Milk price report issued by Seattle milk commission
Seattle milk commission presented its findings to May Caldwell, recommending a producer price of 2.90 per unit for milk, with monthly readjustments by the city health department. It bases readjustments on the value of milk for butter and conformance to condenser prices, amid earlier dealer bids and market reductions.
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Woman Sent to Congress Was Suffrage Foe
Muskogee Oklahoma November 15 The woman member of Congress was enemy of woman suffrage Mise Robertson 64 elected from this town to the House of Representatives is the second woman ever to be sent to Congress Jeanette Rankin of Montana was the first The home is the unit of society I said in dozens of antisuffrage speeches When suffrage became a fact the people here who have known Robertson all her life chose her as candidatees Isa of nervous energy fed to service of humanity says former State Supreme Justice Thomas H Owen a missionary so the Indians and her took up his fathers work In life Miss Robertson began to run on the work of the generations her She learned domestic science and phay at a Boston school and the first stenographer in India She established a school Indian girls and from that time she has worked for the better of the Indians CAFETERIA THAT IS NO PROFITS Miss Robertson turned her home into a boarding house and later a cafeteria at first for air and later for the general public The cafeteria has never been a king business No man in uniform has ever had pay for food at Miss Robertson s and the poor have always fed free and everyone else at Miss Robertson adopted many an orphans and cared for them as they were grown During the Spanish American war helped to recruit the famous Capron regiment of rough riders and personally gave a field kit to every man of the regiment She knew Roosevelt at that time later Roosevelt made her post of Muskogee the first post mistress in a first class post in the United States During the last war she was head the Red Cross chapter which for the comfort of thousands soldiers on troop trains
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Try to Bring Rain With an Airplane
In Johannesburg on November 15 the Pretoria government tested rainmaking by dusting the atmosphere from an airplane climbing to 5,000 feet. The dust did not produce a downpour, and further experiments are planned.
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Boys Soapy Prank Leads to Patrol Confrontation
In Louisville on November 15 Herman Weasels and Raymond Hill slicked street car tracks with soap. The prank caused a patrol car to skid toward them and officers arrested the youths.
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Raymond Hill
Ghost story contest ends as stars pick winners
The Star closes entries for its ghost story contest inspired by Earthbound and will print only the best submitted pieces. Readers share vivid tales of visions and maritime hauntings, from Malachi Green’s ghost to spectral sailors, along with family memories and a Sweden Sweden Sweden tale.
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Strand Theatre
When Shorty Ashford Fell Ill during the Flu Days
A veteran recalls the flu scare when his unit, with 39 states represented, faced deaths and hospitalizations. Only Shorty Ashford was truly ill as they signed the payroll, a bright moment amid many gray days.
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