Word: washes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert Johnson of Washington has been a newspaper man most of his life. He has been an editor in New Haven, Washington, St. Louis, Tacoma and Seattle. He is now publisher of the Daily Washingtonian of Hoquiam, Wash. It happens that he is also a Congressman and, as such, Chairman of the House Immigration Committee. It is, perhaps, because of his newspaper training that advance information was given out about the new immigration bill which he and Secretary of Labor Davis are preparing for the next Congress...
...Park exceeded 2,000, although the greatest daily record for 1922 was 1,983. Three parks, Yellowstone (Wyo.), Platt (Okla.), Yosemite (Calif.), had received more than 100,000 visitors by Aug. 15. Hot Springs National Park (Ark.) had 98,580 visitors by the same date. Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.), 83,888. Last year over 1,200,000 people visited 19 parks. This year the number is expected to surpass...
Governor Scott Cardelle Bone, formerly a prominent editor in Washington, D. C., and in Seattle, Wash., later Director of Publicity for the Republican National Committee, has definite ideas as to how the Territory can be developed. Others are more or less opposed to his point of view. He wants more authority for the officers of the Alaskan Government and more capital to develop the Territory's resources. Some Alaskans prefer more Washington control, which (if suffering from the red tape and the ignorance of distance) is at least likely to be impartial. As for capital, they fear its invasion...
Puget Sound is witnessing the gathering of nearly all the American warships in the Pacific. All the first-line ships in the western ocean, with many cruisers, destroyers, colliers and other craft are at (or on their way to) Port Angeles, Wash. These preparations anticipate a review of the fleet, which is to take place when President Harding passes through Puget Sound on his return from Alaska...
...similar clinic has been opened recently at the Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, Wash., Dr. Chauncey J. Hawkins, minister. The clinic does not follow the methods of Coué, or the Emmanuel Movement, though it recognizes and utilizes the mental elements in healing. The treatment is entirely in the hands of responsible physicians and psychologists, without interference by the clergy...