Navy ranks world powers as Britain leads in tonnage
A Naval Intelligence chart places Great Britain first, with the United States third among naval powers. It lists U S forces including 18 dreadnoughts and 26 battleships, with France, Japan, Russia, Italy, and Austria following in tonnage.
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Office of Naval Intelligence
Navy Department
Great Britain
Germany
United States
France
Japan
Russia
Italy
Austria
Get Rich Wallingford at Seattle Theater This Week
Bailey and Mitchell present Get Rich Wallingford at the Seattle Theater with George Randolph’s character and Gog M. Cohan dramatization. The stock company promises record crowds at popular prices 20c to 50c as Seattle enjoys a long-running hit and more plays planned for spring.
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Seattle
Bailey
Escaped Russian Prisoner Leaves Angel Island for New York
Liette Danin, who escaped a Russian prison in a milk can, has been released by Angel Island immigration officials and travels to New York to join his sister, who fled prison disguised as a milk maid and later reached Yokohama before coming to the United States.
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San Francisco
Cal
Liette Danin
Angel Island
New York
Danin
Nimeelf
Yokohama
United States
Baby Born in Albany Has Eight Grandparents
A daughter born to Homer E. Jonagan and wife of Albany on January 7 is unusually well supplied with grandparents. In addition to her parents, the baby has two great grandfathers and two great grandmothers, making eight living grandparents.
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Albany
Homer E. Jonagan
May Die From Rag Doll Rescue
T R McCarn of Spokane Washington, 79, may die after attempting to rescue his granddaughter's rag doll from a Santa gift misadventure. He was a guest at Mrs Louise Hammond's home near Joplin Missouri when he climbed the roof to retrieve the doll and fell while returning indoors.
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Joplin
T. R. McCarn
Spokane
Wash
Santa Claus
McCarn
Louise Hammond
Johnston
Mr. Hammond
Prison Reform Request Seeks Three Year Cell Stay
Cruso, calling himself a "bright and refined young man," asks Judge Bland to admit him to a prison cell for three years to study spelling and word definitions using an unabridged dictionary. The request, dated January 7 in Kansas City, aims to explore literacy while in confinement.
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Kansas City
Cruso
Ewing W. Bland
Federal Commerce Law Takes Lead
The U S supreme court today ruled that the amendment to the interstate commerce law governing bills of lading and the damages a shipper may recover completely supersedes all state laws. The sergeant-at-arms of the national house pursues William Rockefeller. The article notes a curious anecdote about a dog that chased a railroad train and speculates on the outcome.
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United Press
Washington
Jonn
U. S. Supreme Court Today
Atarma
National House
William Fe
Kfeller
Market Prices From Local Commission Merchants
The list shows average prices paid by local commission merchants to farmers and selling prices to retailers. Items span livestock, pork, poultry, and produce with figures for cattle, mutton, ham, sausages, onions, potatoes, grapes, tomatoes, lettuce, and feed. Prices reflect first grades and vary by item and grade.
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Lncal Commission
Mary Fuller Stuns in Edison Photoshop As Pessimist Heroine
Mary Fuller, chief leading woman of the Edison Moving Picture Company at Bronx Park, discusses her paradoxical nature as a lifelong pessimist who loves sewing and watching films by day and night. She favors witch and Oriental roles over modern sweethearts and leads in the new photo play Its Never Too Late to Mend.
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Mary Fuller
Edison Moving Picture Company
Bronx Park
N_ Y
Ike Topsy
Priscilla
Edison Pictures
Mary
Atlantic
Monger
Mies Fuller
Poe
Aviator Lincoln Beachy Granted Divorce From Wife May Beachy
Mrs May Beachy has been granted an interlocutory decree of divorce from aviator Lincoln Beachy by Judge Graham after her recital of alleged cruel treatment. Property claims were settled out of court.
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San Francisco
May Beachy
Lincoln Beachy
Graham
Motorcycle Fiends Have Wedding on a Motorcycle
Rodney Talin 22 and Frances Davis 18 wed on a motorcycle in front of the Episcopal church in Redwood City California. A party of ten friends rode with them as they dashed toward San Jose for a wedding dinner and a two week motorcycle tour of California.
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Redwood City
Cal
Rodney Talin
Frances Davis
Episcopal Church
San Jose
California
Remembered Kind Girl Receives 8000 Dollar Reward
Harrisburg report notes Miss Margaret Jane Vashti Brown given a cash reward of 8000 dollars for helping an elderly peddler to board a streetcar four years earlier. The donor is identified as Valentine R. Cordas of California. Brown declined to provide the recipient's address.
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Harrisburg
Misa Margaret Jane Vashti Brown
Valentine R. Cordas
California
Holden questions Morgan's control of money
Old Tite Holden says he does not believe Morgan holds all the funds, claiming he has never seen Morgan at the Corner bank where money is kept.
Samoan king’s bigamy scare prompts royal, diplomatic intrigue
An American consul helps prevent a crisis when Frederick B Hyde, a man proclaimed king by German hands, acquires a second wife and an unintended royal household. Hyde contemplates staying away while his second wife remains, amid copra schooner plans and native expectations.
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Germany
Frederick B. Hyde
Hyde
Papes Cold Compound Promises Fast Relief From Grippe
A 26 cent package of Pape's Cold Compound is marketed as a home remedy that relieves the most severe cold and grippe symptoms after two hourly doses, with a third dose to end misery. It claims the medicine acts gently and tastes pleasant, supplied by any druggist and containing no quinine.
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Grippe
Pape
Former state senators sent to Ohio penitentiary
Two former Ohio state senators have been imprisoned, prompting concern that the morals of ordinary convicts may not be improved.
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Ohio
Lister Sets Simple Inaugural Plan Despite Display
Governor elect Ernest Lister ends elaborate preparations for the January 15 inaugural. He rejects a charter boat and any military parade, opting for a simple ceremony. Seattle keeps the plan for a boat from Seattle to Olympia with a brass band. schedule unchanged.
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Ernest Lister
Tacoma
Olympia
Seattle
Ths
Wilson-Marshall Club
McReage
Roosevelt sends aid to editors in Oyster Bay
State Senator Dew Dunning who proposed penny contributions to cover fines of Capitol News proprietors R. B. Sheridan C. O. Broxen and A. R. Cruzen receives $10 from Col. Roosevelt for the 1000 residents of Oyster Bay and nearby. The check carries a message that the fined men have made all honest Americans their debtors.
Chains Instead of Food for Tramps in Wabash
A steel cuff on a six foot chain was bolted to a wall in the city hall station room. A pincard signed by the police chief orders that each man seeking lodging in winter be kept as a prisoner in the room for twenty four hours without food. The chief enforces the rule strictly to rid the city of tramps.
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Wabash
Ind
Cruiser recovers two missing inspectors after storm
The cruiser Denver recovered United States Immigration Inspectors Gus T. Jones and Dan Kuykendall and Engineer G. Gerolami after they were believed drowned when the immigration launch Elizabeth wrecked off the lower California coast. They were rescued near the Coronado Islands following the Saturday night storm.
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San Diego
Cal
Denver
United States
Gus T. Jones
Dan Kuykendall
G. Gerolami
Elizabeth
California
Coronado Islands
Gourley Wins In Mine Stock Suit
T. H. Gourley a member of the Holy Rollers Society wins in supreme court the stock dispute from the Lost River tin mine Alaska. Court confirms $70 000 stock or cash equivalent devised by L. R. Crim. Dr Redman of Toulouse claims a method for injecting leaster oil by hypodermic syringe into patients.
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T. H. Gourley
Holy Rollers Society
Supreme Court
Lost River
Alaska
Superior Court
Gourley
L. R. Crim
Dr. Redman
Toulouse
Foreman in Dynamite Case Heads to Health Break
Newcastle Indiana January 7 Frank Cafe foreman of the jury that found guilty 83 labor leaders in the Indianapolis dynamite trial set out to Florida to recuperate his health. He has received threatening letters warning him and his family as police pursue the case.
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Newcastle
Ind
Indianapolis
Frank Cafe
There’s Always a Fly in, the Ointment
A fragmented item notes suffragists walking from New York to Albany and being knocked from a car, a feat deemed unsurpassed by male voters. The jumbled text references heaters and Modern Furniture at 415 Pike, with minimal context.
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New York
Albany
Pike
Coe
Woman Die in Fire Trying to Save Invalid Husband
In Newport on January 7, Mrs Frank S Heath perished attempting to rescue her invalid husband from a blaze that caused a quarter of a million dollars in damage. The fire engulfed the Bull estate and several surrounding structures before being controlled.
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Newport
F. 1
Frank S. Heath
Heath
Bull
Bravery. Zines Couple Plans Western Trip Return Residence
Mr and Mrs Zines departed for a western trip and on returning will reside at the groom's home located at Triplett Street 5 Louisville, Kentucky Pont.
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Mre Zines
Triplett St
Loulevilie
Ky) Pont
Pinex cough syrup recipe sold by Thenex Co
A home remedy recipe for pine cough syrup using Pinex and granulated sugar with instructions for mixing and dosage. The note claims quick relief for coughs and throat irritation, marketing a guaranty and refund offer. It advertises Thenex Co. Wayne and Beattie Drug Co. as distributors.
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United Stat
Canada
Thenex Co
Wayne
Pinex
Filly Guaranteed & Tell Drug Co
Beattie
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