Liberty Day to Be Memorable Occasion in Seattle
On Liberty Day Saturday April 6 1918 Seattle plans a grand wartime display to surge support for the Third Liberty Loan. Camp Lewis navy yards and shipyards will participate with a mass pageant floats and delegations. Citizens will hear speeches and see bells rings and bands play as workers pledge subscriptions during a month long drive.
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America
Seattle
Camp Lewis
Navy Yard
Sound Forts
Naval Station
Liberty Sunday
Liberty
Orob
Liberty Loan
County Council of Defense
Dance To Help Out Smoke Fund Here
The Star reports a benefit dance series by the A. O. U. W. degree team to aid the Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund. A dance is set for Friday April 5 at the Knights of Pythian hall and proceeds fund tobacco for U. S. troops in France.
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A. O. UW
Our Hoya
France
Knights of Pythian Hall
First Ave
Pikest
Oar Roya
the Star
Chas, Il, Lilly
Coupon for Tobacco Packets to Soldiers in France
In a wartime appeal, a program offers four tobacco packages per sender, each valued at 43 cents, to be mailed to a soldier abroad. The recipient will receive a card addressed to them with a soldier’s message of thanks, urging participation and support.
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France
Labor Council Votes to Buy Liberty Bonds
The Central Labor Council will purchase $500 of the Third Liberty Loan bonds following a Patriot ic address by Secretary Charles Perry Taylor of the State Federation of Labor. The council also approved its banner appearing in the Liberty Loan parade Saturday.
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Charles Perry Taylor
State Federation of Labor
Bouyea Hunger Strike Highlights Food Administration Record
In Los Angeles on April 4 Ed Bouyea, though not recognized as a proper man, may be decorated by the food administration. He is described as a fine food conserver who refused food for four days, initiating a hunger strike.
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Los Angeles
Altho
Ed Bouyea
Food Administration
United States
Rush City Passes Salary Increase for City Employees
Municipal employees will start earning higher pay this month as Rush City passed an emergency ordinance adding 15 dollars per month to all city workers pay excluding day laborers who gain 50 cents extra per day. Mayor Hanson signed the measure immediately.
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Hanson
Flag Dedication at Lincoln High School Thursday
The second largest service flag in the city will be dedicated at 5 p m Thursday at Lincoln High School. A patriotic program is planned with selections by the Lincoln band following the dedication. it will be the next largest flag after Frond Way.
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Lincoln High School
Frondway
Lincoln Band
Shoes and prices at The Bon Marche
All sizes available in this lot featuring Low Shoes at 4.95. Ivory, champagne, gray, white, bronze and black kid leather, ivory suede and black patent calf Pumps, Strap Slippers with beaded toes and Louis covered heels. Upper Main Floor.
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BON Marche
Copenhagen
Lister to take over Spokane police in I W W crackdown
Gov. Lister plans state police oversight for Spokane and adjacent county after a conference with local officials. He expects to direct police affairs from Olympia and send deputies to cooperate with the sheriff. Martial law is not planned. No federal troops are sought. The I W W was once the national HQ until moved to Chicago.
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Olympia
Aslet
Chicago
Patriot meeting draws near seven hundred in West Seattle
Nearly 700 people attended a Wednesday patriotic meeting at West Seattle High School hosted by Division 12 of the Council of Patriotic Service. The program featured addresses and songs, with proceeds earmarked for soldiers and sailors supported by the division.
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West Seattle High School
Division 12
Council of Patriotic Service
Search for man linked to murder of Fred Laubner
Detectives open a widening probe for a Seattle party member who accompanied Fred Laubner before his death near Sedro-Woolley on the Skagit river. Two women and a man remain unidentified while a coroner's jury awaits toxicology results and the motive and circumstances of the wealthman's death.
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Clear Lake
Fred Laubner
Laubner
Seattle
Sedro- Wooley
Skagit River
Coal contracts may allow termination for price changes
State Fuel Administrator David Whitcomb announced a ruling that coal or coke contracts may include provisions letting the operator or consumer terminate the agreement if government price changes after execution.
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David Whitcomb
Lenroot Leads Wisconsin Senate Race by Nearly 12000 Votes
Milwaukee April 4 Irvine L Lenroot republican loyalist elected Wisconsin senator by about 12000 votes with 148302 for Lenroot 136612 for Davies and 102911 for Berger Antiwar pacifist socialist and pro German voters favored Berger, leaving Davies Lenroot ahead by a wide margin Lenroot arrived forenoon and planned departure for Washington to take seat in Senate.
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Milwaukee
Irvine L. Lenroot
Wisconsin
Lenroot
Davies
Dem
Berger
Soc
Davies-Lenroot
Elect Rev. T. H. Hagan President of Western Conference
The second annual conference of the Denominational Sunday School Council for Western Washington met at Plymouth Congregational Church. The first session Wednesday elected the Rev. T. H. Hagan president. He serves as superintendent of Baptist Sunday school extension work in Western Washington.
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Sunday School Council For
Western Washington
Plymouth Congregational Church
T. H. Hagan
Baptist
Resignation of U S District Attorney Allen Opens King County Seat
Formal resignation from U S District Attorney Clay Allen was mailed to Attorney General T W Gregory effective April 15 so he can become King County superior court judge when Judge Mackintosh leaves for Olympia. If no permanent successor is appointed, interim options include Ben L Moore or Donald A McDonald. Candidates for Allen's seat include Robert C Saunders chair of the Washington state board of examiners Charles A Reynolds Hinman D I Polson and Robert P Oldham.
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U. S
Clay Allen
T. W. Gregory
Allen
King County Superior Court
Mackintosh
Olympia
Ben L. Moore
Donald A. McDonald
Cushman
Neterer
Robert C. Saunders
Washington State Board of Examiners
Charles A. Reynolds
Hinman
Polson
Robert P. Oldham
Thwart Plot to Kill Naval Men
In San Francisco on April 4 W J Flynn former head of the secret service described how US agents foiled a supposed German plot to kill 700 Atlantic fleet officers in New York last May. A bomb was found hidden in a room beneath the banquet hall during a hotel banquet for naval officers.
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United States Secret Service
New York
W. J. Flynn
Secret Service
Ansonia
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San Francisco
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Taft
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Kane
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