Prisoners stage Christmas benefit game in Olympia
In Olympia inmates plan a jail football charity with rival East and North teams meeting on Thanksgiving morning. The Star backs the idea, Sheriff Hodge and Jailer Halley approve, 25 cent admission, proceeds fund Christmas trees for detained families including the Willmont and Miller households. Proceeds will aid destitute families of prisoners.
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Hodge
Halley
East
North
Duchess
Dugdale
Seattle Giants
Petia Ae
Ball Park
M. Willmont
North Tank
Frank Miller
St. Louis
Frank
Santa Claus
Ravensdale Mine Tragedy Prompts Humidity Reform Call
Grim report from Ravensdale details 31 deaths in a mine disaster. The piece criticizes dry and dusty conditions, urges humidity systems like Roslyn, and highlights Northwest Improvement Co. and official links to mining oversight.
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Ravensdale
Washington
U. S. Experimental Station
Pittsburg
The
Northwest Improvement Co
Roslyn
Cle Elum
Eagles Band Rivalry Captures Jail to Field Theme
A noisy crowd cheers as fans from both sides back the teams at the field while Crawford White plans a bold push for a timely return. A pair of observers keeps watch as players move between jail and stadium, aiming for a decisive clash.
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Eagles
Crawford White
Mayor Gill to Speak on Executive Problems
Mayor Gill will address the Commercial Club Monday on Problems of the Executive as part of a public lecture series by the university extension division. The event is open to the public.
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Gill
Commercial Club
Trattnete
University Extension Division
Dr Stone Named President of State Medical Examiners Board
Seattle physician Dr D M Stone has been appointed by Governor Lister to succeed Dr Robert Percy Smith as president of the state board of medical examiners.
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D. M. Stone
Seattle
Gov
Lister
Robert Percy Smith
State Board of Medical Examiners
Plans for Electrical Prosperity Week in City
Flec trical Prosperity week begins November 29 with an electrical ball in the Hip podrome and continuous show in the Stuart building. Special displays of nights are arranged for downtown streets, promising an exceptional event despite odd phrasing.
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Hippodrome
Stuart Building
Commission Chair Warns of Forged Warrants in State Fund
Olympia November 22. Jonhn F. Gilles head claim agent in the state industrial insurance department will be asked to explain why warrants totaling 15032 40 forged for months passed without claim. Industrial Insurance chairman Ployd L Daggett announced the probe into shortages begun November 5 after a new stenographer caught a warrant. Three suspicious claims arose on county road work all tied to laborers in public jobs with forged physician names. Handwriting experts in Seattle assess warrants and a grand jury will probe for a smuggling ring and warrant forgeries with arrests planned in Seattle and Olympia. Daggett said all suspects are being scrutinized and action will follow.
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Olympia
Jonhn F. Gilles
State Industrial Insurance Department
Ployd L. Daggett
Industrial Insurance Commission
Daggett
Gillies
Seattle
Port of Seattle Belt Line to End Waterfront Rail Stranglehold
Shippers celebrate exemption from waterfront switching charges while railroads fear loss of profits as the Port of Seattle's belt line proposal aims to convert a city waterfront into a storage yard. A photograph at Marion Street illustrates the duplicated tracks seen as wasteful by opponents.
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Port Belt Line
City Street
Seattle
Belt Line
Marion St
Greece Seeks Military Aid Terms From Allies
Washington reports a Greek source close to the legation says Greece would demand 500,000 Anglo French troops or a Greece Romania invasion plan with Romania against Bulgaria as condition for joining the allies in the war.
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Greece
Bulgaria
Lega
Capt Lane Relates Stefansson Arctic Trek Find
Capt Louis Lane arrives in Seattle recounting Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s near six month Arctic trek on Banks Land. Stefansson and three companions hunted for food with rifles, living on seal, while heading to stay two years with supplies cached. Lane’s rescue, sale of the Polar Bear, and Brond Eskimo aid are noted.
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Arctic
Viljhalmar Stefansson
Seattle
Louis Lane
North Sea
Nome
Cor
Dova
Lane
Stefansson
Banks Land
Storkinsen
Anderson
Thompson
Altho
Capt. Lane
Hanks Land
Henry Ford in Bad With London Press
London papers led by the Globe, after two weeks of suppression, refuse Henry Ford ads due to Ford's opposition to the allies loan in America. The Canadian Ford company reportedly subscribed $1,000,000 to a Canadian domestic loan.
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London
Lord Northcliffe
The
Globe
Henry Ford
Ford
America
Ford Company
Dartmouth President Resigns to Join Yale Faculty
Dr. Ernest F. Nichols resigns as president of Dartmouth College in Hanover New Hampshire effective immediately and will take a professorship in physics at Yale University.
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Hanover
N. H
Ernest F. Nichola
Dartmouth College
Yale
Caminetti to Probe Smuggling Route from Canada
Assistant Secretary of Labor Densmore and Immigration Commissioner Caminetti travel from San Francisco to Seattle to investigate alleged alien and dope smuggling across the Canadian border. The mission aims to uncover illicit crossings and related activity.
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Secrtary of
Densmore
Seattle
San Francisco
Caminetti
Canadian
Officer Suffers Paralyzing Stroke in City
Patrolman W W Riley aged 27 residing at the Waldorf hotel Seventh and Pike was stricken with paralysis at 4945 Monday morning just after starting his beat at Fourth Ave 8 and Main St He walked to police headquarters unable to speak and was taken to the city hospital later moved to Providence hospital Doctors expect recovery.
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Waldorf Hotel
Seventh and Pike
Fourth Ave
Main St
City Hospital
Providence
California Population Report Cites 3,004,500
Sacramento November 22. California's population stands at 3,004,500 according to Job Wood statistician for the state school department in a report released today.
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California
Sacramento
Job Wood
State School Department
Postmaster Dismissal Reversed in Wilson Critique
Woodrow Wilson orders the reinstatement of the Illinois postmaster who was dismissed for indiscreet criticism of the president's engagement. The issue underscores Wilson’s stance against petty personal spite in his administration.
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Woodrow Wilson
Illinois
Wilson
Turks Shoot An Aviator. One Rescued By Companion
London dispatch says two British aviators attacked Ferijek railroad station. One was shot down. the other rescued his comrade and returned to British lines. The act follows a perilous air engagement with Turkish forces.
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London
Ferijek
Ads of Exceptional Interest During Holiday Bargains
The notices urge careful reading of daily ads to catch exceptional bargains for holiday purchases and save money. Readers are advised to watch ads closely as holidays approach for handsome savings.
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Santa Clare
J. L. Mannon
MR True
Winston Churchill
Kaiser
Sumner Pedo
MN Pear
Admiralty
Churchill
Western Front
Northwestern Improvement Co
Northern Pacific Railroad
Coal Company
W. P. Clough
New York
Northern Pacific
James Bagley
Bagley
England
Europe
Mayor Gill
DR. Stone
Hington
Rein
Tion
Daily Cartoonet
London Press
DR. Nichols
W. W. Riley
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