Mayor Albee of Portland Faces Recall
Portland voters weigh recall of Mayor H. R. Albee amid allegations he held another job as general manager of an insurance company since election and mismanaged city affairs. Also on ballot are City Commissioners Robert Dieck and William Brewster with rival candidates listed for each seat.
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Mayor Albee
Portland
H. R. Albee
Robert 6. Dieck
William L. Brewster
Albee
B. E
White Bands Signal War Widows Passersby In London
Mrs J B McCaul of Seattle recalls September 10 in London where about 30 000 young war widows wore white armbands to indicate bereavement and safety. She notes black crepe is costly, tickets home scarce, and London as a vast hospital with wounded soldiers marching past, some missing limbs or arms, as darkness loomed and invasion fears grew.
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London
J. B. McCaul
England
Fire Stirs Crowd Near Johnny Writes Show
At a lamms club a group discusses a fire nearby while the audience asserts the danger was exaggerated. Jake recalls the fire scene and the crowd’s nervousness before returning to their table.
Women to swap gold rings for iron in German drive
Berlin reports a committee aims to persuade all German women to surrender gold jewelry to be melted into money for weapons. Each participant will receive an iron ring inscribed I gave gold for this.
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Berlin
Germany
Von Moltke In Berlin Reported Improving
The lines of Gen. Von Moltke, chief of the German staff, were described as a gallstone complication with liver ailment, yet reports said he was improving and his recovery was expected.
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Berlin
von Moltke
Busy Berthas Honor Bertha Krupp Head of Krupp Gun Works
German artillerymen name their siege guns Busy Berthas in honor of Bertha Krupp who now leads the Krupp gun works as the siege weaponry terrifies fortifications and alters the battlefield.
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Berlin
Berthas
Bertha Krupp
Krupp Gun Works
American flyer Phil Rader reports German execution of an American
Phil Rader, a California youth who learned to fly near Hammondsport, describes being captured by German troops near Arras during World War I. He and another prisoner were imprisoned at St Quentin, chained, and later executed by a firing squad as they were led to a shallow grave. Rader was moved to Valenciennes and met a German general who jested about joining him in Paris.
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Phil Rader
California
Ourties
Hammondsport
N. C
Lieut. Porte
Atantic
The
Star
Hader
Europe
Paris
Lille
Rader
Arras
Uhblans
St. Louis
St. Quentin
Chaina
Valenciennes
Czar claims great victory over Germans in Polish battles
Petrograd reports heavy fighting across Russian Poland with the czar’s forces advancing at Petrokov Radom Rawa and Blachorzegi to the Kshanka mouth. Russians claim bayonet clashes and seizure of the Nemylowski forest with German losses heavy as they fail to take Warsaw.
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Russian Poland
Petrokov
Radom
Rawa
Blalohrzegi
Kshanka
Nemylowski
Radow
Kozaiec
Warsaw
Death of French boy scout amid refusing to reveal movements
A German newspaper reports the death of a French boy scout who refused to divulge military movements. He walked to a telegraph pole with a green vineyard behind him and faced the firing squad with a proud smile, condemned as wasted courage by an Infatuated wretch.
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London
Musterole Quick Relief advertises blisterless mustard rub
An old advertising copy touts Musterole as a clean white ointment that replaces mustard plasters. It claims rapid pain relief for chest colds, bronchitis, sore neck, asthma, rheumatism, back and joint pain, sprains, frostbite, and pneumonia prevention. Available in jars and hospital sizes from Musterole Company Cleveland Ohio.
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Patna
Musterole Company
Cleveland
Onto
Dean’s Kidney Pills Publicized For Kidney Health
An early 20th century ad copy warns against overwork and worry as causes of kidney weakness. It promotes Dean’s Kidney Pills as effective, citing a Seattle engineer Edmund H. Crowe who reports nocturnal urination, back pain, headaches, and dizziness improved by the remedy.
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Dean
Seattle
Edmund H. Crowe
Fifth Ave. N
Halloween Night Party Fortune Game
A Halloween party game invites boys and girls to write fortunes on black and yellow paper, roll and tie them, then float them in blue tinted water. Guests stab fortunes with a hatpin and read them aloud after each successful find.
Atlas of the War in Europe special publication
The Seattle Star offers a newly printed twenty page atlas with Europe maps and world view. It features detailed country maps and sections on peace and war strengths with frontier updates after the Balkan wars. One atlas page plus a map is included with each six months subscription for $1.80.
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Seatile Star
Europe
World
Russia
Austria-Hungary
France
Germany
Italy
Seattle Star
Seattle
Wash
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