Fifty Thousand Turks Mass For Desperate Desert Invasion
Athens dispatch reports fifty thousand Turks Arabs and Bedouins massed in the Holy Land ready for a crossing of the Sinai toward Egypt. The plan includes 8000 camels artillery and dam building equipment to block the Suez route. German officers direct the drive as Indian troops and Territorial forces in Egypt monitor desert outposts.
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Athens
Greece
Egypt
Holy Land
Moses
Et Tih
Sinai Peninsula
Suez Canal
Britain
India
Flanders
Great Britain
Europe
Mother Ryther's Home Denied Indorsement by Chamber
The Chamber of Commerce charities endorsement committee refused to endorse Mother Ryther's Home citing hygienic standards and the need for audited outside financial statements. The article describes the home’s worn facilities and Mother Ryther with the 40 children as they cope with the setback.
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Mabel Abbott
Charities
Chamber of Commerce
Mother Ryther
Reee
Ruther Home
Poe
Damn That Man All Right for Girls
In a Western Reserve University Bible class, Dr. Charles F. Thwing okayed coed use of mild swearing. He said expressions like Damn that man may be permissible for expressing anger at wrongdoing, while discussing the propriety of words such as Damn in a freshman Bible setting.
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Charles F. Thwing
Western Reserve University
College For Women
Dr. Thwing
Billy Sunday Plans New York Revival Campaign
Evangelist Billy Sunday announced he will go to New York to combat sin and liquor in the city. He reacts to a 400 minister delegation from Marble Collegiate Church urging him to hold a revival on Fifth Avenue at 29th Street. Sunday says he is well and will not let the Modern Babylon slip by.
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Philaelphia
Billy
New York
Sin
the Evangelist
Marble Collegiate Church
Fifth Ave
29Th St
Babylon
Co ed In Auto Smashup On Wet City Streets
An auto driven by Louis C Witherbee struck an outbound Mt Baker train at Second Ave and Pike St injuring several. W J Jones 25 UW student suffered a skull fracture and serious injuries. Others include Violet Adams Katherine Flack Margaret Hastings W F Flanney Mrs Anderson in critical condition. Burlock driver of the hit car held by police as Mrs Anderson remained in precarious condition.
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List Ave. S
Day St
Louis C. Witherbee
Seventh Ave
Mt. Baker
Violet Adams
Katherine
K. Anderson
Sixth Ave
City Hospital
Second Ave
Pike e#t
Sermon Warns Wives As Meal Ticket Contention Sparks
Rev. M. A. Matthews at First Presbyterian labeled nagging wives as worse than hell hiss and urged husbands’ duty beyond meal tickets. He cited modern women seeking wardrobes and pantries, calling some wives contemptible nonentities.
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M. A. Matthews
First Presbyterian Church
Leo Frank Gets Rehearing From Supreme Court
The Supreme Court announced a hearing out of regular order in the Leo Frank murder case. The Atlanta factory girl's murder led to a retrial request, with the Feb. 23 date set and both defense and prosecution concurring on the hearing timing.
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United States Supreme Court
Leo Frank
Mary Phagan
Lanta, Ga
Factory Girl
German Fleet Sinks Drummuir. U S Ship Veers Loss
Captain J C Eagles reports in San Antonio Argentina that the S S Drummuir owned by Hind Rolph & Co of San Francisco was scuttled by a German squadron on December 6 after flying the British flag. The vessel valued at 75000 with cargo 109000 was towed six miles off shore and sunk. Eagles protested that it was American property.
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San Francisco
Drummuir
Hind, Rolph & Co
J. C. Eagles
San Antonio
Argentina
von Spee
Sturdee
Falkland Islands
Senate Talkfest on Again Washington
The Republican filibuster against the government ship purchase bill resumes at 10 am as the Senate convenes after a midnight recess. Republicans vow to extend talks for another week to derail the bill and block other legislation if needed while some Democrats weigh dropping the measure to protect appropriation bills.
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Senate
Viaduct Block Contract Sublet Sparks Local Plant Bid
Vancouver reports that a contract for wooden blocks for a city viaduct, originally awarded to a firm, was sublet to a Tacoma company. An effort began to annul the sublet to award work to a local plant.
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Vancouver
Tacoma
Socialist MP Places Critiques Britain Over War Policy
In Victoria on February 1 Representative Place, a socialist, spoke over two hours in the legislature condemning the British government for its role in the European war. He argued the Belgian incident was an excuse and urged the body to oppose any proposed annexation if the allies win.
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Victoria
Representative Place
England
Arma
City Ownership Cuts Duluth Electric Rate to Six Cents
Duluth moves to buy electric current from the Duluth Edison Co at 6 cents a kilowatt instead of 8. The price drop follows a municipal ownership push, with the city proposing its own generating unit. the company agreed to the cut to avoid municipal action.
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Duluth
Duluth Edison Co
Men Suspect Abduction In Auto Near City
Frank E. Harmon manager of Harmon Motor Car Co along with W. M. Rich and R. L. Sylvester are jailed on an open charge after two young women aged 20 and 22 say they were taken in Harmon's car, restrained, and driven about six miles beyond the city limits before reporting to police early Sunday morning.
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Frank E. Harmon
Harmon Motor Car Co
W. M. Rich
R. L. Sylvester
Harmon
Reapportionment Bill Dead as McArdle Secures Pledge
Olympia Feb 1 A Jefferson county representative L D McArdle has secured pledges from 56 house members to kill a reapportionment bill. McArdle previously blocked reapportionment in 1911 and 1913 by organizing the cow counties against King county and other more populous areas.
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Olympia
L. D. McArdle
Jefferson County
McArdle
King County
Growers to Organize North Central League in Wenatchee
Wenatchee February 1 growers convention decides to form the Wenatchee North Central Growers League uniting all of north central Washington into organized units within ten days.
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Wenatchee
North Centra
Sister Julie Hero Nurse of France Stays At Post
Paris reprints tell of Sister Julie, one of 50,000 French nuns exiled from war, who helps wounded near Mons and Rheims. She organizes a one nurse hospital behind the front, warns German guns, and inspires a cavalry parade with her simple reply Why bless you all what else was I to do.
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London
England
Ister Julie
France
Julie
la Patrie
Red Cross
Mons
Rheims
War Office
Sister Julie
Marne
Monsieur
The
Republic
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