Yanks in Hospital Seek Piano for Port Jonesome Legion
About 400 soldiers at the Port Jonesome Legion hospital need a piano. Bob Ferris, Noble post hospitalization chair, requests any usable instrument to lift spirits, even if out of tune. The drive aims to supply the piano and arrange weekly entertainers, with the Legion covering costs.
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Legion Hospital
Port Jonesome
Ferris
Bob Ferries
Noble Post
le Mit
The
Legion
Senda
Stuoo
Truth Club at Evanston High School
A local high school Truth club in Evanston claims to pledge to tell the truth on all occasions. Dorothy Pickard presides as president, and members discuss exposing “pink vices” and “white lies” with a focus on honesty, though no confrontations have yet occurred.
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Evanston School
Dorothy Pickard
Tional Church
Mis
Police Band to Play Tunes for Salvation Army Benefit
The Salvation Army receives a concert by the Police band on Saturday evening at their temple on Sixth Ave between Pike and Union St. Proceeds aid the Temple Fund. Soprano Miss Florence V. Orr will join, along with the police male quartet performing favorite numbers.
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Salvation Army
Sixth Ave
Pike and
Union Sta
Temple Fund
Mins Piorence V. Orr
Can't Sing Then Whistle Whistling Movement Spreads
Feb 18 report notes Tremont Temple Brotherhood leader Dr David M Jackson promotes whistling as a substitute for singing at meetings. About 100 members whistle songs like Keep on the Sunny Side, earning Rev Lockrow the nickname the whistling parson.
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David M. Jackron
Tremont Temple Brotherhood
Brotherhood
Lockrow
John H. Thompson
Bapiist
Portland
Tide Power Efforts Rise at Bristol Severn
News from Bristol reports renewed efforts to harness the Severn tide. Engineers install turbines to convert the twice daily tidal weight of about three million tons into electricity, continuing a long quest to tame this powerful natural energy.
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Bristol
Eng
Severn
Home Brew Brings Couple in Court
CHICAGO February 18 William Mc Nulty told police he did not beat his wife while drunk on home brew He said the liquor made him most affectionate and that he could not control himself during intoxication in the courthouse filing and testimony context
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Chicago
William McNulty
Ghost points out murderer in Chicago case
A coroner's jury, guided by a spirit message relayed through a medium, ordered Chicago police to arrest Arthur Williams, a Black porter, and hold him for the grand jury on murder charges in the beating death of Chin Ding. The witness Toy Fong testified the killer struck with a hammer after locking Ding in an icebox. There is a search for Williams.
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Chicago
Spook
Toy Pong
Arthur Willame
Negro Porter
Chin Ding
Ding
Toy Fong
Eptfit
Williams
Cambridge Citizens Rally in February Event
Cambridge residents gathered in Maas on February 18 to respond to a call for action. The report notes a spontaneous, spirited assembly with local turnout and a sense of communal resolve.
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Cambridge, Maas
Cambridge
Baron directs own funeral in Nagoya temple rebirth ritual
Nurytne self-declared baron and chief of the imperial poetry bureau held a personal funeral at the Gyokurin temple in Nagoya. He and his wife buried parts of themselves beneath an engraved tombstone to symbolically avoid death and rebrand as Kagakure no Otou. The ceremony followed his 66th birthday and a belief in fate.
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Tokio
Japan
Old Hsu Front Porch Campaign in Peking
In Peking Harvard University objects to a front porch campaign by Old Tika seeking re election as Peking president. He serves tea and yellow bark brandy while supporters push a huge letter H on a tall chimney in Harvard style.
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Peking
China
Old Tika
Harvard
Harvard Crimson
Portland Boy Burglar Nabbed In Drug Store Heist
A 19 year old Portland youth known as a chronic offender burglarized Owl drug store on a busy corner. He hid in the store until closing, grabbed about 55 dollars in cash 25 dollars in stamps watches and trinkets totaling several hundred dollars, and was trapped when a skeleton key broke. He will likely be sent to reform school until he reaches age.
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Owl
Portland
Ife
Berglar
Charles Paullin
Paullin
Puaffles
Sleuthenay
Reform School
Crimate
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Second Ave
Bon Marche
Baron
Old Hsu
Liberty Market
First Ave
Liberty Theatre
Randolph Grocery CO
M.J.B
Maine
del Monte
Campbell Tom
P. C
America
United Tea &Colfee
Bie
Queen City
4Th Ave
Pine
Colonial Theatre
Boldt’s
Fourth Ave
JILG
A. Linz, Prop
Norfolk Grocery
Navy
Crawford
Rainier Bes
Decker-Fregeau CO
Colonial Meat CO
Huber
Salt Park
Elliott
Mengedoht
Seaboard Meat CO
Swift
Libby's & D
Hamburger and Gausage
Queen Hatchery Stall
Ewe
A. J. Meeker
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Main Fleer
Meweer
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Green’stakes
Green’s
Ore
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Symonds
Pine St
Emilcol
Pacific Grocery CO
Third Ave. S
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