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Washington state news of interest in 1917 era Tacoma and coastal events
Tacoma high school fielded 300 plus students in U S service and Walla Walla won a football title 27 to 7 over Salt Lake East Side. Measles quarantine hit American Lake 363rd regiment while crops, river levels and Red Cross drives shaped wartime life across Washington and Oregon in December 1917.
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Colfax
Whitman
Walla Walla
Salt Lake East Side
John Coffee Hayes
Department of Utilities
Washington, D. C
Camp Lewis
American Lake
Samuel ©. Whitmeyer
Camas
Whitmeyer
George Black
Bluestein
Lincoln County
Joseph O. Pelzel
Eagle Gorge
King County
Frances
Cliff
Ellisport
Winlock
Washington
Seattle
Bertram Bowran
E. (. Pope
Steilacoom
C. EB. Dilley
Loomis
H. W. Archer
Tacoma
R. J. Woods
Morton
S. Wehrwein
Farmers’ Extension School
Boistfort
Klaber
Centralia
H. L. Cook & Co
Aberdeen Logging Company
Governor Lister
Crowder
Washington State College
University of Washington
John Davis
John Davis & Co
Davis & Sturve Bond Company
Northwest
Pasadena
Cal
Spokane
Fleming
Weir
Oregon
Idaho
Red Cross
Inland Waterway Service
Forest Service
Lake Chelan
National Forest
New England
Charles Hebberd
Anton Ecklund
Ecklund
Emily Treely
Ronald
Sven Treely
Jones Brothers Company
North Yakima
Edmond F. Ducasse
Ducasse
Pacific Coast
California
Pacific-American Whaling Company of
Aberdeen
Pacific
Suzzalo
Home Economics Department
Barkey
Tacoma Railway & Power Company
George W. Rounds
Rounds