Eagles greet Seattle as ją National Lodge draws crowds
The city hosts a large Eagles gathering from Spokane for a Seattle convention week. A banquet at Eagles hall follows auto rides and parades with Seattle officers and prominent members speaking. Also present are Rev. Dr. Henry N. Couden and visitors from San Francisco and Philadelphia.
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Seattle
The
Lodge
Mother Lodge
Spokane
Eagles’ Hall
Weat
Pretty Girls Work to Get Men to Go to War
A fragmentary headline notes women urging men to enlist in military service. The brief item hints at wartime recruitment drives and female involvement in rallying support for the war effort.
Bud Fisher Career Highlight in Star Exclusive
The Star begins an exclusive run on Bud Fisher creator of Matt and Jeff. Fisher recalls no formal drawing lessons yet becomes the world’s highest paid cartoonist. He describes his early life in San Francisco born November 13 1885 and rapid travels with family before settling into a prolific comic career.
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Matt and
Jeff
Star
Ife
Ertiet
Eon Syndicate
Fisher
Wheeler Syndicate
Hearst
Matt
Air Department
San Francisco
Port
Ore
Chicago
Milwaukee
Perha
Mr. Fisher
Sight Restores Youthful Vision For Man Blind Since Birth
Alfred Ely a 21 year old from Entiat Washington regains sight after Dr Adamson Hawley of Seattle performs cataract surgery on his left eye. His dying father J G Ely urged the operation and cried I can see you dad before passing away. Alfred begins to learn colors and objects across Lake Union with his sister Mia guiding him.
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Alfred Ely
Entiat
Wash
Adamson W. Hawiey
Seattle
J. G. Ely
Alfred
Hawley
Dr. Hawley
Chamber Seeks Right to Form Combinations in Key Industries
Seattle Chamber of Commerce officials asked the federal trades commission for permission to form combinations in the apple lumber fish industries and discuss subsidies for the American merchant marine. Commission members heard testimony from local leaders including Judge Thomas Burke and C J Smith as they toured Seattle before heading to Tacoma.
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Federal Trades Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Joseph FE. Davies
Edwin N. Hurley
William J. Harris
George Rublee
Will H. Party
Seattle
Spokane
Tacoma
Burke
Thomas Burke
Chamber
The
Pacific
Stars and Stripes
Commission
C. J. Smith
Otto Case
Seattle Commercial Club
Orient
South America
South American
Porte
China
American Universities and the Establishment of A Permanent Trades Commission
Case
Northwest
Alaska
Moritz Thomsen
C. D. Fisher
Fisher Bros
Alexander Bailie
Balfour
West Seattle Veteran Turns 100 With Park Party
Thomas Wardall, 2640 Walnut, Seattle, celebrated his 100th birthday at Hiawatha Park West Seattle. About 30 attendees including eight children and five relatives joined the centenarian. Wardall recalls a Civil War era life in Wisconsin and a role in the Underground Railroad.
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Thomas Wardall
Walnut
Hiawatha Park
Seattle
Wardall
Underground Railroad
Wisconsin
Troops Engage Raiders at Norias Ranch
Aug 9 reports three American soldiers and up to 15 Mexicans wounded in renewed fighting at the Norias ranch near Brownsville. Five Mexican raiders killed, two wounded. two Americans wounded last night. Jesus Garcia of Brownsville dies from earlier battle wounds. Cameron County remains tense as ranchers and rangers barricade the ranch house.
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Texas
Norias Ranch
Frank Martin
Geo. Forbes
Jesus Garcia
Brownesville
Garcia
Noria Ranch
Cameron County
Italian Alpine Troops Storm Montozzo Peak
Geneva reports Italian Alpine troops plunged through heavy fire two miles up to seize Montozzo near Trent. They forced Austrian forces to evacuate the region, then dragged artillery to the peak and shelled Austrians from surrounding ridges.
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Geneva
Montozzo
Trent
Turkish battleship Kheyr-Ed-Din Barbarossa sunk by submarine
A British submarine sank the Turkish battleship Kheyr-Ed-Din Barbarossa in the Marmora Sea. Part of the crew was saved. The vessel, formerly the Kurfurst Friedrich Wilhelm, built in 1910, displaced 9,900 tons, with six 11-inch guns and a 579 man crew.
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Berlin
Amsterdam
French Aviators Brought Down After Saarbrucken Raid
Two French aviators involved in yesterday raid on Saarbrucken were brought down by German anti aircraft fire. Civilians were injured by bombs dropped on the town, authorities announced today.
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Berlin
London
Saarbrucken
Allies Repulse German Attacks North of Souchez
The war office reported repulsed furious German assaults north of Souchez and near Lille after German mines and heavy artillery opened the engagement followed by repeated infantry attacks.
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Paris
Souchez
Lille
War Office
Gerber and Yogi plan stage act amid court case
Dr Ralph De Mi head of a Yoga cult and Mrs Dorothy Gerber announce a stage act on the Orpheum circuit with De Mi as her manager. Gerber faces ongoing custody litigation over 5 year old Ariel as Judge Frater delays trial to August 27 while the child’s welfare is considered.
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Court House
Dorothy A. Gerber
Orpheum
de Bit
J. M. Coffee
San Francisco
Gerber
Berlin
Charles Ennis
Frater
German Chancellor States Kaiser’s View On Peace
United Press received a wireless reply from Imperial Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg in New York. He says the emperor cannot express himself on the occasion of Allied and Central Powers victories in Poland but notes Germany seeks peace with lasting security and freedom of the seas for all nations to aid progress and civilization.
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United Press
Great Britain
New York
Warsaw
Germany
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Poland
Bethmann-Hollweg
Pan American Conferees Finalize Mexican Program
Secretary Lansing announced the Pan American conference has a definite Mexican program. He sent it to President Wilson by mail and received a reply. He did not disclose the plan.
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Washington
Lansing
Wilson
Earth Tremor Felt at Hohenstein in Europe
A violent earthquake registered by the seismograph in Hohenstein via Berlin today. The quake was believed to have occurred in Calabria or Alabama and was detected this afternoon.
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Hohenstein
Berlin
Calabria
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