State Legislature Review Highlights Constitutional Convention Push
The legislature moves toward a 1918 public vote on a constitutional convention with bills for a nonpartisan blanket ballot and increased public service oversight. Other measures include a state farm loan board, eminent domain reform, and a large highway budget request.
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Public Service
Farm Loan Board
Olympia
House
Senate
Washington State College
State University
State College
Farmers’ School
Cow
King County
Senate Educational Institution
Nelson
King
Christensen
Public Service Commission
Commission
Hastings
Zednick
Iverson
Kitsap
State Farm Loan Board
Brown
Whatcom
Wray
Department
Senate Chamber
State House
Pacific Highway
Chehalis
Vancouver
State Highway Commission
Thurston
Clallam
Mud Bay
Elma
Lake Quinault
la Grande
Park Junction
Nemah
Ocean Beach
Waterville
Creston
The
Agricultural Commission
Americans Rebuild First Village in France Vitrimont
The village of Vitrimont in France begins reconstruction after wartime destruction with the cornerstone laid by Ambassador William Graves Sharp. Mrs. William H. Crocker funds the project, Miss Daisy Polk supervises, and old men and youths unfit for military service perform construction work. The event drew local officials and soldiers on leave, who praised American aid and the plan to keep the money within the community.
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Vitrimont
France
Ambassador Sharp
Crocker
Gerbeviller
William Graves Sharp
William H. Crocker
San Francisco
Daisy Polk
Miss Polk
Leon Pobe
M. Mirman
Nancy
Meurthe-et-Moselle
Sharp
New Bell Gift for Columbia Commencement
Columbia University will unveil a new 2000 pound bell as the class of 1893 gift at the 1918 commencement. The bell, to be mounted over St. Pauls chapel portico, will strike the hours and serve as the chapel bell, replacing the old locomotive bell used for chapel time.
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New York
Columbia
Columbia College
Madison Avenue
Fortyninth Street
St. Paul's Chapel
Samson’s Modern Counterpart Mysteriously Steals City Valves
In New York a modern Samson has carried off massive bronze valves from beneath Cooper Square. Each valve weighs 500 pounds and serves only water gate purposes, leaving detectives puzzled over the theft.
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Samson
New York
Gaza
Cooper Square
Detective Bureau
Harvard Students Cut Vices and Reading Outlays
Harvard Union annual figures show a drop in minor vices among students with fewer cigarettes and cigars smoked and less billiards and pool. Reading expenditure also slipped from 1325 dollars in 1915 to 1202 dollars in 1916.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Harvard Union
McCalls Monthly Magazine and The Echo Adverts
Recognized as the best all round Woman's Magazine published with latest fashions needlework household recipes and short stories. One continued story and several features offered with a yearly subscription for The Echo at $1.50.
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McCall's Monthly
The
Echo
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J. Franklin Bell
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National Guard
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