Japanese Births Spark County Opposition to Immigrant Growth
California vital statistics show rapid Japanese birth growth from 1906 to 1918 with concentrations in fruit counties led by Los Angeles and Placer. Public meetings in Newcastle, Placer County discuss encroachment while Assemblyman Parker claims Japanese control of about 65 percent of Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys vegetable growing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Cal
Bureau of Vital Statistics
California State Board of Health
Los Angeles County
Alameda
Fresno
Sacramento
San Joaquin
Santa Clara
Interior
California
Newcastle
Placer County
Ivan Parker
Japanese Film Censors Ban Kisses and Alter Films
Japanese police censored film content up to March 1 removing 2350 kisses and 353 embraces. Only one kiss remained, Columbus to Queen Isabella shown in Tokio. Censors altered 2144 titles, cut 127 murder scenes, and prohibited 57 reels. Most films are American, reflecting East West standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Columbus
Isabella
Tokio
Far East
America
Former Kaiser Silences Barber at Amersfoort Castle
Exiled German ruler William Hohenzollern keeps his barber quiet each morning at his Amersfoort castle. The barber trims a Vandyke beard and massages the former emperor, who insists on silence and wrinkles being ironed out before the work. The ex-kaiser, in good health, is aided by one faithful staff officer at the cross-cut saw while other aides stay at a village hotel with Gen. Von Gented nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hohenzollern
Germany
Amerongen
T. Walter Williams
New York
Holland
Williams
Mr. Hohenzollern
Kaiser
Kaiserin
Gen. von Gented
Group of Kane County Girls Seek Wyoming Colony
Miss Nellie Grant backs a plan by twenty Kane county women to found an Adamless Eden in the West. They ask Governor Carey to help locate a 640 acre desert tract in southwestern Wyoming near the Bad Lands for a women-only farming settlement to be financed by the group. They study farming, irrigation, and use of tractors, with aims to move by the next year and possibly build homes on arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Kane County
Wyoming
Nellie Grant
R. D. Carey
Man
Grant
Carey
Illinois
Montana
Idaho
Miss Grant
MAIL COMES 39 YEARS LATE
A postal card mailed Feb 16 1880 in Cincinnati, sent to Joseph Allerdice in Indianapolis, arrived 39 years late with only a Somerville Mass postmark from 1918. The card from Nathan Wolfstein & Co offered 1000 buifs at 9 14 cents, noting a move due to Ohio River floods. Postmaster Springsteen added hope the acceptance terms still stand.
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Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Joseph Allerdice
Somerville
Mass
Nathan Wolfstein & Co
Main Street
Ohio River
Springsteen
Cheers Up Boys in Prison in Paris YMCA Effort
In Paris the YMCA operates a cheerful corner inside the Roquette prison for 150 AEF soldiers awaiting court martial or serving sentences. A Y hut offers writing material, a library, and a wet canteen while Arthur Bennett, the Cambridge Mass minister guiding the effort, arranges three Y shows weekly and Sunday meetings that all attend with evident pleasure.
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Paris
France
A. BE. F
de la Roquette
Ile
States
Arthur V. Bennett
Concord Street
Cambridge
Mass
Lady Florence Duroc-Jersey Pig Makes Air Travel History
Lady Florence Florrie a Duroc-Jersey pig from the Taylor farm near La Grange Georgia becomes the first pig to travel by airplane after being won by James Taylor a soldier in the aviation service. The flight involved careful crating and a stormy ascent elevating pork to new heights in novelty aviation history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence
Duroc
Florrie
James Taylor
Spain Seizes Raisuli's Riches in Morocco
Spanish authorities in Morocco announce confiscation of all property belonging to Raisuli the bandit chief, seizing his wealth and assets amid ongoing pursuit and legal actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Raisuli
Morocco
Grasshopper Catcher Boosts Illinois Clover Crop
Cy W. Rawhill, a northeast of Pana farmer, built a grasshopper catcher for 19 dollars and soon collected 18 bushels of grasshoppers to feed hogs and chickens. He dries some for winter fowl feed and notes grasshoppers offer high protein content, helping preserve his second clover crop.
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Cy W. Rawhill
Pana
Ill
Raghill
New Comet Discovered by Rev Joel Metcalf
Harvard Observatory announced a new comet found by Rev Joel M Metcalf of Winchester during a vacation in South Hero Vermont. It is the first new comet of the year and visible with a small telescope in the early evening. The object moves rapidly northward suggesting it lies near the earth.
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Cambridge
Mass
Joel M. Metcalf
Winchester
South Hero
Harvard Observatory
Metcalf
Ants Force Rescuers to Save Team in New Mexico
A traveler and his team were overwhelmed by millions of flying ants near Santa Fe. A posse armed with gasoline torches and pumps rushed four miles to the scene and found both man and horses near collapse. The ants withdrew after fumes. the man and horses were badly bitten but expected to survive.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Springer
Staton
Congress Honors Pershing With Permanent General Rank
Senate passes house bill conferring permanent rank of general on General Pershing in recognition of his overseas services. The measure moves to the White House for final action without debate or a recorded vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Pershing
Senate
Mda
Caves Offered for Sale as New Real Estate Trend
High rents and housing scarcity push agents to list caves as living spaces in Wichita Falls Texas. An advertisement reading Good cave for sale highlights a novel housing option amid the local market.
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Texas
Wichita Falls
Tex
Military Training Mentioned By Parent And Siblings
A parent confirms the daughter received military training with two lieutenants a captain a sergeant and a private frequently visiting. The exchange notes ongoing contact and supervision within a military context.
Centenarian Cornelius Mabie Celebrates 103 In Tappan
Cornelius Mabie of Tappan New York just marked his one hundred third birthday claiming he is in the prime of life despite being totally deaf and partially blind. He once worked as a contractor building box cars for the Erie railroad and remains well known to many railroad men nationwide. He told visitors he had no aches or pains and has enjoyed a very happy life and remains hopeful and happy.
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Cornelius Mabie
Tappan
N. Y
Mabie
Mubie
Erie Road
Elder Hall's sixth marriage to Vina Webb in Kentucky
The hard shell Baptist minister Joseph Hall of Millstone Ky remarried to Vina Webb. It is his sixth marriage and her third. The couple had been divorced about a year earlier.
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Joseph Hall
Millstone, Ky
Vina Webb
Japanese Beetle Pest Threatens New Jersey Cropland
The agricultural department asked Congress to appropriate 70000 dollars to arrest and eradicate millions of Japanese beetles in Burlington county New Jersey. Crops fruit trees and vegetation covering 14000 acres have already been destroyed by the pest.
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New Jersey
Washington
Congress
The
Agricultural Department
Burlington County
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Wiliam Hohenzollern
Wilson
Pacific Fleet
Kadel & Herbert
New Mexico
Admiral Rodman
Adanless Eden
Bennett
Trip
Windis
Gen. Pershing
Chinaman
West Point
ZT. Wong
Shanghai
United States Military Academy
Tappan, N. Y
Lee DeForest
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