Allies urged action as Germany presses Russia gamble
The piece argues that allied leaders hesitate while Germany shifts to back Lenine in Petrograd and uses Russian turmoil to its advantage. It warns of potential German access to Russian food and war material, predicts rising Central Power influence, and calls for fresh American involvement to blunt the pro-German move.
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Russia
Petrograd
Germany
Kerensky
Kale
Kaiser
Lenine
Kaledines
Terraill
Balkans
Rumania
Serbia
Greece
Italy
America
Conference of the Civilized Nations
Ornstein's Modern Music Draws Mixed Reaction at Metropolitan
The Metropolitan theatre hosted Leo Ornstein a young ultra modern composer pianist whose pieces Wild Man's Dance funeral march and cradle song drew varied praise. The article notes his ability to evoke deep thoughts through sound and contrasts public reception with serious artistic merit.
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Metropolitan Theatre
Leo Ornstein
Edgar Allen Poe
Ornstein
Peruna advertisement testimony from Memphis user
Always Have PERUNA testimonial from Mrs L A Patterson of 1399 Kentucky Street Memphis Tennessee. She praises Peruna as an excellent remedy for catarrhal complaints and coughs. She notes hard times but cannot afford to do without it and says she recommends Peruna to neighbors.
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Fort Fairfield
Maine
Lydia E. Pinkham
Acron D. Daxas
Prosperity in Japan Fueled by Wine Women and Song
In wartime Japan prosperity boosts consumption as citizens spend freely on sake and beer. The rich host lavish banquets while the general diet centers on fish and rice, with alcohol providing a potent, quick effect. The piece notes Western influence and shifting habits during this boom period.
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Japan
Tokyo
Dee
Awful Iwanta Epidemic Sweeps Across Seattle
A satirical piece chronicles the spread of the Iwanta epidemic through Seattle adults and especially children, lampooning exaggerated symptoms and Christmas fever with a mock Santa list and social commentary. It also includes observations on festive drunkenness, Geisha culture in Nippon, and the plight of Youhiwara girls in Tokyo under economic and social pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Twanta
Mai
War tax drive to reached 7 million new taxpayers
Daniel C. Roper leads a national effort to collect income tax from about 7 million Americans by March 1. County defense councils and a large deputy force will educate towns across the country, delivering speeches and distributing pamphlets to explain the war tax and its role in funding liberty.
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Daniel C. Roper
Internal Revenue
Roper
Pharaoh
Hehoboam
United States
Deputy
Internal Revenue Cal
Farcical Clippings and Household Tips From Newsprint
A collage of humorous items and advisory quips from a 1900s paper includes jokes about Uncle Sam loans to the rubber and diamond trade, a Kiev style recipe for camouflage gingerbread, thrift tips, a mayoral remark, and a child’s joke about twins named Thunder and Lightning.
East druggist to tell Seattle story in publicity tour
I. W. J. Fenton a Seattle druggist promised the Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club to distribute literature about Seattle and the state while touring the East. He aims to dispel joke stories about Puget Sound and encourage loyal local travel. The chamber plans include personal service from citizens traveling outside the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. W. J. Fenton
Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club
Seattle
Puget Sound
Humpty Dumpty on the wall and the fall
A playful yet surreal sequence follows Humpty Dumpty and his sister Metagrabola. Humpty laments the hard wall and falls, while the King's Men and Horses arrive but cannot mend him, leaving Metagrabola in tears as the wall remains the scene.
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Humpty Dumpty
Metagrabola
Metaereabola
Niobe
Humpty Humpty
Little Hrother
Little Brother Humpty Dumpty
Brother Humpty Dumpty
Sister Metagrabola
Bieter
Brother Dumpty Dumpty
Littl
Little Brother
Autoist Hangs Two Days Down Bluff Near Eureka
A. McKeen of San Francisco recounts a man trapped in his automobile 100 feet down a steep bluff above Eureka California. The car lodged against a stump after the driver backed off a grade to yield to a passing team. He endured two days without food or drink while awaiting rescue.
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Mobile
A. McKeen
San Francisco
Suspected I W W Member Arrested in Chicago Case
Joseph H. Manning, 43, named as an I W W member recently indicted in Chicago, was in the city Friday awaiting investigation. He was arrested Thursday night at First Ave and Washington St and did not carry any propaganda at arrest.
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Joseph H. Manning
Chicago
I 1
First Ave
Washington St
Chambers and Seattle Real Estate Groups Join Data Effort
The state development bureau of the Chamber of Commerce and the Seattle Real Estate association agree to cooperate in furnishing data to prospective investors or home seekers.
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State Development Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Seattle Real Estate Association
Red Cross Christmas Drive to Launch in King and Kit
Big effort mobilizes Monday for Red Cross membership drive in King and Kit sap counties. J F Douglas heads a committee guiding a city wide campaign with 80 districts. Members at $1 yearly will be urged through speakers posters pageants and block canvassing. Congress John F Miller may speak in mass meetings. O B Barefoot a merchant in Harnett North Carolina noted.
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Red Cross
King and
Kitsap
J. F. Douglas
John F. Miller
Miss Edwina Glenn to wed Captain James A Garfield
Edwina Glenn daughter of General Edwin P Glenn stationed at Camp Sherman Chillicothe Ohio is to marry Captain James A Garfield grandson of a former president The couple met while Garfield trained at Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana where General Glenn commanded the officers training camp Taxidermists advise against using a fun more than a double barrel for hunting humming birds when collecting them to be stuffed.
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Edwina Glenn
Edwin P. Glenn
Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
James A. Garfield
United States
Miss Glenn
Garfield
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
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Ornstein’s
Halifax
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Trotsky
Brazil
Gill
L. A. Patterson
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Memphis
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Willie Smith
Nippon
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