Chelan County to Sell Road Machinery Hearing Set
Chelan County Washington prepares to sell listed road machinery including a ten ton road roller and three ton Avery truck. A hearing on the sale is set for April 3 at 2 PM at the County Commissioners office Wenatchee with testimony from interested parties before the order is issued.
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Board of County Commissioners of
Chelan County
Board of County Commissioners
Washington
Aurora
Port Huron
County Commissioners’ Office
Wenatchee
T. L. Ross
Williams the Czar of the Tenderloin Dies in New York
Former Inspector Alexander S. Williams a famed NYPD figure dies after nearly three decades of policing. Known as the clubber and czar of the Tenderloin he led the West Thirtieth Street precinct during gambling and vice years and retired after the Lexow inquiry.
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New York
Metropolitan Police Department
Alexanders. Williams
Williams
Lower East Side
Gas House
West Thirtieth Street
Thirtieth Street
Lexow
Submarine Battle Seen From Rescue Voyage
Twenty one survivors of the British steamer Coronada tell of being torpedoed 150 miles off the Irish coast and rescued nine hours later by a British steamer. They describe a following encounter where a tramp steamer fought a submarine, firing from a stern gun and possibly sinking the German craft.
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Halifax
N. S
Hanging Boy Wins in Fight with Buzzard
Santa Rosa California recounts a daring rescue after Hans Mierbach, fifteen, clung to a shrub root 250 feet up a rock face for four hours. A buzzard harassed him as he fought, tying his wrist with a handkerchief, writing a farewell note, and enduring deep wounds before a night search party saved him.
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Santa Rosa
Cal
Hans Mierbach
Mierbach
Effects of the War on Children of England
Owen R. Lovejoy warns at a conference that war harms English youth. He cites 17,000 displaced from 41,000 schools, 500,000 plus aged 12 to 15 at work, and rising juvenile delinquency since 1914, with severe impacts on education and welfare.
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England
Baltimore
Owen R. Lovejoy
National Child Labor Committee
Conference On Child Labor
Great Britain
James Yoxrall
Louvain
Wagner Hoffman retires from Capitol corner news trade
Harrisburg writer Wagner Hoffman, longtime news purveyor for state officials and the public, leaves his corner at Third and Walnut after fourteen years. He started with 19 cents at age eight and has since bought a book and stationery store from an elder brother, selling his corner to Meyer Swimmer. He served customers including Pennypacker, Stuart, Tener, and Brumbaugh.
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Harrisburg
Wagner Hoffman
Capitol Park
Wagner
Third
Walnut Streets
Meyer Swimmer
Pennypacker
Him
Stuart, Tener and
Brumbaugh
Gompers Backs Swiss System for U S Training
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor endorses the Swiss system of universal military training. He argues every citizen should have physical and manual training to defend family and country, noting Switzerland's soldierly character as a model.
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New York
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
United States
Mr. Gompers
Switzerland
Ma Nhood
America
Honor for One Redhead Arrives for Marion Burton
Dr. Marion Leroy Burton, president of the University of Minnesota, a redhead nicknamed Redhead and Brick Top, is slated for a life membership in the National Association of Red Heads at its Indianapolis meeting. He rose from a Minneapolis drug store clerk earning $6 a week to a $10,000 annual university head, with August plans for the Redhead society meeting. Early sowing in hotbeds allows vegetable seedlings four to six weeks’ head start, aiding early marketing and higher returns.
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Alexandria
Ind
National Association of Redheads
Marion Leroy Burton
University of Minnesota
Indianapolis
Minnesota
Minneapolis
State University
Summons by Publication in Chelan County Court
The Wenatchee Valley and Northern Railway Company sues M L Freeman Marion L Freeman and Eliza H Freeman to quiet title on a described Chelan County land strip. Defendants must appear within sixty days of March 28 1917 or face default. Attorneys Skuse Morrill and L J Nelson listed. First publication March 2, 1917. sixth publication noted.
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Wenatchee Valley & Northern Railway Company
Iowa Corporation
M. L. Freeman
Marion L. Freeman
Eliza H. Freeman
Chelan
State of Washington
Willamette Meridian
Chelan County
Washington
Willamette
Skuse & Morrill
P. O
Peyton
Spokane
Wash
L. J. Nelson
P.O
Leavenworth
Chelan Go
Wash Attorneys
Plaintiff
Bulldog saves girl from river ice in Green Bay
Ten year old Madeline Denny of Little Rapids fell through ice on the Fox river. Brewster the bulldog belonging to Miss Helen Scheller, Brown county tuberculosis sanitarium superintendent, grabbed her sleeve and pulled her to shore then dragged her to sanitarium grounds. Brewster will receive a new collar inscribed like Carnegie medals.
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Green Bay
Wis
Madeline Denny
Little Rapids
Brewster
Helen Scheller
Brown County
Madeline
Fox River
Germans Improve Air Fire Over German Positions
London reports airmen returning from France describe new German defense tactics. After prior patrols by British squadrons, German anti-aircraft fire now concentrates on targeted areas, forcing British aviators to endure withering fire to reconnoiter German positions.
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London
France
Fewer Motor Licenses in Great Britain Since War
The number of automobile licenses issued in Great Britain and Ireland has fallen to about half prewar levels. In 1914 there were 537,000 vehicles, 1915 saw 800,000, and 1916 dropped to about 325,000 licenses.
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London
Great Britain
Ireland
Meat as Side Line in Jewelry Store in Calexico
Calexico California jewelry shop adds meats to its catalog alongside diamonds and rubies. The display pairs steaks pork chops and pigs feet with gems creating a striking contrast in a Main Street store. Cartoonists note the unusual promotion as a novelty and local talk turns to the pearls and swine theme.
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Calexico
Cal
H. C
Fortune to Policeman Gaffney on Pacific Coast Leave
Patrolman James F. Gaffney of Bedford Avenue Williamsburg received a nineteen days leave to travel to the Pacific coast and claim an inheritance from his aunt estimated between $50,000 and $100,000. The 35 year old married officer has served a dozen years on the force and only learned of the fortune by a San Francisco attorney's letter.
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New York
Woods
James F. Gaffney
Bedford Avenue
Williamsburg
Pacific Coast
Gaffney
Oak Street
San Francisco
Clock injunction blocks Wichita city hall tower clock
S J Smalley of the Coronado hotel obtained legal action to stop Mayor Bentley and the city commissioners from installing a $1 500 clock in the city hall tower. He argues the hourly striking will disturb guests in his hotel across from the tower.
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Wichita
Kan
S. J. Smalley
Coronado
City Hall
Bentley
Smalley
Outspoken Prisoner Seeks Marine Corps Dream
Amandus Kessler asks the Marine recruiting station to release him from Easton prison Pa to join the U S Marines He portrays himself as a skilled climber and rifle shooter and vows to rally fellow inmates to the flag but his morals are cited as lacking by authorities
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New York
Amandus Kessler
Easton
Uncle Sam
United States Marine Corps
Amandus
Marine Corps
I Hear You Calling Me Warbled By Family
A brief, domestic vignette from the Louisville Courier Journal where a daughter sings to be called and a mother replies to help with the dishes, followed by a profound silence in the home scene.
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Mother
Louisville Courier-Journal
Dickens Motto and Envelopes Ad Offer
A compact ad quotes Charles Dickens urging benevolence while promoting a printing offer for envelopes at 75 cents per 100. The message combines a literary quote with a practical pricing detail to attract buyers.
Indian Relics Found Near Tule Lake by Klamath Group
Four members of the Klamath Historical association returned from a ten day expedition through lava beds in Modoc county near the California line. They uncovered pipes stone war hammers dishes grinders seventy five arrow heads ten spear heads several knives eleven mortars and over one hundred pestles along Tule lake shore as Lost River is diverted.
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Klamath Falls
Cal
J. ©. Rutenic
A. C. Yaden
Floyd Brandenburg
George Snyder
Klamath Historical Association
California Line
Modoc County
Modoc
Tule Lake
United States Reclamation Service
Lost River
Owl steals hen spotted. farmer shoots winged thief
Vancouver Washington crop tale reports S J Pettit shooting an owl after it stole a hen from his Orchards area farm. The 18 inch tall owl with a wingspan of four feet six inches was captured and will be mounted.
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Vancouver
Wash
S. J. Pettit
Orchards
Harrington
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