State Legislature’s Work Review Opens First Week
Olympia reports little accomplished in the first week, with smooth organization and few lobbyists. Key items include a bone-dry bill by E. E. Halsey, education funding debates, and a compulsory military training proposal for high schools.
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Guy B. Kelley
Tacoma
Ralph Nichols
Seattle
Senate
State House
Lister
Washington House
E. E. Halsey
Asotin
Anti-Saloon League
House
Halsey
Rules Committee
W. W. Connor
Victor Zednick
State Educational Purvey Commission
Sion
Colege
Pullman
State University
Lawould
State Board of Education
Adjutant-General
Bate Board of Health
London Bus Conductors Promise Healthful Open-Air Work
London General Omnibus Company reports twelve hundred female conductors with about eighty new hires weekly. Trainees receive two to three weeks of free tuition and 50 cents a day. average earnings reach about ten dollars weekly. All workers under a lady doctor with cases of 16 000 applicant interviews since March.
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State Board of Health
House
Seattle
Ina P. Williams
North Yakima
Progressive Party
Senate
Walter S. Davis
College of Puget ‘Sound
Christianson
King
California
Secretary of State
Hhe
Landon
King County
Palmer
Washington
Ernest Lister
Lister
W. S. Davis
Tacoma
London
London General Omnibus Company
Noiseless Engines Urge Oakland Pittsburgh Protest
Oakland business leaders urge action after night and day locomotive hissing disturbs artists and workers. John Dimling led complaints to the railroad, calling for court injunctions similar to a prior Junction Hollow case to stop the nuisance.
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Oakland
Acropolis
Coliseum
Rome
Rialto Bridge
Venice
Oakland Board of Trade
John Dimling
Dimling
Supreme Court
Junction Hollow
Kansas City Sanity Board Frees 17 Year Old Margaret Wagner
A Kansas City sanity commission freed Margaret Wagner, seventeen, who had been held on her mother's complaint as insane for wearing fashionably dressed outfits. The mother cited cold weather and a desire for liberal styles, while the girl argued that peer dress normalizes her choices.
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Kansas City
Sanity Commission
Margaret Wagner
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