First Draft List Open as Draft Numbers Released in Seattle
Seattle’s draft registration for 1918 begins with No 246 Glenn Perry Simon of Central hotel and Yoshio Kimura of 123 E Spruce as the first called by lottery in Washington with 1 200 pellets drawn in two hours. The list shows names and addresses of registrants in order of drawing and notes subsequent numbers.
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Glenn Perry Simon
J. F. Duthie Co
Yoshio Kimura
E. Spruce St
Seattle
Washington
Central Hotel
Kimura
King County
America
Senate
Friday War Savings Day rally to pledge US war stamps
With one day left the city prepares for a five minute whistle blast at 4 pm marking the start of a drive to pledge war savings stamps. polling places will stock pledge cards and speakers tour Renton Union Hill Happy Valley Redmond Port Gamble Seattle Medina Auburn Selleck and more to urge residents to commit to buys from June 28 to December 31 1918. each precinct will have a quota and fines for nonparticipation are implied though money is not the aim.
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United States
Seattle
Samaska
Renton
P. m
W. FE. Humphrey
Union Hill
Noel Bargent
Happy Valley
Erven Palmer
Redmond
Senator Piles
Port Gamble
Carl E
North Bend
Walter L. Nossaman
Eagle Harbor
C. P. Cockerill
Chamber of Commerce
W. FE
Humphrey Sogaurst
Poisoned Dogs Spark City Police Search in Eight Block
Residents of the eight block triet of 22nd ave. asked police Wednesday morning to identify the person who poisoned four dogs, each the property of a separate owner, in a case that prompted a local inquiry.
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22Nd Ave
War Savings Stamp Day urging pledges and savings
A fieldwise argument urges citizens to save through War Savings Stamps. It explains a dollar today buys 60 cents of goods, while investing in stamps yields about 20 cents by January 1, 1923, promising a return when prices normalize after the war.
National Day Plan Favored in Senate Prohibition Debate
The senate agricultural committee backed Norris amendment substituting for the Jones bone-dry plan. It requires beer manufacture to cease three months after enactment and bans whisky sales and wine production by June 30, 1919. Vote 3 to 3. likely to move to the senate. Also report from Minneapolis notes Lieut. Cyrus F. Chamberlain, last Lafayette Escadrille member, killed in France amid a cable from banker F. A. Chamberlain.
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Washington
Senate Agricultural Committee
Norris
Senate
Minneapolis
Lafayette Excadrilie
Cyrus F. Chamberlain
France
F. A. Chamberlain
Five Die in Berkeley Gas Explosion Tunnel Blast
Five men were killed instantly and a sixth gravely hurt when an electric spark ignited gas in the Spruce Street tunnel near Berkeley. The workers were 1,500 feet from the tunnel mouth when the blast occurred late yesterday during construction.
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Berkeley
Spruce St
Italy to Proclaim Fourth of July National Holiday
Rome reports Italy will declare July Fourth a national holiday to be celebrated across the country. Cities and towns will be decorated with American and Italian flags.
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Italy
Rome
Italy Gains As War Report Indicates Piave Advances
Italian forces report increased gains on the lower Piave with 600 prisoners taken. At San Dona di Piave junction 100 prisoners were captured and Caposile bridgehead expanded by 500 prisoners. Night fighting focused on Brenta river sectors as Austrian withdrawal across the Piave is noted.
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Piave
Rome
Sandona di Piave
Caposile
Brenta River
Brenta
Karl
Haig Reports Minor Success On Flanders Front
General Haig said successful minor operations and artillery actions occurred in Flanders with gas shelling noted between Givenchy Robecq and Nieppe forest. West of Vieux-Berquin troops seized a strong enemy position, capturing prisoners and several machine guns.
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London
Flanders
Haig
Givenchy
Robecq
Nieppe Forest
Vieux-Berquin
Eighty Casualties Reported by War Department
Washington June 27 eighty casualties were reported to the war department by Gen Pershing. The figures include twenty nine killed in action six dead from wounds two dead from disease four percent dead from airplane accident four from accident and other causes thirty one wounded severely four wounded degree undetermined two missing in action.
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Washington
War Department
Pershing
Senate Takes Up Suffrage In Nearly Unanimous Vote
Washington June 27 by a practically unanimous vote the senate took up the woman suffrage amendment to the constitution after blocking it briefly Senator Poindexter continued a statement interrupted by Senator Lodge and declared suffrage for women is accepted as wise and justifiable by even the hard headed.
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Washington
Senate
Poindexter
Lodge
Club Leader Is Indicted For Petty Larceny
Mrs Wm Cunningham Story former president of the Daughters of the American Revolution is arrested on petty larceny charges tied to the National Emergency Relief Society where she serves as president. Her two sons Lieut Allen Story and Sterling Story, in government service at Washington, are also indicted and she remains under parole in counsel custody pending arraignment.
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New York
Wm. Cunningham Story
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
National Emergency Relief Society
Lieut
Allen Story
Sterling Story
Washington
Mra. Story
A Thrift Stamp A Day Keeps The Hunt Away
A short phrase promotes daily thrift stamps as a defense against a looming hunt. The wording hints at a lighthearted campaign or slogan without detailing events or specifics.
U S Army in Three Beds joke mocks German claims
Amsterdam dispatch reports a Munich Jugend joke mocking German estimates of American strength. General Pershing supposedly says another fleet of transports arrived and France offers billets while Pershing adds two rooms and three beds. The quip illustrates Allied skepticism about German propaganda.
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Amsterdam
Jugend
Munich
General Pershing
la Helle
France
Germans May Give Up West Front Attack
A London dispatch argues the German Kaiser faces a crisis as the west front offensive could be abandoned to protect the Mittel Europa dream. It notes Austria’s Italian front failures threaten the war, while growing American forces threaten in France and potential Allied summer offensives.
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London
Hindenburg
Mackenzen
Ludendorff
West Front
Mittel-Europa
France
Italy
Austria- Hungary
Austria
Marne
Germany
the Piave
Champagne
Picardy
Foch
Kai
U S Fliers Smash Foe Rail Depot
An American squadron blew up the railroad station and yards at Conflans, twenty miles east of Verdun, and returned safely. Maj Harold Hartley of Saskatoon Kans became an ace last night by bringing down a German plane while serving with the Royal Canadian forces.
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Frank J. Taylor
United Press
American Armiees
France
Conflans
Verdun
Harold Hartley
Saskatoon Kans
Royal Corps
French Premier Praises Yankes On Marne Front
Premier Clemenceau personally congratulated the American unit as Germans pressed toward Paris. He visited headquarters at an old farmyard and told the troops he admired their work and came to inspect it.
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Lowell Mellett
United Press
Star
Marne
Clemenceau
Paris
Kerensky Sees Russia Rejoining Allied War Effort
Russian leader Kerensky told friends that order may be restored with aid from the Allies and America. He predicted Russia would join the war effort again as Bolshevik influence wanes and the country throws off Bolshevik rule.
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ED L. Keen
London
Kerensky
Russia
America
New Report Declares Former Czar Nicholas Assassinated
Paris dispatch from Kieff via Basle states an agency confirms the assassination of the former czar in Ekaterinburg.
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Nicholas
Paris
Kieff
Basle
Ekaterinburg
Oh Boy Vaudeville Sends Kaiser Jests at Metropolitan
Comedians at the Metropolitan theatre Thursday noon lampoon Kaiser Wilhem II with humor and musical acts. The benefit show raises money for soldiers in France as Manager George Hood and a solid treasurer tally a substantial fund to buy tobacco for American troops. Led by James Bradbury and Joseph Stanton, the cast features Dorothy Maynard Laurance Wheat Hugh Cameron and Helen Wynne in a charity program loved by the audience.
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Metropolitan Theatre
France
George Hood
James Bradbury
Joseph Stantley
Kaiser Bill
Dorothy Maynard
Laurance Wheat
Hugh Cameron
Helen Wynne
Stars and Stripes
Metropolitan
No Auto Tickets Sold on War Savings Day
Headquarters of The Stars Our Boys in France Fund drive at 612 Second Ave will be closed Friday for War Savings Stamps Day. General manager Hazen J. Titus urges all energetic campaigners to join the Thrift day effort and keep headquarters closed all day.
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The
Stars “Our Boys In
France
Second Ave
Hazen J. Titus
Manger
Theatre benefit draws crowd for Ward tobacco ward feat
The theatre orchestra aided a charity event as Daredevil Walter Ware rode a bicycle around the Cheasty building on Second Ave. At noon Wednesday 300 tickets were sold for four autos led by a $4,000 Marmon, to be sold in aid of The Star tobacco Ward’s feat. The Palace Hip week drew a large crowd.
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Cheasty
Second Ave
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