Britain Passes Profiteer Law
Britain’s House of Commons, in a committee of the whole, passed a profiteering bill at 5 17 o’clock after 15 amendments. Provisions include penalties for corporate directors, maximum prices for combines, a costs department, and women admitted to local food costs tribunals. Laborites criticized amendments enabling post passage application and claimed profiteers reaped huge wartime gains.
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London
Britain
House of Commons
Board of Trade
Robert 1
Donald MacLean
Rail men seek 60 percent wage raise in new scale talks
Timothy Shea president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen says a sixty percent wage increase is needed to match rising living costs. Delegates meet in Cleveland to draft a new pay scale with officials indicating the request could be the highest yet as the scale committee studies the proposal.
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Cleveland
Ohio
United Press
Timothy Shea
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Tidalsad
Congress slow in food fight stalls aid requests
Congress debates a flood of budget requests from labor, grain, trade and security agencies totaling hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. Attys General Palmer and Senator Townsend urge fact finding and cost relief measures while considering measures to curb waste, enforce reasonable profits, and regulate packers.
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Department of Labor
Farfood
Department of Commerce
Federal Trade Commission
Treasury Department
Secret Service
Department
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Townsend
Townsend Mid Hfe
Senate Agriculture Committee
Owen
Federal Reserve Board
Harding
Kenyon
Kendrick
Senate Anticulture Committee
House
Mondell
Ferry Breaks Loose Strands Tourists on Columbia River
Van Tag ferry on the Columbia River broke loose 150 miles west of Spokane. About 250 autos are stranded on both riverbanks. Tourists head back or attempt Clockum Pass trail as food supplies grow costly for the stranded motorists.
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Spokane
Columbia River
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Naval Captain to Transfer During Wilson Review
Los Angeles August 14. Captain Ivan C. Wettingil commander of the cruiser Montana will assume command of the battleship Oregon when President Wilson reviews the fleet at San Francisco. Wettin gil is taking the Montana to Bremerton navy yard to transfer to the Oregon.
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Ivan C. Wettingil
Montana
Oreon
Wilson
An Francisco
Wettingil
Bremerton Navy Yard
Oregon
Mississippi Bulletin Weekly Magazine At Sea
The Mississippi Bulletin is a six page weekly magazine printed aboard the United States cruiser Minsion ipi. It is issued every week and features a cartoon piece titled Minelanippt Mike drawn by a crew member. The paper invites anyone from captain to gob to join the staff.
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Jackies
United States
Minsionippi
Mississippi Bulletin
Giants Rally In Endless Baseball Tangle
Baseball scoreless marathon between New York and Cincinnati ends with late errors and scattered hits. Roush Daubert Groh Frisch Ring Chase Kauff McCarty Magee Wingo all factor in the field and at bat as ninth and extra innings produce no decisive runs. A wage dispute involving municipal street car workers adds postgame tension as the council considers a higher pay scale.
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Ring Math
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Vital statistics from Seattle area marriages and notices
A crowded list of names, ages, and places appears to record marriages, separations, and public notices. It includes betrothals in Seattle, Kirkland, and Darrington, with ages from 1% to 31, various partners, and a series of divorce filings and alimony claims. The document also lists almshouse residents and infant and death notices with addresses and dates in July and August.
Abandon Search for Alaska Man Davidon Drowned
Search for the body of Survey or General Charlee KE. Davidson in Taku Inlet was abandoned due to deep water and swift tides. Dragging proved futile. Memorial services were held Wednesday night by Mount Juneau lodge of Masons.
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Juneay
Alaska
Charlee KE. Davidson
Taku Iniet
Mount Juneau
House Will Probe John B. Densmore
The House passed Blanton of Texas a resolution demanding more information on John B. Densmore special labor investigator in the Mooney bomb-throwing case. It seeks copies of all Secretary Wilson's instructions to Densmore, who assisted the probe and any department connections since November 1, 1918.
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Washington
House
Blanton
Texas
John B. Densmore
Department of Labor
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
Secretary of Labor
Wilson
Densmore
Department
Will Try Again to Salvage Schooner Janet Caruthers
Hoquiam August 14 the powerful tug Sampson will make another effort Friday to pull the stranded schooner Janet Caruthers from the beach near Hoquiam after a winter storm driven ashore en route from Seattle to Portland The schooner Chehalle arrived Wednesday as the first vessel to reach Hoquiam from San Francisco since the San Francisco masters and mates walkout.
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Sampson
Janet Caruthers
Portland
Seattle
Chehalle
San Francisco
Pinest Stall and Market Prices for Produce
Public markets list fresh peaches and new potatoes with crate prices. The stall offers beet cooking apples and beet butter, along with Carnation and Borden brand items. Other entries include Libby's tomatoes and corn, pure fresh milk, cane sugar, and seafood such as red snapper and halibut.
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Iver
Borden
Med Meal
Annex
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Martiett
Dot
Tee Place
Unclear OCR fragment on seafood and prices
Fragmentary text lists various seafood items such as cod halibut salmon and eel with irregular numbers and symbols. No coherent event or context appears. no identifiable people, places, or organizations are discernible.
Store Advertisement Shelf Prices and Items Noted
A fragmented advertisement lists grocery items and prices across stalls including flour brands Gold Medon and Weatlake, 250 can Heine tomato soup, Mazola oil, sugar cured hams, lamb stew, liberty steak, and canned corn or peas. It mentions soap, bunbrite cleaner, orange marmalade, canned salmon, and a variety of stalls with prices like 65¢ and $2.90.
Fresh Salmon and Related Goods Listed in Local Sale
A fragmented note lists fresh salmon priced at 500 each and other seafood items including halibut ling cod black cod and red salmon. Mentions Amelia and a tenderloin of trout with various quantities noted in unclear text.
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Amelia
Fred
Local Food Names Appear In Unclear OCR List
Uneven OCR fragment lists canned meats and condiments including apple jelly Libby's products smoked sardines and deviled meat with mentions of homemade ham loaf and other items. No coherent event or article context is clear beyond a catalog-like compilation.
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Longshoremen Seek Higher Wages at Seattle Meeting
A three day Seattle convention of Waterfront Employers and International Longshoremen's Association aims to settle the water front wage dispute. The waterfront proposes 1.10 dollars per hour and 1.50 in overtime for longshoremen and truckers, while current rates are 0.90 and 1.10 for longshoremen and 0.75 and 1.05 for truckers.
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Waterfront Employers’ Association
International Longshoremen's Association of
Pacific Northwest
Seattle
Long Shoremen
Lake Washington ferry fares set by county officials
J. J. Anderson county transportation superintendent announced the new Lake Washington ferry rates set by the county commissioners. Single tickets cost 10 cents, commutation tickets 20 rides for $1, and children's tickets 25 rides for $1, valid for all points on the lake ferry system.
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J. J. Anderson
Lake Washington
Transportation Eyetem
VESSEL Movements and Arrivals at West Coast Ports
Maritime progress reports list arrivals and movements along Pacific coast ports. Vessels including Tatoosh Ifland and Misting report wind and barometer while Behr Minnie A. Caine towed. Tug Conqueror in tow near Port Angeleno. several ships pass in and out of Seattle, Vancouver, and Tacoma with cargoes and pilot reports.
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Lay Two Keels for Revenue Cutters
Two keels were laid Wednesday at the Norway Pacific Construction and Dry Dock Co. plant for two United States revenue cutters. R Blwood Ellin, formerly with the Seattle shipping board, is president of the new shipbuilding company.
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Norway Pacific Construction and Dry Dock Co
United States Revenue
R. Blwood Ellin
Seattle
United States Shipping Board
New Shipbuilding Company
New York Stock Market Opens Irregular With Mixed Gains
The New York stock market opened irregularly with some gains over yesterday’s levels. Pan American Petroleum and United States Rubber showed advances while Royal Dutch and Pan American slipped from early highs. Trading remained dull midmorning with modest moves across steel, automotive, and retail shares.
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Ave
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Crucible
Pan American Petroleum
American T & T
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Baldwin
Pan-American
Royal Dutch
Steel
Metall
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New York Markets Update
New York markets report small prices including coffee at 13 cents per pound for No 7 Rio and 36 cents per pound for No 4 Bantos. Hurgar centrifugal listed at 7.26 per pound. Market snapshot dated August 14.
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New York
Rio
Chicago Market Report Signals Lower Hog Prices and Grain Declines
Chicago market report notes lower hog prices and weakness in other markets as grain futures fall. Drying demand and good crop conditions weigh on corn and oats with September corn at 190.75 cents, December corn 151 cents, May corn around 146.5 cents, and oats slipping from opening levels.
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T . Ing
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Mayonte
Portland Market Status Aug. 14 Live cattle and sheep sales
Cattle receipts 263 head with firm market. Good to choice steers $11 to $16. fair to good steers $7.50 to $8.50. Cows and heifers up to $8.50. Prime mixed hogs $20.40 to $20.50. Sheep receipts 698 head with steady market. prime lambs $11.50 to $12.50. yearlings $7.50 to $11. wethers $7.50. ewes $5.47 to $5.50. Broilers 22 to 25 cents per lb. Cheese 36.8 cents per lb.
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Portland
Frisco Market Status and Mixed Prices Listed
Frisco market status lists butter price 66 cents per pound prime firts 55 cents per pound. Kewe extras 86 cents per dozen extra pullets 24 cents per dozen undersized pullets 29.40 per dozen. Cheese California flats fancy 34 1/2 cents per pound fireta 32 1/2 cents per pound. Marley Spot feed 13.10 per cental Date-Red feed 2.901.05 per cental weed prices 4.154.95 black 2.75
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California Flats
Bank of Montreal official warns of fictitious prosperity impact
Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor, general manager of the Bank of Montreal, told reporters in San Francisco that the United States and Canada suffer from fictitious prosperity. He said the high living cost will ease itself through the inexorable law of supply and demand.
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San Francisco
United States
Canada
Frederick Williames-Taylor
Bank of Montreal
Local Markets Wholesalers List Nuts Dairy Prices
Market notes show various wholesale prices for almonds and mixed nuts from several dealers including Mirani, Philberts, Welmute, Manchuria, and others. Dairy prices paid to shippers include butter and milk values with listed per cent terms and country cream notes.
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Dor Philberts
Welmute
City to consider municipal fish market plan
City health commissioner Dr. M Read told the public safety committee the market could net about 206 dollars weekly in current operations and supported creating a municipal market to handle fish supply. He noted a loss from spoiled stock and said he would run the market if the council adopts the proposed ordinance.
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Council Public Safety Committee
Senate committee seeks White House interview with Wilson
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided to notify President Wilson that it wants to call on him at the White House to obtain information regarding the peace treaty.
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Wilson
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
White House
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