Suffrage Leaders Arrive in Seattle for Western Tour
East coast suffragists led by Mrs Harriot Stanton Blatch arrive Monday to rally Western women for nation wide voting rights. The group includes Miss Lucy Burns and Mrs Frances Axtell. They plan a King Street welcome, a Moore theatre meeting, and the editorial run of The Star Tuesday. Proceeds from sales support suffrage funds and preparations for Salt Lake City and Chicago conventions.
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Gill
King Street Station
Frances C. Axtell
Moore Theatre
Mra Harriot Stanton Blatch
Lucy Burns
New York
Star
Star Women
Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage
Salt Lake City
Chicago
Free” States
Washington
British surrender at Kut el Amara ends siege
London reports the British garrison of 2,970 English and 6,000 Indian troops besieged by Turks for over 140 days at Kut el Amara has surrendered. Food shortages and floods blocked relief efforts as Gen Townshend destroyed guns before capitulation.
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London
Kutel Amara
War Office
Kut-el-Amara
Townshend
Tigris
Kut-el-Amera
Bagdad
Sir John Nixon
Kut-elrn
Advanc
Arabia
Nixon
Topeka Baker admits motive in death of 10 year old girl
Fred Bissell of Topeka confesses revenge as the motive for murdering Edna Dinsa 10, luring her to a vacant Topeka house, tying her in the cellar, leaving to buy tobacco and a newspaper, then returning to set the house on fire.
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Lansing
Kan
Fred Bissell
Topeka
Edna Dinsa
Seattle Girls Sell Star for Suffrage Cause
Ozens of Seattle girls will sell The Star next Tuesday in a women suffrage edition led by Stanton Blatch and the Suffrage Special. Proceeds go to the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Regular-rate papers available from newsboys. girls avoid existing buyers. A campaign of youthful girl newsies has spread through the university and clubs. They will meet at Lincoln hotel with Miss Whittemore on Saturday at 2.
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Margaret Fay Whittemore
Congressional Union
Washington
Poe
National Party
Ozens
Seattle
Sete Tar
Stanton Blatch
New York
Suffrage Special
Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage
Star
Newsies
University
Lincoln Hotel
Women's Party grows as Susan B Anthony amendment gains demand
The passage notes the rising influence of the new Women's Party and the public's expectation of pledges from national parties for the Susan B Anthony amendment granting national women's suffrage. The piece highlights the shift toward political engagement and the demand for concrete support.
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Sion
Women's Party
Belgian Flag Tag Day nets $1000 plus for charity
Mrs. H. D. Hurley chaired the Flag Day committee and announced remittance of 1000.41 dollars collected on April 8 and received on Saturday, benefiting the project.
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H. D. Hurley
Law Timings and Measurements for Seattle
The record lists times and heights for a Seattle schedule including 2:25 a m 6:19 a m and 3:45 p m with 24 ft 12 ft and 7 ft marks and notes non renewal at Seattle.
tensions rise as villa pursuit dominates border talks
General Hugh Scott and Obregon meet as U S forces mass along the border and Carranza troops guard Chihuahua and Sonora. discussions include potential temporary protectorate policing and continued military displays while intervention remains unlikely. Edison returns home from Florida after a visit that excludes Ford and any persuasion.
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E. T. Conele
EL Paso
Mexico
Francisco Villa
Gallee Senes
Hugh Scott
Alvaro Obregon
Wilson
Obregon
Pershing
Columbia
San Antonio
Carranza
Chihuahua
Sonora
Scott
Funston
International Bridge
The
Rio Grande
Closed Door On Income Tax Returns Robs The Nation
Basil M. Manty dissects the U S income tax and argues it is a failure. He cites burdens on government, proposes sworn returns for all with gross income over 3000 dollars, and notes widespread avoidance via the dividend joker as a major flaw. The article previews further analysis to come in a continuing series.
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Basil M. Manty
America
United States Commission On Industrial Relations
Frank P. Walsh
Manly
Newespaper Enterprise Association
United States
Sen Manly
Washington, D. C
John Doe
Treasury
Treasury Department
Embezzlement Case Ties Vancouver Prohibition Scrutiny
Detectives pursue H W Abeles, Lang Manufacturing Co bookkeeper accused of absconding with a large sum. Case spans Seattle and Vancouver with prohibition tensions. Vancouver investigators disclose liquor prescriptions, hotel data, and physician names as cross border controls tighten.
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H. W. Abeles
F. G. Lang Manufacturing Co
Sane
Lang
Palmer
Les
Abeles
Tacoma
Altho
Lincoln High School Brings Back Flag Rite and Oath
After five years, Lincoln High revived the flag ritual and oath of allegiance with over 1,000 students in attendance. Instructors led "The Star Spangled Banner" as the pledge was recited, but the students then began singing "I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" and refused to stop until emergency gongs rang and the assembly ended.
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Lincoln High School
Sport shirt vindicated in European firing line
In San Francisco on April 29, Daniel Isaacson, a Ruselan just arrived, notes the sport shirt’s appearance and vindication on the European firing line. Cheer up, Archibald.
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San Francisco
Archibald
Daniel Isaacson
Senators foresee Brandeis nomination report return unfavorably
Two members of the senate judiciary committee predicted today that the Brandeis supreme court nomination report would be unfavorable. The forecast followed a stormy senate discussion.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Louis D. Brandeis
Supreme Court
Senate
Sunshine Jane serial novel by Anne Warner begins in The Star
The Star will start printing Sunshine Jane by Anne Warner on Monday in six installments over the week. The weekly Star package offers a complete six part book length novel plus news and features for six cents, regular price $1.50.
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Star
Dublin battles as rebels hold Jacobs Biscuit plant
Reports from Dublin say heavy fighting between British troops and rebels around the Jacobs Biscuit factory continues with the last rebel position in dispute. Telegraph correspondent notes danger to the city as the rebellion persists.
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London
Jacobs Biscuit
Dublin
Exchange Telegraph
Dublin Battles Rage as Rebels Face British Fire
In Dublin on April 29 British troops and Irish rebels clashed in hand to hand fighting amid fires a desperate attempt by revolutionaries to spark a citywide conflagration. More than 10 killed or missing as troops closed in. Redmond denounces Sinn Fein move as wicked and insane, accusing Irish Americans of inciting violence.
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Dublin
Ireland
Sinn Fein
Rif
John Redmond
Cording
America
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Cyrus Mead
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National Capital
Ella Riegel
Philadelphia
Woman Voters
Townsend Scott
Baltimore
Maryland
A. R. Colvin
St. Paul
Minnesota
John Rogers
Florence Bayard Hilles
Kutel-Amara
Villa
Edison
Florida
Henry Ford
Basil M. Manly
Vancouver
Enis
F. S. Saries
Prohibition Lang Co
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Seattie
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Daniel Willama
Alexander Adamson
Brandeis
Sunshine Jane
Anne Warner
Wilbur
Forest United Press
John E. Redmond
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