Price Collier on Japanese Land Buyers and Western Race Fear
An outspoken column argues that Japanese buyers would threaten American maidenhood and urges opposition to Japanese settlement across the United States. The piece cites Price Collier's book The West the East and quotes warnings about Japan and women, urging Americans to defend traditional ideals against foreign influence.
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Pacific
Wilson
Bryan
Japan
Rockies
Ifornia Brothers
America
Price Collier
Charles Scribner's Sons
McKenzie Urges Scrutiny of County Road Funds
County Commissioner McKenzie defends careful review of 3 million dollars in road funds and questions Hamilton's 1.825 million road plan, urging transparency after prior questionable expenditures. Also references quotes on civilization and broad criticisms of wasteful governance.
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McKenzie
Hampton
Hamilton
King County
Washington wonders if the Wilsons will go wrong in society
Washington wonders whether the Wilson administration will shift toward social policy or be swayed by the old White House social crowd. The piece notes ongoing social intrigue, dinners, and receptions involving Margaret and Eleanor Wilson, yet emphasizes President Wilson and his wife have not accepted any invitations.
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Wilsons
Washington
Washington, D.C
Flood
Virginia
William J. Bryan
Baltimore
Thomas Fortune Ryan
Bryan
Margaret
Eleanor Wilson
Chevy Chase Club
G. von L. Meyer
Meyer
Misses Wilson
White House
Franklin MacVeagh
Edson Bradley
Preston Gibson
MacVeagh
the Treasury
Taft
Edson Bradleys
Wilson
Man sues Star over divorce story in Olympia
In Olympia the defendant sues The Star for a disparaging divorce report calling him a poor cheese. He claims a jury of nine friends and three bribed jurors led to a manslaughter in the fourth degree verdict. He notes personal boasts and prints a spring poem scolding dreary weather.
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The
Star
Olympia
Billie Burke
Berton Braley
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Witty Snapshots From Across The Atlantic And Far West
A collection of brief quotes and vignette jokes from figures like a Parliament member and Sarah Bernhardt, plus exchanges about tourism, stage life, and urban fast living. The pieces sketch humor on wages, progress, Indian encampments, press deadlines, and a sobering view of modern haste.
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Sarah Hernhardt
Mme Bernhardt
These Girls Nowadays Dont Worry Club Badge Return
Tom writes five letters asking for his diamond engagement ring back. Dick asks if she returned it. Tom reports she refused and sent a Dont Worry club badge.
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Tom
Fires Circle Town Andrews Threatens Surrounding Prairie
May 15 report from Winnipeg notes An drews is completely encircled by prairie fires. Residents sustain a desperate defense as the blaze closes in on the town and its outskirts.
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Winnipeg
Andrews
Local notes and quirky snippets from Woodbine and beyond
Woodbine correspondent notes a slow news spell in the woods with neighbors buying a horse, repairing barns, and bloom in a garden. Humorous asides about honor prisoners, gasoline bicycle riders, a barber shop sign, Tacoma goat market, and a Renton bachelor’s quinsy charm reflect small town life and oddball curiosities.
Editor's Mail: Immigration Policies and National Loyalties
The writer contrasts Japan's labor policies with U S immigration tactics. He argues Japanese workers are aided to emigrate while U S leaders push acceptance of Japanese laborers, warning of degraded native citizens and lasting Pacific dominance by Japan. He questions future historians on such official conduct.
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Japan
the Star
United States
Pacific Coast
F. E. Petteys
Suffragists and the law in public debate in Seattle
Parnest Heddrick of Monroe Washington letters criticized Minnie B Frazier's May 3 1913 piece arguing suffragists endanger property and lives. He asserts laws apply equally to men and women and condemns arson burglary and murder by suffragists while praising established order. Public notices for lodging and Stewart House in Seattle accompany the letter.
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the Star
Minnie B. Frazier
United States
Parnest Heddrick
Logger
Monroe, Wash
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Edwin Arnold
Lafcadio Hearn
M’kenzie
Queen Victoria
England
Scotland
Panama
Ecuador
Uncle Sam
Swift
IPN
Swift & Company
USA
Hal” Flood
Margaret Wilson
George von L. Meyer
Edson Hradley
BY Herr
Jacob Schloschheimer
Girte
Willie Ritchie
New York
Washington Star
George
Arctic
Tropics
Judge
London Opinion
Morntin
Sketty
St. I
Redelsheimer
Norfolk Suits
J. Redelsheimer & Co
First Ave
Corner
Columbia
Johnny Mouse
Eugene Springer
Samuel Hampton
Washington St
Tacoma
Cornell
Renton
Gotter
Ev'rybody
Stewart House
West Stewart
Pike Public Market
Grote-Rankin’s
Camp Dresser
CREX
Rankin
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