Back to the Farm Plan at Puget Mill Co Lands
Puget Sound area aims to create five acre farm tracts with poultry and filberts, offering 20 to 40 year terms. The plan includes supervision, education, housing, and urban amenities to lure city dwellers to self sufficient homesteads near Seattle and Everett. Prince Ubine addresses Washington Senate praising allied unity and sacrifice.
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Alderwood Manor
Puget Mill Co
Seattle
Everett
Hiadoor
Puget Sound
Turkey
England
Europe
Wealthy German youth seized by U S forces near Catalina Island
U S gunboat McCulloch stopped the Pacific mail steamer San Juan twenty miles northwest of Catalina Island and arrested F W Fay 22 described as son of a San Francisco merchant now in Germany. Fay bound for Mazatlan held for federal investigation. authorities consider possible dodge of military duty. Frederick Hees, editor, cites lack of passport and registration as possible motive.
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Los Angeles
U. S
McCullough
Pacific Mail
San Juan
Catalina Island
F. W Fay
San Francisco
Germany
Fay
Mazatlan
Mex
Frederick Hees
Mexico
Cassport
Hess
Plan to Move Alien Enemies Near Fort Lawton and Bremerton
District Attorney Clay Allen announced immediate steps to force aliens within a half mile of Fort Lawton and Bremerton Navy Yard to leave. President Wilson’s proclamation gave until June 1 for removal, with about 40 applying for permits and most already relocated. Allen has a census but estimates vary. some may face relocation or show cause, and detention or internment plans are not disclosed.
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Fort Lawton
Bremerton Navy Yard
Clay Allen
Wilson
Seattle
Allen
Altho
Bremerton Yard
Six Colonial Belles Lead Palace Hip New Show
The Palace Hip opens Thursday with Six Colonial Belles a vocal and instrumental act featuring Genevieve Davis. William Morrow and Esther Joy present a singing talking and dancing skit On a Country Road. The Picola Midgets perform a novelty act. Rube Brown delivers a monologue and yodeling. Seymour and Williams offer song and patter while De Velde and Zelda perform equilibrist routines.
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Palace Hip
Genevieve Davis
California
William Morrow
Esther Joy
Rube Brown
Seymour and
Williams
de Velde
Zelda
Women Police Seek Missing Manicurist Madeline Kirschbaum
Letters from Oscar Criger of Atlanta prompt Seattle's Woman's Protective Division to search for Madeline Kirschbaum, last seen at the Holland hotel in 1916. Her family in Idaho grieves as investigators pursue foul play, voluntary disappearance, or hidden whereabouts.
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Madeline Kirschbaum
Oscar Criger
Atlanta
Blanche Mason
Seattle Police
Mason
Holland Hotel
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
Origer
Mrs
Dares Wife to Shoot: He's Dead One Now
In Clarksburg West Virginia on May 31 Mrs Charles Revel of Industrial was jailed for murder after she allegedly shot her husband during a family quarrel. The couple argued when she reportedly said she would shoot him a dare followed. She grabbed a revolver and shot him through the heart.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Charles Revel
Industrial
Revel
Slavs Seek Disclosure Of Peace Terms In Treaty Talks
United Press reports from Petrograd that Germany uses socialist factions to back a Stockholm peace conference while Russians pursue a separate plan to publish allies secret treaties and press the United States to aid disclosure. Lincoln Steffens cautions Americans against mixing these conferences and notes Russian liberals seek terms before fighting for interests.
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WM. G. Shepherd
United Presse
Petrograd
Germany
Kaiseriam
Stockholm
Lincoln Steffens
America
United Press
Branting
Thomas
Russia
England
France
Italy
U. S
German meat dealer warned off by National Guard over wartime remark
Rudolph Hamm, a German meat dealer, allegedly muttered a remark about the Kaiser that led National Guard officers to advise him to leave business without delay. The remark reportedly cost him his livelihood as authorities moved to shut him down.
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Rudolph Hamm
National Guard
Booze Containers Marked Holy Bible Examined In License Case
Beaver Pa May 31 Testimony offered by Peter D Riddel ex pressman in liquor license court. He testified shipments of half pint bottles of whisky were made in New Brighton last year in packages marked Holy Bibles. In the imitation Bibles the liquor was secreted.
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Beaver
Peter D. Riddel
New Brighton
Argentine Thinks U. S. Seeing Things on Pro German Propaganda
Argentine editor Jorge Mitre says the United States overstates a German propaganda wave in South America. He argues Argentines see allies as more active than Germans and notes British and American censorship over cables to monitor intelligence.
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Charles P. Stewart
United Pres
Buenos Aires
United States
South America
Jorge Mitre
Bartholomew Mitre
la Nacion
Mitre
State Department
Germany
Europe
Armchair Bank Reveals Widow's $5000 Bonds in San Rafael
In San Rafael California on May 31 searchers recovered bonds worth 5000 from an old armchair in the House of Mystery, the former home of Mrs Helen Saunders who was killed in an automobile crash six months earlier after years of seclusion.
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San Rapael
Cal
San Rafael
Helen Saunders
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Washington
Herbert C. Hoover
Puget Mill Company
Echo June Zahl
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Prince Urine
Senate
Prince Ubine
Italian War Commission
Prince Abine
Little Landers
William Irwin
Berton Braley
Pollyanna
Health Board
Indianapolis
State Board of Health
Pure Food and Drug Department
Paris
Glenn House
Harland Ray
DR. Evans
Peoples Bank
Pike
Madeline Kirechbaum
Jamestown
N. D
Eastman Kodaks
Eastman Premo No
Bartell
YU Eit Ila
Modak
Abbott
Jad Salts
Eastman
Eastman West
R. R
Humphrey
Wampole
Welch’s
Armours
Cole’s
Hay
Harfina
Ave
Bastard Ave
Eno’s
Kellogg's
Lydia Pinkham
Saxol
Mulford’s
Bass Island
Narol
Sterling
Spiro
Allen's
Victoria Chocolates
Stollwerck’s
Merito
Loraine
Danderine
2Nd Ave
Union
Bartell Drug Stores
First Ave
Pike St
Westlake Ave
Pine St
Boren Ave
Holbrook
Kanne
Dr. Chamber
Empress
Hershey
Herlick
Raymond Tooth
Scheffier’s
Steller
Special
Alaska
Candy Kitchen
Old Armchair Bank
Andrew Richardson
Baine
Yaane
Walley
Krumbles
Sxeervany
Mallow
Paneer
Ci Mallory Llong
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