Dreamland rink hosts crucial Tuesday dance for Mother Ryther’s home
Dreamland rink plans a Tuesday night dance to raise funds for Mother Ryther’s home in Seattle. Joe Schermer promotes a 25 cent admission for five dances. Organizers urge community turnout to make Christmas brighter for the children and families served by the home.
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Dreamland Rink
Mother Rythers
Fes
Mother Ryther
Seattle
Joe Schermer
Joe
Appetite for Booze Promises Quick Cure by Quackenbos
An advertisement touts a herbal and mental suggestion cure for alcoholic appetite. It claims Dr Quackenbos and Dr Swick offer treatments and a book on testimonials, presenting mind over matter as a solution and inviting readers to attend a free health talk at Melbourne Theatre.
Swick Institute Magnetism and Suggestion Office Hours
The Swick Institute of Magnetism and Suggestion lists address at Second Aves between University and Antoniata. Office hours run on weekdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 7:10 p.m. to 8:40 p.m. Contact via phone Main 4502.
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Swick Institute of Magnetism and Suggestion
Arende Hioek Viret
University
Antoniata
Vhone Main
Divorce Factory Hunt Ends In Courtroom Chaos
The judge presiding over a chaotic divorce hearing day in Minneapolis faces a fractured system as cases collapse amid threats, affidavits, and furious attorneys. Lane Summers fights to enforce the law while couples and witnesses scramble through the milling process ending with a shuttered divorce factory for the day.
Letters on marriage choice and etiquette guidance
A 21 year old asks Grey Q I about choosing between two suitors and family advice on love and happiness. Readers respond urging to marry for love but consider harmony and practical needs, with opinions on engagement rings gifts and etiquette. A separate item notes bartender Frank Letterman was murdered in San Francisco as he entered a saloon.
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Miss Grey
Frank Letterman
San Francisco
First Xmas Show at YMCA With Slide Illustrations
The Story of the First Christmas will be presented at the Y M C A Sunday club meeting in the association auditorium at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Harry E. Wilson, president of the Western Washington Sunday School association, will give the talk, illustrated with colored slides and Christmas songs.
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Association Auditorium
Harry E. Wilson
Western Washington Sunday School Association
Three Die in Saloon Gun Fight in St Paul
In St Paul three bandits died and Detective Paul Gottfried was badly wounded after a saloon gun battle that erupted during a police roundup of holdup men. The shootout began when detectives confronted the trio inside the saloon, with two suspects killed on the scene and the third dying later in hospital.
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ST. Paul
Paul Gottfried Hes
Gottfried
Chicago Mayor vows graft cleanup after policeman's death
Chicago December 18 The mayor charged that city guardsmen shield crime and are inefficient. He said he would pursue the graft and protect the public even at personal risk. The death of Policeman Burke in a highwaymen firefight prompted the remarks and a possible foul plot investigation.
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Meert
Lee
Chicago
Thompson
Burke
Wrong hotel address cited in robbery report
A police error misreported the location of a theft in a Pike street hotel. The report should have stated 1015 Pike Street, not 105% Pike Street, as the crime scene.
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H. A. O'Hara
Pike St
400 Men Die In Arms Of Young Divine At Front
San Francisco reports Rev. Samuel Cranston Benson, a Presbyterian preacher turned Red Cross attaché, returning with grim casualty statistics. He reveals 400 men dead in his unit and harsh battlefield wounds as Europe’s front lines claim many lives.
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Young Divine
San Francisco
Europe
Samuel Cranston Benson
Pennsylvania
American Red Cross
Benson
Attaches Boy Ed and Von Papen to Sail This Month
The German embassy says Attache Boy Ed and Ambassador Von Papen will sail for Rotterdam on Holland America steamers likely December 28 and December 22 respectively, after being recalled at America's request.
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Boy-Ed
von Papen
Washington
Boy-Ed and
America
Rotterdam
Soldier recalls youths and elders in trenches
A veteran describes witnessing France and Germany deploy 15 and 16 year old boys alongside 60 and 70 year old men to trenches as he departed, highlighting harsh wartime mobilization.
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France
Germany
Swanks mark 60th anniversary on family farm
In Albany Dre Dee, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Swank celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on their Tall man farm. He is 88 and she 86, and they have lived 59 years on the same Kansas farm, where farmers are said to be growing long beards to deter mosquitoes.
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E. Dattach
John A
Friday
L. Hoyt
California
Ballista
Summers
Kisselwetter
Hat
Attorney Hall
Lephe 8
Kinselwetter
Herman Kinselwetter
Hall
Martha June Rothwell
Thomas
Rothwell
England
Mollie L. Handy
J. B. Handy
Martha R. Coata
Denneson B. Coata
Syracuse
Albany, Dre
Dee
Philip Swank
Tallman
Swank
Kansas
Sunday school children aid the poor this Christmas
Over half the Sunday school children in Seattle will play Santa Claus this Christmas. Churches adopt the White Christmas idea with children bringing gifts for less fortunate youngsters. St. Mark's Episcopal and Trinity Parish will perform miracle plays, and other services follow at Queen Anne United Presbyterian, Green Lake Methodist, and St. John's Episcopal through late December.
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Seattle
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Star of Bethlehem
Trinity Parish
Queen Anne United
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