Alexandra Carlisle's Rise From Schoolteacher to Star
Alexandra Carlisle, educated for teaching, refused to stay in the classroom. She shifted to stenography and typing, then office work and stage parts in Christmas pantomimes. Her breakthrough came in Whitewashing Julia, earning $10 a week, later $12.50 with secretarial duties. She later acted with Sir Herbert Tree and Cyril Maude, then moved to America nine years ago to lead in The Country Cousin at the Metropolitan.
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Henry Jarthur Jones
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Cyril Maude
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John Drew
Metropolitan
New York
Naval Men to Spend Week in Sound Country
The naval affairs committee of the House will visit Seattle around April 1 and stay a week along Puget Sound. They will tour Mt. Rainier Camp Lewis the navy yard and nearby coast fortifications. The 14 member contingent led by Chairman Padgett sails from Washington in March with possible company of Senator Swanson.
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Puget Sound
Virginia
Senate Naval Committee
Yacht Nelsie Arrives in Olympia Harbor Draws Lawmakers
The pleasure vessel Nelsie arrives in Olympia harbor with Ed Sims describing it as popular. Lawmakers shuttle between the state house and waterfront as a new fish code is under consideration. Nelsie is owned by Captain Harry Ramwell of Everett cannery. Meals are served on board.
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Ed Sims
Fish Cannery
Olympia Harbor
State House
Ed Sima
Wus
Segislature
Harry Ramwell
Everett Canneryman
Victory Loan campaign outlined with note or bond options
Publicity plans for the Victory Loan campaign are drafted as Secretary Glass weighs note range of 6 billion dollars or bond authorization of 5 billion. If bonds, rate fixed at 4 percent with 20 year maturity. notes would be five years. Campaign aims for April 21 start, three weeks, with installment plans and agency sales. F A Wilson leads publicity and unveils rural tours using 204 five ton tanks.
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F. A. Wilson
War Loan Organization
Wilson
Steamboat Company Men Fight Taxation Measure
Joshua Green a Puget Sound steamboat magnate and associates disappeared after reaching the state house and missing an open hearing on the steamboat taxation bill. The bill, already passed by the house, would curb tax dodging by moving craft to the county with the lowest assessment. Green opposes the bill amid rumors of an agreement to kill it.
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Olympia
Joshua Green
Puget
State House
Green
Wild West Gunplay On Taxi Leads To Jail
John Humphries a Yuma cowboy and companion Fr Holden reportedly hired a Los Angeles taxi and toured from mountains to sea. When asked for fare Humphries drew a six shooter and demanded the driver beat it. Detectives arrested both men on an assault with a deadly weapon charge after a riot call.
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Los Angeles
Arizona
John
Humphries
Holden
Co. T. Homes
Yes It's Me John Says Wife as She Calls Police
In Chicago on March 6 a wife who had hunted for 16 years to collect $7,800 alimony summoned police after spotting John M. Barnay at a restaurant. He greeted his wife and son, and she slipped a note to a waiter to arrest him. He offered to settle. She refused, insisting on safety.
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Wife
Chicago
John M. Barnay
Florence
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Barnay
Whisky for the flu ends in cow’s death and jail time
In Atlanta on March 6 Recorder Johnson fined H. N. Miller six dollars after Miller, a carpenter and veterinary layman, admitted giving whisky to a sick cow he believed had the flu. He woke at a police station, and the cow later died, a result he called judgment on himself.
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Atlanta
Man Held In Insane Asylum 44 Years Reported
Beacon New York March 6 A Matteawan prisoner has endured confinement for 44 years with the article noting long-term imprisonment. The item includes a medicinal line about cold and flu remedies and a box signature by Er. W Kovhs.
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Matteawan
Unknown Inmate John Jackson Compared to Noted Pomeroy
John Jackson, 74, long resident of the asylum for insane criminals in his 44th year, is compared to the famous Massachusetts convict Jesse Pomeroy. Jackson was convicted of arson in Erie County in 1875 and later adjudged insane with no known relatives.
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Jesse Pomeroy
John Jackson
Erie County
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