Halloween Bachelor Fair Staged by Iditarod Men
Halloween will be celebrated in Iditarod on Saturday October 30 with a bachelors party style social hosted by local men. The event features music by the Mandolin Club and Glee Club, a one act comedy, games, a lunch, dancing, and decorations by local ladies. No admission, invitation extended to all, including creek district residents, with plans for surprises and a full program to defy Sunday Halloween. Also notes births, travels, and mining work on Moore Creek and Tolovana area this season.
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Iditarod
Mandolin Club
Glee Club
Gene
Creek Metropolis
Ffair
Gene Norton
June Farrell
Harry Watson
Parl Hunt
Big Force at Work on Hill Mining Prep
Large operations resume on Flat creek hill as Dave Strandberg leads forty men at Up Grade to build ditches for next season. Candle Creek crews led by Dan McDonnell Billy Bevans and Tom McKinnon arrive from Candie creek to work on curves and winter dump. McKinnon to Tolovana soon while Hays and Thompson the Oregon Kid head to Tolovana this week.
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Flat Creek
Dave Strandberg
Candle Creek
Dan McDonnell
Billy Bevans
Tom McKinnon
Candie Creek
McDonnell
Bevin
McKinnon
Tolovana
Romance Wedding Elopement Noted In Seattle
Irene Rn, daughter of George Rudd, eloped from Ellensburg and wed Er nest Sherman in Seattle. The romance began in high school, but locals cannot place any George Rudd, suggesting a possible name error in the dispatch.
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Seattle
Irene Rn
George Rudd
Juan
Iditarod
Ellensburg
Ernest Sherman
West Front Rotterdam Dispatch Reports Heavy Fighting
From the western lines near the coast to Arras heavy and costly fighting continues. The German forces are said to be suffering losses of twenty to thirty thousand men daily as trains stand by at Belgian towns to move troops if a retreat is ordered.
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Rotterdam
Arras
Hwnes
Belgium
Nice
Local and Personal Notes From Yukon to Discovery
Local and personal items report drill work by Yukon Gold Company at Chicago Beach in prospecting for Harry Yeager, arrivals from Kusko kwin region, medical care for Charley Knutson, and multiple visits and movements among residents and traders including Dave Strandberg, Frank Dawson, Angus McLellan, Wy Austin, Al Walsh, J. G. Rivers, Angus McKinzie, Jack Smeeton, Dan McDonnell, Harry Yeager, Billy Bevans, Tom McKinnon, Tom Shallow, and others. Occasional ads and notices for dogs, woodchoppers, and seafood accompany these updates.
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Yukon Gold Company
Chicago
Harry Yeager
Iditarod set for its biggest season next year
Arrivals on today's steamer from the North include Mrs. J.E. Beattie HM Onyett Joseph Kermond Fred Simmon and F S Mc Closkey of Iditarod reporting that next year’s season will be the largest in the town’s history with record activity foreseen.
Thanksgiving Day Proclaimed for November 25 by Wilson
President Wilson designates Thursday November 25 as Thanksgiving Day. He cites national peace and the ability to assert the country’s rights as key reasons for gratitude in the current year.
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Washington
Wilson
Sakhalin Island to Be Ceded to Japan per treaty
London dispatch notes that Russia will cede the entire Sakhalin Island to Japan as compensation for supplying munitions of war, in accordance with the Ports mouth treaty that followed the Russo-Japanese conflict. The article also lists unrelated health services offered by Crosby Massage and Bath Parlors.
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Sakhalin
London
Russia
Japan
Portsmouth
Crosby Massage
Bishop Marries Seattle Nurse in Alaska Mission Context
Right Rev Pe Rawe bishop of the Iive Alaska married Rose Fullerton a trained nurse. The couple left for the moon on their t moon and will then go North for six weeks. Mrs Rowe is a prominent church worker and niece of Bishop Pinkham of Calgary.
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Seattle
Pe Rawe
Iive
Alaska
Rose Fullerton
Rowe
Bishop Pinkham
Calgary
Death Comes Suddenl y to Well Known Japanese Cook Yamato
Jimmie Yamato a Japanese cook and well known in the district died suddenly last Thursday evening at the mess house of the Up Grade mine at the head of Flat creek after arriving from Willow creek. He declined refreshment then drank cold water and shortly after grew ill and expired before a physician could arrive. Likely death from heart ailment aggravated by exposure and cold water. The body was moved to the city and funeral expected tomorrow. Yamato aged 42 leaves a wife and two children in Japan and had worked in Dawson and Willow creek over the past ten to twelve years.
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Jimmie Yamato
Flat Creek
Willow Creek
Yamato
Harry Nonogaki
Harry
Fred Labelle
Japan
North
Dawson
Jonas Brewis
Porter Charlton murder trial jury verdict awaited
Como Italy October 21 The jury in the Porter Charlton case the American accused of murdering his wife here several years ago is expected to return a verdict next week.
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Como
Italy
Porter Charlton
King Albert Rejects Pope Peace Initiative
King Albert of Belgium refused the pope's peace plan in Rome on October 21, delivering a negative reply to the Holy See's bid for mediation. The move underscores the stalemate in wartime negotiations and Belgium's stance in the ongoing conflict.
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King Albert
Pope
Rome
Albert
Belgium
Sinking News From War Fronts in Baltic and Mediterranean
Reports from Berlin and London detail British submarines sinking German ships in the Baltic and a German destroyer south of the Denmark Strait. An Austrian submarine reportedly sank the French steamer Hamel with loss of 71 lives. Zeppelins planned for the Baltic aim to curb British submarine activity.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Sweden
Petrograd
Baltic Sea
London
Hamel
Mediterranean
Berlin
How Sergeant O Leary Won The Victoria Cross
London dispatch reports Sergeant Michael O Leary of the Irish Guards earned the Victoria Cross in a winter campaign in France. He joined a storming party at Cuinch, charged the first barricade, killed five Germans, then three more, and took two prisoners, virtually capturing the position and saving the attacking force from fire.
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Michael O'Leary
London
O'Leary
France
Cuinch
Captain Lured by Fighting Is Killed in Ranks
A British captain in India left his regiment under an assumed name to join the expeditionary force in France as a private, then died in action on May 17 at Festubert. The official statement notes his strong wish to serve abroad and his burial with gaillantry that could have earned a medal for distinguished conduct. The case unfolds in a court scene referencing an unrelated financial dispute by an English barrister.
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Lotulon
India
France
Hs, Simart
Fifty Third Sikhs
Withdra
Offal
Inca
Jon
Thomas Hardy
Royal West Surrey Reinvent
Festubert
Stuart
Del
The Germans are not as efficient as believed says youth
Dunius Morgan, grandson of J Morgan, recalls in New York a tale about German efficiency and a prison interview. A neutral official questions a French prisoner about life in captivity, the captive answering with pride about his English studies and health. A patriotic maiden weighs in on police and resistance.
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Dunius & Morgan
J Morgan
Paris
New York
Moreau
Murgon
Fraser
Bom Surah
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George Riley
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Flay Hospital
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Joseph H. Smith
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Turkey
England
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George Marsh Budweiser
the Americana
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Bob Dunn
Stonday
Cecil Barlow
Don Stuart
Mike Hays
Silas McConaghy
Silas Motonagny
Dr. Auringer
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Frank Monckman
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Fred Deming
Joe Gallant
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AL Walsh
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Charley Knutson
Frank Dawson
Angus McLellan
Discovery
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J. G. Rivers
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Herry Sheppard
Jack Smeeton
Donlin Creek
Ditarod
Tom Shallow
Washington Star
G. G. Geraghty
Woodchoppers
Olympia
Iditarod Meat Co
Iditaroders
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O’leary
Taylor
Fiat
A. J. Weiss
Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothing
Christian Regster
Pioneer Offi
Propetly
House OF Quality
Tee
Fairbanks
Hurst Bros.’ Cigar Store
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