Millionaire Sayre Leads Radical Cat Slay Campaign
Roy Gibbons reports in Chicago on Rockwell Sayre a millionaire investor promoting an anti cat crusade with slogans bounty rewards and prizes for killing cats claiming a world without cats by 1923. Mrs Kessler heads a counter effort rallying volunteers and seeking court relief to curb Sayre’s actions as cat numbers dwindle and pet dogs suffer.
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Save Them Cat Delusions Spur Anti Cat Sentiment
A 19th century lament asserts cats kill birds and frighten people. It claims cats push into infants to suffocate them, desecrate corpses, and vomit maggots on dining rooms. The piece argues killing cats is a popular movement and critiques sentimentality toward felines.
Cats No Better Than Mosquitoes
A historical column argues against cats as sanitary protectors, likening them to cockroaches and flies. The piece notes a global movement to abolish cats and declares cats have as little place as other pests in public health debates.
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Rockwell Sayre
Education Week to Feature Giant Mass Meeting
Noble post of American Legion announces American Education Week events. Education Week will be marked by a giant mass meeting at the Hippodrome at 2 30 p m with speakers including C l An invocation by an American Legion chaplain and remarks on the American Education program. Miss Kathreen will perform a piano solo and a short contribution will be given by Mrs Cora Stewart on illiteracy.
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B. Fleming
Beattie Schools
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Hippodrome
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American Legion
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Henry Suzzallo
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Ruth Allen
the of Fine Arts of the Universe
Cora Stewart
Na # Educational Association
N A. McKeever
Mild Welfare Department
State University
Kath‘reen
Dawn
H. L Chatter
Secttion of Churches
Woman Says Cats Gentle Creatures
Mrs. Geo. Kessler national secretary of the American Cat Association extols cats as gentle, graceful, clean, and useful. She praises their role in homes, granaries, and stores, noting their pest control and comforting presence for spinster households.
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Geo. Kessler
American Cat Association
Tabby in Danger of Death
Opinion piece arguing cats are gentle and beneficial with mischief mainly from common alley cats. Calls for responsible care and laws to protect cats rather than killing them, noting birds are preyed upon by hungry alley cats and instincts drive such behavior for survival.
Broker Is Charged With Embezzlement
Prosecuting Attorney Loomis Baldrey says charges of embezzlement will be filed against Guy Hudgins, financial agent for the Washington Oregon Holding Co., for allegedly taking over $10,000 from stock selling and loan associations. Hudgins was arrested on a related embezzlement charge tied to a 2000 stock sale of the Seattle Terminal and Dock Co. to Mrs Sophie Christopherson. He was given until Saturday to...
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Loomia Baldrey
Guy Hudgins
Washington-Oregon Holding Co
Hudgins
Seattle Terminal and Dock Co
Mra
Sophie Christopherson
Sale shrouded with secrecy in surplus material auction
Washington reports the Shipping Board is selling over 300 million dollars of surplus materials at twenty cents on the dollar. Joe W. Powell leader of the emergency fleet says sales reach hundreds of thousands monthly but refuses to name buyers or final cost recovery. Details of litigation are kept from public view as prices and conditions remain secret.
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Shipping Board
Joe W. Powell
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Powell
Boy Scouts Plan Christmas Camp at Camp Parsons
Many Boy Scouts plan to spend Christmas vacation at Camp Parsons. Winter camping runs from December 27 to January 2 and those wishing to go should notify headquarters at once.
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Camp Parsons
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