Spokane Gossip and Politics Blend in Quirky Year Start
A collage of city life notes from Spokane includes Prohibition debates and liquor ban talk, Erikson carfare critique, and comedian jests. Politically, Cordell Hull heads to Spokane while local Democrats face reception challenges. The Goethals report backs the Columbia Basin project as a six year effort demanding state unity and swift action.
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Cordell Hull
Democratic Party
Spokane
Seattle
Reclamation Plan Is Held Practicable
Gen. George W. Goethals endorses the Columbia basin project as feasible both engineeringly and economically. He favors the Pend Oreille gravity plan costing 145.56 per acre, argues it irrigates 1,753,000 acres directly and adds tens of thousands more via pumping lifts, and urges federal funding while warning against farmer exploitation.
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Goethals
Columbia Basin
Pend Oreille
Olympia
Panama Canal
Alaska
George W. Goethals
Washington State
Goethala
Washington
United States
Message About Death Reaches Western Union for Leland
A terse note indicates that the Western Union main office is holding a telegram related to the death of Jack Leland and awaiting delivery. The fragment implies a family tragedy and official notification pending to the recipient.
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Jack Leland
Leland
Western Union Main Office
Arctic Plane on Way to Cleveland Flight
Capt Heald Amundsen, famed polar explorer, departed this morning in an all metal monoplane on the first leg of a transcontinental flight. The route listed includes Cleveland Chicago Omaha Cheyenne Salt Lake Reno and Sacramento on toward the Pacific.
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New York
Heald Amundsen
Cleveland
Eee
Chicago
Omaha
Cheyenne
Salt Lake
Reno
Sacramento
Smaller Navy Plan Assailed by Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt denounces the house appropriations committee naval bill as crippling the U S Navy. He cites a 67 000 man limit versus England 104 000 and Japan 68 000, warns ships without crews are useless, and urges sustaining the treaty based ratio to maintain strength and peace.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Seattle Star
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
Great Britain
United States
Japan
England
Department
Arbor Day Observances Marked In Forest Protection Week
President Harding designates April 16 to 22 as Forest Protection Week and sets April 22 for Arbor Day golden celebration, signaling national emphasis on tree preservation and forestry efforts.
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Harding
Girl Chorister Dies From Shot Fired in Church
Miss Bertha Brackett, 34 caliber bullet wound, fired in the First Baptist Church choir at Harvard and Senecast, died from chest injuries after being taken to Minor hospital. She reportedly had a nervous history and appeared deranged before the act amid a morning of church services.
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Bertha Brackett
First Baptist Church
Harvard Ave
Senecast
Miss Brackett
Sallie Shelton
Gaasdaldeers’ Club
Joseph B. Harrison
University of Washington
Lth
Ave
N. E
Mies Shelton
Mrs. Harrison
Mie Brackett
Ambrose M. Bailey
Handel
Alfred Boardman
W. Galer St
Dorothy Dimmock
A. H. Dimmock
Alfred H. Brackett
N. Broadway
Bailey
Thomas
Miss Hrackett
Piano Arrives at Jail as Inmates Celebrate Gift
A piano was delivered to the county jail on Saturday night, lifted to the women's quarters where 12 inmates cheered. The prisoners, who sought music to brighten hours, praised the Count and Countess du Barry and promised to care for the prize. They sent a grateful letter to The Star expressing joy and blessings.
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Spokane
George du Barry
Just & Count du Barry
du =s Barry
Prize for best 100word letters on ads in The Star
The Star announces cash prizes for letters describing a satisfactory ad transaction. First prize $15, second $5, and five letters $1 each. Period April 1 to 15. entries due April 20. Send to Ad-Reading Pays Editor Seattle Star.
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Star
Seattle Star
The Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady
A dramatic sketch contrasts Flossie O Mera a Seattle slum girl and Bertha Brackett a cultured UW alumna. Both are destabilized by love and a quarrel with Muggsy Flynn ending in tragedy as each woman kills herself.
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Judy O'Grady
Flossie O'Mara
Flossie
Gordon
Muggsy
Flynn
Bertha Brackett
University of Washington
Muggesy Flynn
Bertha
Judge McClintic bars further UMWA acts in coal strike
Federal Judge McClintic issues a drastic injunction in Charleston West Virginia halting further United Mine Workers actions amid the coal strike. The order, tied to a Borderland case filed last October, aims to maintain order in a nonunion field as tent colonies in Mingo County house striking miners and their families after company ejectments.
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McClintick
United Mine Workers of America
Charleston
Federal District of Indiana
McClintic
Mingo
Plans to End Coal Strike in Indianapolis
Attorney General Harry M. Terry moved into the center of national efforts to end the coal strike. He prepared to quash government charges against 226 coal mine operators and union officials awaiting a federal grand jury in Sherman. Prosecutions delayed as operators and union officers fought removal to Judge A. B. Son’s court.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Harry M. Terry
Indiana
A. B. Son
CANDIDATES QUERIED ON UTILITIES SELF-SUPPORT
Voters Information League canvassed city caual candidates at the 301 Haller building on whether utilities should be self supporting. Results show nine answers with varied stances. George W Parker said not necessarily while several others expressed conditional yes or partial support.
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Caual
Voters’ Information League
Haller Building
William Hickman Moore
T. Harry Bolton
G. H. Barbour
George W. Parker
Alexander J. Allen
D. Hayden
M. G. Johanson
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Conan Doyle
Erickson
the Star
Lundy
Jersey City Journal
Steve Chadwick
City Streets Department
Steam Rolier
Andrew Carnegie
New York University
Li'l Gee Gee
Ty Cobb
Don Vickers
Crystal Swimming
Second Ave
Arctic
Amundsen
Roosevelt
Hal Armstrong
Was
The
Lady
By Robert B. Bermann
Rudyard Kipling
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