County Schools to Open in Week
September 4 marks the return to school for King county pupils with plans for a longer day from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. County superintendent elect A. B. Burrows supports the change and will discuss it with teachers at the Broadway high school convention. T. E. Hulse of the rural extension department at Bellingham State Normal will fill in as assistant superintendent.
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King County Kiddies
Ifs
Burrows
Broadway High School
T. E. Hulse
Bellingham State Normal School
Nurse Had Poor Health in Toledo
Widow Mrs Elizabeth John reports relief from back and abdominal soreness after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The advertisement claims the remedy cures female troubles and notes widespread testimonials from users at Pinkham's Lynn laboratory.
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Toledo
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Elizabeth John
Lydia KE. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Erastus Brainerd and the undisclosed wartime mystery
A Seattle figure, Erastus Brainerd, heads a secret summer project at Richmond Beach linked to antisubmarine ideas. His trips, locked office, and refusal to reveal details amid Hoover consultations fuel rumors of a world altering invention or a new bread-like food, with no public statement forthcoming.
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Prastus Brainerd
Richmond Beach
Balton
Gerard
Erastus
France
Herbert Hoover
Seattle
Harley
Goodness
Richmond 66
Spy blamed for Mare Island powder explosion
Government agents hunt a spy following the Mare Island navy yard powder blast as the investigating board rules the explosion was engineered to cripple the United States during the war.
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United Presse
Washington
Mare Island Navy Yard
America
Potato Bugs Make Big Gain on Mayor's Patch
News sketch notes Mayor Gill's garden under pest attack after his alarm failed to ring at 3 36 Monday morning letting cabbage worms and potato bugs roam his war garden while the mayor was busy pounding his ear.
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Gill
Drafted men and film features at local theater
Drafted men shown drilling in civilian clothes at Fifth Ave and Bellet to qualify as noncommissioned officers. The Star-Liberty weekly screens cantonment views of American Lake and Mayor Gill in his war garden. Also shown are Elks parade scenes and a Second Ave auto crash. Hashimura Togo plays at the Clemmer with Wen dell Phillips high alumna in the lead. Rex presents Wild and Woolly with Douglas Fairbanks in a cowboy caper.
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Fifth Ave
National Army
American Lake
Seattle
Gill
Star-Liberty
Liberty
Searfe Elks
Sabown
the Rex
Douglas Pairbanks
Artcraft Pictures
Douglas
East
Elea
Great Plains
Artxana
Camp Lewis Barracks Rise Amid Dust and Activity
Billows of dust envelop the new Camp Lewis cantonment as barracks and hospital beds near completion. The camp will house about 46 000 men from eight western states with warehouses full of clothing and food and stables nearly ready.
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Camp Lewis
Nevada
Russian film stars and American army camp life mix in early 20th century notes
The article surveys Russian art films and actors including Minos and Lisenka, with Mary Miles Minter's guidance to aspiring stars. It also reports on mass bread production, the U S military setup at a new camp, arrivals of Maj Gen Greene and Brig Gen Burr, 1500 officers expected, and recruits adjusting to vast, identical housing and dusty roads with lakeside swimming as a respite.
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American Lake
National Army-To-Be
Camp Lewis
American Lake Cantonment
Minos
Grovekaia
Cholodnaia
Lisenka
Balasheva
Ourevina
Menara
Mozshukhin
Rimski
Bachsheef
Cheruvinoff
H. A. Greene
Edward Burr
Vancouver Barracks
Peter Field
Lloyd L. Smith
Estate Military Reservation
Sam
Cook Recruiter Faces Uncertain War Department Orders
J. C. Marmaduke, manager of the New Washington hotel, recruited 50 cooks to train regulars at American Lake. Acting under War Department orders, instructions were changed on Saturday and Marmaduke now questions if his efforts were in vain or if a telegram from Washington was a spur to greater effort.
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J. C. Marmaduke
New Washington Hotel
American Lake
War Department
Marmaduke
Washington
King county tax levy to rise to 12.40 mills next year
Auditor Wardell projects King county tax levy at 12.40 mills next year, up from 9.66 in 1917, based on department expense estimates. County property valuation stands at 266 million dollars while city taxes total 24.9 mills versus 20.72 last year. city budget set at 5,319,609.29.
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King County
Wardell
Persuasive Peggy and The Watch Repair Ad
An advertisement touts Persuasive Peggy as ideal evening reading and promotes Haynes watch repair services ahead of a Liberty theatre showing.
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Haynes
Liberty Theatre
Jennings of Juneau in The Alaska Colonist August issue
The August Alaska Colonist features unfettered criticism of Alaskan matters including Jennings of Juneau and The Daily Bow-Wow. It covers fisheries mines homesteads railroads and political topics with newa and editorials.
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Alaska
Jennings
Juneau
Bow-Wow
Newa
Hox N. University
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Pike
Miss Terry
Go To the Right Drug Co
Douglas Fairbanks
Mary McAlister
Rex
Sanders & Company
L. C. Smith
Elliott
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Mare Island
Hashimura Togo
Wallace Irwin
Burn
The
Clemmer
Wendell Phillips High School
Chicago
Fesaway
Seesue Hayakawa
Second Avenue
Pike Street
Yeber Hooke
Pyes
Bae
Dexter
MP Dorcas
Warren's
Bienes
Shahi Actiaeia Me Diial
MacDougall
Southwick
Fleer
Mabel Abbott
Bell
Oregon
California
Montana
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Sessue Hayakawa
Hieuke Hashimura Togo
Billie Burke
Laurela
Gelett Burgess
Miss Burke
Thomas Meighan
Bessie Barriscale
Blue Ridge
Miss Barriscale
Banks
William Desmond
Strand
Edwards
Doris Gray
Hazel Daly
Bryant
Ani
Coliseum
Millie Barker
Mise Terry
Sesene Hayakawa In “Hashimure Toge
Pryant Washburn In
Skinner’s Baby
Douglas Fairbankaerts
Dessie Barriscale
Dorta Grey
Mary Miles Minter
Mary
Viola Vale
Thomas H. Ince
Charlie Ray
Miss Vale
Biograph Pictures
Lasky-Morosco
George Beban
Fortune Photoplaya
Balboa Company
Ting
COOK
F. N. Freer
Third Ave
Marion
Klliott
Black Diamond South Prairie Newcastle
Pacific Coast Coal CO
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