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Local Officers and Social News From Yesterday
Feb 14 1929 notes report B D Silliman commissioned captain in the Reserve Officers unit after years as first lieutenant in the First Artillery. Social items include farewell for Mrs LeRoy Koch, travel plans for Mrs Edward Kinnard and Mrs Elmer Snow, and travel to Cuba for Kent C Ferman. Also mentions a fall in an elevator shaft, Seattle mayor Bertha Landes speaking at Voorhees, Lieut Charles A Osborne returning from Camp Johnston, and a War Mothers of America chapter organized in St Pauls church with temporary officers J D Kennedy Inga B Tapper and Frank Stamats. Big Hearted Jim attraction at Greene’s Opera House. Rev Eugene P Dunlap and Mrs Dunlap of Siam noted.
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B. D. Silliman
Army
First Artillery Corps
Edward Kinnard
Elmer Snow
LeRoy Koch
Des Moines
Jim
Greene's Opera House
Eugene P. Dunlap
D. D
Mrs. Dunlap
Siam