Tax rate battle looms for Seattle council leaders
City fathers face a tense budget session as the Chamber of Commerce and Taxpayers League push deep cuts. A Seattle police demand adds pressure, arguing 160 acres per patrolman is excessive. Delegations from West Seattle and University district boost the lobby in a fraught week.
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Chamber of Commerce
Taxpayers’ League
Seattle
Federated Improvement Clubs of
West
University District
Green Lake
Fremont
Shock for Louis Bedford Aide Charged in Desertion Case
Louis R. Bedford secretary treasurer of the Young Men's State Democratic league and a wardenship candidate at Mc Nell's penitentiary is under arrest under the lazy husband act. The complaint sworn by his wife Iva Bedford and her mother Dorothy Lee alleges desertion on August 2 and past two months' support under 15 dollars for a family of four, oldest 10.
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Louis R. Bedford
Treasury
Young Men's State Democratic League
McNell's Penitentiary
Iva Bedford
Dorothy Lee
Bedford
Tacoma
Commission Sets Hour Rule and Wages for Girls Under 18
The Oregon state industrial commission established a rule limiting girls under 18 to eight hours and twenty minutes per day or five hours per week with no work after 6 p.m. A minimum wage of six dollars per week applies to those aged 16 to 18, subject to apprenticeships or learner arrangements. The ruling takes effect in 60 days.
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Portland
Oregon State Industrial Commission
Birthday of Bull Moose Party Marks Progressive Era
On August 5 1912 B M s birthday notes the birth of the Bull Moose party in Chicago and Roosevelt's Confession of Faith while the Progressive party formed and the Republican party faced relocation to Utah and Vermont. It adds Seattle hill removal details as major municipal work removing 145 million cubic yards of earth.
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Chicago
Col. Roosevelt
Progressive Party
Republican Party
Utah
Vermont
Seattle
U. S
Pope Pius X Marks Ten Years as Pontiff
A mid July Vatican garden photo shows Pope Pius X at 78 and nearing ten years on the throne of Saint Peter. The pope, recently recovered from spring illness, camps in the Vatican gardens with a bedroom set in the astronomical observatory high above Rome.
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Pope Pius X
Vatican Gardens
Rome
Astronomical
Pius X
Premonition of Death Tied to Train Tragedy in Cambridge
The city of Cambridge Ohio reports Frederick Rainey foresaw his death hours before a Baltimore and Ohio train crash killed him near his fiancée Florence Smith. Rainey, who planned to marry, asked her to wear his diamond ring on his last visit, believing death was near. The story contrasts with another note about a Seattle navy yard and its large drydock and civilian payroll.
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Cambridge
Ohio
Frederick Rainey
Rainey
Florence Smith
Spider Bite Proves Fatal in Lancaster Report
Lancaster pa august 6 william esseck died after a spider bite led to blood poisoning. another victim mrs john duwart developed lockjaw from a rooster bite and received hospital treatment.
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Liam Esseck
John Duwart
Moore Theatre to Stage The Passing Show of 1912 Next Week
Local management prepares for a major production by the New York Winter Garden company. The Passing Show of 1912 begins next Tuesday night, packing the Moore theatre in Portland for a awaited engagement.
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Moore Theatre
New York Winter Garden Company
Portland
French Flower Girl Missing as Guardian Tracked
In Los Angeles a Parisian flower girl Mila Seutans, ward of elderly millionaire Charles Victor Hall, vanishes with Hall after Mrs Hall won a divorce. Immigration Inspector Nardini pursues leads while Hall’s attorney says the couple will return to Los Angeles as man and wife once the decree is absolute.
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Milo
Rita Seutans
Chas
Victor Hall
Nardini
Hall
Mia Hall
E. A. Merserve
Mile
Seutans
Balloon Line Promised Seattle Panama Trip by Airship
Seattle Commercial Club investigates a plan promoted by C. R. Heaseltine and C. L. Brumbaugh to run a San Francisco to Panama balloon service. Brumbaugh aims to build the largest dirigible, carrying 100 passengers, to visit Seattle if coastwise profits justify the venture.
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Panama
Seattle
San Francisco
C. R. Heaseltine
CL. Brumbaugh
Hrumbaugh
Prince of Wales lip whisker policy unsettles old custom
London Aug 6 The British war office made mustaches optional for military officers in a move sparked by the Prince of Wales who is 19. The change upsets a centuries old standard as he prepares to join a cavalry regiment, benefiting from a relaxations allowing facial hair.
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London
Prince of Wales
British War Office
Movie Showings At Several Theaters In May 1913
A chaotic OCR listing shows multiple film titles and reel counts, including The Wizard of the Jungle A Bandit A Fight to a Finish The Speckled Band and Sherlock Holmes In The Speckled Band. It references theaters Good Luck Yesler Elite and dates through Friday May 1913.
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Yesler
New York City
Sherlock Holmes
Theatres This Week Show Moore Dark and Variety
Listings from Moore Dark Metropolitan Seattle and several vaudeville houses including Orpheum Emprese Pantages Grand Clemmer Melbourne Alhambra Photoplays. Motion pictures and photoplay pages round out the program in the city theater scene.
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Pantages
Clemmer
Melbourne
Alhambra
Rest modern outside rooms Stewart House ad
Advertisement notes rooms at Stewart House 86 West Stewart offering modern rest facilities.
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Stewart House
West ‘Stewart
Untitled Verse Fragment About Mary and the Car
A fragment depicts Mary leaping onto a car as her tight skirt slips from view causing a scene. Onlookers avert their eyes while strong men turn aside to avoid the awkward sight.
New Shipboard Plane Launching System Adopted
Paris reports a new method for launching aircraft from battleships at sea during heavy weather. Louis Blériot is credited with a device using a cable stretched along the ship, an automatic catch suspends the aeroplane, and a glide to support itself before the catch disengages. The French and British navies reportedly adopted the invention.
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Paris
Louis Bleriot
Campbell Robinson Will Filed In Seattle Widow Cut Off
The will of Campbell Robinson who died last week in Seattle is on file here. He leaves $10,000 to the First Baptist church and a life interest in his town home to daughter Lillie M. Robinson. The balance goes to his two younger children. A dance at Dreamland tonight. Advt.
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Campbell Robinson
Seattle
First Baptist Church
Lillie M. Robinson
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