Milk Prices to Stay High Despite Cost Declines
Harry H. Stuart of Carnation Milk Products Co asserts milk prices will not fall until the natural decline arrives next February or March. He says agents of the Justice Department warned the drive to lower living costs will not meet consumers’ hopes, as farmers seek about four dollars per hundredweight for raw milk after a July price rise from two ninety to two fifteen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry H. Stuart
Carnation Milk Products Co
Seattle
America
Stuart
Federal Department of Justice
Madrona Line and E Union Rail Connection Project
Construction to build a four block rail line from the end of the Bart Union to the Madrona area begins Monday. Officials say once finished, Madrona cars will run directly down FE Union to the city with a shuttle service on the Madrona line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bart Union
Madrona
Thomas F. Murphine
Public Utilities Department
FE. Union
Woman Lived as Man in New British Play
A charity stage romance at the St James Theatre centers on Dr James Barry a woman who served in the army in South Africa and as field general of the army medical forces. The article notes her sex remained undisclosed until her death in London in 1865 at age 60.
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Lon
South A
St. James Theatre
James Barry
South Africa
London
First Strike Of Scribes Is Broken In Omaha
Omaha reporters and copy readers return to work after 24 hours as a grievance committee of five strikers is persuaded to resume duties. A two-man breakaway continues reportedly as other strikers refuse to report back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
Counterfeit Ten Shilling Notes Used as Cigarette Lighters
London August 22. Warner charged with possessing counterfeit ten shilling notes. He claimed they were carried as a joke and used in public as cigarette lighters, startling bystanders. A stray line notes a quoted verse about a woman and reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Warner
Six ex-privates elevated to General Staff College instruc t ors
Six of seventeen officers named as new General Staff College instructors earned the nation’s highest military honor and rose from private beginnings. The group includes Generals Campbell King and Preston Brown and Colonels Hjalmer Erickson, Richard Williams, Parker Hitt, and Arthur L. Conger, all veterans of the American Expeditionary Forces in France and DSM recipients. Their careers span Cuba, the Philippines, Chateau Thierry, St Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne, illustrating ascent from buck private to top staffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
General Staff College
C. B. Howard
War Department
Maj. Howard
America
School of the
West Point
Campbell King
Preston Brown
General King
Fifth Cavalry
Cuba
Philippines
Montdidier
Soissons
St. Mihiel Salient
Meuse-Argonne
Erickson
Norway
The
Th Cavalry
15Th Infantry
Germany
Aire River
Williams
New Jersey
Spain
Regular Army
1St Army Corps
Third Army
Hitt
Army
25Th Infantry
Navy Department
France
Conger
New York
Pershing
Howard
War gas washed ashore at Swansea baths
Mustard gas washed ashore during a bathing event in Swansea Wales in August. Several bathers were badly burned and gassed by the exposure as authorities investigated the incident and warned the public.
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Swansea
Wales
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Jack Pickford
WHOM
Symphony Orchestra
Brambilla
Coliseum
World Happenings First
Boldt
24 Ave
J. Brown
Orpheum
Altoona
Bartell's Drug Store
Local Government Board
West Drayton
Bern
Roseburg
California
Pacific Fruit Co
Madrona Line
E. Union
Grote-Rankinco
Grote-Rankin CO
Pike
U. S. War College
Maj
Douglas Unionmade
Arrow
Collegian
Hirsch- Wickwire
Marx
Hart
S , Schaffner & Kuppenheimer
En’s
J. Capp
Alco
RED Front Clothing CO
First Ave
Pine St
Soveralls
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Kuppenheimer
Hirsch - Wickwire
UNION
Pike ST
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