Oregon Public Service Board delays rate petitions ruling
In Albany and across Oregon, Chairman Fred Aues announced a statement on rate petitions from the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. The board has ten days to form a ruling with the public service commission. The notice follows weeks of advance copies from Portland and 20 other communities.
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Animal Kindness Weick Next on List
A brief item highlights focus on kindness to animals. The column notes a week devoted to humane acts across states and communities, praising efforts to promote compassionate treatment of animals and character through humane deeds.
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Weick
Attacks Ex-Worker After Discharge in Office Loot A Desk
McDonald 24 looted a desk in the office of W. B. Robison a real estate operator at 808 Third Ave. Robison held him at gunpoint until police arrived. McDonald was discharged Thursday for intoxication and allegedly struck Robison with a knife during the confrontation.
Auto Hits Cable Casualty In Drunken Crash
One bottle of whisky lay on the pavement after an auto driven by Fred W. Carter collided with a Yesterway cable at 12th Ave on Thursday night. Carter and Don Watson received minor injuries when the car overturned. Carter was charged with driving while drunk and Watson with being drunk.
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Yesterway
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Disabled Vets Benefit Show At Metropolitan Theater
A benefit concert at the Metropolitan Theatre features disabled veterans performing in a hospital scene with Merle Denny and other acts. Miller and Rigo crossfire artists and baritone Morris Freedman join the bill, with proceeds to aid wounded soldiers in nearby hospitals. Tickets go on sale at the Metropolitan box office.
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Harry Whitney Treat
George Hood
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Joseph Blethon
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A. Hurwitz
Maurice Thompson
Wireless Telephone to Fire Laddies
London fire department plans to install wireless telephones to be used at fires. Fire fighters can talk to stations while at the scene of a fire.
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London
London Fire Department
The McFadden jewels disappear from Philadelphia mansion
Mystery surrounds the jewels missing from Mrs. McFadden's suite at George H. McFadden's Villa Nova mansion. Jewelry valued in the thousands vanished from a dressing table after a night of entertaining. Detectives suspect a second story entry but no fingerprints or scratches were found.
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McFadden
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Mre. McFadden
Lems
Letter Returned After 50 Years in Berlin History
A Berlin bookseller sent a letter to a Liverpool relative on August 38, 1871. The writer died without acknowledgment, and the letter, stamped unknown, was only returned fifty years later by postal authorities, marking a historic delay.
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Liverpool
Woman Police Chief Nabbed Two Armed Bandits
Peneton Missouri April Mrs Lis zie Overturff Buckner chief of police led a posse against four armed bandits who held up a craps game netting 700 and wounded bystander John Hall in the left arm. Two bandits escaped. two hid in a field and were disarmed. One named Arthur Gray of Christopher the other announced Blickey.
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Liszie Overturff
Buckner
Here
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Overturff
Benefit at Metropolitan Theatre For Washington Children's Home
A Wednesday benefit program at the Metropolitan Theatre features movies and music to raise funds for the Washington Children's Home in Ravenna Heights. The Musicians' Association provides an orchestra, with theatre use donated. The home has placed more than 3,700 children in adoption over 25 years. the receiving home is Ravenna Heights, downtown office at 616 Thompson Building.
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Washington Childrens’ Home
Musicians’ Association
Washington Children's Home
Ravenna Heights
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Pedestrians Struck by Autos in Seattle Area
1921 record notes Hialr 9 fatally injured by F. Kilbourne's Cascade Laundry auto at Green Lakeway and N 65th. He died at Lakeside Hospital after tying a kite. Police Lieut Harry G. O’Dirien suffered a injured leg when struck while directing traffic at Fourth Ave and Union.
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Cascade Laundry
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400000 Miles to Postman's Credit
London April 6. Retired post man Hela Walter Boulsover with over 40 years of service walked and delivered mail for more than 400000 miles. This record adds to long distance feats by postal workers and highlights dedication in public service.
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London
Hela Walter Boulsover
Widows Get Their Cash Then Marry in Montana
In Helena on April the state paid 900 widows a lump sum under the workmen's compensation law and 700 of them married within a year. Fewer than 20 of 490 recipients of weekly installments have married.
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Helena
Mont
Couple marks 60 years in same Allentown home
In Allentown Pennsylvania Andrew Keck 23 and Maria Barbara Gangewere 21 married 70 years ago and have resided in the same house since 1861. The couple celebrated their six decade milestone at their longtime residence.
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Allentown
Andrew
Keck
Maria Barbara Gangewere
Woman Declines $100,000 Inheritance After Loss
Milwaukee April 8. Mrs. Clara Powers aged 60 an inmate of an asylum has long studied stock market news predicting wealth. After her brother’s death she inherited $100,000 but she refused the money.
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Milwaukee
Clara Powers
Eight Years in Love Spell Leads to Cal Civil Wedding
In Replands California a bride Ruth Moore a choir soloist marries Captain H Stuart of Ft Sill Oklahoma after an eight year courtship fueled by a psychic sweetheart who claimed wireless control. The bride swallowed a poisonous solution amid the saga and the couple wed despite medical concerns.
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Ruth Moore
H. Stuart
Ft. #il
Oklahoma
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