Germans Active in Norfolk Show Ingenious Diversions
In Norfolk Virginia the interned German cruiser Rittelsch Friedrich crew keeps busy with games puzzles and indoor sports. They built a miniature Dover cliffs and a Zeppelin that drops bombs in a mock entertainment space aboard the Eifel Friedrich while Roosevelt Peary arctic ship models stand nearby president naval observers visit the German encampment and report neat well kept surroundings.
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Norfolk
Neutral
America
Ritel Friedrich
Navy Yard
Thierichens
New York
Dover
Roosevelt
Peary
Thierfelder
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Scarlet Fever Germ Found by Boston Doctors
Dr. F. B. Mallory and Dr. E. M. Medlar of Boston City Hospital report discovery of the bacillus causing scarlet fever in the Journal of Medical Research. They note its short life, infection sites, Gram positive bacilli nature, and potential for an antitoxin or vaccine development to protect nurses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
F. B. Mallory
Boston City Hospital
E. M. Medlar
Mallory
Medlar
Journal of Medical Research
New York
Buck Saves Fawn From Swift River Near Ferry County
Wash Ed Roper a farmer on the Columbia River near Kettle Falls watched three deer driven to the river by dogs cross to safety. A buck a doe and a fawn swam toward his side the fawn lagged and looked doomed the buck turned back and pulled the fawn to shore both deer rested after reaching the bank and safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kettle Falls
Wash
Ed Roper
Ferry County
Columbia River
Roper
Buried gold found by Chico resident in yard
Mrs. John Grey unearthed a can with twenty dollars in gold and three ten dollar pieces while digging for lily bulbs. The cache, buried over twenty five years ago by the Judkins family, was wrapped in a decayed handkerchief and found in a rusty can.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chico
Cal
John Grey
Grey
Judkins
Ostrich Egg Meal At Swope Park Zoo Visit
Prosecutor Floyd Jacobs and family visiting Swope park zoo received a freshly laid ostrich egg about the size of a toy balloon. They were invited to take it home and have it scrambled for supper. Mrs Jacobs cooked it. the taste resembled a large hen egg but richer and more filling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Floyd Jacobs
Swope Park
Deaf mutes employed by Akron tire firm
Sixty deaf mutes work at a tire and rubber manufacturing company in Akron. The policy hires all applicants who are strong, willing, and have good eyes. They have proven efficient and are often placed in responsible positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Tire and Rubber Manufacturing
Indian Relics Found Near Calico Rock Arkansas
Cal Branscum of Cotter arrives with Indian arrow heads found on a tile knoll in a small field a mile north of Calico Rock.
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Calico Rock
Ark
Cal Branscum
Cotter
Arkansas- Missouri Telephone Company
Wisconsin girl kills wolf with mop stick
Miss Mabel Henderson of Menominee Wisconsin grabbed a mop handle to rescue her dog when a wolf attacked. She killed the animal, receiving a $10 bounty from the secretary of state and another $10 from the county. The wolf skin will be made into furs for Miss Henderson.
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Menominee
Wis
Mabel Henderson
Miss Henderson
German feminists push for universal women’s home service draft
The Hague debate sparks a proposal by German suffragists for compulsory service for women in non military roles. Each woman would serve one year in adolescence to gain useful state work, then return to family life. Dr Gertrude Banmer argues better training and organization and discipline akin to men's service.
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The
Hague
Berlin
Gertrude Banmer
Canton Judge Demonstrates Slap Punishment
Canton Colorado. Police Judge Quinn chambers a new remedy for slapping by ordering Mrs. Bessie Mare to demonstrate the act on Thomas Nichols. The judge sentences Nichols to about thirty days in the workhouse after the direct slap.
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Canton, CO
Quinn
Thomas Nichols
Bessie Mare
Nickols
Nichols
Meeks Remarry In Court After Separation
John A Hubbard aged 63 and Jennie 43, both divorced last year in Eldora Iowa, reunited and remarried by Court Commissioner W E Bates in Minneapolis. In Connecticut Frank C Barnes ex tax collector of Plymouth, after serving a county jail term for embezzlement, returns to jail as a jail employee in Litchfield.
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St. Paul
John A. Hubbard
Lonesome
Jennie
Eldora
Mr. Hubbard
Minneapolis
Tenth Street South
W. E. Bates
Winsted
Conn
Frank C. Barnes
Plymouth
Litchfield
Barnes
Frank Turkington
Aged Woman Granted Divorce in Jackson Tennessee
Laura Payne seventy four is granted a divorce from W. W. Payne eighty two in Jackson Tennessee on charges of cruelty and inhuman treatment. The couple married forty two years and have no children.
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Jackson
Tenn
Laura Payne
W. W. Payne
Foreclosure Sale of Leavenworth Property in Chelan County
Judgment in favor of plaintiff for 1250 principal plus 105.14 interest and 200 attorney fees, with costs at 28.75, 10 percent and 6 percent interest rates, against John A Bollman Masie Bollman L Lathrop Jane Doe Lathrop and Frank H Hutchings. Sale of Lots 5 6 7 8 Block 8 Ralston addition Leavenworth at Wenatchee courthouse on April 29 1916 at 10 a.m. Sheriff Chas Kenyon deputy announces public auction for cash to satisfy judgment and costs.
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John A. Bollman
Masie Bollman
L. Lathrop
Jane Dee Lathrop
Wfe
Frank H. Hutchings
A. D
Chelan
Washington
Ralston
Leavenworth
Wenatchee Avenue
Court House
City of
Wenatchee
Chelan County
George Dean
Washiton
Chas. Kenyon
H. K. Lemmon
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Newport
England
American Press Association
Buck
Fawn
Swift River
Columbia
Mrs. Grey
Mrs. Judkins
Wisconsin
Superior Court
State of Washington
Leavenworth State Bank
Chas, Kenyon
County of
Echo Office
Rutherford Mercantile Co
Lamb-Davis Lumber Co
Leavenworth, Wash
Waldorf Hotel
Seventh Ave
Pike St
Seattle
E. R. Douglas
Western Farmer
Pacific Northwest
Progressive Farmers
Echo
Portland
Spokane
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