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...Olympia, Wash., when the police got a telephoned call for help from the house of N. J. Hays, they investigated, received the complaint of the Hays's small son whose mother had just spanked...
Governor of Washington Olympia, Wash...
...take any wooden money" is a traditional piece of rustic advice. But last month, when the bank failed at Tenino, Wash., ten miles from Olympia, two doctors and a newspaper publisher issued coins cut out of veneer plywood and Tenino took them. Security for the wooden coinage was the town's faith in these three men and the dividends which the collapsed bank will pay when its affairs are liquidated. Last week Tenino's money was not only as good as gold; it was better. Numismatists were offering as high as one U. S. dollar bill...
...picked and he arrived in 1907 at the age of 18. Bellhopping at the Jefferson Hotel, St. Louis, brought him enough money to send for Spyros who became a busboy at the old Planters Hotel. Soon they had enough money to fetch George. In 1912 they leased the Olympia Theatre in a cheap part of the city, made enough money to get Eldest Brother Demetrius. But the War held him back. Spyros then joined the aviation, Charles, the infantry, and George operated the few small theatres they had obtained. After the War the Brothers Skouras expanded and in 1928 sold...
...Olympia and Uptown-"The Man I Killed" Lubitsch; impressionism...