Plans for 100th Birthday Party for Dad Wardall
A centenarian party is planned for Dad Thomas Wardall on August 9 at Hiawatha Park. Entry is limited to those aged 85 or older. Wardall lives with Alonzo Wardall in West Seattle. Descendants number 150, including a great great grandchild in Texas. Oldest child Annette Nye is 73 in Monrovia, youngest N. M. Wardall is 45 and a King County clerk.
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Thomas Wardall
Alonzo
Walnut Ave
West Seattle
Hiawatha Park
Texas
Annette Nye
Monrovia
Cal
N. M. Wardall
King County Commissioners
Man Jokes About Home As Judge Gives 30 Days
Louis Duke aged 27 protested during arraignment in Cleveland municipal court on a vagrancy charge. He claimed he has a home. Judge McGannon responded with a 30 day sentence remarking I’ve looked for it, but someone moved the house.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Louis Duke
Golfer Hits Flying Bird With Golf Ball in Topeka
Topeka report notes a sparrow was struck by a golf ball during a teeing off on a golf course. The bird died on impact, a rare event golfers say has occurred only once before, by a professional on a large New England course.
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Topeka
Kan
Golf S& C
Pettit
New England
Seattle to glow with Shrine banners for July visit
Seattle prepares to welcome thousands of Shriners in mid July. Alaska building decoration to finish by July 4 with other structures following. First-ward decorations on First to Fourth Avenues feature flags Shrine emblems pyramids and slogans while streetlights will glow in Shrine colors using donated electric current.
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Seattle
Alaska
Nile Temple
City and Electric Company
Glycerine Supply Tied to War Losses Says Official
Albert Oppenheim of Marietta member of the Western Nitroglycerine Manufacturers association urged increasing glycerine production by using bodies of horses and men killed on European battlefields. He warned war demand will exhaust U S glycerine supply within 90 days.
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Chicago
Albert Oppenheim
Marietta
Western Nitroglycerine Manufacturers’ Association
United States
Seattle Dentist Warns Against Price Gouging by State Dental Combine
Ulterior ad against the State Dental Combine promotes a personal price guarantee. Hdwin J. Browns announces examination free of charge, 25 years in practice, Seattle offices in First Ave Union Block, hours late evenings and Sundays for workers, urging readers to compare prices before committing.
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Seattle
Hdwin J. Browns
First Ave
Seattle Women Inherit Large German Estate
Mrs May Couch owner of the Yellowstone rooming house at 1212 First Ave Seattle and her sister Martha H Hoth are named sole heiresses to a vast German estate valued at 50000 and a major Berlin furniture business plus a country home near Berlin after their uncle Franz Zindzman, a German army officer, died in battle with the English. The letter notes Franz left no children and Martha left Seattle recently seeking work with unclear whereabouts.
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May Couch
Yellowstone
First Ave
Berlin
Martha H. Hoth
Franz Zindzman
Folly Time at Vasa Orden Rand Picnics
Attenders are invited to a Fortuna Park event next Sunday labeled as a Vasa Orden rand picnic. Music features 25 pieces as part of the program. Ady notes the gathering and its entertainment plan.
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Vasa Orden
Rand
Fortuna Park
Ady
Reverend Townsend Praises Nerve Treatment for Cure
Dear Doctor I feel it my duty to recommend you and your system of treatment to the public for the cure that I received from you. For several months before I called you I suffered with stomach liver kidney and intestinal diseases and was bedfast with high fevers and appendicitis symptoms. After four treatments I gained 12 pounds in two weeks and feel better today than for years. If medicine or surgery is needed I will tell you and advise you to go back to your physician. Dr F Lathrop Spine and Nerve Specialist 214 Peoples Bank? Hide Second and Pike Hours 9 am to 5 pm Consultation free.
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Rev
D. W. Townsend
F Lathrop
Hank Hide
Pike
Wife seeks divorce after husband loses by gambling
In Detroit on June 11, a wife seeks divorce from Harry Swaton citing gambling losses. She recalls his failed poker attempts since marriage, a ruined cellar dispute over four aces, a card party collapse, and estrangement from friends, suggesting the marriage may end.
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Detroit
Harry Swaton
Swaton
Silver Spikes Mend Fractured Hip Bone
George Mulhollan of South Byron has a fractured hip repaired with two silver plated spikes driven through the hip bone in Fond du Lac county. The rare operation, first of its kind there, has knit the bones and he can walk as well as before.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
George Mulhollan
South
Byron
Mulhollan
Reservists to depart Seattle for New York for Italy war service
Within two weeks an estimated 2,500 to 3,000 Italian reservists will leave Seattle for New York to embark for Italy for war service. Dr. A. J. Ghiglione acting royal consul in the Northwest in the Lyon building has been swamped with duties.
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Seattle
New York
Italy
A. J. Ghiglione
Northwest
Lyon
Rabbit Adopted by Farm Cat Becomes Nestmate
A young rabbit found near Gentry Missouri by Arthur Keen was taken home and placed with a litter of kittens. The mother cat adopted the rabbit, treating it as her own, sharing affection and care with the peer kittens.
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Gentry
Arthur Keen
Here
Blind judge approves blind attorney from Black Hills
June 11 report lists Ole H. Plow, native of the Black Hills, among bar admission candidates after the supreme court examination. Born blind, he worked as a piano tuner for years and studied Blackstone with his sister reading to him, pursuing a career in law.
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Pierre
Supreme Court
Ole H. Plow
Black Hills
Blackstone
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