No decision on quarantine yet
Counsel from Corporation Meter and City Attorney Kennedy returned from Olympia after arguing before the supreme court on the stockade vice disease problem. Edwin J. Brown represented Forward L. Twitty, a stockade prisoner seeking liberty. The court examined habeas corpus as it relates to stockade prisoners and potential infringement of state quarantine rules. The court reserved judgment and will later determine the appeal board of physicians appointed by Judge Tallman.
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Kennedy
Olympia
Supreme Court
Edwin J. Brown
Fo Ward L. Twitty
Atty
Gen. Reames
Appeal Board of Physicians
Tallman
Fuel Administration Seeks Details Before New Mine Permits
The Fuel Administration requires mine location, capital, operation size, coal seam thickness, coal analysis, railroad access, and labor supply. It stresses whether workers would be diverted from existing mines and how this affects current operations.
German Language Purified in Prussian Lower House
The Prussian lower house issued a report on purifying the German language used in its business. Provisortech will be replaced by verlaufig and Interpellationen will be known as formliche Anfragen.
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N. FE. A
Amsterdam
Davie’s Seattle Misadventure Ends Behind Bars
Davie traveled to Seattle and befriended George Butler. After buying a quart of amber fluid for $10, he slept it off at the United States hotel. Awakening he suspected deceit, shared the remaining funds with Joe Kennedy, and the trio was jailed on a drunken visit to the central police station. George and $161 disappeared.
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Davie
Seattle
George Butler
George
United States
C. Davia
Jean
Joe Kennedy
Joe
Central
Key Men Urge Wilson to Act
A telegram from David J. Lewis notified Seattle officials of the Telegraphers union that Postmaster General Karleson would take up the Western Union lockout issue next week. Union leaders expressed confidence in favorable government action and adopted a resolution urging immediate reinstatement of locked out telegraphers in Beattie.
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David J. Lewis
Telephone and Telegraph Operation
Karleson
Western Union Telegraph Co
Seattle
Telegraphers’ Union
Labor Temple
Rice
Wilson
Beattie
Iron and Steel Workers to Be Organized Nationwide
Chicago Aug 3 More than 1 000 000 iron and steel workers nationwide are to be organized under the American Federation of Labor President Samuel Gompers announced after meetings with leaders of over twenty international unions Preliminary plans call for a two year process with Gompers directly supervising the effort and personal oversight by organizers.
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Chicago
United States
Amerian Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Gompers
Pers
Unidentified man dies after fall in public place
An unidentified man about 49 believed named White fell in a fit outside the YWCA on Fifth Avenue and Seneca Street Friday night and died before hospital transport. Another unidentified man, about 35, collapsing at Joe's Place on Third Avenue, was pronounced incapacitated after admission to city hospital.
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White
Y. W.C A
Fifth Ave
Seneca Et
Joe's Place
Third Ave
City Hospital
Thrift Stamp Aims To Keep The Hun A Day Away
A wartime thrift stamp campaign emphasizes saving to shorten the war by keeping enemy forces away by reducing days to victory. The note urges citizens to purchase stamps to support Allied efforts.
Union Savings and Trust Co. Names New Vice President
James D Hoge resigns as vice president of the National Bank of Commerce to become president of Union Savings and Trust Co Seattle banks shuffle as Hoge joins Union Savings and Trust and Guy F Clark takes Hoge’s place at the National Bank of Commerce Swalwell plans to lead the Liberty Bond drive again in September as part of the Beattie banking changes in Seattle
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Joseph A. Swalwell
Seattle
National Bank of Commerce
Union Savings and Trust Co
Beattie
James Hoge
Hie Deak
Guy F. Clark
Dexter Torton Bank
Walwell
Father and Son Face Conspiracy Charges in Draft Case
Milton and Lafayette Stephen of Monroe were bound over to the federal grand jury after a hearing on draft conspiracy charges. Stephen Jr allegedly claimed exemption as manager of his father's ranch. Marie Boyle, daughter of U S Marshal Boyle, has joined the Department of Justice investigation bureau in Tacoma.
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Milton
Lafayette Stephen
Monroe
United States
Robert W. Mettelland
Young Stephen
Marie Boyle
John M. Boyle
Marshal S
Federal
Investigation Bureau
Department of Justice
Tacoma
New Sugar Sale Rules Issued Limiting Purchases
Regulations issued by state food administrator Charles Hebberd limit family purchases to two pounds of sugar per person per month with a ten day supply rule for distant buyers and smaller food operations. Hotels and camps under 25 people face ten day limits unless they certify extended needs, and exceptions allow written extensions in proved necessity.
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Charles Hebberd
Woman Agrees to Reveal Love Plot in Oklahoma Case
Mrs. Della Partlow wife of Deputy Sheriff T W Partlow of Anthless Oklahoma will not be prosecuted for running away with her cousin Jack Yates 21. She plans to return to Oklahoma next week under an agreement with U S officials to disclose the full story of her alleged relations with Yates.
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Los Angeles
Della Partlow
T. W. Partlow
Anthless
Okla
Jack Yates
Oklahoma
United States
Yates
Self-Made Weakling and Power in Life's Hour
A reflective line about a man shaping his life with each hour, becoming both weak and strong through self-creation. The verse emphasizes personal agency and the tension between limitation and strength as time passes.
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