Strike Settled In Seattle After Four Day Sympathetic Walkout
Seattle ended a four day general strike that paralyzed industry and closed schools while 30 000 workers paused to support 25 000 metal tradesmen demanding higher wages. Soldiers kept order as unions voted to resume work by Tuesday noon with a coordinated return to demonstrate unity. Tacoma strike ended with most workers back, while shipyards and mines faced limited picket lines amid L W W activity.
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Anarchists to be deported in Chicago crackdown
Immigration officials report a sweeping purge of aliens with criminal records or deemed a national menace. Fifty four aliens were returned to Europe under guard as a second carload prepates for departure. Harry R. Landis directs the Chicago effort with police cooperation and mass hearings for many anarchists awaiting transport.
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Palmer May Succeed Gregory Washington Headline Decision
It was announced here Monday that there is every probability that A. Mitchell Palmer will be nominated by President Wilson to be attorney general in succession to Thomas W. Gregory, who recently resigned. An antemortem accusation was made by Mrs Celia Haensel, 78 year old Christmas bride, that her husband Arthur Tiaensel, a discharged soldier of the Eighty sixth division, shot her and her mother in Chicago.
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Armadillo as a Digger Standoff Ends in Collapse
A boy tries to capture a digging armadillo that erupts from a mound and pulls him underground. He clings with both hands, but the armadillo digs deeper, dragging the boy down and forcing him to release. The scene ends with the boy stumbling free amid earth thrown over head and shoulders, from Far Away and Long Ago by W. H. Hodson.
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W. H. Hodson
Tree puzzle to foresters shows spiral growth in spruce cross section
A cross section of a large Alaska spruce reveals a continuous spiral in reddish wood named rotholz. Foresters speculate the tree grew on a glacier edge in an inclined position causing gradual rotation so all trunk sides faced downward as growth continued.
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Ike
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Rotholz
Mystery Word Keeps Boy From Schoolwork
A note handed to two Thanet schoolmasters contained a single word Cepatomtegoataturing. The master, long used to odd messages, finally deciphered the phrase after work and tea, revealing the idea kept at home to go a-taturing.
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London Chronicle
Playing Safe in Santa Letter as Boy Requests Funds
Billy writes Santa Claus asking for a check to pay his helpers or risk a Christmas Eve strike. He explains Santa must cover wages to avoid workers striking during the holiday season.
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Santa Clause
Festal Cutlery Alloy Named by Canadian Chemists
Reportedly, Festal is an iron chromium cobalt alloy claimed to be easy to work with and ideal for high quality cutlery. The term appears in various quotes noting its novelty and a stylistic appraisal of the author and heroine descriptions.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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