Northern Pacific Begins $700,000 Signal Upgrade Project
Construction starts on automatic block signal systems across main line divisions Fargo and Dakota, totaling 151.52 miles single and 64.39 miles double track. The program, authorized February 2 and let March 20, aims to close the longest unprotected main-line gap between St Paul and the Pacific coast, with large field forces and updated cross-state routes.
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ST. Paul
Northern Pacific
A. Christofferson
Fargo Division
Dakota Division
Minneapolis
Pacific Coast
Paul
Seattle
Tacoma
Bette Anda Te Mandan
Logan
Garrison
Butte
DeSmet
Paradise
Arlee
Cheney
Pasco
Portland
Ataske Hestee
Point Defiance
Tenino
Christofferson
Ship builder McDonald celebrates wartime settlement and twins
A. M. McDonald of Patterson and McDonald in Seattle learned Monday of a $277,000 war claim settlement from the Shipping Board. On Monday a boy and a girl were born to Mrs McDonald in Washington while he traveled west after the busy day.
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A. M. McDonald
Patterson & McDonald
Seattle
Shipping Board
Texas Guinan Stars On Screen And Stage In Spit Fire
Texas Guinan, film star now in Spit Fire at the Palace Hip theater, performs in a one act piece The Female Bill Hart. She gallops onto the stage with two six shooters and recalls breaking in her pony Waco fresh from travel fatigue.
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Texas Guinan
Palace Hip
Bill Hart
Waco
Mise Guinan
Los Angeles
Mars Denies Real Show to North America Observers
Lick Observatory head Dr. W. W. Campbell reports Mars appears low in the northern sky due to Earth's atmosphere, while South American observers see it near the zenith. He notes researchers face atmosphere-limited spectroscopic work and cites discordant views on canals and potential life, questioning Marconi communications and the canal interpretations of Pickering and Lowell.
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W. W. Campbell
Lick Observatory
Mars
Signor
William Marcon
Dr. Campbell
Marconi
Willam H. Pickering
Harvard Observatory
Prof
Lowell
Lowell Observatoy
Arizona
Campbell
Pickering
Barrow
Ering
Seattle Girl Sent to Siam as Missionary
Misa Mabel Jordan of Seattle was instructed to go to Siam for missionary work after completing an evangelistic training course at the Presbyterian board of foreign missions in New York. The board plans to send 70 missionaries abroad this summer.
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Seattle
Siam
Misa Mabel Jordan
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
New York
Mayor to Lead Legion Citizenship Ceremony at Woodland Park
The city plans a citizenship pledge ceremony at Woodland Park on July 4 at 2 40 pm conducted by Professor Edmond Meany of the University of Washington. American Legion bands will perform and Ilonga will be sung as 260 to 100 youths participate. Participants receive a patriotism certificate and a small milk flag from Post 11.
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E. J. Brown
American Legion
Woodland Park
University Powt
Pate
Edmond 8. Meany
University of Washington
Ilonga
Post No. 11
The
J. J. Cretl
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