Hicksville Concert Baffles Town with Winsome Wares
Hicksville January 18. A charity concert by Swine Bell Ringers drew large crowds and strong social interest, with prominent locals in attendance including Governor Hart in Olympia. A local horse shoes match and new triangle instrument novidades featured at the event, while community updates note renovations at the American House and a Priscilla class gathering nearing its end.
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Hicksville
Hicksvite
Hart
Olympia
Rebeca
Oem Amenia
Cato
Amert Houss
Gid
Mace McMartin
Hicks Wie
Mace
Matt Orden
Harding's Inaugural Echoes Washington Lincoln Tasks
The piece compares Harding to Washington and Lincoln, noting Washington's foundation task and Lincoln's postwar reconstruction. It frames Harding's agenda as domestic tranquility, prosperity, and a broad goal of world peace to back a new economic structure. It cites Lincoln's second inaugural call for healing and lasting peace.
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Warren G. Harding
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Twain
Harding
Army recruiting drive promises college like training at Camp Lewis
The United States Army promotes a 7000-man recruitment to the Fourth Division at Camp Lewis. It frames army service as a paid college-like education and career path, contrasting past views of the peacetime army. Seattle recruiting office Located at 301 Mutual Life Building near the Totem Pole.
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Ut Sam’s
Camp Lewis
Iton
Prine Seattle
Mutual Life Building
Totem Pole
A Penny Saved a Guide to Family Budgeting
The article urges the family man to adopt a formal budget and treat the home finances like a business. It argues savings are achievable through cutting overhead and eliminating leaks, offering a household budget as the path to financial stability and avoiding streaks of want.
Direct primary law under attack by Washington governors
The Tacoma Timer commentary argues Governors Carlyon Taylor and Reed seek repeal of the direct primary. Deputy Louie Hart asks the legislature to overturn it, warning repeal returns to the old convention system controlled by bosses. The piece asserts the primary, while imperfect, empowers voters and should be reformed rather than scrapped.
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Cartron
Taylor
Peed
Louie Mart
Carlyon
Reed
Hart
Washington State
Cortyon
Wealey L. Jones
Louie Hart
Tammeny
Levi Ankeny
Timea
Landlord Regulation Proposal Debated by Wigmore
Dean John H. Wigmore argues in The Star for state control of housing to curb private monopoly and housing shortages. He proposes a public utility style commission to regulate rents and decide cases on their merits, balancing landlord and tenant interests.
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Jotin H. Wigmore
Northwestern
Uiversity
Merida
Federal Supreme Court
Tse
Truly American Harbor View on Seafaring Jobs
Benson of the Shipping Board urges operators not to hire foreigners for lower pay. He cites unemployed American seamen and calls for American crews and ships built in U S yards with American workers to make the merchant marine truly American.
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Hairman Benson
The
Shipping Board
America
Inquiring Reporter Voices Mixed On Economical Change
A set of responses from various citizens including William A. Gilmour Karl C. Oborne Clarence H. M. Jonis and others discusses whether a proposed policy would improve economy. Opinions range from strong support to skepticism about feasibility and practicality.
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Willtiam A. Gilmour
18Th Ave
Karl C. Obborne
Hal Nevarre
William BD. Glynn
Madeon
Clarence HM. Jonis
George Olson
Wartime Efforts Meet Cold Return of Jobs
A dated poem denounces a donor who funded Victory Loan and produced coats and pants for soldiers at cost plus ten percent. It taunts the donor’s postwar failure to hire a veteran, calling out a snobbery likened to a Jap in livery, and questions continued generosity after the war ended.
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Uncle Sam
Seattle Trade and Canal Projects Highlight Regional Growth
Seattle merchants control the bulk of Alaska and Yukon trade valued around 156 million. The Kittitas high line canal aims to reclaim 74 000 acres of ferte land fertile to Seattle. A new free American passage line to the Orient is planned with the Wenatchee liner between February 26 and March.
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Seattle
Alaska
Yukon Territory
Kittitas High Line
Ferte
Puget Sound
The
Orient
Shipping Board
Wenatchee
New York Supplied One Third of Jewish World War I Soldiers
A historical note states that one third of Jews who served in the United States Army during World War I came from New York State, reflecting the state's large Jewish population and enlistment.
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New York State
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