Help Girls at Medical Lake Home by A Kandel
At the Women's Industrial Home and Clinic opened Sept 1 at Medical Lake Miss Margaret Gillam, Superintendent, shows a clean, hotel like setting where 29 residents from Seattle and other areas learn sewing farming and domestic skills. The program aims to reform through high ideals and supervised training with discharge only after securing a living wage and probation. Prospects are uncertain but the effort seeks to reduce delinquency by guidance and work.
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A. Kandel Medical Lake
Medical Lake
Margaret S. Gillam
Seattle
Advises Teachers to Be Less Prim in Open Letter
Will C. Wood, superintendent of public instruction, urged teachers to be less prim in an open letter from Sacramento. He said dignity is essential but must not overdo it, noting hermits do not get along with sociable people.
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Bacramento
Will C. Wood
Schwarzpickle
Schwarzie
United States
Hoboken
Australian wheat harvest valued at half a billion
Melbourne and wheat experts estimate the coming Australian harvest will be worth about 500 million dollars. This valuation reflects strong production prospects and market expectations for the season.
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Melbourne
Saloon Back? Herbert Corey on illicit liquor growth
Herbert Corey reports from the road on post saloon America and the Volstead Act, arguing drinking remains a moral crime, moonshine grows, and law enforcement depends on public sentiment. He predicts a new wave of clandestine production and urges readers to rethink drinking as crime.
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Herbert Corey
Seattle
New York
Brooklyn
Cleveland
The
Star
Missing Relatives Seeks Help From The Star Readers
The Star publishes notices to aid in reuniting separated relatives or friends. William G. Freeman of Dorchester, a Canadian expeditionary veteran, vanished May 19 en route to Atlantic City. His sister asks his return. contact 6 Corwin St, Dorchester, or H. Lawless at The Star. Sander Anderson seeks brother Andrew J. Anderson missing since 1915 around Seattle to settle an estate. Anthony O. Nelson seeks old friend John G. Smith, last heard 1896 or 1897 in Alaska. Smith had brothers Gunder and Theodore there.
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The
Star
Dorchester
Mass
Boston
Atlantic City
J. A. McAllister
Corwin St
H. Lawless
Sander Anderson
Seventh St
Raymond
Wash
Andrew J. Anderson
Seattle
Anderson
Anthony O. Nelson
Shelton
John G. Smith
Nelson
Smith
Alaska
Gunder
Theodore
Viola Dana Photo Sparks Welfare Protest in Toledo
In Toledo on November 3 a photo of actress Viola Dana shown outside a film house prompted Mrs. BK. P. Rood, welfare director, to protest the image saying the shoulders of the figure appeared to shake by machinery. The report notes the unusual scene and reaction from local observers.
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Machinery
Toledo
Viola Dana
BK. P. Rood
Fever Spreads at Vera Cruz Mission School
Four deaths occur at Instituto Morelos as Miss Mary Turner and associates battle yellow fever. A teacher stayed at post despite danger while the school continues daily despite the outbreak. Local women burn dry grass to fight the spread with help from Vera Cruz fire department and American destroyers delivering anti plague serums to the harbor.
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Vera Cruz Mexico
Mary Turner
Instituto Morelos
Vera Cruz
Sultan’s Carousel for Wives Stuns London Trade
A British merchant visiting Zanzibar watched the sultan show a carousel adorned with brides seated on painted horses. The sultan had imported the device from America to entertain his harem of wives as music played the old tune There’s Only One Girl in This World for Me.
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Zanzibar
Multan
Sayn
America
Pastor Loses Date Book Sparks Church Chaos
In San Francisco on November 3, theft of Rev. William K. Guthrie's engagement book disrupted wedding plans christenings luncheons and speeches. The pastor hides out to dodge angry calls as couples wait at the church for announcements and Pharilanthropies face confusion.
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San Francisco
William K. Guthrie
Bishop laments gambling wealth contrast at Mexican resort
Bishop Adna W. Leonard, head of the Methodist Pacific Coast, visited Tijuana the Monte Carlo of Mexico and criticized the spending there. On returning to San Diego he urged that a tenth of that money could fund Bibles for Mexican people.
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Ban Diego
Cal
Adna W. Leonard
Methodist Church
Pacific Coast
Tijuana
Monte Carlo
Fust
Flashlight Traps This Chicken Thief in Kentucky
PARIS Ky Nov 3 There’s the fact that I stole my chickens declared F B Doty to the cape here Doty flashed a photograph of a frightened youngster crawling under a henhouse Easy I explained I rigged up a camera and flashlight on a trigger He pulled the trigger when he started to crawl
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Paris
F. BE. Doty
Doty
Burglar Pleads Guilty. Man Sentences Himself
In San Francisco on November 3, Pver Ett Smith, a colored man, asked to plead guilty to burglary. The judge suggested he sentence himself. Smith replied that when jailed before he gained weight and then sentenced himself to six months, which he is now serving.
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San Francisco
Pverett Smith
Smith
Mahself
Installment plan suicide attempt ends in death in Portland
In Portland Oregon on November 3 a young man calling himself John Smith tried an installment plan to kill himself. Lacking the nerve to take a single large dose he ingested slow acting poison repeatedly. He is dying in the city hospital, reportedly the first such installment plan suicide attempt in the area.
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Portland
Ore
John Smith
Smith
Kitten Found After Folding Bed Mixup
SAN DINGO Nov 3 A janitor searched for a tenant’s missing kitten until the tenant revealed the animal had crawled under a pillow and become stuck inside a folding bed, ending the hunt.
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San Dingo
Big Feet Figure in Big Feat By Police
San Diego police arrest Harold G. Davies on charges of passing worthless checks after a tip from Los Angeles describes him as the son of an English duke with unusually large feet.
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Police
San Diego
Harold G. Davies
Los Angeles
Davies
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