Adoption by American woman allows Japanese boy’s foster guardians
A Chinese-born doctor and his American wife seek to adopt a Japanese boy abandoned a year earlier in Butte. Judge Dwyer rules citizenship matters: the mother is American by birth, enabling the adoption by consent of the Chinese father, though the doctor cannot gain citizenship. Dr. Lamb, a Stanford graduate, plans to remain in Butte with the child.
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Edward Lamb
E. J. Lamb
Butte
Henry Lowndes Maury
Dwyer
United States
Louie Ole Lamb
New York
Lamb
China
Leland Stanford University
Industrial Workers to be Put on Trial March First
Everett Wash Jan 26 Judge J T Ronald sets March 5 as the start date for 72 defendants most of them I W W members charged with murder in the Nov 6 municipal dock tragedy in which seven were killed. Defendants seek separate trials and a change of venue to King County arguing a fair trial cannot be held in Snohomish County.
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Ronald
King County
Snohomish County
Russians Capture Positions on River Aa Front
In the Riga region east Prussian troops gained ground along both sides of the River Aa yesterday and repelled a Russian counterattack on the east bank. About 500 Russians were taken prisoner. A second item reports Tacoma Gas Company placed in receivership with Elmer Dover named receiver by Judge Cushman on a $40,000 creditor claim. A short note invites readers to enjoy skating at the Holland rink.
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Berlin
Sayville
Riga
GAS Company
Tacoma
Tacoma Gas Company
Elmer Dover
Cushman Onva
Matthew A. Morrison
Chicago
Holland Rink
Purge of Undeserving From Silver Bow Aid Rolls
Silver Bow county will remove 32 widows and wives of state charges from the dependent child aid rolls under the act. Applications, investigated by the juvenile court, show falsified claims and overpayments totaling about $600 monthly, with total annual outlays near $70,000. The Good Government club led the probe, and ineligible recipients are dropped.
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Silver Bow
District Court
Good Government Club
Minnesota House Backs Prohibition Amendment Question
St Paul Minn Jan 26 by a 9 to 6 vote the temperance committee favored reporting as a special order for 11 am next Wednesday the bill to submit a constitutional statewide prohibition amendment to voters in 1818 under the proposal the state would become dry January 1 1920 A joint resolution in Pierre SD proposes reducing the South Dakota legislature to a single chamber with 15 to 45 members introduced in the senate by Senator Dowdell
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St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota House
Pierre
South Dakota
Senate
Dowdell
Ingot Graduation Issue Colors Brow n Ink
The Ingot, Washington junior high school’s official four page annual, appears in brown ink on cream paper to honor the eighth grade. It features the graduation program and graduates on the front, with jokes editorials field work reports and club reviews on the other pages. Myrtle Nelson contributes the story Secret Generosity. The note adds tea consumption by UK residents.
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Washington Junior High School
Mde
Myrtle Nelson
Fergus County Bar association meeting action on district judge
Lewigan 20 a meeting of the Fergus County Bar association was held tonight and action taken to support passage of the Oil district an additional judge. A delegation will go to Helena. Miss Albertina Sanderson, Grass Range postmistress, and Roy J. French, Grass Range business man, were married here by Judge Edward Brassey. Bertha C. Wilson obtained a decree against R. M. Wilson for cruelty and failure to provide. she then married Earle Klone of Miles City. Tunnis De Winter sues Maartje De Winter for divorce. they were married in Grand Rapids Michigan in 1815. Alden L. Larson pled guilty to forgery. sentenced to two to three years with parole. Judge Ayers will call the docket Monday and the next jury term begins February 5 at 10 a.m.
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Bertha C. Wilson
R. M. Wilson
Ayers
Publishing Business in Hazardous Position
Chicago January 26 informal conference of newspaper publishers and paper manufacturers debated the print paper shortage and high prices. They voted to form committees to study the federal trade commission report due next week and seek a remedy promptly. The manufacturers blamed higher production costs for current prices, while publishers warned the industry faces a hazardous situation with no quick fix. More than 13,600 workers are employed in and around the mines involved.
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Chicago
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Prine Paper Manufacturers’ Association
Federal Trade Come Mission
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