Seattle Port Report Shows Record Trade Gains in 1914
The port warden’s annual report for the year ending December 31 shows Seattle’s imports and exports totaling a gain of 30.47 million over 1913, with 7,151,279 passengers, about 2,000 vessels, and exports led by flour and lumber. American vessels numbered 1,405 with shipments to New York and the Far East, and the port touted as a gateway to Alaska and the Orient with free harbor dues and ample wharves and rail facilities.
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No Food No Job Baby Born in Poverty Warning
William Brown of Ballard, a carpenter, has lost his job four months ago and cannot find work. With a starving pantry and a pregnant wife, he expects a baby soon and asks Star readers for any work rather than charity. He walked from Ballard to the Star office seeking help and will take any kind of job. Call the city editor if you can offer work.
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Navy prisoner likely to be pardoned for aiding escape prevention
D. P Harrigan, a naval prisoner in Bremerton, probably will be pardoned and restored to petty officer rank for preventing the escape of prisoners left unguarded by a sentry.
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Bremerton
D. P Harrigan
Germans Accuse French of Wanton Town Destruction
Berlin reports fresh war office charges that French forces are destroying German villages behind the lines with heavy bombardments. The German claim includes capture of trenches near Souain with two officers and 200 men and says French progress on the Sennheim heights in Alsace was halted by a bayonet counterattack.
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War Office
Oiser
Argonnes
Souain
Sennheim
Alsace
Pneumonia Epidemic and Frontline Actions Reported
Paris dispatch notes heavy rain disrupting Allied operations in the western front. Reports say pneumonia victims arrive at Dunkirk, mainly British. French troops dynamite and capture trench sections near Courthouse, and push German positions near Rheims and Argonne.
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Rheims
Alane
Wedge Threatens Russians Center in Polish Advance
Berlin dispatch via The Hague reports military experts believe the German capture of Borsimow may drive a wedge into the Russians center. They say German reinforcements to Cracow bolster a favorable Polish situation for Berlin, forcing Soviet lines to retreat or face flank attack.
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Richardson to Lose Out at Hospital
Dr J Waldo Richardson, county hospital superintendent, will likely not be reappointed as officials signal a change. Commissioners Hamilton Knudsen and Carrigan may approve a successor this week with candidates Dr F B Whiting and Dr J H Lyons under consideration amid criticism of hospital administration and a state examiner report alleging cruelty by attendants.
Unemployed Men Threaten Trouble in Sioux City
About 200 jobless men threatened trouble unless they were given work. City hall and other public buildings were heavily guarded as the threat was communicated directly to the city council.
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Sioux City
Mother who poisoned her children confesses in hospital
From a New York hospital Ida Sniffen Walters told Assistant District Attorney Martin that she administered poison to her two children and ingested mercury tablets herself to die with them. She said she killed Lorida and Jack to prevent Roger, the children's father, from returning to his legal wife.
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Sniffen Walters
Martin
Larry Elton Rogers
Chicago
Rogers
Lorida
Jack
Londa
Mills to reopen in Bellingham area Monday
About a thousand idle workers will return to jobs as several large mills in Bellingham and surrounding county resume operations on Monday after six months of inactivity.
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Bellingham
Elmonte Brings Valuable Cotton from Galveston
The American skipper BE. T. Pinchin guides the liner Elmonte into Bremen with a valuable cotton cargo from Galveston after navigating dangerous mine fields.
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Bremen
BE. T. Pinchin
Elmonte
Galveston
Council to vote on Motorbus Loop plan submission
The council plans to vote next Monday on a Star proposed autobus plan to ease the 8. R. & 8. railway tangle. Hesketh introduced the bill to transfer up to 50000 from municipal railway bonds to the autobus system.
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Bradford
Russian advance through Carpathians faces snow blocks
Petrograd Jan 6 The Russian push through the Carpathians into Hungary proceeds with little Austrian resistance but heavy snows impede supplies and movement. Regardless, the invasion continues despite harsh natural obstacles.
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Petrograd
Carpathians
Hungary
Special Grand Jury Sought to Probe Police Graft
Prosecutor elect Alfred H. Lundin considering a special inquisitorial grand jury to investigate alleged police corruption. Mayor Gill supports if charges are backed by trustworthy evidence. Felix Crane faces a January 15 preliminary hearing in Justice Brinker court for alleged police protection scheme.
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Gill
Felix Crane
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Justice
Repudiates Confession in Old Double Murder Case
John G H Sierks, inmate at the state hospital for the insane, retracts his prior confession that he and not John Arthur Pender killed Mrs. Daisy Wehrman and her young son near Scappoose years ago. Pender, now serving life for the crime, was originally sentenced to death but commuted. Authorities continue to pursue Sierks tale.
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John G. H. Sierks
State Hospital For the
John Arthur Pender
Daisy Wehrman
Scappoose
Pender
Lfe
Jobless Youth Takes Gas in Hotel Suicide
Harry Lewis, 20, killed himself by gas in his room at the Hotel Yellowstone on First Avenue. He had recently lost his job and was despondent, police report indicate.
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Yellowstone
First Ave
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