World War I Update Sealed Fate of Bucharest Amid German Push
Report from Petrograd notes German and Austro German forces advancing toward Bucharest with Romanian retreat along the lone railway toward Moldavia. Mackensen’s corps nears the city. Romanians claim a western defeat. Balkan fronts show Serbian gains near Grunishte and Cerna bend as Entente losses top 15 million.
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Bucharest
Russian War Office
Petrograd
Tloeschi
ALD
Grunishte
Stavina
Zovik
Paris
Cerna
Maralovo
Copenhagen
Berlin
Loos
Albert-Warlencourt Road
President Addresses Congress Promotes Education Bill
The Dispatch notes the President will publish his full address on page seven and highlights his support for the vocational and industrial education bill. He praises the bill passed by the Senate as vital for national readiness and economic development, arguing it benefits all regions and interests.
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Congress
Senate
Youngster Likely to Get Well After Hunting Accident
In New Bern a fifteen year old, John Crabtree, son of J H Crabtree, was shot in the right shoulder by a companion near Maribel on Saturday. Doctors at St Luke's hospital report his condition much improved and expected recovery. The youth walked a mile after the incident despite heavy bleeding.
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New Bern
St. Luke's Hospital
John Crabtree
J. H. Crabtree
Maribel
Frederick Alfred
Young Crabtree
Mary McMulkin
John William Staeger
Hatteras
N. C
Europe
Tom
Abe
Newport
Staeger
America
Penrose proposes federal supervision of elections
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania introduces measures to prevent disfranchisement of Black voters in the South. The plan includes a force bill style federal supervision of elections and an amendment to the corrupt practices bill to widen such provisions. It requires federal supervisors for all elections and bans military use unless necessary to repel armed enemies, with severe penalties for interference.
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Washington, D. C
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Congress
United States
Taft to Address Society at North Carolina Convention
Former President William H. Taft will address the seventeenth annual convention of the State Literary and Historical Association in Raleigh. The event opens tonight and runs through Thursday night. The North Carolina Folk Lore Society will meet tomorrow afternoon.
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Raleigh
N. C
William H. Taft
State Literary and Historical Association
North Carolina Folk Lore Society
Willard to Fight French Champion Carpentier in New York
Georges Carpentier heavyweight champion of France and Jess Willard world champion appear nearly matched for a ten round no decision bout in New York within two months. Verbal consent obtained. articles of agreement awaited.
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New York
Georges Carpentier
France
Jess Willard
Department loosens potato import rules to curb costs
Washington announces a relaxation of the potato quarantine from Canada. Potatoes with minimal disease traces under ten percent will be admitted at any port, shipments no longer held for inspection, to ease imports and ease prices. The move aims to flood the market and lower costs for consumers.
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Canada
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Board
Department
United States
North Carolina Opposes Food Export Embargo
Washington December 5 North Carolina delegates oppose a proposed embargo on food exports to cut living costs. They warn it would disrupt major industries and harm the public more than current price levels. Members from various regions fear the embargo could reach their own districts and hinder local interests.
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North Carolina
Senate
House
Lloyd-George Resigns as War Secretary in London
The Exchange Telegraph reports that War Secretary Lloyd George will resign after he learned Premier Asquith would not support forming a war council without him at its head. The move follows the disagreement over the council leadership.
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London
the Exchange Telegraph Company
Lloyd-George
Asquith
War Council
The Dispatch Grand Prize Campaign Grows with New Nominees
The Dispatch Great Prize Campaign draws interest across Wilmington as new nominees enter from various districts. Campaigns push early starts for better vote chances with Twin-Subscription Day offering 50 000 extra votes for two subscriptions.
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Dispatch
Court halts action on Britt suit over Weaver win
Raleigh dispatch reports Judge W M Bond did not sustain a restraining order against the Buncombe County Board of Canvassers. The case, tied to Zebulon Weaver winning the Ninth District seat by nine votes, remains pending until December 19 for a State Supreme Court opinion on Britt's appeal from Judge Adams.
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Bond
State Board of Canvassers
State Supreme Court
Britt
Adams
Buncombe County
Buncombe
Weaver
Archbold Dies in New York at 68 Key Standard Oil Figure
John Dustin Archbold, president of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, died in Tarrytown at age 68 after a two week illness following an appendectomy. Funeral planned for Thursday. prominent mourners include John D. Rockefeller and William Rockefeller. Archbold helped shape the dissolution of the trust in 1911 and had long been a leading figure in the oil industry. He was born in 1848 in Leesburg Ohio and rose from a country store to oil refining, closely allied with the Rockefellers.
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Tarrytown
N. Y
John Dustin Archbold
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
John D. Rockefeller
William Rockefeller
Mr. Archbold
Archbold
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil
Trust
United States Supreme Court
Oil Combine
Joseph B. Foraker
Ohio
Joseph CC. Sibley
Pennsylvania
Washington
Leesburg
Salem
Titusville
Acme Company
Rockefeller
Rockefellers
Standard
President Wilson Addresses Congress Amid Suffrage Demonstration
President Wilson opened Congress reading a brief address focused on railroad legislation. Suffragettes in the gallery smuggled in a yellow banner asking what he would do for woman suffrage, causing a brief disturbance that ended without further incident.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
House
Senate
Capitol
Unmasked robbers raid Park Bank and Trust Company
Two masked robbers entered the Park Bank and Trust Company's Memphis office just before 11 am and locked the president cashier and a customer in a back room before fleeing with $3 000 in currency on a motorcycle. No shots were fired and the raid attracted little attention.
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Memphis
Tenn
Park Bank and Trust Company
Superior Court Silent Docket Report With Receivership
In Judge G. W. Connor's court no major cases arose this morning. Four cases were non suited, three judgments entered for plaintiffs, and a receiver appointed in another case. Plaintiffs: Mary J Harrison v W M Bellamy executor. Shelby Lamp Works v J O Brock. Merchant Cigar Co v Crescent Cigar Co and D M Bright. Receiver: L L Boon appointed for Wilmington Lumber Co. Alex Boone named receiver.
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G. W. Connor
Mary J. Harrison
W. M. Bellamy
Shelby Lamp Works
J. O. Brock
Merchant Cigar Company
Crescent Cigar Company
D. M. Bright
W. C. Capps
Allison Alderman
Milton Pittman
Hodges
C. C. Hopkins
Waccamaw Shingle Company
D. L. Baggett
L. L. Boon
Wilmington Lumber Company
Alex. Boone
Pope appoints William T. Russell Bishop of Charleston
Rome announces in a consistory that the Rt. Rev. Monsignor William T. Russell of the Baltimore Archdiocese is named Bishop of Charleston. The delayed report places the appointment in effect in the Charleston diocese.
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Rome
Benedict
William T. Russell
Archdiocese of
Baltimore
Charleston
Archbold Edges Into Public Eye As Oil Magnate and Director
The witness described Archbold as a director who profits from dividends and oil by products. He was noted for a fortune near 100 million dollars and for defending Standard Oil as honorable and lawful. Archbold supported cooperative evolution and made large gifts including 400,000 dollars to Syracuse University along with church donations. He married in 1870 to Annie Millis, owned Cedar Bluff estate at Tarrytown and a Long Island Southampton home.
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Archbold
Standard Oil Company
Syracuse University
Annie Millis
Titusville
Cedar Bluff
Tarrytown-on-Hudson
Southampton
Long Island
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Abbottsburg
N. G
Lorrene Ballantine
Edna Cashwell
Acme
Rena Bradt
Mattie Powell
Ruby Scull
Nancy F. Wall
Alma
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Robert Belch
Annie McLean
Armour
B. L. Daniel
W. R. Love
Gungheso
Wilomn
State Board of Elections
Supreme Tribunal
Ans
James J. Britt
Petroleum World
Superior Court
Pope
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