Berlin Installs Communal Kitchens For War Time Feeding
The food dictator Adolph von Batocki directs Berlin’s communal kitchens with five to six committees to serve hot midday dinners and suppers at minimum charge. The war nutrition office controls all food and materials, ending private profit in meat bread milk and butter while expanding to soldiers and civilians nationwide. Local shopkeepers faced raids and prosecutions for adulteration and price tricks, including a butcher and a baker, as officials move to curb food speculation and regulate expenditure, especially by young women in higher paid jobs.
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Berlin
Germany
Adolph von Batocki
Batocki
Empire
War
War Nutrition Office
Klausmann
Hoheluft- Chausee
Bruschwitz
East Prussia
Agricultural Chamber of
House of Lords
Father Receives Permission for Motor Driven Baby Carriage
Olympia reports I M Howell secretary of state approved transferring a motor attachment from a bicycle license to a baby carriage, requested by a Vancouver father who bought the carriage when twins were born. The father asked if a new license was needed, and the secretary said the transfer is allowed.
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Olympia
Wash
Vancouver
I. M. Howell
Secretary of State
Robbed by Bandits but He Weds During Auto Trip
Harold Fitzgerald a Seattle lumber dealer set out to Yosemite by car and met two highwaymen who robbed him of a rifle and 40 dollars near Kalama Washington. He later married Miss Jeannette Draper in a whirlwind Salem affair and adopted a four year old girl named Mabel Hines riding with the couple on their journey back toward Live Oak California.
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Live Oak
Cal
Seattle
Yosemite Valley
Harold Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Kalama
Wash
Salem
Jeannette Draper
John Draper
Mabel Hines
Souvenir Campaign at New York Marriage Bureau
New York suffragists distributed small American flags suffrage buttons and wedding cake boxes tied with suffrage ribbon to brides at the marriage license bureau. The effort coincided with soldiers being called to camp and urged brides to join the suffrage movement, aided by Chief Scully who allowed yellow flowers to decorate the chapel.
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New York
New York City
Scully
Riding a Fish to Death Sparks Wisconsin Ruling
In Appleton Hiram Beveridge killed a six foot sturgeon after riding it to shallow water. State game wardens ruled the act unlawful, citing preservation rules. Beveridge, injured in the struggle, supplied seventy pounds of fish and a landmark for future enforcement. In Galton Sylvester Shade, guilty of brass theft, was sentenced to three years in the workhouse and a $50 fine but the sentence was remitted if he attends church weekly.
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Appleton
Wis
Hiram Beveridge
Fox River
Hiram
John Street
Galton
Biehl
Sylvester Shade
Shade
Model Teacher Traits Highlighted by Oakland Principal
Oakland Technical High School Principal P M Fisher outlines the ideal modern instructor. He says attributes include attractiveness poise and common sense plus moral and physical fitness. The teacher should be wholesome pleasant to look at with a tuneful voice and firm but gentle discipline.
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Oakland
Cal
P. M. Fisher
Oakland Technical High School
Fisher
Venus
Helen of Troy
Gaby Des Lys
Mme. de Stael
Fortune Awaits Two Girls in Illinois Widower Plan
An Illinois free employment office reports a man worth $70 000 willing to leave his fortune to two girls one a domestic and the other a clerk if found. He seeks a Swedish or German descent houseworker and a store clerk in a town 260 miles from Chicago. They would earn $2 weekly plus board and lodging while he and his wife live.
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Chicago
Illinois Free Employment Office
DROWNS IN SET TUB IN NEBRASKA?
Ricard Sederval twenty seven year old, ill with alcoholic gastritis, drowned in set tubs in his brother 39 s Linwood street cellar. He lay across tubs and held his head under water until death, found by sister in law fifteen minutes later after he returned home and housed horses.
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New Britain
Conn
Ricard Sederval
Linwood Street
Sederval
Why Women Should Propose Wins ISU Address Cup
Miss Tara A. Hawk of Iowa State College, the campus’s sole woman blacksmithing student, won the faculty cup for an extemporaneous address on Why Women Should Propose. She argues three reasons physical spiritual and moral and urges women to take initiative in forming homes and choosing partners.
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Ames
Tara A. Hawk
Iowa State College
Miss Hawk
Big Catch of Sharks as Apollo Sails into Port
Captain Thomas Thomassen and his crew aboard the Norwegian bark Apollo, docked with manganese ore from Rio Janeiro, report catching nineteen sharks including a largest of eleven feet and shooting a sea turtle near the vessel on June 10. Sharks fought over galley refuse. five men hoisted each shark to the deck before killing it.
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Baltimore
Thomas Thomassen
Apollo
Rio Janeiro
Thomassen
Kiss on the Street Costs Man Three Fifty
In Munhall Terrace Pittsburgh Raymond Watkins twenty from Homeville and friends bet him a dollar he would kiss the first girl that passed Estelle Stanton an eighteen year old resident of Munhall Terrace walked by Watkins kissed her on the cheek and collected the dollar. A disorderly conduct charge was filed against him, he paid four fifty in costs and was freed.
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Pittsburgh
Raymond Watkins
Homeville
Munhall Terrace
Watkins
Estelle Stanton
Askin Campaign Secretary of State Aide Will Tour With Violin
William C. Askin, Salem banker, seeks the Republican nomination for Missouri secretary of state. His daughter Miss Bernice Wolcott Askin returns from New York to join his campaign with a violin, promising to entertain voters and accompany him on the road.
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St. Louis
William C. Askin
Salem
Bernice Wolcott Askin
New York
Missouri
Askin
Volcanic Eruption Lights Up Hawaii Night
Maunaloa on Hawaii's Big Island erupted again after a May outbreak. A lava flow at 7000 feet traveled southwest about a mile per hour, split into two channels, and lit the landscape so brightly that papers could be read from many miles away. The lava path mirrors the last eruption about nine years ago, with the sea roughly fifty miles away and little valuable property in between.
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Honolulu
Maunaloa
Man Survives Seven-Story Fall In San Francisco
Bryant J. O'Connor a metal worker fell seven stories from a scaffold on a San Francisco office building and rose to walk away before spectators restrained him. He was taken to an emergency hospital where doctors found only minor bruises and scratches with no broken bones.
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San Francisco
Bryant J. O'Connor
O'Connor
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