Week of notable events from Western union service
Pierce County prosecutor W D Askern was shot at his Tacoma home with serious wounds. Arizona pioneer Robert Leatherwood died in Tucson. Mrs Temple gave birth aboard a special train carrying her husband’s body toward Nogales. An oil tank explosion in Porterville killed two and injured several. Other items include a Home Oil Refining sale for 30 million dollars, a court ruling delaying lease clauses, a divorce suit in Santa Cruz, and federal notes on postwar spending and mail planes funding.
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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
Federal Reserve Bank
House
Senate
New York
San Francisco
Chicago
Post Office
Edward Bell
Ohio
Supreme Court
Texas
Oklahoma
Red River Valley
United States
Charles A. Nichols
Michigan
House Census Committee
South America
Nichols
Pacific Mail Company
Columbia
Yokohama
John M. Foote
Roosevelt Field
Mineola
N. Y
Patrick Tyrrell
Linecol
Tyrrell
Secret Service
General Pershing
Chaumont
Philadelphia
Julia C. Stinson
France
Hdmburg
Antonio Carpio
Efren Rios
Mechem
Silver City
N. M
Phoenix
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
Widespread War and Political Turmoil Reported Worldwide
Wireless from Moscow confirms Bolshevist troops reach Petrovsk on the Caspian with red cavalry in control. A 200000-strong Socialist rally protests King Christian dissolving Zahle cabinet. Mutiny in Anhui Province leaves 200 dead and many wounded as residents flee. Helen Keller signs all German royalties to blind soldiers aid. Rizal province residents protest 10000 acre sale to Japanese capitalists for 200000 dollars.
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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
Japanese Take Vladivostok In All Night Battle
Western Newspaper Union reports Vladivostok fell after eight hours of heavy fighting with Japanese forces occupying the city. Russians were disarmed and several revolutionary officials arrested or deported as Japanese flags replaced Russian ensigns on government buildings.
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Vladivostok
Admiral Kalchak
Williams. Graves
Siberia
Honolulu
Nikolaevsk
Amur River
House to Probe Gasoline Prices
The federal trade commission was directed by the house to investigate causes of recent gasoline fuel oil and kerosene price increases. A June report was requested and the commission asked to determine if any restraints of trade exist among oil interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Trade Commmission
House
Johnson Seeks Sheriff to Aid Custody
Calexico report says Jack Johnson former heavyweight champion sent for Sheriff Applestill of Imperial County to escort him at the border when he crosses into the United States for pending federal charges in Chicago. Johnson stated he hoped to be ready to surrender soon.
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Calexico
Cal
Jack Johnson
Applestill
Hoperial County
Johnson
Chicago
Ancient sloop of war unearthed by Rockaway Beach tides
The Brooklyn Eagle reports a sunlit wreck pulled from sands at Rockaway Beach. Capt. Joseph Meade calls it an old sloop of war likely British, with nine guns and handwrought spikes. Histories mention privateering era and possible Revolutionary War connections.
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Rockaway Beach
Brooklyn Eagle
Joseph Meade
Rockaway
Jones’ Inlet
Capt. Jones
Village Within Extinct Volcano on Saba Island
A traveler’s sketch of Bottom on the peak of the extinct volcano on Saba. The cliffed coast, 8000-foot summit, and crater town with no harbor make access by boat to shore a steep climb. Inhabitants are lifelong sailors who always return home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saba
Caribbean Sea
Bottom
Seven Seas
Chilean Savings Growth Outpaces South American Peers
The article notes Chilean savings institutions expanded from about a dozen with 200 000 accounts and 4 million dollars in 1910 to 110 million pesos in 1917 and 50 million more in 1918. It credits government incentives like stamps and bans lotteries as boosts to saving culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chile
Spinster Rejects Family Tenants Then Upset Man
A fortyish spinster with a rental ads asks a man if he has children. He says seven, praising them, but she refuses to rent to a family with many kids. He exits angrily, wishing her future misfortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis News
Fire Wrecks Hospital in Denver Men’s Building
Fire sparked by the power plant smokestack destroyed the men’s building of the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society hospital in Denver and endangered forty patients for an hour. Estimated total loss ranges from $45,000 to $50,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calumet-New Mexico Mining Company
Pinos Altos
Douglas, Aziz
Denver
the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society
Robber Killed in St Louis Holdup
A lone bandit held up the East on Taylor Trust company in St Louis Missouri took $20 000 and killed one police officer while seriously wounding three others before the robber was killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Easton-Taylor Trust Company
Vocal Dexterity in Auctioneering Skill
A dialogue notes Isaac trains his boy as an auctioneer and praises his talking ability as already easy, remarking he can talk with one hand. The excerpt comes from Blighty Loudon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac
Abe
Blighty
Loudon
Colorado settlement prices rise on metals market
Bar silver at 1.26 percent, copper at 19 or 20 cents 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
Market prices for cattle hogs and sheep at Kansas City
Kansas City wholesale market quotes for hogs and cattle show ranges by weight and grade. Heavy steers at 13.00 to 14.15, mediums 11.25 to 12.90, lights up to 15.25. heifers and cows priced from 6.40 to 13.25. Sheep and lamb values cited with lambs at 14.25 to 16.25, yearlings 15.00 to 17.28, ewes 11.50 to 14.25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helfere
DPMS
Denver
Kansas City
Cash Grain Prices in Chicago Ledger
Wheat values show No. 2 red at 2.62, No. 4 Northern spring at 2.41, No. 4 Northern spring dark at 2.65. Corn bids list No. 2 mixed at 1.69 and No. 2 yellow low at 1.70.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cash Grain
Chicago
Also Mentioned on This Page
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
Home Oil Refining Company
Anglo-American Oil Company of London
Fort Worth
Yves Letrocquer
Jockey Club of
Paris
Europe
Joachim Albert
Prussia
William
Moabit
Adlon
Holland
Wilhelm
Hague
S. W. I. Engineering Corporation
Long Island
Foote
Ray Schalk
White Sox
Elmer Cowart
Elk City
Oklo
Otero County
New Mexico
Capitol
Chloride-Kerwin
Colorado River
Chloride
A. K. Eldredge
California
Nevada
Fred Jones
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
New World
Yagoro Miura
Switzerland
Russia
Sheriff
Thrift
Lees
Colo
South Park
Charles Vriend & Co., Inc
Metal Markets
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