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 crating the Sabbath by travel. Noza yen1ber was selected as the montha When the fall harvests were a1Fs1 gathered. S,S S7fsS @st M x. Other countries have. or special occasions. thanksgiving days for suc-
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 instf1e proportitanat share of itssto9t mage which is under the Amerioan 1 flag There have been years ins.Which4 the American homage .+employed < in l
 it's foreign tra tlesewas it actual tvol- \
 u1ne in excess of st1a tsfron any other single American ocean port. Al, pres4
 ent it stands second only to New York in that respect.
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 cleared from this port in the foreign 1 trade, 3,05S,504 tons. as compared
 with IA 37o,619 from New York and '
 2,766,775s from Newkg Orleans, which stands third in the dist of American ports. Our shipping is nearly twice 1 as great in tonnage as that of either ! Boston or Baltimore ands-eYceeds that 1 of Philadelphia by nearN& l, ,000,O0e htons.s@@ F. fyt.
 4 These were. the figiaresafer 1915
 The expansion of ours overseas1trad I promises to break all records this year, and the presence of the big fleet in the port of Seattle at the eEpresent time is an indication .gof the ! growth of our trade. Germany and s|~Austria, are about the, only large fcauntries of thesworld with which we < IIate not a direct trade now and the q wal alone is. responsible for the cut ting, off Of the lines tokGserna ny. s1 k Ise German ssfon Cross, | ssnohestersl uardiano sI9 Tteais rqkorted that alreaAya sS,o0o lsG ermans pldiefs have received the IFro1 Cro@ sforSc conspicuoIs gallantry Bin HHe fieAI.assslC sslC117is German decoratio,, 3which isssifni aHsfn Assign Eng T la1idM Vfctoria N;ross fA sSfds to ssssbe castMt Of gu41S captured MeNHr. Esnd .M this onhSc taesI it, ssits \
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