American Destroyers Patrol the Coast Near New York
Dozen United States destroyers patrol ocean routes to New York to deter foreign submarines and preserve neutral waters. A unidentified submarine was sighted about 200 miles east of New York, reported by the steamship Bovie. Patrol authority and exact actions remain unconfirmed as ships operate from Bar Harbor to New York under Rear Admiral Gleaves aboard the Birmingham.
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New York
United States Navy
Narragansett Bay
Newport
United States
Bar Harbor
Rockland
Boston
Bovie
White Star Line
Manchester
England
R. I
Maine
Paulding
Bar Harbors
Sterrett
New York Harbor
Jason
Birmingham
Gleaves
Hesperus
Spain
Cape Sable
American
Massachusetts Bay
Man
Elephant Butte Dam Ready for Dedication Ceremony
Elephant Butte Dam in New Mexico, 318 feet high and 1,674 feet long at the top, holds 856 billion gallons of water and will flood Delaware two feet deep when full. The project cost nearly ten million dollars, with water rights and treaties shaping cross border relations with Texas and Mexico. The ceremony will feature Cabinet members, Reclamation Service officials, and state representatives as excursion crowds arrive from Albuquerque and El Paso.
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Delaware
Elephant Butte
N. M
Wilson
Reclamation Service
Washington
Sadbuquerque
el Paso
International Farm Congress
International Irrigation Congress
Interonal
Texas City
United States
Rio Grande
Rio Grande Valley
New Mexico
Texas
Old Mexico
Tes
United
Mexico
Chihuahua
Fort Quitman
Virginia Delegation Seeks Washington Memorial Sunday
The Virginia delegation urged the Protestant Episcopal Church convention to designate a Sunday near February 22 as a memorial day for George Washington. A resolution was entered in the house of deputies granting women the right to vote as delegates.
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St. Louis
Virginia
Protestant Episcopal Church
cGorge Washington
House of Deputies
Cotton Breaks Record On Raleigh Market
Raleigh reports spot cotton reaching a forty year high at 17 1 16 cents for good middling as buyers note the price surge. Wm B Boykin of Tidewater Power Company is recovering at home after a gas explosion injuries deemed not as serious as first feared.
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Raleigh
Wm. B. Boykin
Tidewater Power Company
Bayonne Riots as Police Break Up Oil Strike Demonstration
In Bayonne New Jersey on October 13, 5000 oil company workers at Constable Hook rioted for two days. Police swept the district driving strikers into houses, silencing shot from roofs, wrecking open saloons, and arresting proprietors. One lawyer killed, nearly 100 injured. several bodies found. Some families may move. Strike leaders offer a 300 man force to help quell unrest.
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Oil Company
Constable Hook
War Front Updates From Europe and Balkans Report
War office dispatches indicate Romanian forces retreating in northeast Transylvania and near the Romanian border. Berlin claims encirclement near the Maros. Ferdinand’s troops fall back to frontier passes. Italian trains report progress toward Trieste on the Carso front while other actions at Somme region show artillery activity and limited prisoner losses. British patrols in Macedonia prepare further efforts against Bulgarian positions as reconnoitering cars are deployed.
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France
Transylvania
War Office
Vienna
Maros
Berlin
Kronstadt
Ferdinand
Carso Front
Coldorna
Somme
Morval
Buctesnes
Charlens
Thie River
wiffeir_yend
Baupaume
Baupaume-Perrone
Russia
Sera
Petrograd
Volcania
Galicia
Struma River
Macedonia
London
Great Britain Says It Will Change Mail Search Policy
Washington reports radical changes in the search of mails on neutral ships are promised by Britain and France in reply to the American protest. The steps fall short of abandoning the right to search for enemy information but are regarded by the Allies as meeting the United States demands.
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Washington
United States
Tokio
Toyo Kisen Kaisha
San Francisco
Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
Pacific
New York
Panama Canal
Great Britain
Japan
Atlantic Coast Storm Warning Issued From Reading Island to Cape Hatteras
Washington reports storm warnings issued by the weather bureau from Reading Island near Philadelphia to Cape Hatteras and to Baltimore and Washington. The storm moves southwest with tonight's winds from the west, shifting to northwest by Saturday.
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Washington
Reeding Island
Philadelphia
Cape Hatteras
Baltimore
Weather Bureau
Wilmington Bar Association Sets 101 Civil Cases for Trial
The Wilmington Bar Association met this morning and arranged 101 civil cases for trial at the two weeks term of Superior Court to be conducted here by Judge Connor beginning Monday October 23. Eugene Martin presided. Most cases have been in the courts for some time and few are of great importance. The committee expects most cases to be disposed of during the two week term.
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Wilmington Bar Association
Superior Court
Connor
Eugene Martin, Esq
Cintra’s Charm and Moors Castle Amid Lemon Trees
The piece contrasts Cintra’s elusive charm with its real sights a five thousand population town on a steep hill crowned by a Moorish palace. The old castle likened to the Alhambra draws visitors while lemon trees shade streams where wash women work and garments flash like jewels.
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Cintra
Portugal
Alhambra
Navy to survey New England coast for hostile bases
Admiral Mayo of the Atlantic fleet ordered a survey of the New England coast after reports that belligerent ships had set up a base or used parts of the coast for wireless stations. The Oct 13 message to the Navy Department disclosed the move.
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Washington
Mayo
Navy Department
New England
Appointment of Japanese General Aoki Stirs Chinese Press
Peking reports Major-General Nobuzumi Aoki named first class military advisor to China prompting sharp Chinese press commentary. Aoki, 57, former Port Arthur commandant in the Russo Japanese War, will earn two thousand dollars Mexican monthly plus travel expenses as Sino Japanese arms questions loom.
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Peking
China
Nobuzumi Aoki
Aoki
Peking Daily News
Japan
Yuan Shi-kai
Shanghai
Yangtse Valley
Aako
Port Arthur
Europe
Seaboard Appoints Virginia Division Chief and Superintendent
Norfolk, October 13. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad created the assistant general manager post. R. S. Marshall, Virginia division superintendent, will move to Richmond as appointee, effective October 15, with George R. Carlton named Virginia division superintendent after leading Georgia. Allied ships sighted near the coast. British vessels reportedly moved out as convoys.
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Norfolk
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
R. S. Marshall
Virginia
Richmond
George R. Carlton
Georgia
Cape Fear Country Club Buys Land for New Links
The Cape Fear Country Club Company purchased nearly 30 acres from M F H Gouverneur and wife and H M Chase for 2975 dollars to expand the golf links. The land, acquired in four tracts totaling 7.58 4.56 5.79 and 9.96 acres, was handled by J Frank Sears, president.
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Cape Fear Country Club
Cape Fear Country Club Company
M. F. H. Gouverneur
H. M. Chase
Chase and
J. Frank Sears
Country Club
Wilson 10 Speak in New York and Buffalo in late October
President Wilson accepts invitations to speak in Buffalo on October 30 and New York on October 31 under non partisan auspices. These two stops follow earlier trips to Chicago on October 19 and Cincinnati on October 26 as his final campaign appearances before Election Day.
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Philadelphia
Wilson
Buffalo
New York
New York State
Chicago
Cincinnati
The Metropolitan Opera House as a Sociological Stage
A portrait of New Yorks Met Opera as a social institution not just a music house. Readers are grouped by class from wealthy patrons to foreign music lovers and fashion seekers, all visible in the box seats and standing room as the curtain rises and the Muse of Harmony begins.
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New York
Great Opera House
Metropolitan Opera House
Broadway
Thirty-eighth Street
Seventh Avenue
Marriage of J W Orebaugh to Ohio woman in Weldon
Friends learn of the marriage of Mr. J W Orebaugh once a teller at the American Bank and now cashier of a Weldon bank. He wed an Ohio young lady and they have returned to Weldon to settle.
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J. W. Orebaugh
American Bank
Weldon
Orebaugh
Ohio
Well Known Cotton Mill Executive Dies From Car Crash
Concord North Carolina October 13 T W Terrell fifty year old secretary treasurer and general manager of Locke Cotton Mills a well known mill man across the south died at his home in Coolemee from injuries received when his automobile overturned and pinned him on Sunday Interment will be in Asheville tomorrow He leaves a wife and two children.
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Concord
N. C
T. W. Terrell
Locke Cotton Mills
South
Coolemee
Asheville
Allies' Airships Attack Mauser Plant Over Oberndorf
Forty French and British aeroplanes dropped four tons of explosives on the Mauser works at Oberndorf on the Neckar river. The six German machines defending the plant were shot down.
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Paris
Mauser
Oberndorf
Germany
Neckar
War Office
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