Convicted I W W Members Face Police Court Sentences
The report outlines charges against I W W organizers Bruce Perry Necro Archie Emmerson and John B. Gordon of Seattle. They were sentenced to city jail terms and fines under the new criminal syndication ordinance. Additional suspects including M Baskin Tonynos Harry Smith Green and T A Montgomery faced varying outcomes as judges released some cases.
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Romance Ends in Death for Seattle Girl
Hortense, a Seattle arrival, died in a double gas tragedy in Bohemia with Brooklyn photographer Hares and a male friend. The trio left a restaurant then collapsed. their bodies were found side by side in bed with a punctured gas pipe and food nearby. The police recovered only fragments of the scene as investigators pressed for details.
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Son York
Find Body of Man Drowned in Blakely Hunt
Dec 17 reported the body of Ora Hamilton, son of J B Hamilton, of this city, recovered after a drowning during a Sunday hunt on Blakely. The body was in the local harbor awaiting funeral arrangements.
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Conciliators Seek Compromise on Treaty Ratification
An unofficial bipartisan conciliation committee in the Senate works to draft compromise reservations to salvage ratification. Democrats led by Hitchcock favor a negotiated settlement with President Wilson's acceptance uncertain, while Underwood pushes compromise and Knox seeks unanimous consent or referral to foreign relations.
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Hitchcock
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Wilean
Underwood
White House
League of Nation
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Philippines and Japan Grooming for Prohibition
Vancouver reports Dr D M Gandier prohibition leader from California says the Philippines will enact prohibition soon and Japan may follow within five years. He cites recent missions in China and Japan and notes centers in Kobe Kyoto Onomaka as future hubs. He compares American leadership through prohibition to world leadership.
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Burglars Take 7000 Cigarettes From Nagel's Pharmacy
For the second time in a month Nagel's Pharmacy at 3401 Rainier Ave was robbed between midnight and 4 a.m. on Wednesday. Seven thousand cigarets and a quantity of razors, knives and other loot were reported missing. The proprietor suspects a gang of boys. After a prior robbery last month several boys were arrested but released after promising to reform.
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Fire razes two Milburn Wagon works buildings and 30 autos
Fire in Toledo yesterdy caused about 500000 dollars in damage to the Milburn Wagon Works stock and two four story brick buildings. Thirty electric automobiles and other property burned as a wall collapsed narrowly injuring a dozen firefighters. Origin of the blaze remains undetermined.
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Milburn
Skagit River Power Project Promises Lower Seattle Rates
Councilman K H Thomson tells Municpal league the Skagit Gorge Creek development with a 5 million dollar outlay will yield cheaper electricity than oil or coal based plants. He projects 400000 horsepower of peak power for Seattle once operational and suggests Lake Union may be dispensed with.
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Thomson
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Lakenion
Chief Warren Fires Officer M Reynolds After Arrest
Officer M Reynolds a Beattle patrolman was dismissed after a Monday night arrest on a complaint by Ira Lattin. Testimony said Reynolds was intoxicated while off duty. Teynoyda released on $50 bail for drunken and disorderly conduct. Hien Pronger 82 shipyard worker faced police court for concealed weapons charges amid a separate robbery claim by Herman Cohen and Louis Rosen.
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Din
Joe F. Warren
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Teynoyda
Sugar relief moves to President. House extends sugar board
Washington December 17 United Press relief of the sugar famine is before the government today. Congress by action of the house last night gave notice to the president that it approved extension of the powers of the sugar equalization board through 1920. The bill leaves to conference as the house conferred broader powers than the senate, reviving wartime authority including the power to loan or commandeer sugar stocks and entire crops.
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United Prem
Congress
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Sugar Equalization Board
Senate
Forks Spread From Venice Through Italy
The arrival of the table fork in Venice during the eleventh century by a Byzantine princess marks the start of its spread across Italy. This development highlights how culinary customs traveled from Venice to broader Italian regions.
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Venice
Italy
Steel firm to locate in city with $1 million plant
Ceff Porter announces Seattle plan for Western Holling Mille Corporation. 65 acres leased at 3th and Danger for a steel mill to cost over 1,000,000 dollars. Capacity to employ 20,000 at full operation in about eight months. J Johnson to manage under a two year contract. No promissory stock sold.
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Porter
3Th
Danger
Western Holling Mille Corporation
Chicago
J. Johnson
Fearing Robbery Causes Jump From Train Near Revelstoke
John and Joseph Kainovek leaped from a Canadian Pacific Express near Revelstoke British Columbia last Saturday evening and scattered 5000 dollars into brush. They were found near Ross Peak nine miles away. John’s feet were frozen. They said they fled so no one would rob them and that they were starting out on their own.
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Bulgarian commander Gien Protogueroff escapes Sofia prison
Advices from Belgrade to the Serbian embassy in Washington report that Bulgarian military commander Gien Protogueroff escaped from a Sofia prison while implicated in atrocities in Serbia during the Bulgarian occupation.
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Gien, Protogueroff
Serbia
Sofia
Delgrade
Minister Mortara to lead war office in place of Albricci
An old notice reports Minister Mortara will replace Albricci as head of the war office. The document references Boldt's French pastry shop at Uptown 1414 34 Ave, Nun Town, with a 913 TD Ave address.
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Pay Increases for City Officials Put to Voters
The judiciary committee approved charter amendments to raise pay for City Comptroller Marty W. Carroll from 4200 to 5000 dollars, for the corporation counsel from 4800 to 46000 dollars, for the city treasurer by 400 dollars, and for nine city council members from 4000 to 5000 dollars a year, contingent on voter approval next March.
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Marty W. Carroll
Wood Silent On Politics Amid 1900s Convention Talk
Denver December dispatch reports Maj Gen Leonard Wood refusing to discuss politics or potential presidential nomination. He refused to comment on whether he would accept the Republican nomination at the June convention and showed interest in a Payne claim about possible filing requirements for South Dakota’s proposed convention.
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Col
Leonard Wood
Payne
South Dakota
Wood
They See Him Home Then Take His Coin
Police hunt two men in calore garb and a man in a police uniform who allegedly accompanied a man home Monday night to steal 43 dollars in cash and checks. Also reported stolen were a watch valued at 25 dollars a neck lace 50 dollars two coral rings vanity items and 5 dollars cash from the room of Mrs. K Tolliver at the Arcade hotel. Glenn McConnell of Gold Bar reported 6 dollars missing from his trousers in his Diamond hotel room.
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Ole Hooden
First Ave
K. Tolliver
Arcade Hotel
Second Ave
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Gold Bar
Diamond Hotel
Fifth Ave
Seattle Voters Won't Pass Plan For Police Commissioner
Seattle council Judiciary committee rejected a proposed charter amendment to create a police commissioner. Councilman A T Drake argued the plan would strip mayoral control and require time for a more carefully drawn amendment. The committee voted to indefinitely postpone action, noting 69 days before election day to act.
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Council Judiciary Committee
Angle
A. T. Drake
Drake
Coal output nearing peak in midwest mines
Coal production in the region is nearing its peak with miners returning to work and plants in Kansas, Indiana, and Illinois almost back to normal. Transportation remains in good shape and operators expect demand to be met, despite cold weather.
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Chicago
United Press
Kansas
Indiana
Dlinois
Florence Upstairs Store Ad Sells Outfit Bundle
Readable ad text promotes a sale offering a suit coat dress and hat at the Florence Upstairs Store. It emphasizes bundled savings for multiple apparel items in a single purchase.
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Florence
Treasury Restores Most Burned Cash to Iowa Man
The United States treasury department restored to Nicholas Pyblo all but $26 of $1,960 in bills burned when his child tossed the roll into the stove. The money, charred beyond recognition in Sioux City, Iowa, was recovered after November.
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United States Treasury Department
Santa Claus
Nicholas Pyblo
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