Coolies in Bond Thru U S Face Bitter Prospect
San Francisco December reports thousands of Chinese laborers travel in bond through the United States toward Cuban plantations while others head for Cuba from Asia. Sugar markets collapse in Cuba, plans consider action to curb the influx as officials contend with jurisdiction and on board bond rules. Many arriving dockside workers share stories of hunger and unemployment, while trains to Tampa carry workers under watchful inspectors and sealed car windows amid efforts to return them to China.
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San Francisco
United States
Orient
Pacific
Cuba
Havana
China
San Fran
Tampa
Florida
Chines
Akee
Vast Pacific Power Plan Approved By Seattle Experts
Seattle electric experts voiced support for a plan to create a vast electrical grid linking hydro power from British Columbia to Mexico and tying together energy from Washington Oregon California and other Pacific coast points.
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British Columbia
Mexico
Washington
Oregon
California
Pacific Coast
Seattle
Local Marriage Licenses Births and Deaths Record
Marriage licenses list to 12 names with residences including Seattle Kansas City Spokane and Buckley. Birth notices note several girls and two boys with addresses in Seattle Bremerton and Spokane. Deaths report Sophia Johnson 62 and William A Buckley 58 in Seattle and Buckley respectively.
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Ane Gale
James V
Kansas City
Legal Pyle
Effie
Seattie
Legal Whaley
Harry J
Seattle
Legal Olanie
Grace J. Beattie
Legal Aan
William
Spokane
Burns
Nellie
Detroit
Mich
Prac Foreman
Charles P
Buckley
Legal Miller
Zetta
Legal Oung
Louis C
Legal Lone
Egal
Johnson
Sophia
Denny Way
William A
Dayton Ave
Ship News Tides in Seattle
Fragmented notices list tide times and vessel movements in Seattle harbor. The readable fragments reference high and low tides with approximate times but contain garbled data and inconsistencies.
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Seattle
Severe storm warning reaches BC coast seas ports
The southwest storm warning is continued as a severe storm moves inland over British Columbia. Strong southwest gales are forecast today and tonight from Point Reyes to Tateosh Island affecting all sea ports along the coast.
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British Columbia
Point Reyes
Tateosh Island
Seattle naval wireless station to gain new license
Mayor Caldwell and Councilman Tindall reported from Senator Wesley L. Jones that the Seattle port waterfront wireless station will receive a new license. The U S radio inspector said the harbor master must accept all commercial business or surrender and take a restricted license, a move officials say would ruin the station’s value to the port facilities.
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Seattle
Naval Wireless Station
Caldwell
Fred Tindall
Wesley L. Jones
Ths
U. 8
Shipping Board Suspends Preferential Rates Order
The United States Shipping Board asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to suspend the preferential railroad freight rates for Amer exports and imports moving to and from American ships at American ports until further notice. The suspension lasts until January 1, with Pacific coast ports except Los Angeles protesting the current enforcement. Chairman Benson expects to seek later application to ports and routes with sufficient American ships.
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Washington
United States Shipping Board
Interstate Commerce Commission
Amer
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
Benson Snd
Puget Sound Circle Raises Reward for Northwest Indians
The Puget Sound Maritime circle announced at a Friday meeting that over 400 dollars has been collected to reward Native Americans of the Northwest Washington coast who aided shipwrecked mariners. Additional large contributions were promised.
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Puget Sound
Refrigerator boats for apples proposed to move fruit abroad
Washington producers should support a plan to use refrigerator boats to transport apples from the state to South America and Europe. J B Crutchfield president of the American Fruit Growers Inc spoke at the members luncheon at the Masonic clubroom.
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Washington
South America
Europe
J. 8. Crutchfield
American Fruit Growers, Inc
Members’ Council
Masonic
Reduced Shipping Rates to Seattle by U S Shipping Board
The U S Shipping Board announced lower freight levels to Seattle for rubber tin tea and pineapples from Singapore and the Straits Settlements. A differential of 11.50 a ton favoring New York was replaced by a Seattle preferential of 4.62 a ton.
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Singapore
Straits Settlements
Seattle
U. S. Shipping Board
New York
Wlre
Hawaii Maru Arrival Expected With Passengers and Cargo
Hawaii Maru of Onaka Shosen Kaisha was due to dock here Saturday after touching Vancouver with 1 500 tons of cargo and 116 passengers. Weather reports from Tatoosh Island note variable cloud cover and winds ranging from southwest to northwest with light rain and rising barometer.
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Hawaii Maru
Onaka Shosen Kaisha
Vancouver
B. C
Arrivals and Departures Reported for Alaska Sailings
Arrived in Seattle from southeastern Alaska at 10 20 a m on December 11. Departures include sailing to Ketchikan for southwestern via southeastern Alaska at 6 30 p m on December 10.
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Griffin
Seattle
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Seattie
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Halboa
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Astoria
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Victoria
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Oriental Porte
Alaskan Vessel Sails Ketchikan Bound December 10
A vessel set sail from Ketchikan heading northbound on December 10 at 10 30 p m. Jetforsom is listed as the operator or destination reference in the sparse OCR readout.
New York Exchange Shows Reactionary Trend as Steel Falls
New York stocks opened mixed and closed lower on December 11 with United States Steel slipping toward Priday's level and several issues such as Tobacco and Liggett & Myers down. Major closes included Baldwin at 89 1/2 and Southern Pacific near 98, while gains appeared for American Woolen and Yan American Petroleum amid a generally softer session.
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Comcible Steel
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Southern Railway
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Bineclair
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General Motors
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Northern Pacific
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American Woolen
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Crucible
Grain futures rise as short covering boosts Chicago trade
Chicago Board of Trade prices show strength with short covering lifting grain values. Wheat and corn advance while oats and soyjar board activity remains mixed amid bullish domestic demand and reports of Canadian stock repaid.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Local Market Prices for Dairy Poultry and Feed
A period OCR of market listings shows wholesale price data for dairy products including cream bricks and other dairy items, plus live poultry such as turkeys and ducks, and dressed meats. It also lists hay grain and feed prices including corn, wheat, alfalfa, and alfalfa meal with city wholesale rates.
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Peesh Ranch
PPCM
Ducke-Creeeed Revilers
Ibeeansa
Foreign currency markets close lower in New York trading
Foreign exchange ends generally weaker in New York with Sterling at 82.44 percent and cables at 92.45 percent. Other figures show France at 840, Canada at 4.44 cents, Danish kroner around 14.60.
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New York
France
New York Coffee and Sugar Market Note
New York markets report granulated sugar at 1.25 per pound for quality batches with 81% purity. Coffee prices are listed for several grades with varying per pound costs and percentages.
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New York
Dea
Santos
Portland Market Report Sees Little Change Across Livestock
Portland market updates show cattle and hog markets nominal with no changes. Sheep and butter also steady with cheese triplets priced per pound and hens listed at a fixed per pound rate.
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Portland
Public Markets Queen City Market Prices and Items Listed
A long fabric of stall numbers and product prices appears, detailing meats, dairy, fruit, produce, canned goods, and household items across Queen City markets. Includes various stalls such as Stall 26 and Stall 37 28, with prices for beef, pork, salmon, butter, eggs, apples, potatoes, corn meal, beans, and more, plus a note about the Scottish wedding custom of breaking an oatmeal cake over the bride’s head for luck.
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Pike Place
Kingaford
Bnider
Kellogg's
Scotland
Fruit from South Coming and Northern Oranges Prices
Quotations from Western jobbers show oranges from northern California moving slowly while fruit from southern districts shows better demand. Oranges were priced on Saturday between 4.4 and 5.75 dollars a box. Field sweet potatoes near season end with early next week arrivals of cellar sweets expected and priced around 6 to 6 cents. Butter and eggs held steady at unchanged prices.
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Nouthern California
Seattle
Warburg Urges US Action on Foreign Trade Plan
Paul H. Warburg said in Chicago that world trade is deadlocked and the United States must back a proposed 100 million dollar foreign trade finance corporation. He urged mobilizing financial resources and Europe creating credit conditions, and he said the plan could aid farmers.
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Don E. Chamberlain
Chicago
United States
Foreign Trade Finance Corporation
Paul H. Warburg
New York
Federal Reserve Board
Warburg
Europe
Argentina
Deny Married Women Work Aims To Relieve Unemployment
A Chamber of Commerce meeting chaired by Mayor Caldwell urged prioritizing employed heads of families over married women in business. The group called for residents to buy home products, employers to offer some work before Christmas, and for city county and state to proceed with public improvements to spur jobs.
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Chamber of Commerce
Caldwell
Banks Urge Farmers to Pay Debts in Seventh District
Chicago federal reserve bank urged farmers and county banks in the seventh district to liquidate loans. The appeal urged Iowa farmers to sell crops to meet debts and share in price declines, noting all industries feel the readjustment.
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Chicago
Seventh Federal Reserve District
Chicago Federal Reserve Bank
Salmon men plan campaign to sell pink and chum salmon
Fifty packers from the Far North, facing a glut of canned salmon and weak demand, met at the New Washington hotel to finance a national advertising drive. Leaders W H Paul Kamus Puyallup Nathan Eckatein Schwabacher F ro and P J Andrae urged promoting pink and chum salmon as desirable food. They said housewives largely want red sockeye though pinks and chums are caught yearly.
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New Washington Hotel
W. H. Paul Kamus
Puyallup
Nathan Eckatein
Schwabacher Fro
P. J. Andrae
Pacific Salmon Fisherien Association
Shin bone grafts spinal column in 13 year old
In Los Angeles a 13 year old boy named Cleo Hibbs had a piece of shin bone grafted onto his spinal column after two years with a curved spine. He had been confined to a cast and lay on his stomach for two weeks before the operation and is expected to leave the hospital in a few weeks as a healthy patient.
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Los Angeles
Cleo Hibbs
Fight to overturn adoption of Betty Quient renamed Elizabeth Kooken
John Quient challenged Judge King Dykeman's adoption order under which his former wife Artell Kooken and her new husband Elmer Kooken adopted his daughter Betty Quient and changed her name to Elizabeth Kooken. He says he learned of the proceedings late and feared effects on Mrs. Kooken's health. The adoption occurred November 28, 1919.
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King Dykeman
Artell
Edna Kooken
Elmer Ralph Kooken
Betty Quient
Elizabeth Kooken
Quient
Reorganization Motion Advances in Congress
Washington December 11 The house rules committee recommended immediate action on Senator Smoot Utahs resolution for government department reorganization A joint senate and house committee would frame reorganization plans The measure passed the senate at the last session.
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House Rules Committee
Smoot
Utah
Senate
House
War Laws Repeal Referred by Rules Committee
Washington December 11 the rules committee recommended expediting the Volstead resolution repealing the war laws. Consideration of the measure may begin in the house late today.
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Washington
House
Rules Committee
Accused of Bombing, Smith Questions Plea in Court
Marcus Elon Smith faced the presiding judge J. T. Ronald Friday afternoon to plead to a charge of damaging property and endangering life. The court entered a plea of not guilty. Smith is accused of exploding dynamite in the home of F. R. Shong at 215 Belmont Ave N.
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Marcus Elon Smith
J. T. Ronald
Guillty. Smith
F. R. Shong
Belmont Ave
Financial clears and balances for Pacific Northwest cities
Seattle Tacoma and Portland clearing figures listed with balances show large transaction volumes. Clearings reach 1 997 535.00 in Seattle and 5 121 91.00 in Portland with corresponding balances of 681 799.00 and 06 371.00.
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Seattle
Tacoma
Portland
Taxpayers In Ington Required To Pay Income Tax By December
William T Heeka chief collector announces all residents must pay their income tax in full by December 15 with abatement rules applying as in Texas. A telegram from Washington confirms partial tax scope and mentions ongoing consideration of new war law.
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Ington
Iber
William T. Heeka
Internal Revenue
Stoner
Washington States
Texas
Claion
Wheat prices fall as bakers trim loaf costs
The piece surveys wheat flour and bread prices, noting bakers shave cents off loaves while flour and wheat drop, yet profits stay slim. It explains Hoover's cost breakdown for a loaf, with labor as the largest share, and mentions wage swings and farmer blame amid rising production costs.
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Edward M
Chicago
Everly
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
New York
Brookting
Oklahoma
Death of Olive Thomas Clarified as Accidental
Paris officials concluded the inquest into the death of Olive Thomas, the American film actress who died here months ago, determining that accidental poisoning caused her death. The closure was announced after the coroner ruled the evidence supported an accidental death finding.
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Paris
Olive Thomas
Parcel Post to Norway Temporarily Resumes
Parcel post to Norway, abolished a few days ago, has temporarily resumed. A memorandum to this effect was received by George E. Williams, superintendent of mails.
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Norway
George E. Williams
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