Kidnapping scare ends as girl confesses runaway act
Minnie Hints 11 admitted she fled the Washington Children's Home to join her father in Portland after authorities hunted her kidnapper for 24 hours. She was found at the OW depot Tuesday night and says a woman who had taken her escaped. Detectives had secured a kidnapping warrant against her father Mike Hints. The girl is staying with Dr. George A. Sheafe, superintendent of the home.
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Minnie Hints
Washington Children's
Mike
George A. Sheafe
Excess baggage humbling tale ends marriage for actress
Gladys Walton, film actress, discusses her interlocutory decree from Frank R. Liddell Jr. after accusing her husband of refusing to work. She echoes Judge Summerfield calling such men excess baggage and recalls a life of perpetual postponement and reliance on her earnings.
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Los Angeles
Gladys Walton
Frank R. Liddell
Summerfield
Manana
U S Ready for Canada Pact Opens St Lawrence Talks
Washington May 25 United States notifies Canada of readiness to negotiate a treaty to deepen the St Lawrence waterway allowing oceangoing ships to reach the Great Lakes Secretary Hughes issued the note stating the United States government would be glad to start talks and that the note was forwarded with no reply yet received from Ottawa.
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Washington
United States
St. Lawrence
Hughes
Great Lakes
Department
Freight Train Crashes Into Street Car in Birmingham
In Birmingham on May 15 a freight train collided with a street car carrying 72 passengers, injuring 35 people and eight seriously. The crash occurred as the car crossed Alabama Great Northern tracks in the east end of town.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Great Northern Railroad
Genoa Conference Backed by Lloyd George in Commons
London May 2 Pride in Genoa talks voiced by Prime Minister Lloyd George as he defended the conference in the house of commons. He warned that failure would endanger Europe noting a Russia backed by famine and a vast army. He urged practical outcomes and emphasized Russia's role in global trade and security.
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London
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Europe
Russia
Lieyd George
Hague
Lioyd George
Germany
Damages Awarded For Killing Of Husband In Train Incident
Mrs Marion C Slocomb received a verdict of 13750 against the Great Northern railway company over the death of her husband Wilson M Slocomb and their son Cecil and Glen Long after a fast passenger train struck them at Monitor Wash on November 7 1919. The petition sought 75000 from the railway company in a federal case filed in Portland Oregon. A separate report notes nearly 25000 damage from a spectacular fire that damaged a three story factory building at East Water and Alder in Portland last night.
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Wilson M. Slocomb
Cecil
Glen Long
Great Northern
Monitor
Wash
Marion C. Slocomb
Slocombh
Portland
Ore
BE. Water and Alder Ata
Head Lettuce Set for Big West Washington Growth
W. H. Paulmamus, president of the Puyallup & Sumner Praitgrowers' Association, urges development of Washington head lettuce in the Beatts Tacoma valley. He notes 1921 saw 673 cars shipped, contrasts Lewiston and Imperial Valley quality, and calls for better fertilizer, grading, and marketing study led by extension staff to boost a potential 5,000-car growth within five years with chamber support.
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W. H. Paulmamus
Puyallup & Sumner Praitgrowers’ Association
Washington
Beatts
Tacoma
California
Northwest
United States
Lewiston
Idaho
Imperial Valley
Dr. Holland
The
State College
Holland
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