Love Lights Mystery Explained In California
Brief signals seen off the California coast near Richmond and Berkeley were traced to a love code between Capt. H F Dunningan of the Santa Fe ferry San Pedro and his 12 year old daughter Florence at Berkeley’s State Institute for the Deaf. Florence watches nightly for a stream of light held to her window signaling her father’s visits.
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San Francisco
Cal
California
Richmond
Berkeley
H. F. Dunningan
Santa Fe
San Pedro
Florence
State Institute For the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
Daddy
Uttle Florence
Capt Bl aike in German submarine case
London report says Andrew Bonar Law announced the government acted to save Capt. Blackie of the Cel edonian who was captured by a German submarine and faces possible execution for ramming a submarine.
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London
Andrew Bonar Law
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Blackie
Celedonian
Palmer funds create motherhood school for girls in Detroit
In her will Mrs. Lizzie M. Palmer of Great Neck New York provides more than 4 million dollars to establish a motherhood school for girls over ten. The intended home will be built in Detroit to educate girls for motherhood and wifehood. she was widow of former U S Senator Thomas W Palmer of Michigan, who died last July.
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Mineola
L. J
Lizzie M. Palmer
Great Neck
United States
Thomas W.W. Palmer
Michigan
Detroit
Miss Stevens of Chicago Titled as Most Beautiful Suffragist
The question arises if Miss Stevens of Chicago is the United States most beautiful suffragist. Following the death of Inez Milholland Bosvane, the former titleholder, the search is on for a new owner. Stevens is described as athletic with brown hair blue eyes pink cheeks and a dusky complexion. she chairs the department of organization in the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.
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Miss Stevens
Chicago
United States
Mra Inez Milholland Botsrevain
Department of Organization
Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage
Girls Hobo Lone Journey to Webb City for Mother
Mary and Nellie Carey aged 20 and 22 beat their way nearly 1000 miles to Webb City Missouri to reach their dying mother. They rode freight cars and were detained in Parsons Kansas where identity was found. A fund paid the fare home after arrival showed mother was not in immediate danger. They recounted the perilous trip and learned to forage on the road.
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Webe City
Mary
Nellie Carey
Carson City
Nev
Missouri
Parsons
Kan
Webb City
la Junta
Col
Mulligan
No Man Can Tell the Truth for an Hour
William Collier discusses truth and deceit in an interview from New York, reflecting on his role in Nothing But the Truth. He argues that everyone lies to some degree and cites relationships and self-deception as common.
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Willie
New York
Willam Collier
Collier
Les
Taming the Wild and Woolly Payallup
In 1900 Pierce County won an injunction and halted the embankment project. The 1906 flood shifted the river south, sparking endless lawsuits as counties fought and farms across the fertile valleys fled the floods. A solution was desperately needed.
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Ment
Pierce County
Inter-County River Improvement sparks cross county feud
The 20 mile Inter-County River Improvement along the White, Stuck and Puyallup rivers aims to end a long border feud between Pierce and King counties in Washington. The project straightens channels, reduces flood risk, and has drawn national engineering attention after decades of shifting channels and deadly floods.
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Stuck and Puyallup
United States
Engineering Record
Engineering News
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Pierce and
King
Washington
Indian School
Puyallup River
Tacoma
Puyallup
Auburn
Buckley
White River
King-Pierce County
Duwamish
Elliott Bay
Seattle
Stuck
Commencement Bay
King County
Pierce County
Murphy
Scotch Herring Packers Return to Vancouver Run
About a dozen Scotch workers from Port Walter Alaska traveled via Seattle to Vancouver B C. The packing run totals around 20 000 cases of smoked herring and several thousand barrels of salted herring.
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Port Walter
Alaska
Seattle
Vancouver
B. C
Donald McLean
Buzu Captured by German Forces Declared
Sayville December 15 reports official statement that Buzu has been captured by German forces deactivating a key Allied threat. The brief notice offers no further details on location or circumstances of the capture.
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Berlin
Sayville
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United Wreckage Syndicate
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William CoLuten
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White Meat CO
Scotch Herring Packers
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First Ave
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Binyon Optical Co
Seneca St
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