German Women Taken to Work Across Reclaimed French Regions
Reports from Miss BF Almaz Stout describe horrors in the Roye Lassigny Noyon area as German forces retreat. French civilians, including women and children, endure cellars, emaciation, and mass displacement. Mothers were seized to work in Germany, leaving behind ruined homes and torn families.
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London
Poincare
Almaz Stout
Miss Stout
France
Roye
Lassigny
Noyonlies
Germany
Anti Sub Devices Invented Rapidly
Washington May 10 American brains are turning out anti submarine inventions at the rate of one about every four minutes More than 1 000 devices have been submitted to the navy department in a few days Some contain the germ of usefulness most are impracticable The past year probably 8 000 inventions or suggestions have been turned into Capt Smith head of the inventions bureau England in the same time probably 35 000
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Washington
Navy Department
Capt. Smith
England
Bean May Aviate With Price Rise Talk
Seattle caterers plan a Friday meeting at Good Eats cafeteria to discuss another price increase due to rising food costs. Restaurant men say higher costs force the proposed hike.
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Seattle
Good Eats
Former Wife Differentiates From Minnie Steele
Mrs. Eulalia Steele of 2222 Eighth Ave. says she is not the Mrs. Lee Steele who recently attempted suicide by poison. She clarifies she is a former wife named Eulalia and distinguishes herself from Minnie Steele involved in the incident.
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Eulalia Steele
Eighth Ave
Lee Steele
Minnie Steele
Suit Boom for Malicious Prosecution Recovered
A jury in Judge Tallman’s department awarded W. H. Hooper and his wife $250 after suing for malicious prosecution while Hainsworth Motor Co. had filed suit over a machine purchase. Hooper claimed the action was unjust.
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Hainsworth Motor Co
Roosevelt army division plan likened to children's crusade
Chicago May 10 Carl Vrooman assistant secretary of agriculture labeled Col Roosevelt plan to send an army division to France as akin to a medieval children’s crusade in a speech before the Association of Commerce.
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Chicago
Carl Vrooman
Col. Roosevelt
France
Association of Commerce
Hadassah Girls Host Benefit at Y W C A Auditorium
Six hundred people attend a Hadassah Girls club benefit at the Y W C A auditorium to aid the Ackerson Home children's summer camp. Sears Roebuck Co Girls' club and U of W sorority co eds assist.
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Hadassah Girls’ Club
Ackerson Home
Sears & Roebuck Co. Girls’ Club
U. of W. Sorority
Tolstoy to Speak on The Russian Revolution
Count Ilya Tolstoy son of Leo Tolstoy will discuss The Russian Revolution Its Cause and Effect at the Moore Theatre on May 12. He is traveling home via the Pacific.
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Ilya Tolstoy
Leo
Moore Theatre
Pacific
Fashionable belts and shirts offered in quick sale loot
Belted Norfolk styles feature wide sailor and sport collars. Some are all one color while others have contrasting collar cuffs belts and pockets. Fire Sale prices OSC $1.49 $1.98 and $2.98. Heavy comforters scroll stitched priced at $2.98. Balbriggan shirts and drawers priced from 5¢ to 49¢, some wear noted from wreck.
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Palm Beach
From Stenographer to Heiress in Alaska Fortune
Miss Amelia Munroe, 17, raised in San Francisco after being separated from her father a child, is claimed by her mining millionaire father in Alaska. Her uncle Jim Munroe announced she would inherit $50,000 cash and mining property worth $100,000 and travel north to Valdez to meet her father.
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San Francisco
Amelia Munroe
Alaska
Munroe
Amelia
Jim Munroe
Jim
Valdez
Daddy Love
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O’hara Women’s
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Pike Street
Pike Place
Hood
Pike Place Market
Archway Bookstore
Third Ave
Frank B. Wilson
Fourth Ave
National
United Masters of Dancing Association
Peek
W. H. Peek CO
Liberty Theatre
Begeron Trunk Co
Pike
People’s Bank
Elliott
Northwest
the Wonder Millinery Co
J. D. Farrell
Maplewood
Cedar River Valley
United States
Theaveir
North Yakima
Pure Milk Dairy, Inc
Seventh Ave
MR. Bean
Teddy
Tolstoy
Jon
Madras
Chambray
Percale
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Westlake
Sweden
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Taarens
Pia Wa
Ruth St. Denis
Ted Shawn
Deatshawn
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Wilkes
Columbia
Palace Hip
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Libby Blow
Todaydell & Co
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Howe & Hows
Bernice Sisters
Francis X. Bushman
Beverly Bayne
Eves
Bun
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