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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1922
Page
11
Paris dispatch reports a council note demanding immediate punishment for those responsible for the attack on French soldiers at Peters in Upper Silesia. It warns German authorities of serious consequences if no action is taken.
Rev. Ambrose M. Bailey of First Pepper church told the Seattle Ad Club that churches must advertise to stay relevant like any other business. The note comes amid a discussion on commerce and community life in YMPIA.
A two year investigation led by Lester Ready finds that lowering gas BTU content forces consumers to use more gas to achieve the same heat. In Seattle and California tests, apparent inverse relation between BTU content and gas usage emerged, with 570 BTU per cubic foot as a benchmark. The 15 member committee notes preliminary results but not final recommendations.
Mary Landon Baker and Allister McCormick announced they intend to marry in London in late June. They plan a European honeymoon and to split their home between Chicago and Europe, with May spent on the continent and a desire for privacy in Paris before the wedding.
Mrs. Nancy Bogart aged 85, reputedly the first woman to traverse the plains from Missouri to the Pacific Northwest, died in Tacoma after a sudden illness on Sunday while en route to church. The DALLES report notes a body and saddled horse seen going over Cellio Falls.
The advertisement argues that modern mothers juggle nurse cook teacher and moral instructor roles. It claims many women break under strain and describes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as benefiting suffering women and easing burdens.
Mrs. B. T. Redman of the Redman Grave Marker firm, the only woman in the United States making tombstones, explains how she began after seeing kids topple wooden markers. She just returned from a contract to supply 50 markers for Friday Harbor Cemetery and is active in civic and club work.
Ruth Plumley faces trial in Port Orchard for alleged poisoning of her husband with strychnine. She entered a not guilty by reason of insanity plea after a meal in which she ate with him while he died within twenty minutes. Judge Walter M. French presides. Pay Greenwood prosecutes. Charles F. Miller of Seattle defends.
The Kansas industrial court tentatively increases minimum wages for women by about 17.6 percent to $87.55 a year with women and minors limited to nine hours per day or 49 hours per week. The order also provides hosiery support and affects wages for laundry and mercantile workers. A final hearing is set for May 9 as employers prepare to challenge the order.
A short circuit in an electric heater sparked a fire Wednesday in the Simpson Auction Company office at 1127 Priest. City firefighters battled the flames for about ten minutes and the estimated loss stands at $400.
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