Guemes Beachcomber Remains Frankly Whimsical
The Guemes Beachcomber editor Charley L. Gant runs a four page island tabloid from Guemes near Anacortes. The current issue features local notes on residents and a first page article about the Guemes Island shipyard’s receiver and decline. A break in occurs as burglars raid the office but leave without arrests, while the paper mocks politicians and laments the shipyard’s fate.
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Guemes
Anacortes
Charley L. Gant
Gant
State of Washington
John Barleycorn
R. B. Ruthford
Tessie East
Bellingham State Normal
Eugene
Oregon
Rasmus Hansen
Seattle
Clay Allen
Guemes Island
Sloans
Shipping Board
J. D. Kuhns
Washington
Mr. Kuhn
J. D. Kuhna
C. C. Jones
Republican Party
Hart
King George
Madson Bay
Roland H. Hartley
Frank Causland
Max Spremberg
Everybody Wins in Matrimony Contest
The Star-Herb Schoenfeld matrimonial sweepstakes selects no single winner and offers prizes to all couples who enter. Each contestant will receive a free wedding Friday with gifts from the Home Made Cake Co Grady Studio Clint W Lee Co and a $10 consolation to the last place couple. The grand prize winner remains undecided awaiting interviews and will be announced Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
d’Amour
Herb Schoenfeld
Herb
Standard Co
Grady Studio
Clint W. Lee Co
George North
Nurses of Nation Open Big Meeting in Seattle
National convention of three nursing organizations opens at Plymouth Congregational Church in Seattle with about 200 nurses at the National Organization of Public Health Nursing session. The American Nurses Association session is set for 2 pm and a joint opening at 8 pm. Three thousand nurses are expected by Monday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Seattle
Plymouth Congregational Church
National Organization of Public Health Nursing
Na ‘Onal League of Nursing Education
American Nurses’ Association
Business Women's Club
Katherine de Witt
Rochester
N. Y
Elizabeth Fox
National League of Public Health Nursing
Mies May Loomis
Nurses’ Committee
Fall Fatal to Oregonian at Congress Hotel
Frank G. Owen 36 of Medford Oregon died after leaping or falling from a fifth floor window at the Congress hotel in Chicago. He and his uncle Samuel G. Owen were in town for the national lumbermen's convention. Samuel said Owen woke about 3:30 am and jumped through the screen to the pavement, an accident in his view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Frank G. Owen
Medford
Ore
Congress Hotel
Owen
Samuel G. Owen
Samuel Owen
Federal Banks Ordered On Coercion Practices
Portland June 26 federal reserve banks must stop coercing non member banks to remit at par a ruling by Judge Charles Wolverton declares such practices unlawful and grants a permanent injunction against the San Francisco reserve bank restraining Brookings State Bank from remitting at par.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Federal ‘Reserve
Charles Wolverton
Wolverton
Brookings, Ore
State Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Brookings Institution
Greeks Here Demand Curbing of Killings
About 300 Greek-Americans gathered at the Greek Orthodox church at Yale and Thomas streets to urge the end of massacres in Asia Minor. Resolutions sent to President Harding call for action in the Turkish campaign. Kt. Rev. F. W. Keator presided with speakers including Mayor Edwin J. Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Humanity
Asia Minor
Yale
Thomas Streets
Harding
F. W. Keator
Episcopal Diocese of
Olympia
Edwin J. Brown
Strawberries Worth 600000 Stocked in Seattle Await Markets
About 60 000 crates of Western Washington strawberries were shipped to Seattle cold storage in the past week valued at around 60000 by Port Commissioner George B Lamping. The berries will be kept for two weeks before onward shipment to world markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Seattle
George B. Lamping
Japan Plans Siberia Evacuation by October 1922
American Ambassador Warren in Tokyo informs the State Department that Japan will evacuate Siberia as pledged at the Washington arms conference. The evacuation is to be completed by October 1922.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Warren
Tokyo
State Department
Siberia
Phinney Ridge to Host June Flower Show
Phinney Ridge residents schedule a June flower show at Woodland Park Church located at North 72nd Street and Greenwood Avenue. The event runs Friday afternoon and evening attracting local gardeners from Seattle's Phinney Ridge district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Phinney Ridge
Woodland Park Methodist Episcopal Church
North 72Nd
Greenwood Ave
Five picnicers suffocate in abandoned Arkansas mine
In Hartford Arkansas five picnickers suffocated when they entered an abandoned mine near town. Rescue crews removed the victims as authorities investigated the incident at the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Ark
Here
Block Destroyed By Fire In Mexicali
A city block in Mexicali Lower California was wiped out by a blaze causing damages estimated at 300000 dollars. Firefighters battled the flames as crews cordoned off the area and investigated the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexicali
Lower
California
Wayfarer Seat Sale Organized for July Production
W A Hartung the Moore theater treasurer will head the Wayfarer ticket department handling 120000 seats. Mail orders start July 1 with over the counter sales from July 10 at 1200 Fourth Ave Seattle headquarters. A nationwide mail order blank program will circulate to Pacific Northwest residents and Seattleites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Hartung
Moore Theater
Hartung
Wayfarer
Fourth Ave
Pacific Northwest
Cary
Seattle
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Kimer
Hoffman
B. O. W. Railway
James Murrow
Murrow
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BON Mar BarGain Basement
Shantung
Copenhagen
Bon Marché Pike Street
Second Avenue—Union Btr
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Saxony Lisle
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Leo Be
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