Seattle Star calls for a locally financed hotel for Seattle
The Seattle Star urges a democratic, American owned hotel funded by Seattle dollars with broad community ownership. It insists on Seattle architects, local financing, and wide stock ownership, while stressing public accountability and American staff and suppliers. The Star assigns leadership to A. J. Rhodes and pledges to share gathered information with the hotel committee.
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Seattle
Seattle Oere
Seattle Brains
Seattle hotel fund drives local pledges toward 250000 goal
Seattle citizens pledged 200000 for a modern locally owned hotel with five individuals pledging 100000 each. A. J. Rhodes committed 25000 as the initial subscription after The Star called for action. Directors of 15 corporations planned meetings to swell subscriptions and discuss financing options.
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Seattle
Stattie
Seattle Milk Price Meet Sets Timed Talks
A special meeting at 11 o clock Tuesday in the District Attorney's office will set dairy milk prices for Seattle. The mayor's commission and the fair price committee will decide what farmers receive and what consumers pay. If the proposed price fails to satisfy dairy farmers they threaten to withdraw from the city market. The temporary agreement sets $2.20 per hundredweight, about seven cents per quart, with the extra cent to be passed to consumers. The Dairy commission includes Arthur F. Priest F. Smith and RB Ruffeen, while Milkwagon Drivers' Union backs the plan.
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Seattle
KH. (. Saunders
Caldwell
Fair Price Committee
Arthur F. Priest
Civic Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Seattle Meat and Milk Inspection Department
Ries RB. Ruffeern
Milkwagon Drivers’ Union
Attorney Charles Sorarity Addresses Catholic Council in Seattle
Fr. Charles Sorarity, attorney, spoke to the Supreme Catholic Council of Seattle at Collins Club Friday night. A dance followed the address, filling the venue with attendees and ceremony.
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Charles Fr. Soriarity
Supreme Catholic ‘Council of Seattle
Collins Club
Her Son serial fiction praised for strong character voices
The Star begins a serial novel “Her Son” on page 9 by Horace Annesley Vachell, famed playwright of Quinney's. Dorothy Fairfax, the central female figure, faces a great moral issue with a modern take on double standards, likened to The Scarlet Letter in its acute social insight.
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Star
Horace Annesley Vachell
Quinney’s
Vachell
Dorothy Fairfax
Dorothy
Flint Population Soars in Census Figures
The Census Bureau reports Flint Michigan has a 1920 population of 91,599, a rise of 63,049 people since 1910, totaling a 127.6 percent increase. The surge marks a phenomenal growth for the city.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Flint
Mich
Missing 17-Year-Old Girl Jeatha Slater Reported
Jeatha Slater, 17, was reported missing to police Monday by sister Heith Slater from 609 Seventh Ave. She has been gone since Sunday and is described as light complexioned.
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Jeatha Slater
Heith Slater
Seventh Ave
Drowned Canadian Veteran Found With Rock-Weighted Body
A 22 year old Canadian war veteran was found dead in Puget Sound Sunday afternoon near the Madison dock. A sack of rocks tied to his waist weighed the body down and a muffler bound the rocks. Police believe the man was a stranger to Seattle and are investigating whether death was accidental or foul play. The body lay at the morgue and clues include a Winnipeg tailor label and an address 3614 Ashworth St.
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Sound
Madolyne Dock
Pverett
Gordon Stone
Endolyne
M. 8. Arbonaat
West Seattle
Winnipeg
Ashworth St
Martinexy Cal
Alice Hilton
Seattle
Ir M. Conran
Sacramento
Hilton
Vancouver Seizes $125000 in Dope
In Vancouver British Columbia police seized over 125000 dollars worth of morphine and other drugs in Chinatown. The narcotics were hidden in a cabinet beneath a trap door under a carpet. This followed a previous raid that netted 152000 dollars in drugs earlier in the month.
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Vancouver
B. C
Chinatown
Jlaken
Widow of Firefighter Faces Loss of Home
Letters to The Star urge honoring Fireman Charles F. LaCasse by aiding his widow Mrs LaCasse and two sons Clyde 20 and Clifford 12. The family struggles on a $3,500 home bought on installments and $80 monthly widow’s pension while Clyde earns $25 weekly. Some suggest selling the home due to debt and street improvements.
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Lincoln Hotel
Charles F. la Casse
Star
Mra. Law Causes
LaCause
Herbert Schoenfeld
Mra. PY
F. Kiernan
C. R. Dooley
I. Y McNamee
LaCase
Justice
LaCaese
Third Ave
Cassese
Clyde
Dooley
Caldwell
Mother and son die in Colorado blizzard
In Colorado Springs a mother Mia Cox and her son Harold Cox, 16, were found dead in a snowbank after their car stalled in a blizzard 60 miles per hour gale near their ranch home. The 40 year old man John Cox was also involved and a community search followed. The boy reportedly refused to abandon his mother.
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Colorado Springs
Col
Mia
John Cox
Harold Cox
Here
Jana
Publishers Discuss Paper Shortage at Pacific Coast Meeting
In San Francisco on April 12 publishers from Pacific coast cities meet at the Palace hotel to address the white paper shortage and proposed legislation. They consider reducing the multiplicity of editions issued by newspapers.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Palace Hotel
Plant Trees for Memory of Heroes on Arbor Day
Fifty sycamore trees will be planted on the university campus in memory of students and alumni who died in the war. The Arbor Day event honors fallen university community members with a living tribute on campus grounds.
U S Newsman Shot in Berlin
An American newspaper man, Paul Dermott, reported connected with the communist movement, was shot and killed while attempting to escape Wesel prison. The State Department asked Berlin to delay execution of a death sentence against Paul R Demott for participation in the Ruhr revolution. Reports from Berlin describe a new revolutionary plot led by Bavaria with armed students and calls for public order measures.
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Berlin
Paul Dermott
Wesel
Foreign Office
Washington
State Department
Jesell
Paul R. Demott
Ruhr
Carl D, Groat
Bavaria
Laron
von Luettwitz
von Kapp
Vorwaerts
Freiheit
Kirkland Uplifter Is Sent to Russia
Charles W. Clark son of Mia Eliza Clark of Kirkland is noted in the American Social Hygiene dissociation as transferred from Europe to Russia.
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Kirkland
Russia
Charles W. Clark
Mia
Eliza Clark
American Social Hygiene
Europe
Brides Vanish Mysteriously Linked to Louis Hilton
San Diego reports at least 20 women married to Louis Hilton alias Watson, known as a modern Bluebeard, have vanished or been deserted after marriages. Hilton, jailed under guard, faces multiple alleged victims across California and Washington as police anticipate further revelations.
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San Diego
Louis “Hilton
Alias Watson
Bluebeard
Seattle
Hilton
Clara E. Gebhardt
Spokane
Bertha Goodnik
White
San Francisco
Watson
C. N. Harvey
Nina Lee Delaney
Los Milopos
Mra
Delaney
Clyne
Watmon
Hotel Manager Dies After Mysterious Fall at Dunsmuir
Colin C. MacLennan longtime Dunsmuir hotel manager is dead after a fall from a hotel window. He was in good health and spirits, and friends speculate he might have walked in his sleep before the fatal incident on the cement sidewalk.
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Vancouver
B. C
Colin C. MacLennan
Dunsmuir
Elevated Train Jump Injures Twelve In New York Crash
A New York elevated train jumped the track near Trinity Church, injuring twelve. Two trains collided with a third, a car fell to the street, flames broke out, and ambulances took the injured to hospitals.
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New York
Trinity Church
Hides Toupee to Keep Her Hubby Home
Zora Donnell told Justice Brinker she hid her husband Harvey Donnell’s toupee after he kept going out. He beat her, then left. she faces a divorce suit in superior court while the desertion case waits on the outcome. The Donnells live at 605 18th Ave.
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Harvey Donnell
Carman
Zora Donnell
Otis W. Brinker
Donnell
Justice Brinker
Donnella
18Th Ave
Ladies auxiliary seeks 1500 volunteers for Rainier Post
The Ladies auxiliary of Rainier Post No. 21 American Legion invites wives mothers and sisters of post members to join. Applicants must meet eligibility and participate in auxiliary activities supporting veterans.
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Ladies’ S Auxiliary of
Rainier Post
American Legion
Mothers
Sisters of Post
Not Guilty Pleas Entered in Hulls Fraud Case
W. A. Magee and Phillips Morrison pleaded not guilty in U S district court to charges of fraud tied to hulls built for the government by Seaborn Shipyards Co. The indictments originated from the last grand jury and the case proceeds in federal court.
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W. A. Magee
Phillips Morrison
Thhe Seaborn Shipyards Co
United States District Court
Mondsy Mara- Ling
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