Welcome for 521 Wounded Yanks at Seattle Station
A large Seattle crowd greets 521 wounded veterans arriving from Camp Merritt aboard a Great Northern train. Relatives, friends, and Red Cross volunteers provide coffee doughnuts and sweets while officers praise orderly conduct, then the men parade to cars for Camp Lewis.
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Great
W Northern Railway
Seattle
Red Cross
B. E
13Th Infantry
Staat
Soldiers and Sailors’ Welcome Committee
Masonic Temple
Camp Lewis
E. B. Johnson
Hoboken
Camp Merritt
Debs Heads to Cleveland for 10 Year Prison Sentence
Eugene V. Debs prepares to surrender to federal authorities in Cleveland to begin a 10 year term for violating the espionage act after a Canton Ohio speech. He speaks of his wife staying behind and reflects on his long, stormy career with calm resolve as socialists plan a May Day demonstration.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Eugene V. Debs
Cleveland
Canton
Ohio
Debs
Chicago
Archangel
Fifth Congressional District
Peace prospects hover as talks on postwar treaty intensify
Paris dispatch reports optimism that a German war peace treaty may be ready by May with key issues resolved. The League of Nations covenant blends into the treaty with a planned Saar governance plan and plebiscite. the Monroe doctrine is revised but not invalidated. President Wilson delivers a dramatic late night Monroe doctrine defense and argues the league aims to erase global hate.
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Fred
Ferguson
United Press Staff
Paris
Warth Valley
Ind Dezig
League of Nations
Saar
League
France
Europe
N As
Free Sagan
Roe
Geneva
League of Tions
Paul Hyman
Belgium
Brussels
Wilson
Pueblo Men Shot Down by Bandits
A Western manhunt is under way in the Greenhorn mountains southwest of Pueblo for two unknown murderers who killed E. G. Parks and William Hunter on Rye road yesterday. About six cowpunchers pursue the pair who fled in a motor car abandoned in the foothills as other riders alerted Pueblo police. Hunter, head of the Arkansas Valley Cart association, was teaching Parks to drive when attacked. The crime sparked talk of possible lynching if the killers are caught.
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Pueblo
Col
United Press
Greenhorn Mountains
E. G. Parks
William Hunter
Rye Road
Hunter
Arkansas Valley Cart Association
Parks
Parka
Soldier and mother photo attempt met with refusal
A soldier and his mother faced resistance as a photographer tried to take a picture. The man refused to pose, shouting instruction to stop and prompting tension during the attempted shot.
Seattle Yankee Wins 2 Medals in parade
First Lieut. C. H. Fraser of the 44th Infantry will receive two French Croix de Guerre decorations for bravery at Fort Lawton Monday at 4 PM. Maj. Halloran will present the medals as troops review. Fraser earned the honors at Soissons and Belleau Wood.
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C. HM. Fraser
44Th Infantry
Fort Lawton
GO. M. Halloran
Fraser
Soissons
Belleau Wood
Lieut
Halleraf
France
Soissong
City Chamber invited private experts for publicity aid
Advertising agency experts and engravers representing private concerns offered Friday night to assist the Chamber of Commerce publicity department in city improvement efforts. The offer was made during a meeting in the Masonic club rooms.
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Chamber of Commerce Publicity Department
Masonic Club
Packer Adopts French War Orphan Maurice in Seattle
Private M E Packer of Seattle brought home Maurice a 12 year old French orphan adopted as the mascot of his company. The boy, with three gold chevrons for 18 months service in the war zone, arrived with a small Belgian terrier named Mabel and faced immigration scrutiny before being cleared. Packer plans summer peace time in Seattle then Woodland California in fall to join his father’s home.
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Ans
Seattle
Maurice “Packer
Maurice
M. E. Packer
Samnur
Packer
Cedar Apartments
Mabel
Detroit Troops Staged Mutiny With Bolshevik Provocation
Washington reports that a Detroit led infantry company in Northern Russia mutinied, influenced by Bolshevik propaganda. General March said Archangel dispatch notes questions raised by soldiers mirrored Bolshevik leaflets. Rail link to Murmansk completed via the Onda bridge ensures steady Allied supplies and icebreakers aid incoming ships.
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Raymond Clapper
United Press
Washington
Russia
March
339Th Infantry
Archangel
Detroit
Onda Bridge
Murmansk
Mayor Hanson May Return Here Soon
Mayor Ole Hanson will soon be back from a health tour in the South. Telegrams to this effect have been received by his family here as he travelled by car from Los Angeles toward San Francisco Saturday.
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Ole Hanson
South
Mayor Hanson
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Crisis in Northern Russia Dims as Snows Melt
Archangel dispatch reports snow melt clears paths for reinforcements while the Bolshevik army on the Archangel front grows to 36,000. Churchill at the Aldwych Club rejects any negotiation with the Russian Soviet government and promises Allied relief with full authority.
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London
Rushas
Archangel
Churchill
Aldwych Club
Great Britain
England
Russia
Seattle Soldier Returns with Spiked Hats
C L Bagshaw of 1616 Broadway, a former Broadway high student, arrived back Saturday from overseas. He was wounded at Cantigny and recalls France as the bank, noting Germans discarded helmets to gain speed at the armistice. He brought back spiked headgear to support his tale.
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Weir
Manning
Chateau-Thierry
Soissons
Champagne
St. Aignan
France
George Washington
Susan Manning
Eighth Ave
Seattle
C. L. Bagshaw
Broadway
Cantigny
Bagshaw
Gloomy Prospects Foretold By Weather Man
The weatherman warns of rain tonight and on Sunday with moderate northerly winds after a promising Saturday morning. Outdoor plans for an outing or sport may be affected as the forecast shifts to unsettled conditions.
Germany to appeal to mankind if soviet peace dictated
A Weimar dispatch reports the national assembly adopted a resolution stating that if a soviet peace were dictated Germany will address an eleventh hour appeal to all mankind. The note reflects cautious response to foreign dictates and the ongoing postwar diplomacy.
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Copenhagen
Weimar
National Assembly
Germany
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Moist
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Butte
Spokane
Dubuqué, In
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Somme
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St. Mihiel
Argonne
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346Th Field Artillery
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Pullmann
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Grandview
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Portland
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Fairbanks
Lincoln High
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12Th Ave
United States Custom House
Earl
Cotton
Jease Cotton
Marshfield
Ore
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305Th Infantry
77Th
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Argonne Woods
Earl Cotton
New York
Seyond Washington Infantry
Ninth Infantry
Lucian Johnson
J. A. Johnson
21St Ave
Jimmie” Manning
Frank Gates
Soldier’ and Sailors
Harvey J. Moss
George R. Brewer
Lane
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W. P. Patterson
Susae Manning
James Manning
Monroe
Kiss
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Grisis
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