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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-12-07
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Seattle, Washington State; Senator Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington; military draft; immigrants; United States citizenship ;
  • Aroused by the fact recently developed at Seattle that 200 men in King county forfeited the right to become citizens rather than be drafted to fight, Senator Jones today introduced a resolution calling on the secretary of war to report the number...
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-01-09
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States Army corps of engineers; Alaska Road Commission; United States. department of defense; Camp Lee, Virginia; Brigadier General W. P. Richardson; Captain William H. Waugh; First Lieutenant Sidney L....
  • Army orders which today announce the permanent relief of Brigadier General W. P. Richardson, now commanding a brigade at Camp Lee, Va., from fourth duty with the Alaska road commission building roads and trails in Alaska also announce the...
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  • State history. World War. Army. Featured article. 1917-10-09
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; American soldiers; featured article; featured articles; Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina; officers; headquarters; Major Frank Carroll of Seattle, Washington state; medical corps; Captain...
  • In a grove of oaks, adjoining a field of cotton whose bolls are now all tattered and torn, are two short rows of brown wall tents. They are the quarters of the several general officers and the division staff of the forty-first division and at the...
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  • Northwest History. Federal Affairs. Legislators. 1919-01-20
  • Northwest history; politics; government; federal legislation; United States Congress; legislators; Representative James H. Brady of Idaho; memorials; eulogies; elections; House speakership; Representative James R. Mann of Illinois
  • The senate paid tribute to the memory of the late Senator James H. Brady of Idaho, who died January 13 last year. At a special sitting of the senate eulogies were delivered on Senator Brady and also on the late Senator Gallinger. Those who spoke of...
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  • Northwest History. Federal Affairs. Legislators. 1919-02-25
  • Northwest history; politics; government; federal legislation; United States Congress; legislators; League of Nations; President Thomas Woodrow Wilson; congressional debate
  • Congress, on the eve of President Wilson's return to the White House, is in a rebellious mood. Moreover, it is deeply stirred, not only by the remarkable debate that has been in progress for a week in the senate on the league of nations, but also...
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  • Northwest History. Federal Affairs. Legislators. 1919-03-04
  • Northwest history; politics; government; federal legislation; United States Congress; legislators; Pacific Northwest congressmen
  • When the conference of governors and mayors opened at the white House today these Pacific northwesterners appeared and were entered on the roll:
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1917-05-29
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Major Charles Sweeny of Spokane, Washington State; Army reserve officer corps; French foreign legion; front lines; Sweeny, Idaho; United States national guard; United State. department of defense ;
  • Resolving the doubt raised by itself of the present citizenship of Charles Sweeny of Spokane, captain in the French foreign legion and hero of many recent battles on the western front in Europe, in favor of Captain Sweeny, the war department today...
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  • Northwest History. Federal Affairs. Legislators. 1918-12-21
  • Northwest history; politics; government; federal legislation; United States Congress; legislators; war; surplus; arms; explosives; Representative Burton L. French of Idaho
  • Why not use all the accumulated thousands of tons of powder and high explosives to carry conviction of sin into German hearth for practical purposes, now that we are not shooting up Germany any more? Why not send this material to the west and use...
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  • Northwest history. Mining. Stocks & bonds. 1918-12-18
  • Northwest history; mining industry; mineral resources; Stock Exchange; commodity exchanges; Western Smelting & Power Company ;
  • Mining project wins approval. - Capital issues committee permits $300,000 stock issue for development. - Property in Montana. - Seattle and washington investors control promising copper-platinum area. - Favorable reports from the war industries...
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  • World War. Shipyards building & launching. 1919-01-28
  • Northwest history; World War 1; shipyards; ship building; ship launching; emergency fleet corporation; Puget Sound, Washington State; Columbia river; United States. Shipping board; canceled contracts; workers; Chairman Edward N. Hurley ;
  • While the shipping board is still without a policy as to building up and maintaining the American merchant marine and will have none until President Wilson and Chairman Hurley return from France, it is revising the building program to meet peace...
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  • World War. Legislation. 1919-05-29
  • Northwest history; World War 1; legislation; Senator Miles Poindexter of Washington; United States. National Industrial Traffic League; Chicago Association of Commerce; J.B. Campbell of Spokane; Orchard Lisle of New York; transportation
  • Into the controversy over the Poindexter bill proposing to amend the present long and short haul clause of the interstate law so as to prohibit absolutely charging more for the short than for the long haul has come this week a new element.
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  • World War. Politics. 1918-01-06
  • Northwest history; World War 1; politics; United States; American government; photographs; portraits; Frank A. Vanderlip; Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo; Wall street, New York, New York; President Woodrow Wilson; national treasury ;
  • Wall street, so returned visitors from New York today report, is all excited over a political discovery it has made. By repetition of the story Wall street is convincing itself that William G. McAdoo is to retire from his position as secretary of...
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  • World War. Politics. 1913-03-28
  • Northwest history; World War 1; politics; United States. Congress. Senate; American government; Senator Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington; speeches; shipping; naval warfare; Senator Hiram Johnson of California; debates ;
  • Measured by the character of speeches delivered yesterday, Senator Jones' speech today on the war did not start out to be critical and spectacular. That is, not in its original prepared from. But as he went along he interpolated new matter which...
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  • State history. World War. Army. General. 1918-01-29
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; general; enemy aliens; withdrawal of troops; Seattle, Washington state; Tacoma, Washington state; Major General Arthur Murray of United States army. Western department ;
  • Because the department of justice and its representative in the person of the United States district attorney for the western district of Washington continue to refrain from carrying out the purpose of the president's enemy alien proclamation, and...
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  • World War. Politics. 1918-05-19
  • Northwest history; World War 1; politics; United States. Congress; American government; Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo; legislation; separation of powers; Representative Joseph Fordney of Michigan ;
  • Into the debate now in progress between Secretary McAdoo and congress as to the necessity for a new revenue law this summer, there has been projected a new consideration. Some sections of congress are beginning to think that the executive...
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  • State history. World War. Army. Draft (Selective Service). Assignments. 1917-05-18
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; American soldiers; military draft; army selective service assignments; agriculture; farming; farmers; labor; Secretary of War Newton D. Baker ;
  • Not until September 1 will the 500,000 young men drafted under the conscription bill be called up for training. When trained they are to be sent abroad for service.
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  • World War. News items & editorials. 1918-10-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; news items; editorials; Senator Miles Poindexter of Washington; peace negotiations; peace note; Germany; President Wodrow Wilson; impeachment ;
  • Senator Poindexter's interview, given to New York newspapers last night and published this morning, declaring that the president should be impeached if he should agree to the Germans' most recent proposal, brought the senator today a flood of...
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  • Northwest history. Mining. Power. 1918-12-19
  • Northwest history; mining industry; mineral resources; power; electricity in mining; President Wilson; Secretary Lane; A. J. Edwards; Howard F. Wierum; John T. Burns; Theodore Swann; W. W. Pettis; J. C. Jensen; Courtney Dekalb; W. L. Gezzam;...
  • Mines in west face vast loss. - Producers of metals for war materials unprotected. - Spent big sums. - Delay in making effective $50,000,000 development bill a handicap. - Producers of war metals, invited to spend money in development by the war...
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  • State history. State officials. U. S. Senators. Jones, Wesley L. 1918-04-16
  • State history; Washington; Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington; politics; government; United States Congress Senate; United States Congress House ;
  • Senator Jones on daring air trip. - Washington's veterans legislator likes experience / by Ashmun Brown. "Dare Devil Jones," the intrepid senatorial aviator."
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  • State history. World War. Army. General. 1918-06-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; general; General Hunter Liggett of Sunset division; 41st division. United States national guard; officers; Major Lemuel L. Bolles of Seattle, Washington state; commissions; Sergeant Frank M....
  • In the reorganization of the expeditionary forces in France, it is learned at the war department the 41st division, national guard, otherwise the Sunset division from the Pacific northwest, is being used as a depot division through which new troops...
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