Wave of early 20th century incidents noted
Pierce County prosecutor W D Askern was shot at his Tacoma home. Arizona pioneer Robert Leatherwood died of heart failure in Tucson. Mrs Temple gave birth aboard the body transport, Porterville oil tank exploded injuring several. Home Oil Refining Co sold for 30 million to Anglo American in Fort Worth. Oil lands dispute looms between Texas and Oklahoma. court injunctions issued.
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W. D. Askern
Pierce County
Washington
Tacoma
Robert M. Leatherwood
Arizona
Tucson
Ariz
H. J. Temple
Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico
Nogales
Porterville
Cal
Home Oil Refining Company
Anglo-American Oil Company of London
Fort Worth
Texas
Federal Reserve Bank
House
Senate
New York
San Francisco
Chicago
Post Office
Edward Bell
Ohio
Supreme Court
Oklahoma
Red River Valley
United States
Charles A. Nichols
Michigan
House Census Committee
South America
Nichols
World and National News Roundup From Europe to America
Foreign dispatches report Bolshevist forces in Petrovsk on the Caspian. mass protests occur in Zahle cabinet crisis. Mutiny in Anhui Province kills hundreds. residents flee. Helen Keller donates German royalties to blind soldiers. Rizal residents protest 10,000 acre sale to Japanese capitalists at 200000 dollars. Locomotives and notes on postarmistice implications surface from Europe to Asia. Cap Foote dies in air crash near Roosevelt Field. Schalk nears 1000th major league game. Bodies found of five children in Elk City tent. coroner clears ex-soldier. Arizona and New Mexico update on mines, oil fields, and public notices with various civic and military notes.
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Bolshevist
Petrovsk
Caspian Sea
Red Cavalry
Moscow
Christian
Zahle
Anhui
Amoy
China
Helen Keller
Berlin
Germany
Association of Homes For
Rizal
Manila
Harrison
Pacific Mail Company
Columbia
Yokohama
John M. Foote
Chicago
Roosevelt Field
Mineola
N. Y
Patrick Tyrrell
Linecol
Tyrrell
Secret Service
General Pershing
Chaumont
Philadelphia
Julia C. Stinson
Washington
France
Hdmburg
Ray Schalk
White Sox
Elmer Cowart
Elk City
Oklo
Japanese take Vladivostok after eight-hour battle
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports Japanese troops occupied Vladivostok after eight hours of severe fighting. Russians were disarmed and many arrested or deported as Japanese flag flew over government buildings. Prisoners were marched through streets and fighting continued into night as the East Asian conflict drew broader attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vladivostok
Admiral Kalchak
Williams. Graves
Siberia
House to Probe Gasoline Prices
The House directs the Federal Trade Commission to investigate causes of recent gasoline, fuel oil, and kerosene price increases. A June report is required, and the commission will determine if any restraint of trade exists among oil industry participants.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commmission
House
Johnson Sends for Sheriff in Calexico
Jack Johnson former heavyweight champion asked Sheriff Applestill of Imperial County to arrest him personally upon crossing the international line to face federal charges in Chicago. Johnson said he hoped to be ready to surrender soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calexico
Cal
Jack Johnson
Applestill
Hoperial County
Johnson
Chicago
Old British sloop unearthed on Rockaway Beach
Ocean tides wash up a wreck described as an old sloop of war with nine guns on Rockaway Beach. Coast guard Captain Meade says it appears to be a bluff-bowed British vessel likely from Revolutionary or War of 1812 era. Local skippers note handwrought spikes and a broken bowsprit, while legends link to Captain Jones and illicit trade.
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Rockaway Beach
Brooklyn Eagle
Joseph Meade
Rockaway
Jones’ Inlet
Capt. Jones
Village on extinct volcanic peak as Saba’s unique home
The island of Saba in the Caribbean hosts Bottom, a village perched in the crater of an extinct volcano eight thousand feet above sea level. Access is perilous with no harbor, requiring steep stone steps or rugged trails to reach the town where inhabitants are long-time sailors who always return home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saba
Caribbean Sea
Bottom
Seven Seas
Chilean savings swell as deposits rise after 1910
The piece notes savings institutions grow in Chile from 1910 to 1918, with deposits increasing from 4 million dollars equivalent to 110 million pesos in 1917 and 50 million more in 1918. It highlights nationwide encouragement of saving and the absence of lotteries, reflecting a “slow and steady” approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chile
Spinster Refuses Rent Over Children Vow Ends in Sharply Punished Jest
A spinster near forty rents out a house and bans children after a previous tenant’s brood caused damage. A man answering the ad says he has seven children and accuses her of bad luck, replying that she may someday be unable to find a house for seven kids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis News
Fire destroys wing at Denver hospital
Fire believed caused by sparks from a power plant smokestack destroyed the men’s building of the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society hospital in Denver. The blaze endangered forty male patients for about an hour and caused an estimated loss of 45,000 to 50,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calumet-New Mexico Mining Company
Pinos Altos
Douglas, Aziz
Denver
the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society
Robber Killed in St Louis Bank Robbery Outrage
In St Louis Missouri a lone bandit killed one police officer and seriously wounded three others during an East on Taylor Trust Company robbery of twenty thousand dollars. The robber also died in the ensuing confrontation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Easton-Taylor Trust Company
Vocal Dexterity in Auctioneer Training
A brief exchange notes Isaac’s skillful talking as a boy trainee in the auction business. Abe praises him, saying he talks easily even with one hand, reflecting a brisk, humorous tone from Blighty.
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Isaac
Abe
Blighty
Loudon
Colorado settlement prices for metals
Bar silver quoted at 1.26 percent. Copper at 19 20c per pound. Lead at 9.25 dollars. Spelter at 8.54 dollars. Tungsten at 6.50 to 12.00 dollars per unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Kansas City Livestock Prices Reported in Bid Ranges
The market in Kansas City shows hogs priced from 13.00 to 20.15 for various weights and grades, cattle including choice heavy steers at 13.00 to 14.15 and cows from 6.40 to 12.00, calves at 14.25 to 16.25, and sheep with lambs around 17.49 to 29.15.
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Helfere
DPMS
Denver
Kansas City
Cash Grain in Chicago Markets Report
Wheat prices show No 2 red at 2.62 and No 4 Northern spring at 2.41. No 4 Northern spring dark 2.65. Corn bids include No 2 mixed at 1.69 and No 2 yellow low at 1.70.
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Cash Grain
Chicago
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Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Western
United Shoe Machinery Company of
Massachusetts
Trieber
United States District Court
Alice True Gentle
Santa Cruz
Robert Bruce Gentle
Seattle
Bruce Gentle
Harold Wood
South Bend
Ind
Yves Letrocquer
Jockey Club of
Paris
Europe
Joachim Albert
Prussia
William
Moabit
Adlon
Holland
Wilhelm
Hague
S. W. I. Engineering Corporation
Long Island
Foote
Otero County
New Mexico
Phoenix
Capitol
Chloride-Kerwin
Colorado River
Chloride
A. K. Eldredge
California
Nevada
Fred Jones
Antonio Carpio
Efren Rios
Mechem
Silver City
N. M
Salt River Valley
Arizona Eastern Railroad
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
Arizona Corporation Commission
Arizona Eastern
Southern Pacific
el Paso & Southwestern
Santa Fe
Clovis
Dudley W. Windes
American Legion
Legion
Tolbrook
Navajo
A. L
The
State
Clovis, N. M
Briggs
Calumet & Arizona Mining Company
Henry S’mmons
van Houten
T. B. Leib
D.srict
Ra Ion
Southwest News
SUR
Prise
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Ishida
Nikolaevsk
New World
Yagoro Miura
Switzerland
Russia
Honolulu
Amur River
Sheriff
Thrift
Lees
Colo
South Park
Charles Vriend & Co., Inc
Metal Markets
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