Readers urged to weigh Ludendorff book amid war propaganda warnings
A Seattle Star notice warns readers against being swayed by Ludendorff's forthcoming war book. It notes rival papers label German propaganda and urges impartial reading to judge German campaigns and leadership. The piece stresses the audience is the Seattle and Northwest readership.
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Ludendorff
THE
STAR
Seattle
Northwest
Northcliffe
New York World
Chicago News
Philadelphia Ledger
Louisville Courier-Journal
Boston Post
Toronto Star
Washington Post
Teuton
Great Northwest
Pershing Refuses Testimony On War Expenditures
Gen Pershing declines to testify before the congressional committee probing American war expenditures in France. Congressman Bland, committee chairman, condemns the move as wartime indifference and contempt for the people’s wishes.
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Paris
United Press
Gen
Pershing
Congressional Committee
France
Congressman Bland
War Department
Soldier stories and a town tale of a missing fifty
A fragmentary humorous piece recalls a front line arctic tale of a sailor with a bottle in his hip pocket and lost insurance. It then shifts to a busy town night where two men chase a fifty dollar bill, only to discover no such sum exists in the area.
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Siberian
Fourth
Ron
Ehere
Oregon Labor Men Oppose Road Contractor Oxman
Organized labor in Portland campaigns to defeat the state highway contract awarded to Frank C. Oxman. The opposition cites Oxman as a leading witness against Thomas J. Mooney, the San Francisco bomb plotter.
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Portland
Ore
State Highway Commission
Frank C. Oxman
Oxman
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
Food Prices Drop in Des Moines
Des Moines Iowa August 30 U P First material retail price tumble in staple food prices reported in the middle wear were announced here today following threat by state official of criminal prose cution of retailers who buy prices in the face of wholesale drove Potatoes slumped 20 cents a peck to consumers Pork all kinds dropped 3 to 5 cents eggs 2 cents chickens 10 cents while lard and other commodities showed declines.
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Des Moines
Iowa
United Press
Lovett Attacks Plumb Plan as Russian Scheme
Judge R B Lovett head of Union Pacific Rail Road calls the Plumb plan an effort to Russianize American railroads and impose the Soviet system. He tells United Press the scheme is an assault on American institutions misunderstood by most railroad workers and citizens.
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R. 8. Lovett
Union Pacific Railroad
The
United Press Today
Lovett
Mother of Three Adopts Six More
Margaret Vye Gooden, already mother of three, is granted permission to adopt six Melanis children from her sister Margaret who died May 4 1914. The orphans are William Vye fourteen James Kenneth twelve Mary twelve Elizabeth Ann ten John Alexander eight and Margaret May six.
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J. T. Ronald
Margaret Vye Gooden
Margaret
William Vye
James Kenneth
Mary
Elizabeth Ann
John Alexander
Margaret May
Melanis
Lost aviators not found in Mexican search efforts
San Diego dated Aug 20 a U S consul statement notes Captain Truhillo of Governor Cantu s army denied finding the two aviators Lieutenants Waterhouse and Connolly. A second squadron is expected back today after surveying the area where the men reportedly may have been forced to land.
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San Diego
Cal
Sidney Smith
Ensenada
California
Truhillo
Cantu
Army
Waterhouse
Connolly
Rioters Hit Ludwigshaven Post Office in Bavaria
In Ludwigshaven Bavaria rioters armed with revolvers and grenades stormed the post office. Several were killed as troops later occupied the building and cut telegraph and telephone services. Banks closed amid fear of further unrest and a general strike may be declared.
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Berlin
United Press
Ludwigshaven
Bavaria
New Revolution Reported in Budapest
A dispatch from Amsterdam to Central News reports a new revolution breaking out in Budapest. The alert comes as a cross border news flash and notes unrest in the Hungarian capital.
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Budapest
London
Amsterdam
Central News Company
Export suspensions may lower living costs in truce period
William B. Collier, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, says suspending or licensing exports of foodstuffs after strict scrutiny could reduce the cost of living within the 90 day labor truce period. He spoke in Washington on August 30.
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Washington
William KB. Collier
Federal Trade Commission
Sit Tight in Boat Advises President Wilson
President Wilson told the governors' committee that the main action is to sit tight in the boat. The committee met yesterday on his guidance, as reported by Governor W. B. Sproule of Pennsylvania.
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Washington
Wilson
Governors’ Committee
W. 8. Sproule
Pennsylvania
President urged to review Pacific fleet at Seattle
Washington members of Congress urge President Wilson to review the Pacific fleet stationed at Seattle. The president has the matter under consideration.
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Urge Wilson
Seattle
Washington
Wilson
Congress
Pacific
Careless Smoker Sparks Fire by Storefront
A passing smoker dropped a lighted mater over the curb in front of Frederick Nelsons store on Fifth Avenue at 11 15 a m Saturday. The match fell in gasoline puddle from a dripping auto and caused a sizable fire along the curb. The fire department arrived and only a boys bicycle suffered damage its tires and rims were badly scorched.
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Frederick Nelson
Fifth Ave
Sponsors' jewels charged to Uncle Sam in ship launches
Testimony before a congressional hearing alleges lavish gifts to sponsors of ships launched in Seattle were charged to the government. Diamond brooches, jeweled watches and lavalieres accompanied launches amid a $20 million hull program, with bonuses paid to contractors and gifts to officials and staff noted during the inquiry.
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Uncle Sam
Lavaliieres
Seattle
Altho
G. P. Deane
Emergency Fleet Corporation
The
Steel Shipbuilders’ Association
John F. Blain
Deane
Wood
W. A. Magee
Magee
Meacham & Babcock Shipbuilding Co
Magee Automobile Fund
Skinner & Eddy Corporation
Grays Harbor Motorship Corporation
Aberdeen
Seattle Man Slain Identified After Six Months
The body of A. F. Raymond of Seattle, found buried on a mountain top near Jacksonville, Oregon, is identified by two cards bearing his name. Wood cutters discovered the gruesome remains with skull crushed, suggesting murder. a card for Mrs. M. Grace Brunsaugh was found in his pocket.
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Medford
Ore
Jacksonville
A. F. Raymond
Seattle
M. Grace Brunsaugh
Fires menace Cooper City in Washington forests
Reports from Portland dated Aug 30 say fires near Cooper City Washington have grown serious with spreading wildfires in the Yacolt National forest. Oregon’s worst blaze is the Fall Creek fire in the Cascade reserve with a new Santiam forest fire burning hard. Rains are needed to halt fires menacing a large district northeast of White Salmon Washington.
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Portland
Cooper City
Wash
Yacolt National Forest
Oregon
Fall Creek
Cascade Reserve
Santiam National Forest
White Salmon
Irish press censorship to end tomorrow
London reports that the press censorship in Ireland will be abolished tomorrow, an official announcement stated today. The move ends ongoing wartime controls and signals broader easing of information restrictions in the region.
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London
Ireland
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