State Legislature Reviews Work and Proposed Short Ballot
The 1917 session nears midcourse with 710 bills introduced this session as lawmakers push short ballot reforms and bone-dry measures. First aid funding, military training in schools, coal mining codes, and a state powder factory are among key actions advancing through both chambers.
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Lister
House
Public Service Commission
Mora
Clallam and
Jefferson
Senate
Halsey
Cox
Walla Walla
Hutchinson
Washington State Bankers’ Association
State Examiner
W. E. Hanson
Seattle
Army manpower estimates under 1916 emergency rules
New York reporting 4 778 050 fit for military service among men aged 18 to 45. The committee estimates 10 535 940 physically fit after sickness and defects deductions, but only 4 778 050, about 22 7 percent, would be available after considering marital status and other factors.
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New York
Committee On National Defense
United States
Census Bureau
Willard Straight
Cleveland H. Dodge
William D. Dykman
Francis G. Landon
John Mitchell
George W. Perkins
Henry L. Stimson
Alfred B. Smith
Alexander M. Whiteson
Red seat proposal sparks Albany Assembly joke
Socialist Assemblyman J I Whitehorn of Brooklyn proposes painting seat 149 red to honor past occupant Shiplacoff and joked about reserving it for future Socialists. He also criticizes acoustics delays and suggests ear trumpets for each assemblyman at state expense.
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Albany
N. Y
J. I. Whitehorn
Brooklyn
Assembly
Shiplacoff
Public Buildings Commission
Goose's Crop Held $10.27 in a Holiday Gift
St. Louis reports John E. P. Ernst killed a gift goose found with a saved amount in its crop. Inside the goose were a half dollar, twenty six quarters, twenty six dimes, thirteen nickels and two pennies totaling $10.27. The goose was a Christmas bonus from grocery store employees where Ernst is chief clerk. He notes no refund as the gift includes the ballast.
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St. Louis
John E. P. Ernst
Ernst
Aeroplanes Called Quickest Submarine Antidote
Rear Admiral Peary as head of the National Aerial Coast Patrol Commission argues the wartime need for rapid mobilization of aviators and expansion of air power. He declares aeroplanes speed and range exceed destroyers, can detect subs, and boost coast defense dramatically with 1000 hydroaeroplanes along the Atlantic.
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Washington
Peary
National Aerial Coast Patrol Commission
Germany
Congress
Atlantic
Crowd psychology lecture veers at Chicago Dental banquet
Dr. George Edgar Vincent, president of the University of Minnesota and future Rockefeler foundation head, spoke on crowd psychology to 500 in Chicago. He offered epigrams on minds and bore, noting the hard headed resist drilling ideas when not watched.
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Chicago
George Edgar Vincent
University of Minnesota
Rockefeller Foundation
Chicago Dental Society
Vincent
PONDER FIRST RECRUIT
In Forsyth Georgia Mary Rudibil the Forsyth postmistress earned the first five dollar reward for securing a recruit for the United States Marine Corps. Richard Lewis Ponder of Forsyth was enlisted, First Sergeant Ernest H Galway of the local recruiting station announced.
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Atlanta
Joan of Arc
United States Marine Corps
Soldiers of the Sea
Mary Rudibil
Forsyth
Richard Lewis Ponder
Ernest H. Galway
Marine Corps
Galway
SAWS WOOD AT NINETY TWO IN SPARKILL
Garrett Iseman aged ninety two finished sawing and splitting his winter wood behind his house in Sparkill Rockland County then planned to fish for pickerel while ice lasts. He worked on the Erie railroad’s first train and served as an engineer there for forty years, retiring over thirty years ago.
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New York
Garrett Iseman
Sparkill
Rockland County
Iseman
Erie Railroad
Weds His Stepmother in Gallipolis Harrison Tale
Willard Houser married his stepmother Mrs Stella Houser in Chapman Jackson county near Gallipolis. The match makes him stepfather to his wife’s three children and half brother to them as well. Houser’s father died three months ago.
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Gallipolis, O
Willard Houser
Stella Houser
M Houser
Houser
Chapman
Jackson County
Here
Willard
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Pro-Rata
State Penitentiary
State Board of Control
Capitol
State Capitol Committee
Murry
Pend Oreille
State Bureau of Supervision
Defense Council
Dr. Vincent
Ponder
Sioux City
Thos Nolan
Leavenworth Undertaking Co
Amanda C. Towne
Great Northern Lumber Go
Leavenworth, Wash
Picture Makers A
LJ Theatres
Crescent
Crescent Crean Coffee
Tei
Ream
Crescent Manufacturing Company
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