Navy yards face bids for six torpedo destroyers
Official Navy tabulation shows Mare Island yard bid 762,635 to build one boat with 50,000 savings and 20 month delivery, Norfolk yard 706,305 with 26 month delivery, Crampe of Philadelphia bid 1 000 for three 30 knot vessels with 17,500 for Pacific coast delay. Mare Yard likely to win one or two awards.
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Crampe
Philadelphia
Dear Miss Grey letters on dating and advice
Cynthia Grey replies to readers about modern courtship and home life. Topics include hardworking men and “nameloving” girls, marriage expectations, adoption questions, and practical laundry tips. Readers share concerns about finances, fads, and maintaining home stability as relationships evolve.
Winter Deserts Wife in Spring Divorce Court
A Seattle divorce roundup tells how several marriages ended due to strife and desertion. Entries involve Earl Winter, Clarence Olmstead, Mary McAteer, James Deloach, and Irvin Wellman, with descriptions of neglect, abuse, infidelity, and abandonment.
Long wait foretold for repeating February 1866 full moon
The note warns that a rare celestial alignment will recur after 2,500,000 years, predicting a February without a full moon similar to February 1866. The statement emphasizes the extraordinary rarity and astronomical significance of the event.
Confessions Of A Wife Love Dick Sober I Loathe Him Drunk
In a strained domestic scene Mollie debates her feelings for a husband ruined by drink. Dick insists he is sober while his drunken behavior torments Mollie as she contemplates leaving or enduring a troubled marriage. The narrator questions her future and fidelity as the episode ends with a cliffhanger.
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Aunt Mary
Marele
Mollic
Jim
Nol
Mary
Mergie
L.joathe
Coeds to Keep House at U of W
Theoretical and practical study of housekeeping at the University of Washington will be supplemented by actual home management practice. A five room cottage on campus will host girl students for two month stints to learn the art of the housekeeper. Four or five residents at a time, rotated so all registrants gain opportunity, will have their achievements studied by the class.
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University of Washington
Park Board Considers Denny Park as Cascade Athletic Field
The Park Board has under advisement a petition by Charles Fagan principal of Cascade school and others to convert Denny Park into an athletic field for Cascade and Denny schools.
JAPAN RAILROAD STUDY AT LOCAL TRAIN YARD
K Kishimoto assistant freight and traffic manager for Japan Imperial Railway is visiting to study railroad operation and traffic handling at the local yard.
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K. Kishimoto
Japan
Imperial Railway
Mayor Talks to City Employees About Pensions and Efficiency
Mayor Gill told the Municipal Civil Service league that the public deserves respect from servants. He endorsed old age pensions, praised the civil service commission, urged long terms for commissioners, and praised Beattie’s well paid city employees. He urged efficiency to reduce costs without firing staff.
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Gill
Municipal Civil Service League
Civil Service Commission
Beattie
Chicago 50 000 March In Big Day Parade 1916 Prohibition Push
Led by 1000 ministers and clergy, thousands of Catholics Jews Protestants and Boy Scouts marched along Michigan Avenue and the Loop to launch a campaign to close 7152 saloons in 1916. The parade included 26000 Protestant church members 1600 Boy Scouts and 12000 from W C T U Good Templars Anti Saloon and related groups with Mayor Thompson observing from a Michigan Avenue balcony.
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Chicago
Michigan Ave
Loop
The
Divines
Warner
Inter-Collegiate Prohibt Association
Good Templars
Anti-Saloon League
Prohibition Parties
Thompson
Dinner by men for 400 women at First Presbyterian
One hundred doctors lawyers bankers and other business men organized a yearly Friday night dinner for 400 Women members of the First Presbyterian church. The event featured extensive cooking serving and praise from the attendees with the guests calling the repast superb despite frank criticism from the diners.
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First Presbyterian Church
Dan Appleton Addressed University Sour Dough Club
Rex Reach immortalized John W. McCord as Dan Appleton in The Iron Trail. On Friday night at Denny Hall on campus, Rex Reach spoke about Dan Appleton, a wealthy Alaskan, to the University Sour Dough club.
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John W. McCord
Rex Reach
Dan Appleton
Denny Hall
Eighty Percent of German University Students in Army
A Zurich report states that 80 percent of students at German universities are serving in the army. The figure reflects wide wartime mobilization and impacts academic life and future scholarship.
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ARMY
Zurich
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