Harmony and Veto Sparks Rift in Washington Legislature
Governor Lister vetoed three bills including a $10,000 legislative expense item, provoking anger and talk of a special session. The clash widens as budget fights lag and appropriations for labor, mining, and state offices face cuts while taxes may rise.
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Olympia
Lister
Senate
House
Long Walt
State Board of Medical Examiners
Fish Commission
Public Service Commission
Mark B. Reed
Industrial Insurance Department
Industrial Insurance Commission
Chase
Senate Committee
State Labor Bureau
Labor Department
State Board of Finance
Butler to dig for Croesus treasure in Sardis site
Professor Howard Butler of Princeton plans a field expedition to Asia Minor to locate Croesus wealth buried after the Sardis quake. His 1909 dig yielded bronze statues, and he proceeds after receiving a message that earlier excavations remained unharmed amid war operations.
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Peekskill
N. Y
Croesus
Lydia
Howard Butler
Department of Art and Archaeology
Princeton University
Asia Minor
Butler
Sardis
Croton Falls
George Horton
Smyrna
Professor Butler
Secretaries of War from Knox to Sherman
The piece traces the lineage of U S secretaries of war from Henry Knox born in Boston in 1750 through Timothy Pickering James McHenry Samuel Dexter Henry Dearborn and successors. It notes their varied backgrounds including lawyers physicians and military men and cites A S Grant and William T Sherman as notable recent military holders.
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United States
Henry Knox
Boston
Knox
Washington
Timothy Pickering
James McHenry
Samuel Dexter
Henry Dearborn
Jefferson
William Eustis
Madison
John Armstrong
James Monroe
William H. Crawford
War Department
A. 8. Grant
William T. Sherman
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Topsy Turvy Works and the Labrador Larch
The article notes literature oddities such as The Idylls of the King ending where it began and David Harum having opening chapters written after the main tale to introduce key characters. It then describes Labrador's larch trees, a stunted nine inch specimen aged thirty two years with a three eighths inch trunk, explaining harsh cold and short summers.
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Tennyson
Arthur
David Harum
Pearson's Weekly
Labrador
Alaska
Slogan Claim For Records Outlasting Hardwood Floors
A manufacturer seeks a durable slogan for phonograph records. The ad man puffs a cigarette, ponders briefly, and proposes a line promising that their dance records outlast the finest hardwood floors ever built.
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New York World
Counting Heads Across Ages and Civilizations
A survey of ancient censuses from Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Israel shows how governments counted people by wealth, status, and age. The piece notes Solon Athens divisions, Servius Tullius in Rome, Moses’s census, and a biblical tally of 603 550 fighting men, closing with news of seven garages priced at 150 000 dollars announced in Spokane for 1917.
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China
Japan
Athens
Servius Tullius
Rome
Campus Martius
Moses
Israel
Thou
Aaron
Spokane
Order to Show Cause for William Crawford Estate Distribution
In Chelan County Washington the Superior Court orders all interested parties to appear March 21 1917 at Wenatchee court to show cause why the residue of the estate of William Crawford deceased should not be distributed as petitioned. A copy of the order will be published weekly for four weeks in Leavenworth Echo. Court Commissioner W J McCoy signs and seals the document.
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State of Washington
Chelan County
William Crawford
Vernon L. Garner
Wenatchee
Washington
Leavenworth
Chelan
A.D
W.J. McCoy
Superior Court
Martin P. Spencer
William A. Grimslaw
Notice to Creditors No 899 Estate of Samuel G Warner
Notice is given that letters of administration were granted February 24 1917 by the Superior Court. All claims must be presented with vouchers to the administratrix Alice E Warner Wenatchee Washington within one year from March 2 1917. Firet pub March 2 fifth pub March 80.
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Superior Court
State of Washington
Chelan County
Samuel G. Warner
A.N. Corbin
Wenatchee
Washington
A. D
A. D. Wiz
Alice E. Warner
Firet Pub
Department of the Interior
U. & Land Office
Waterville
Wash
George ID. Mahar
Merritt
Willamette Meridian
Ludington
United States
Ner
Washangeee
Laimant
Jack Murphy
H. B. Smith
Frank Black
Alonzo Black
Ben Spear
Sagiaton
Fifth Avenue the Joyous
Harper's Magazine praises Fifth Avenue in New York as the epitome of urban joie de vivre. The piece highlights daylight on the avenue, climate, fashionable life, and clean park scenes as signs of the city’s vitality and pleasure while noting how dissipation affects virtue.
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Broadway
Fifth Avenue
New York
Harper’s Magazine
Cause of the Trouble Quote Exchange
A short humorous exchange describes a doctor asking about heart irregularity and a patient joking about paying the bill. The wit lies in the patient’s quip about reaching for his pocket to pay the bill, lightening the mood.
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Puck
When He Remembers
Quote from Detroit Free Press about a boy named Willie who says fighting is wrong but adds he fights if he believes he cannot be beaten. The exchange frames a streetwise view on violence and wrongness in self defense.
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Willie
Detroit Free Press
Notable Quotes From The Dark Age Reflections
The Detroit Free Press quotes ponder who lived long ago and who claimed two could live as cheaply as one. Goethe notes that a firm and resolute will shapes the world to itself.
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Detroit Free Press
Goethe
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King County
Appropriations Committees
OUR Secretaries OF War
Wilderness
Sparkie and
Vivacity
Nolan
Priace
Front Street
Leavenworth Undertaking Co
Amanda C. Towne
Great Northern Lumber Co
Leavenworth, Wash
Wenatchee Milling Co
Wenatchee, Wash
Harrington
Leavenworth Mercantile Co
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