Unprecedented Demand Strains Mint for Small Coins
New York report on a surge in circulation of nickels dimes and quarters as prosperity grows. Mint Director Van Engelken and officials from San Francisco Denver and New York discuss ways to boost production while mints operate at full capacity. A parallel demand surge for one and two dollar bills grows ahead of the holiday season as worn bills remain unredeemed.
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New York
United States Treasury Department
F. N. J. van Engelken
Mint
T. W. H. Shanahan
San Francisco
Thomas W. Annear
Denver
E. D. Hawkins
Vernon Boyle
Mr. van Engelken
Engraving Department
Washington
Dancing Off Diet Gains In Chicago Diet Squad
In Chicago the health department dance disrupted the dieting test. The diet squad shows a net loss of one and a half pounds after a day of dancing while many members gained or lost different amounts. Seven members are up by ten and a half pounds overall, while five dropped twelve pounds since the test began.
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Chicago
Health Department
Hat Pass Lifts Debt on $5,000 Kansas Church
In Harlan Kansas a church fund for a $5,000 church faced a $1,500 shortfall at dedication. The crowd donated $2,029 in cash and checks after a plea to pass the hat, ensuring the church would be out of debt.
Death penalty sought for compass theft in Gary harbor
Gary Indiana report says C A Shillinger faces death under an 1790 sea law if convicted of stealing a compass from a United States Steel ore ship. The law requires either release or hanging from the ships yard arm in Gary harbor. Trial will occur in the U S district court at Indianapolis.
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Gary
Ind
C. A. Shillinger
United States Steel Company
Shillinger
United States District Court
Indianapolis
Spanking Replaces Moral Suasion for New York Orphans
New York educators and trustees at the Russell Sage Foundation endorsed corporal punishment over moral suasion. They claim 10,000 orphans in their care respond better to spankings, with thirty attendees noting the practice as more effective than other reprovals.
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New York
Russell Sage Foundation
New York Community Chorus Aims to Sing Messiah at Madison Square Garden
The New York Community chorus led by Harry Barnhart plans a Christmas Eve event with 1500 to 2000 singers around a Christmas tree at Madison Square and then in Madison Square Garden performing Handel's Messiah with a 70 piece orchestra. The project traces back to Barnhart idea sparked by a Rochester park concert.
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New York
Harry Barnhart
Madison Square
Madison Square Garden
Rochester
Lyons
N. Y
de Witt Clinton High School
Tug Seven Thousand Mile Voyage Completes Remarkable Crossing
The 60 foot tug Fuerza towed by Captain H. Waltaker and crew completed a 7000 mile voyage from Dordrecht to Tampico in 84 days. Artist Eden joined from Amsterdam aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam. Coal shortages and wary steamships created danger as the small tug zigzagged to refuel.
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New York
Dordrecht
Holland
Tampico
Mexico
H. Waltaker
Waltaker
FE. M. Eden
Amsterdam
Nieuw Amsterdam
Mr. Eden
Fuerza
Corona Oil Company
Panuco River
Roosevelt offers reward over felonious tree cutting at Sagamore Hill
Colonel Roosevelt of Oyster Bay New York posts a 25 dollar reward for information on unidentified woodsmen who cut down a large sassafras tree on Sagamore Hill estate. He also notes a beech tree was damaged by the fall.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Sagamore
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Colone Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
Painter climbs tree in Ramapo hills after delirium tremens episode
Edgar Tordoff, a painter from Nyack New York, spent twenty hours atop a tree in the Ramapo mountains. Found exhausted by hunters and Letchworth police, he was strapped in a straitjacket after delirium tremens and sent to Viola almshouse. He may die.
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Nyack
N. Y
Edgar Tordoff
Viola
Ramapo
Ladentown
Letchworth
Tordoff
Mines on Trial: Supreme Court Views Miniature Plant
In Washington the Supreme Court observed a live miniature mining plant in operation as part of a patent case. Dynamos motors and electrical apparatus whirred in the chamber to show how the mining device functions, a demonstration unique in court history amid a patent validity dispute.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Washington
Supreme Court Chamber
Wenatchee Park Land and Irrigation Co Sued
Commercial Bank and Trust sues Wenatchee Park Land and Irrigation over 1200 acres north of Leavenworth. Bank forecloses a mortgage on irrigated lands once bought from Lamb Davis Lumber. A 10 to 20 day extension is granted to secure a new loan amid valley financial troubles.
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Commercial Bank and Trust Co
Wenatchee
Lamb-Davis Lumber Co
Commercial Bank & Trust Company
Wenatchee Park Land & Irrigation Company
Superior Court
Wenatchee World
Leavenworth
Lamb Davis Lumber Company
Church Services Schedule With Pastor Moore
Sunday School begins at 10 a m followed by the 11 o clock sermon Epworth League meets at 6 30 p m and a second preaching service at 7 30 p m A prayer meeting is held Thursday at 7 30 p m The pastor F L Moore invites all to attend any or all services.
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Epworth League
F. L. Moore
St Josephs Church Schedule and Tacoma Shipyard Move
St Josephs Church holds Mass nine oclock on the first third and fifth Sundays with 730 evening devotions on the second and fourth Sundays and weekday Mass at eight. Children attend religious instruction at two on Saturdays. Tacoma sees the fourth shipyard in months with 1.5 million capital to build a large yard and drydock, employing about 2000 men on 100 acres. Port Angeles gains a million dollar paper mill project.
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Tacoma
Timber Sale Notice on Wenatchee School Lands
Notice announces public auction of timber on described school lands in Chelan county Washington on January 2 1917 from ten AM to four PM at the county courthouse in Wenatchee. Describes four timber tracts with acreages and appraised values and states sale at not less than appraised value by Board of State Land Commissioners. CLARK V SAVIDGE Commissioner of Public Lands.
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County Court House
City of
Wenatchee
Chelan
State of Washington
Board of State Land Commissioners
W.M
Township
W. M
Commissioner of Public Lands
State of
Washington
Said
Clark V. Savidge
Public Lands
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Officee—Commercial Bt
Echo Office
Leavenworth, Wash
G. W. Boxley
DR. J. Stillson Judah
Leavenworth Hospital
Ofice
Attorneys AT Law
A. Adams
Columbia Valley Bank Bldg
Wenatehee, Wash
Fred Kemp
Halbert Block
Geo. G. Hannan
Wenatchee, Wash
Crontard & Grouard Lawyers
B. J. Williams
A N.corbin
Wiliams & Corbin
Lewis J. Nelson
Elliott Block
Fox Lawyer
Eight Fi
Weeler's
John Re.porter
Attorney At Law Notary Public
Columbia Valley Bank
Wenatchee Wash
Knights of
Pythias
Masonic Hall
Harry Warner
C.C
A.R. Brown
Zarthan Lodge No
Masonic Temple
E. Mohler
A. G. McKeown
Wham
Kansas
Indiana
Atlantic
Wenatchee Park Land & Irrigation CO
St. Joseph’s Church
Port Angeles
A.J. Tower CO
Boston
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Toggery
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Mallory
Santa Claus
Wenatchee Milling Co
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