Newlyweds Charities T Kelsey Arrest in Salem
T Kelsey spent Christmas in Salem jail after police said he eloped with a girl under age. His Seattle bride visited him as officials considered release, but Salem held him at the request of authorities despite the couple’s marriage. The bride, almost 18, said she is married to Charley and may not return to her family.
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T. Kelsey
Salem
Ore
Kelsey
J. D. Landis
J. Hymes
First Ave
Cedar St
City
Charley
Strips and Sparks from the Old Time Mill Tales
The article recalls accidents in rolling mills and metalwork as workers describe dangerous near misses. Welders, hammerers, and a foreman recount slips, severed fingers, a man split by a saw, and narrow escapes from heavy machinery. The narrator reflects on luck and hard labor across decades.
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Jerry
Hearing Continues Over City Censor A A Theatre Case
The Class A theatre case on alleged violations of the city censor law continued in police court after witnesses were heard. The theatre was charged with showing parts of The Tong Man banned by city censors. Goon Dip the Chinese consul denounced the film as slander, claiming the supposed Chinamen depicted are actually Japanese.
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City Theatre
Goon Dip
Soldier for Christmas Returns from War to Family Greeting
Arthur C A Langdon, after four years away in combat in the world war and occupation duty in Germany, plans a Christmas reunion with mother Mrs C Langdon at 1102 Fifth Ave. He will arrive on a Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul train at 8 45 p m. His brother Leonard J Langdon, who served in Mexico and in France, will meet him at the depot. Friends plan a festive welcome to the homecoming soldier. Langdon left Seattle with the Sunset Division and was among Seattle’s first volunteers.
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Germany
Arthur C. A. Langdon
C. Langdon
Fifth Ave
Langdon
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Leonard J. Langdon
Arthur
Mexico
Leonard
France
Seattle
Sunset Division
Thieves Loot Keyport Postoffice and Store
Postoffice and general store in Keyport Washington were burglarized on Tuesday night. Thieves took about 300 dollars in stamps and postal funds and 400 dollars worth of merchandise. Postoffice Inspector H B Whitney filed a detailed report after returning Thursday night. no arrests have been made.
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Keyport
Wash
H. B. Whitney
Home advertises easy payments for houses in classified section
The notice extols cottage living with lobster banquet imagery and the value of home ownership. It urges readers to check the Want Ad Page for homes for sale with easy payments and to visit real estate offices to find suitable options for smaller incomes.
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Sherry
Dorothy May Valkey to Join Columbia Symphony Tour
Seattle dancer Dorothy May Valkey, hailed as The Pavilion of the West, will be a solo performer and assistant to conductor Mine Phangel Knight as the Columbia Symphony Orchestra of Portland begins a January 16 tour across the continent. The all western women ensemble travels south to the Mexican border and east to Minneapolis, showcasing Valkey alongside sisters Ursule and Lucile Volkey and other family members.
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Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Portland
Seattle
Dorothy May Valkey
Paviona
The
Weat
Minneapolis
Mine
Phangel Knight
Dainty Misa Volkey
Theodore Volkey
Summit Ave
N. Volkey
Ter
Dope Bill Pitches Narcotics Crackdown Before Washington Lawmakers
Representatives of the American White Crows urged passage of a drafted law to make narcotics sales a felony and use a misdemeanor in Washington. The bill proposes state controlled hospitals for addicts under the health board and state health commissioner oversight. Emergency jail space would host drug treatment under the plan.
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Washington
United States
New Washington Hotel
State Board of Health
State Commissioner of Health
Dog Eats Rabbits Master Fined Five Dollars
Taft Namma won a judgment for five dollars against Frank Berry in Justice J. W. Hoar's court after Berry's dog ate ten of Namma's rabbits. Namma had sued for twenty dollars.
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Justice of the Peace
J. W. Hoar
Taft
Three Murderers From North Transported to Seattle
Two Mexicans and a Canadian convicted of murder were moved to Seattle from Ketchikan by U.S. Marshal J. M. Tanner and Pat Shanahan. The Canadian, Shanahan, was shot and killed. The prisoners head for containment at McNeil's Island and the Oregon hospital for the insane.
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Seattle
Ketchikan
J. M. Tanner
United States
Pat J. Shanahan
Steve Kegan
U. 8
Oet
Portland
Ore
McNeil’s Island
J. M. Browning
Four Miners Dead After Cavern At Black Diamond Mine
Rescue crews recovered the bodies of four miners trapped by a cave in at the Black Diamond mine on the 11th level pillar 59. The victims are Charles Heverlain 50 Joe Grill 50 Frank Bussey 68 and Frank Nivone 45 timber workers. Bussey left a widow and several children Heverlain left a widow and two sons.
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Black Diamond
Charles Heverlain
Joe Grill
Frank Bussey
Frank Nivone
Bussey
Heverlain
Bandit Loses Nerve Flees Train Near Kelso
A lone bandit robbed two passengers on a Great Northern train near Kelso Washington, fired a shot, and escaped into the woods after pulling the emergency cord. He stole $25 from the victims. no trace found as of this morning. A second item notes an unidentified woman found dead from gas in a room on 12th Street in New York with $16,000 bank notes tied to her thigh.
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Kelso
Wash
Great Northern
Here
New York
12Th St
M, Boulton & Son
Sharon
City considers universal pay cuts to avert bankruptcy
Councilman R. H. Thomson calls for a city wide reduction of salaries and wages to meet worsening finances. He notes food prices have fallen 30 percent and says cuts would not worsen workers’ conditions from a year ago. He cites over 500000 needed for streetcar improvements and argues for stern measures to avoid bankruptcy.
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R. H. Thomson
Public Utilities Committee
Thomson
Henderson
Stern
Negro Murderer Is Sentenced to 30 Years
Cecil Skages, a Black man, was sentenced in Tacoma to 30 to 60 years in the penitentiary for second degree murder of his wife, committed a few weeks earlier.
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Tacoma
Cecil Skages
Ponzi Sends Christmas Cheer to Creditors from Jail
Charles Ponzi, the so called bushel basket millionaire imprisoned in Plymouth jail, wires a Christmas message to thousands of creditors and his household. He hopes their losses won’t mar Christmas spirit and hints at a future recovery through cooperation and effort.
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Boston
Mass
Charles Ponzi
Miymouth
Bank Robbers Escape With Over 4000 In Daylight
In Kansas City three masked robbers forced the Intercity State bank of Rosedale assistants into a vault and escaped with more than 4000. The same bank previously lost 25000 in a daylight robbery on April 25, 1919.
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Kansas City
Intercity State Bank of
Rosedale
Christmas Brings Court Peace in King County
In King County, Thursday morning passed without a single bill of complaint or new lawsuit filed in the superior courts marking an unprecedented quiet for the day as the spirit of Christmas settled over the proceedings.
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King County
Robbery at Grand Pacific Hotel Involving Four Suspects
John Zvitkovitz 35 a laborer told police two men and two women robbed him of 300 dollars in his room at the Grand Pacific hotel 1115 First Ave Wednesday night. Zvitkovitz was arrested and booked as drunk.
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Grand Pacific Hotel
First Ave
John Zvitkovitz
Zvitkovitz
Farmer Murders Family Then Kills Self in Bradshaw
In Bradshaw Nebraska Carl Nicholson fifty five? killed his wife with ahammer then slashed the throats of three children and shot himself in the basement. The tragedy near 7 pm follows financial troubles. The youngest child was a month old. other children aged two and six. Mrs Nicholson was a Black by marriage. families had lived together. Nicholson had recent influenza and bouts of despondency.
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Self Pradshaw
Neb
Carl Nicholson
M. EB. Black
Bradshaw
Nicholson
Kissers and Huggers Barred at City Dances
Warren Ohio December 23 Mayor J D McBride orders arrests for dancers who cross propriety at public dances. He cites information that young men ogle partners and couples linger to indulge in overly affectionate behavior described as an enthusiastic bug.
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Warren
Ohio
J. D. McBride
Mrs Stagg Sees Jailed Husband in Tacoma
Edith Stagg has visited the jailed husband of her former partner, George Stagg, a newspaperman, as she pursues legal action begun to secure the boy. The 10 year sentence was imposed last Saturday, and guards accompany Baby Stage during planned transport to the state prison.
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Tacoma
Edith Stagg
George Stagg
Baby Stage
Baron
Stage
Italian Civil War Rages On Adriatic Front
Rifle fire from the eastern Adriatic crags signals intensified combat between Fiume legionnaires and the regular Italian army. Government troops, once yielding to D Annunzio, now brace with machine guns and rifles to defend ground.
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Rome
Adriatic
Legionnaires
Fiume
D’annunzio
Texans Lynch White Slayer in Fort Worth Mob
Tom Vickery a white man held for the murder of policeman Jeff C. Couch was taken from the county jail near the courthouse and hanged by a mob. The lynching occurred shortly after midnight about a mile from the courthouse between Fort Worth and North Fort Worth, with shots fired into the body.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Tom Vickery
Jeff C. Couch
Vickery
North Fort Worth
Seek New U. W. Coach in East
Prof. Leslie J. Ayer of the law department departed for Chicago with Darwin Meisnest to attend a conference of college student and faculty officials. Meisnest will leave December 25. They will interview prospective coaches for next year's football season.
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Chicago
Leslie J. Ayer
Law Department
East
Darwin Meisnest
Washington
White
Meisnest
Ayer
Three Men Gassed by Fumes at Yesler Way Incident
Three laborers Alec Gebow 40 Anton Sukoff 40 William Romanoff 32 were gassed while asleep in a bedroom by fumes from a gue jet and rushed to city hospital at 4:40 a m. They are reported as recovering.
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Alec Gebow
Anton Sukoff
William Romanoff
Yesler Way
Accused as Killer of G O P Oil King Clara Hamon
Clara Hamon, jailed on a murder charge in Ardmore Oklahoma, arrived in El Paso with Sheriff Buck Garrett after a nervous breakdown. She denied fleeing Ardmore after the shooting of Jake Hamon, oil magnate, and requested her trunks and clothes. Bonds set at 10000 dollars as legal teams scramble to defend her, with Ardmore and Carter County sympathies reported.
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EL Paso
Texas
Clara Hamon
Jake Hamon
Ardmore
Okla
Buck” Garrett
J. Iy Smith
Amon
Mexico
Hamon
Juarez
Oklahoma
Chicago
Hannon
Jimmy
Garrett
Carter County
Will of slain promoter Jake Hamon kept in Ardmore bank
Ardmore Oklahoma December 23. The will of Jake Hamon, the slain promoter and politician, is stored in a bank safety deposit box in Ardmore. Attorney James P. Mathers for Clara Smith Hamon says the will allocates one fourth of the estate to Clara Hamon, who faces murder charges in Hamon's death.
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Ardmore
Okla
Jake Hamon
James P. Mathers
Clara Smith Hamon
Mathers
Lloyd George and Daniels back worldwide naval disarmament
Secretary Daniels and Prime Minister Lloyd George align on disarmament. Daniels praised Lloyd George for his belief that world disarmament requires all nations to join the agreement. The two leaders emphasize inclusive participation as essential to any successful treaty.
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Washington
Daniels
Lloyd George
Great Britain
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