Railroads Face Possible Receivership by July 1 Says Cabinet Member
Washington April 8 a Harding administration cabinet member warns that without relief the railroads may be headed for receivership by July 1 Wages cannot be slashed offhand and the Esch Cummins wage dispute machinery has not provided relief Administration will keep hands off wage issues leaving decisions to the railroad labor board and Interstate Commerce Commission A congressional probe seems likely as the railroad problem worsens and critics urge better management and possible new legislation
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Washington
Yotceapy
Harding
White House
Interstate Commerce Commission
Railroad Labor Board
Clark
Commission
Barton
Railrroad
Ilemma
B. M. Jewell
Jewell
Improvement Seen Ahead in Business Conditions
A Bradstreets weekly forecast for the week ending April 2 notes slow but positive signs in overall business. Railway transportation improvements are highlighted as indicating better times to come. Seattle markets like shingles and lumber stay inactive, mills half closed, building quiet, coal movement slow, flour active, employment slightly down, and a large apple crop is forecast.
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Brad@tret
Seattle
Public Market Prices and Stalls Run of the Day
A bustling listing from the Public Market shows multiple stalls with prices on a variety of goods. Highlights include canned peaches at 29c, salmon 20c, halibut 26c, black cod 15c, dried fruits 26c, milk and butter specials, cane sugar around 26c, and assorted grocery items across Stalls 16, 29, 36, 45, 53, 79, 84, 104, 116, 1623, and others in areas like Pike Place and Westlake. The note captures product variety and daily markdowns across produce, seafood, dairy, baking essentials, and household staples.
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QUEEN
Stuile
Westlake
Webb
Ship News Tides in Seattle
Tide data from Seattle reports a second low tide at 12 pm and a 4:75 am high tide with a 12.4 cent per foot rate listed.
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Seattle
Shipping notes and port news from Seattle and Vancouver
Vancouver cargoes and Seattle harbor charges stir port-stride concerns as ships from West Haven to Teucer sail and load from Pacific ports. The Columbiato-Alaska run and Grays Harbor reforms accompany forecasts and weather at Tatoosh Island.
Maritime Passenger and Vessel Movements Report
April 4 to April 7 listings show multiple ships sailing from Vancouver Victoria Seattle Tacoma and San Pedro to destinations including Hamburg Antwerp London and Alaska. Vessels include Tatanio Maru Rainier Wenatchee Africa Maru and Camak with various routes through San Francisco Balboa and Winslow.
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Tatanio Maru
Vancouver
Union Bay
B. C
Ste President
San Pedro
San Francisco
Victoria
Ste Rainier
Tacoma
Acir J. W. Clise
Scandinavian
aBrbadoes
Balboa
Winslow
R Wenatchee
Atr Africa Maru
Street Camak
Hamburg
Portland
Liverpool
London
Antwerp
USS
Swallow
Alaska
Mariners ferry notices from Alaska ports
Shipping notices list December entries for Juneau, Petersburg, Ketchikan and Cordova. Vessels mentioned include City of Seattle, City of Beattie, Jefferfon, and Jeffer ferron with southbound and northbound departures and times around 6 to 11 fifty p m.
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Juneau
Salled
Seattle
Petersburg
Halled
Shipping Movements From Major Ports Listed
April 3 to April 7 vessel movements show arrivals and departures at Yokohama and London. Ma nila Maru arrived from Seattle in Yokohama on April 3, West Japan sailed for Beattie on April 6, Liberator sailed for Beattie via Balboa and San Pedro from New York on April 7.
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Eldorado
San Francisco
Seattle
London
Str
Collegian
Tacoma
San Pedro
Balboa
Norfolk
Glasgow
Arived
Weat Coyote
Beattie
Portland
Liverpool
Hongkong
Tyndaritus
Bhanghal
Kobe
Yokohama
Manila Maru
Salled
Atr West Jappn
Vancouver
B.C
New York
Liberator
San Frencisco
Irregular Opening on N Y Exchange Amid Market Hesitation
Irregular opening in the New York market showed trader hesitancy despite upbeat pre opening reports. United States Rubber rose on dividend news, Mexican Petroleum and Studebaker moved modestly, while many stocks slipped on General Strike news from Britain and late trading shifts.
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New York
Piritiah
United States Rubber
Mexican Petroleum
Studebaker
Mkmeading
United States Steel
Baker
Central Leather
Anaconda
Canadian Pacific
American Tobacco
Pennsylvania
Northern Pacfic
General Asphal
Southern Pacific
Ap SM
Brudebaker
Chandler
Pan-American Petroleum
American Sumatra
Crucible
BEM
Republic Teel
International Harvester
Iorones Pacific
General Asphalt
Roya Oh
N. Y. Stock Exchange
Thureday
Mick Lew Cleese
Atchison
Amer
Oar & Fay
Amer, International
Tel
I. Ueatsalt
Ohio
Paldwin
Tua Co
Generel Motors
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Missouri Pacific New Haven
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Grain market trade slumps in Chicago trading
Grain prices fell across wheat corn and oats in Chicago trading as demand remained weak. May wheat opened at 1.36 and slipped, July wheat fluctuated and closed lower. May corn started up at 4 and ended down, July and September contracts also traded lower with oats slipping from opening gains.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Mather Mielew
Cses
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Limk Lie Dak
Chicago Market News and Price Quotes April 1
Chicago cash wheat and grain prices posted mixed quotes with No 1 red at 1.29 per bushel and No 3 red reflected. receipts for wheat around 29,000 bushels with market lower on bulk sales. cattle and sheep receipts noted as steady with varied price ranges across stock classifications.
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Chicago
New York Coffee and Sugar Prices Listing
Market note from New York shows April prices for coffee and sugar with listed raw costs and assorted small item figures. Includes small price figures such as 5.88 and 4 cent amounts, reflecting commodity quotations and related notes.
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New York
Foreign Exchange Edges Lower in New York Trading
In New York on Wednesday the foreign exchange market opened slightly lower with the dollar trading at about 3.59% in markets referencing the franc at 6.707 lire at 0.434 percent, the mark around 0.16, and the Canadian dollar near 0.800945.
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Foreign Exchange
New York
Merting
France
Denver Livestock Market Report Amid Steady Trade
Denver live stock market notes cattle receipts at 200 with steady trading. Steers around 11,04. cows and heifers fetch 5 to 7.60. stockers and feeders 6 to 7.75. Hog receipts about 160 lower, top 4.46, bulk 8.46. Sheep receipts 7,000, market steady with lambs 4.75 and ewes 58.50.
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Denver
Produce Prices and Items Listed in San Francisco Market
Market bulletin from San Francisco notes prices and lots for April including butter extras prime firsts 3640 lb cheese California flats fancy 7240 th. eggs 19 percent dow no. 1 diction 2c dos extra pullets 284 percent dow under sized pullets 240 dozen.
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San Francisco
Portland Market Status Report on Cattle and Cheese
Portland market notes cattle receipts weak and unchanged with 44 head, sheep receipts steady at 11 head, and cheese prices listed at Tripleta 11 32c and Mene 26 206 lb. Rutter at 39e per pound and Kene at 18 ne dos.
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Portland
Children Tear Up Seats in Theatre at Halle
In Halle a fairy play drew a packed audience of children who found the production and costumes unsatisfactory. They demanded refunds and, by the time police arrived, had damaged most seats in the theatre.
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Berlin
Halle
Laughter Signal in Sleeping Sickness Warns Doctors
A French doctor Professor Netter notes laughter lasting an hour or more can be a symptom of sleeping sickness. It may occur with the disease or appear after a supposed cure, posing concern for patients.
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Paris
Netter
White House Gardener Seeks Sit-Down Job
Uncle Charlie Patten, the 79-year-old White House gardener brought by President Harding from Marion, says the extensive White House grounds are hard on his feet and seeks a sit-down position.
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Washington
Charlie Patten
White House
Harding
Marion
Market headlines show croplands and produce prices rise
Prices for celery in San Diego climbed to around four dollars per crate while Los Angeles offered lower grade celery at six to six sixty a crate. Florida green peppers traded at forty five to fifty cents per pound amid broader mixed markets for asparagus, oranges, and dairy.
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San Diego
Los Angeles
Althe
Pacific Northwest business shows modest gains says bank head
J A Swalwell, president of Union National Bank, reports slightly better business in the Pacific Northwest after a Chicago trip. Toppenish plant assets of Pacific Ice & Cold Storage Co. were bought by Jacobson Mangrum. Bids for 200000 gallons of fuel oil were issued for Lake Union steam plant, with price easing from 2.75 to 2.58 per barrel.
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Middle West
J. A. Swalwell
Union National Bank
Chicago
Pacific Ice & Cold Storage Co
Toppenish
Jacobson & Mangrum
New York
Talc Fuel OM
Board of Public Works
Lake Union
Marriage Licenses and Death Notices From Local Registry
Vital statistics list multiple names with residences for marriage licenses including Tavid John and Inga Nilsen Seattle Debljak Lucas and Louise Klobuehar Black Diamond plus other Seattle Tacoma Enu..., Grac... Picardo Aurelio and Lucia De Lagno Dania. Death notices include Burton James 48 Colonial hotel Lepper Laurie 41 White James 86 and others in King County Olympia and local addresses.
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Aurelio
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Tacoma
Star
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Coleman
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Hell
Bonnie
Covccascolt
Burton
James
Colonial Hotel
Lepper
Laurie K
White
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King County Home
Heinrich
Joseph
Nishisaki
Roy
10Th Ave
Erickson
Andrew
Lyon
Bagley Ave
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Burroughs
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Olympia
Howell
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Marlin
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Burglar Given Suspended Sentence for Burglary
Fred Melvey, 20, caught with a box of cigars after a store burglary at 1742 Summit Ave on March 22, 1921, received a suspended sentence of one to 15 years after pleading guilty in front of Judge King Dykeman. His attorney Carl F. Croson and Deputy Prosecutor C. A. Batchelor urged leniency due to no prior record. Melvey pledged to live with his sister in the East.
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Fred Melvey
Summit Ave
King Dykeman
Carl Fb.croson
C. A. Batchelor
Melvey
Lumber Output Falls 45 Percent Week Ended April 2
West Coast Lumbermen's Association reports lumber production 45 percent below normal for the week ending April 2. The weekly release notes reduced output across mills on the coast.
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West Coast Lumbermen's Association
Mrs. Fern Colgen Dies at Home in City
Mrs. Fern L Colgen, 29, died at her residence on 24th Ave North East and East 92nd Street on Thursday. Funeral arrangements are pending. Meanwhile work continues on a claimed world’s largest radio plant under construction near Melun France.
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Fern L. Colgen
24Th Ave. N. EB
Melun
Franca
Canner Group Talks Merger In Northwest Cannery Plans
Presided by former State Senator W. H. Paulhamus the Washington cannery merger meeting at the Rainier club discussed eight Oregon directors and potential plant acquisitions for summer. Attendees included Gordon C Corbaley and Seattle Tacoma officials Hedges Anderson Henry Parsons Spangler Rust Jackson Raleigh.
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W. H. Paulhamus
Washington
Organization Committee
Oregon
Rainier Club
Gordon C. Corbaley
Wednheaday
Corbaley
Northwest
H. Hedges
A. F. Anderson
H. C. Henry
Reginald H. Parsons
J. Ww. Spangler
Seattle
W. R. Rust
8. M. Jackson
G. H. Raleigh
Tacoma
Mellon Would End Excess Profits Tax
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon announced he would recommend abolition of the excess profits tax immediately after Congress assembles in a special session next Monday. He warned that revisions would require about four billion dollars in annual expenditures, about one billion less than projected by the end of the current fiscal year on June 30.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Congress
Green Lake Baptists Plan Immediate Church Rebuild
Dr James A Benton pastor announced that Green Lake Baptist Church will rebuild after a fire destroyed the church. Plans were underway within twelve hours with temporary quarters in the Gerrish building at 70th and Fifth N. BE services will continue as usual.
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James A. Benton
Gerrish Building
Fifth N
Merger Likely Between Seattle Chamber and Merchants' Exchange
F R Hanlon of the Seattle Chamber announced Thursday that a merger with the Merchants' Exchange is a highly probable step in the amalgamation plan. The article notes a minor decorative sparkle from button factory sweepings.
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Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Merchants’ Exchange
F. R. Hanlon
Low bid ranking for Bell ingham dormitory project
Martin and Wills Beattie contractors submitted the low bid of 121449 dollars for the erection of a girls dormitory for the state normal school at Bellingham. George H Moon of Bellingham was a close second with 121362 dollars.
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Martin & Wills
Beattie Contractors
State Normal School
Bellingham
George H. Moon
Advertising as a Means of Banking Business
A summary of a talk by Raymond Wier before the Beattie Advertising Club and the Women's Advertising Club at Plank's Cafe on Thursday. The address covered advertising strategies as a driver for bank business.
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Beattie Advert Club
Planc’s
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