Wives Bought With Cattle In Bechuanaland Market Notes
In Mafeking Bechuanaland natives measure wealth by cattle. Wives are bought on installment, with 10 to 12 cattle sometimes listed as market quotes. The region’s tribes rely on cattle herds after rinderpest decimated stock, while poverty limits marriages and mealies crops remain sparse. Mafeking sits near the Bechuanaland Protectorate under British rule.
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Mafeking
Bechuanas Neing
Bechuanaland Protectorate
Taungi
Kimberley
Johannesburg
Bechuanaland
South African Union
Colonial Office
London
Victoria Falls
Kalahari Desert
Millions of acres opened for oil and gas development
Wire briefs from multiple cities report vast state land areas to be opened for oil and gas development in Montana. Other items note Mount Vernon voyage clearance for Vladivostok, air squadron movements for Pacific Northwest forest patrols, widespread forest fires in Oregon and Washington, and various business and legal updates across the country.
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Helena
Mont
Portland
Ore
Oregon
Washington
Wilson Plans New Agreement on Coal
President Wilson will send the majority and minority reports of the coal commission to coal operators and miners so they can meet to draft a new wage agreement. The move follows a White House conference with Secretary Tumulty Rail Director Hines and Attorney General Palmer.
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Washington
Wilson
The
Coal Commission
White House
Tumulty
Hines
Palmer
February Exports Hit Low Mark In 1919 Recovery Pace
Total exports of the United States for February were 646 million dollars, the lowest since October 1919, the Commerce Department reported. Imports stood at 467 million dollars, down seven million from January. An East Indian scientist reports experiments suggesting plant life may be affected or regulated by radio waves.
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Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Plan Zone System for Funeral Shops in San Diego
March 19 report details a proposed zone plan for funeral parlors and crematories. Establishments would be confined to a district unless 90 percent of property owners in an adjacent district consented to alternate locations.
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San Diego
New York Surgeon Joins Seattle Orthopedic Clinic
Dr. Minor Carson Lile formerly house surgeon in New York has joined the Mason Pinckford Dowling clinic for orthopedic surgery in Seattle. He will staff at Virginia Mason hospital once completed, with offices currently in the Joshua Green building alongside Dre Mason Blackford and Iwyer.
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Minor Carson Lile
New York Hospital
Seattle
Mason Pinckford-Dowling
Lile
Seatle
Virginia Mason Hospital
Terry Ave
Spring St
Dre, Mason, Blackford
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Ernst Hardware CO
Sixth Avenue and
Pike Street
Ernst
San Francisco
Mount Vernon
Vladivortok
San Antonio
Yirat
Fleet Pursuit Group
Pacific Northwest
Oakland
George A. Armes
Moore Shipbuilding Co
Skinner & Eddy Corporation
Vancouver
B. C
Orient
Detroit
Port Wayne
Norfolk
Bermuda
Spokane
International Union of Timber Workers
Leighe
John B. Price & Co
Johne.price &D
Eorernment Bonds
Wancirac Second Ave
Cor
Columbia
Shafer
Ave
Iives
Shafer Bros
Largest Clothiers
Second
University
New York
Spitzenberg
Rome
Edwin J. Brown
Beattie
Westlake
Wie
J. Brown
Irene
Pike and Liberty Theatre
H. L. Sussman
D. D
State of Washington
Fast Howell
Filiett
Malmo & Cf
Bolivia
Anil Zemporium
Ena Wee Eee
Pine Street
Frederick & Nelson
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