Smoke from forest fires swamps Seattle area
Thick smoke blankets Puget Sound as fires push through slashings and logged lands. Two major blazes threaten Green and Stillaguamish valleys, with Darrington at risk and Tacoma water intake areas endangered. Weather remains dry with little relief expected.
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Washington Forest Fire Association
Puget Sound
Acroes Bay
Lake Washington
Seattle
West Seattle
Green
Stillaguamish
Tacoma
British Columbia
Oregon
Portland
Paris burglar identified by skin torn from ear
A burglar in Paris was identified after a broken glass display case ripped a strip of skin from his ear. Doctors fitted the skin to the wound and the man confessed to the crime.
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Paris
Man in custody fights asylum order over insane train hiring demand
Thomas W. Shackelford, charged with ineauity by his brother former Judge John A. Shackelford of Tacoma, clashes in private chambers with Superior Judge Everett Smith as he resists commitment to an asylum. He insists on calling witnesses and says he will fight to the Supreme Court if needed.
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Thomas W. Shackelford
John A. Shackelford
Tacoma
Shackelford
Shackelfords
Everett Smith
Court House
Supreme Court
Judge Smith
Stellacoom
First Seattle Elevator Girl Takes Job as Operator
An 18 year old girl, Beryl Smithson, began running the elevator at the Eitel building after the previous elevator boy left in a huff. Her swift adaptation shows a small local human-interest note amid broad concerns over a sharp rise in food prices nationwide.
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Folka
Beryl Smithson
Eltel
Beryl
F. L. Smithson
Home life in small flats deemed impossible by speaker
Chicago reports Miss Latle E. Stearns, Wisconsin state library board member, at a home economics conference, criticizing tiny city flats as unfit for raising families and urging state prison penalties for child rearing in such conditions. She questions how low income families could upgrade housing.
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Chicago
Latle E. Stearns
Wisconsin State Library Board
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Champion tobacco chewer claims 10 tons chewed
Warren Harmon, a Civil War veteran, says he chewed plug tobacco for 55 years at about a half pound daily. He reports consuming 10 tons, valuing the habit at roughly $12 045 based on 60 cents per pound, from San Francisco dated August 14.
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San Francisco
Warren Harmon
Fisherman Hooked Lip While Recasting Line
Frank B. Neuman of Marshland Wisconsin arrived in Winona Minnesota with a fish hook embedded in his lower lip and a swollen face after a fishing mishap. He had rebaited the hook and swung the line to cast far when the hook snagged his lip. He was treated locally.
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Winona
Minn
Frank B. Neuman
Marshland
Wis
Letters Describe Life Beyond Grave From Boston Readings
Mrs. J. W. Truck, 85, releases letters she says came from her dead son describing life in the Great Beyond. The letters discuss spiritual life after death and a new method of self death via the third rail in New York.
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Boston
J. W. Truck
Hugger Targets Beauties In Bergenfield Incidents
In Bergenfield New Jersey on August 7 a man called the Hugger has hugged only the prettiest girls in the village. Mayor J Wilkus O Neill appointed James Jagoe as special marshal to track the tall slender well dressed suspect. Valerie Miller Mollie Hautan and Gertrude Hautan are named as hugged residents.
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Bergenfield
N.J
Jack the Hugger
J. Wilkus O'Neill
James Jagoe
Valerie Miller
Missea Mollie
Gertrude Hautan
Photo Plays and Local Cinema Listings Include Slippery Slim Nickname
The notice catalogs several film offerings and schedules across multiple theaters including Essanay Western comedies starring Victor Potel known as Slippery Slim, with crowd favorites such as The Jungle Samaritan and The Vampire featuring Alice Joyce. It also notes bid rejections for Stuck River dredging and peach shipments arriving in good quantities.
Vancouver Man Supple as Boy After Rheumatism Siege
G R Gallant of Vancouver Washington, a longtime rheumatism sufferer, credits Akos the California mineral remedy with rapid relief. He reports three years of pain ending in two weeks of recovery and hopes others with rheumatic ailments will try Akon for similar results. The ad lists other conditions, claims broad relief, and notes Ak0 is sold by all druggists.
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Vancouver
G. R. Gallant
Washington
California
Mr. Gallant
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