Austrians Lose 28,000 Men in Two Days of Battle
Paris reports Austria hungry for ground on the Carso plateau as 28,000 men are lost in two days of fighting. London confirms renewed Somme assaults with gains and counterattacks, while Ablaincourt changes hands amid ongoing German French struggle. Quiet on Struma front as Bulgarians mass along the Seres Demir Hissar line. German claims of success say they recaptured Ablaincourt and trench positions, with tied gains near Ambod wood and 400 prisoners. Transylvania frontier gains reported with 300 Romanians captured and six machine guns taken.
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Rome
Carso
London
Somme
France
Berlin
Ablaincourt
Paris
Malassise
Boncuvesnes
Moislains
Struma
Macedonia
Seres-Demir Hissar
Star
Ambod
Transylvania
Buczenland
French Cruiser Sunk By U-Boat
Berlin reports the small French cruiser Reigel, built as a submarine destroyer, was sunk in the Mediterranean on October 2 by two torpedoes from a German submarine. An admiralty note adds that on October 4 the Gallia, carrying Serbian and French troops for Salonika, was sunk with about 1,000 drowned.
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Berlin
Reigel
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Gallia
Saloniki
Portland Women Hear Hughes Campaigners Amid Wilson Rally
In Portland Oregon on October 14 Democratic women greeted the Hughes campaign pageant with cries for Wilson. The crowd favored Wilson over Hughes by an estimated two to one and staged a planned disruption. Hughes speakers requested police protection as scenes of confusion unfolded.
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Portland
Ore
Wilson
Uge
Hughes
Plan Honor for Senator OGorman
Washington movement gathers to elect Senator James A. O Gorman of New York as president pro tem of the senate to succeed the late Senator Jamies P Clarke of Arkansas who died recently.
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Washington
Av. U
St—a
Movement
James A. O'Gorman
New York
Senate
Jamies P. Clarke
Arkansas
Churches of Christ choose Kansas City for 1917 convention
Des Moines October 14 The national convention of the Churches of Christ selects Kansas City as the 1917 meeting place with date to be decided later. J N Haymaker of Wichita is elected president along with unanimously chosen officers and four year executive committee members from Los Angeles Cleveland and Liberty Missouri. Messages of greeting arrive from St Louis convention of the Protestant Episcopal church and Cedar Rapids Presbyterian leader J A Marquis. Afternoon sessions focus on the National Benevolent Association.
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Des Moines
Kansas City
Churches of Christ
Jjudge J. N. Haymaker
Wichita
Irian
George A. Campbell
Hannibal
E. MM. Bowman
Chicago
R. 8. Latshaw
F. W. Fleming
W.E. Crabtree
San Diego
Gal
Graham Franklin
Liberty
C. C. Chapman
Los Angeles
Cal
Ij. H. Goldner
Cleveland
ST. Louis
Movement For
Church Unity
Protestant Episcopal Church
J. A. Marquis
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
Cedar Rapids
National Benevolent Association
Sterilization Or Prison Chosen By 65 Year Old Man
Chicago October 14 Levin Shapiro chose to undergo an operation to obtain his freedom rather than serve a sentence of from one to seventy years in prison. Judge Marcus A Kavanagh gave him a week to decide and another week to undergo sterilization. Shapiro, 65, was found guilty of taking liberties with a child. A related case in Waukegan involves David Honsch who was indicted for attacking a North Chicago girl and declined the proposal.
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Chicago
tLevin Shapiro
Marcus A. Kavanagh
Shapiro
David Honsch
Waukegan
1 620 000 Men Lost by Anglo French on Somme Front
Berlin reports that ninety fresh Anglo French divisions or about 1 620 000 men were withdrawn during the Somme offensive, disappearing from the battle for practical purposes as described by the Wolf News agency.
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Anies
Somme
Berlin
Wolf
Hughes Talks Protection to the Nebraskans
Lincoln and Falls City reports show Charles E. Hughes rallying Nebraska voters. He denounces tariff policy as idle and declares peace in Mexico essential while criticizing administration foreign policy. Campaign stops emphasize protectionist rhetoric and calls for national rights and prosperity tied to American enterprise.
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Falls City
Neb
Charles J. Hughes
Nebraska
Hughes
Making Overype tnielee Beauty Doctor for Bat He Is to Be an Apollo
Tattling Nelson, once a rough pugilist, is becoming a refined figure as he hires a beauty doctor a ruler a mentor and a dancing instructor to reinvent himself. Kaander led first surgeries reshaping ears nose and lips to a Grecian cupid bow while the public watches the dramatic makeover and possible reuse of past relationships.
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Tnielee
Apollo
Chitage
Nelson
Rudy
Kaander
TAR FOOTBALL TEAMS CLASH IN EAST AND WEST
New York Oct. 14 football dominates as the leading sport across the east and west. Princeton Tafts interest centers on Bedford’s win over Harvard, while Harvard faces North Carolina. Yale seeks to avenge last year’s 7 6 win over Lehigh. Ames meets Kansas in the Missouri Valley standings and Chicago meets Indiana at Stagg Field with Indiana claiming lighter, newer players but aiming to challenge Stagg’s Maroons.
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New York
Princeton
Lehigh
Yale
Joehigh
Ames
Kansas Kansas City
Drake University
Nebraska
Kansas Aggies
Lincoln
Kansas
Iowa State
Missouri
Washington
Columbia
Chicago
Indiana
University of Chicago
Stagg Field
Steam
Stage
Stagg
Who Died First in Wreck Case at Culberson Neb
Denison Oct 14. In district court here today a suit questions who died first in a railroad wreck near Culberson Nebraska three years ago. August Meyer and his wife were killed and the only evidence claimed is the bodies’ positions and last sighting in the car before the wreck. The suit involves a large estate.
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Denison
August Meyer
Culberson
Neb
Let Out Our Dearest Papa and God Will Bless You
Milwauker Wis Oct 14 Let out our dearest papa and God will bless you and keep you healthy and I give you a long tie will be 106 on my birthday Oct 19 Thus wrote little Olga Gerstene berger to Judge A G Backus who six months ago sentenced the childs father to two years in the house of correction for wife abandonment The judge read the childs letter to his family then asked his young son whose birthday falls on the same date what he Wanted for a present and he said Give the little girl her dad back and you wont have to give me any thing A dew itiq was ordered
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Milwauker
Wis
Olga Gersteneberger
A. G. Backus
House of ‘Correction
Wilson letter keeps militia on Mexican border for now
President Wilson told Gov. Whitman the New York militia cannot be withdrawn yet as fresh aggression from Mexico is still possible. He praised the troops and explained the border presence will be spread out, with units rotated to minimize burden while conditions in northern Mexico improve.
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Wilson
Gov. Whitman
New York Executive
New York
Whitman
War Department
Mexico
United States
Guy
Funston
Ouy
Woodrow, Wilson
America to Pay Debt to France for War Orphans
New York reports the America Society for the Relief of French War Orphans seeks a 130 million dollar fund to care for roughly 200000 orphans for up to fifteen years. Prominent business and financial leaders back the effort as a historic philanthropic gesture.
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America
France
New York
America Society For the Relief of
United States
Eomtry
Cor Che
Japs and Russia oppose US railway in China
Japanese and Russian ministers protested to the Chinese foreign office against the American contract to build a 400 mile railroad from Weng-Gheng in Shansi to Lanchow in Kansu. Baron Hayashi claimed Germany rights in Shantung should pass to Japan. Russia cited a verbal pledge from Petrograd 18 years ago. Washington awaited official word as no diplomatic issue had been declared.
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Peking
Orel
Japan
Russia
China
Nicholas Koudscheff
Weng-Gheng
Shansi
Lanchow-l'u
Kansu
Petrograd
Mongolia
Sims-Carey Company
St. Paul
Gonugke Hayashi
Foreign Office
Grand Canal
Shentung
Germany
Sims-Carey
Washington, D. C
Episcopal Church Rejects Divorce Ban
The house of deputies of the general convention rejected a proposed canon forbidding remarriage of divorced persons for post marriage causes. The item was reported from St Louis with wireless dispatches noting the rejection on October 14.
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St. Louis
Protestant Episcopal Church
House of Deputies
General Convention
Proposes to Stop High Prices for World Series
New York October 14 The American League president B J Johnson vows action against exorbitant admission prices for future World Series games. He says the current setup endangers the game's fair name and hints at housecleaning starting where discontent is greatest.
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New York
B. J. Johnson
Johnson
Chicago
Great Fleet of Teamships Fails Despite Peril
The largest fleet of steamships since the Nantucket raid sailed from New York guided by destroyers and U boat patrols along the North Atlantic coast with many ships departing for Liverpool Bordeaux Genoa and Halifax. Captains reported zigzag courses and limited German submarine information. Earlier in Philadelphia about a dozen transatlantic ships carrying munitions or military supplies left for Brest and other ports joining several liners and freighters that had been held due to the submarine menace.
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New York
Nantucket
United States
Sli
North Atlantic
St. Louis
Liverpool
Espagne
Bordeaux
Stockholm
Guttenburg
Italia
Genoa
Cameronia
Halfax
Cedric
Philadelphia
Crown Point
Georgia
Brest
Minnesota
Saxonia
Food Regulator Hints at Resigning in Reichstag
In a Reichstag speech err von Batocki, head of the German food regulation board, signaled a resignation. He condemned dealers withholding potato stocks to force a higher maximum price, per Reuters dispatches from Amsterdam dated October 14.
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London
Reichstag
Err von Batocki
German Food Regulation Board
Reuter
Amsterdam
Mississippi Guardsmen desert en masse at border
Jackson Miss Oct 14 Seventy five members of the first Mississippi regiment dissatisfied because other guard units have been sent to the border have disappeared officers said. Charges of desertion are pending against twelve petardsmen.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Vanvsville Woman Killed by I C Train
Janesville Oregon dated report says Mrs Sarah Rooner age ten was killed about 4 p m yesterday when struck by an Illinois Central east bound train. She was returning home from shopping and due to defective hearing and sight may not have seen the approaching train. She was a widow with two sons.
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Janesville
Sarah Rooner
Ilinois Central
Weather Outlook For Washington Week Start Sunday
The weather bureau predicts for the week beginning Sunday that the upper Mississippi valley and plains states will see generally fair weather with normal temperatures in the Washington area. The notice notes improving air quality and no significant storms expected.
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Washington, D. C
Weather Bureau Today
Mississippi Valley
Plains
Submarine sightings near the Bollig Olav and U-53 chase
Reports from New York describe a German submarine seen near the Danish liner Hellig Olav and a Danish ship Bovic, with U-53 possibly behind the chase. American destroyers patrol the Atlantic as lines deny contraband and assure no flagrant danger to passengers aboard the Bollig Olav and Hellig Olav.
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Cry
Senator O’gorman
Christian Church Convention
J. N. Haymaker
Adamson
Lincoln, Neb
Charles E. Hughes
Joplin
Charles FE. Hughes
Springfield
TAR
Chicago University
West
Wilson de
Clares
Episcopal Church
Sayvilla
Constanza
Roujmania
Earth
Vanvsville
I. C
el Tovar Cigars
New Sc
PmAnas Naan
Bovgsights
White Star
Atlantic
Nothi
Bovic
Bollig Olav
Cape May
Cape Anne
Boyle
Hellig Olay
Uwo
Theovie
Hellig Clay
Copenhagen
Neotrayt
Newport
Boric
Patris
Shevern
Minneapolis
Minn
Thomas L. Shevlin
Tumberman
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