless molassesless eggless butterless and milkless.
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Washington, D. C
National Emergency Food Gardens Commission
Chesley Jenness Commissioned First Lieutenant
Mr and Mrs F J Jenness announce their son Chesley Jenness earned a first lieutenant commission at the end of the officers training camp at Fort Presidio in San Francisco California.
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F. J. Jenness
Chesley
Fort Presidio
San Francisco
Cal
Waterloo Ads Cost Drop As Circulation Soars
Ten years ago Waterloo merchants paid less than half the current advertising rate in the Evening Courier. The paper’s yearly circulation now exceeds three times its level a decade ago, and Waterloo’s local readership over four times larger. The change highlights cheaper advertising as more readers are reached per inch per thousand.
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Waterloo
Evening Courier
Armistice Talks Loom as War Front Shifts
Reports say Russia’s Bolshevik government seeks armistice with Germany while western front battles rage. British and German forces clash near Bourlon Fontaine with no gains, Italy’s crisis eases, and Belgian forces repulse a suicide attack near AstHoop. Artillery roars around Cambrai as standoff persists.
French Interpreter Faces Graft Charge
Paris reports that a French soldier named Goldsonn, an interpreter with the artillery mission to the United States in 1915, faces proceedings by military authorities for obtaining commissions worth several million francs on government purchases. He reportedly returned to France in autumn 1916, obtained an honorable discharge as physically unfit, then went back to America.
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Paris
Goldsonn
United States
Goldsein
France
America
Zionists seek permit to send Palestine relief mission
New York November 29 Zionist leaders in London seek British government permission to send a Jewish relief administration commission to Palestine. Advices received say the British army in Palestine guards Jewish colonies to protect native interests. The retreating Turks reportedly did little damage except for livestock confiscations.
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New York
Jewish Relief Administration Commission
Palestine
London
Provisional
Zionist Committee
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