Anti-Jap Petitions Spread for Initiative Measure 31
Veterans in Seattle and across Washington circulate anti Japanese land ownership petitions to bar foreign leasing of agricultural lands. Jules Markow reports 260 signatures. a veterans committee organized to send petitions to every post in the state. The circular cites governor support and conventions backing strict Japanese exclusion and warns valleys like White and Puyallup to resist Japanese settlement.
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Veterans of Foreign Ware
Jules Markow
Mist Division Association
Y Post
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Bert C. Ross
Miller Free Man
Ewing D. Colvin
Philip Tindall
California
Puyallup
Tecoma
Beattie
Yakima
Japan
Wash
Tea estates shutter as industry mood falters in Colombo
Several low country tea estates close amid grave industry mood downturn. Government urged to abolish export tax. A Chinese trust controls the dye weed on firecrackers made from eibuca, a Philippine wood.
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Colombo
I Was Chosen in the National Halo Girl Beauty Contest
An aspiring performer recalls early stage life with the Ziegfeld and Mayflower circuits. She describes fan letters from high school girls and a chance encounter with a persistent man at the stage door who pressures her for a date and a possible job offer, ending with her fleeing to her cousin.
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Ziegfeld
Mayflower Photoplay Corporation
Lilenfeld
Chris
Min
Arma
Edna
Fanna
Mr. White
Peter
Monroe
Wis
Edith May
Florenz Ziegfeld
New York
Mike May
Edith
Miriam Cooper
Marshal Foch Receives Belgian Title in Spa
PAMIS France December reports Marshal Foch added the title Reus geole of Boa by a Belgian municipality in Spa according to a luminated manuscript. The question remains how to address him now.
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Marshal Foch
Spa
Pamis
France
Marshal Foch Haa
Germans from Tihine territories join French Foreign Legion
A large wave of German nationals from the occupied Tihine territories enlist in the French Foreign Legion, seeking service abroad amid wartime upheaval.
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Tihine
Fereign Legon
Pick Successor to Sen Lamping for 82nd District
Voters in the 82nd Senatorial district Beattie will cast ballots in a special election December 21 called by Gov. Hart to fill the vacancy after Senator George Lamping resigned upon becoming port commissioner. The district runs from Youler Way to Denny Way with Lake Washington and Lake Union marking its eastern and northern edges.
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Hart
Tost
George BR. Lamping
Lamping Wes
Youler Way
Lake Washington
Broadway
Ping
Weet
Pine
Hellevue
Bellevue
Denny Way
Weatlake
Lake Union
Women Jurors Weep but Do Their Duty
A coroner's jury of women in Prim, Pennsylvania found city polietor Martin C. Cornell responsible for the death of William Chuly hit by a motor vehicle. Cornell's defense claimed he was at home at the time of the accident.
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Prim, Pa
Martin C. Cornell
It's to Be Weaker Sex No More Decree
London dispatch reports the Woman's Freedom league deriding the idea of women as weaker. They declare women's role is equal to men and that women can govern secrets and pursue public life, challenging prevailing gender norms.
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Orce
Eleventh Avenue
London
Woman's Freedom League
Stags
Tandon
Sevenoaks Iaenae
Hackville
Verdun battlefield mule joins Texan camp as mascot
In Galveston on December 19 Texan soldiers acquire a mule named Mile Verdun born on the Verdun battlefield in France. The animal is taken to Camp Travis as a mascot for troops eager to donate blood for a $25 fee.
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Galveston
Tex
Verdun
Verdun Battefield
France
Travis
Mascot
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