Seattle photoplay fans hail first scenes in local production
A Seattle cast and crew gathered at Bloedel to film romantic scenes for a regional motion picture. Muriel Dana and Walter Steiner led casting as Jack Sullivan directed pivotal kiss moments and dramatic heroics. The crowd cheered as, amid costumes and stage business, the opener drew first takes and public excitement for the Seattle film.
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Seattle
Eilene Towne
Fice
J. H. Bioedel
Helgason
Muriel Dana
F. A. Roberts
Sullivan
Elllette
Bloedel
Jack
Henry Jack
Opal Barbour
Seventh Ave
Jack Suilihero
Jack Sullivan
Muriel
Plymouth Sichurch
Liberty
Union
Eirene Towne
Muriel Frances Dana
Chee-Ild
Halt City Ends Army Food Sales to Public
City will halt sale of government army food by Monday night after a council meeting with Mayor Hanson. Health Commissioner Dr Read says all supplies will be stored and no further sales will continue beyond tonight, as inspectors return to normal duties.
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Hanson
Health Department
WH. M. Read
Commissioner
Read
Diamond Ice Co
Brooklyn Car Men Win Out
Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines return to normal after a four day strike settlement. Union officials plan to organize Manhattan and Bronx traction workers for higher wages and better conditions. Amalgamated Association leaders expected to oversee the effort. B A T will send a delegation to receiver Lindley M Garrison once over half of 13 000 employees are in the union. Wages sought rise from 42 to 75 cents per hour and an eight hour day.
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New York
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Manhattan
Bronx
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employe of America
Lindley M. Garrison
Tokyo printers strike halts papers over 35 dollar monthly wage
Tokyo newspapers suspended publication as compositors strike for a 70 yen monthly wage. They currently earn 50 yen. The report notes the action began Aug. 1 and reflects labor demand in the Japanese capital newspapers.
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Tokyo
Censors Seek Ban On Phoney Movie Ads
City plans ordinance change proposed by Walter F. Meier to curb billboard posters showing three bandits since censors argue ads must reflect moral standards. The theatre censor board seeks wider power to cut advertisements, with potential bans on “faine ada.”
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Walter F. Meier
Board of Theatre Censors
Faine Ada
Striking Jewelers to Run Own Shop
A cooperative jewelry manufacturing and repair shop will be opened in San Francisco this week by striking jewelers to aid the public during the walkout. The workers demand a minimum wage of 80 cents an hour after manufacturing jewelers refused to meet wage demands or negotiate with the union.
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San Francisco
International Jewelry Workers’ Union
Entomology Instructor W J Chamberlain Returns to Oregon College
Lieut. W J Chamberlain of the college entomology department who served in France’s airplane service has been collecting specimens nationwide since June and will assume duties as an instructor in the department next fall at Oregon Agricultural College in Corvallis.
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Oregon Agricultural College
Corvallis
Ore
W. J. Chamberlain
College
Department of Entomology
France
Shippie Retracts Death Pact Story Stating Truth Now
HAN FRANCISCO Aug 11 After a statement yesterday that his tale of a joint death pact with Helen Steele was a myth John Shippie retracted and stuck to his original account He will be examined for sanity and police continue to search for Helen Steele whose family remains unfound.
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Han Francisco
Helen Steele
Los Angeles
Lurline Pier
John Shippie
Shippe
Hebbard Again Starts Action In Washington State
Charlen Hebbard federal food administrator for Washington initiates new steps after a telegram from Attorney General Palmer. The wartime fair price committee will be reconstituted and a daily fair price list issued soon, with a five member price committee including a grocer or druggist, a producer, and public representatives.
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Bpokane
Charlen Hebbard
State of Washington
Palmer
Ruth Chatterton Stars in The Merrie Month of May at Metropolitan
Ruth Chatterton appears Monday night in Henry Miller's revival of George Scarborough's The Merrie Month of May set in Senator Baldwin's Arizona home with Chatterton as the senator's daughter. The bill also features Levy's Orpheum women driven program When Women Win, a suffrage plot, and acts by Gladys Lytell Olive Finney Lew White plus a Houdini screen segment.
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Metropolitan
Henry Miller
George Scarborough
Vetona
Miss Chatterton
Scarborough
Senator Baldwin
Arizona
Levy's Orpheum
Midsummer Folly Company i
Bevy Ofsuffrage Ttes
Slivers
Abie Kabibble
Gladys Lytell
Olive Finney
Miss Lytell
Mises Finney
Lew White
Houdin
Carnation and Co-Op Milk Prices Forecast At Public Markets
Market list notes Carnation Borden Federal or Co-Operative milk units, pure cane sugar at 12 percent, large Ivory soap at 48 cents, Nu-Ray-A tea at 88 cents, sweet peaches in baskets, canning peaches $1.50 per crate, apricots $1.80 per crate, watermelon and casabe items stocked.
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Borden
Ftomators
Cc H
Market Stalls Listing Hard to Read Prices
Fragmented OCR lists various canned goods and groceries with prices and stall numbers. Items include Libby s beans Van Camp s beans sardines mayonnaise peanut butter marmalade Del Monte ketchup and sugar. Also mentions coffee and citrus powder with assorted prices and stall ranges.
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Weston
Maxola
Libby
Jarme
van Camp
Lecarton Ferguson
Gedon
Unclear listing of groceries and prices from ad
Fragmented grocery ad shows items like Stalin milk Carnauion sugar and baking powder with prices and quantities. Mentions Mason jars coffee and Golden Wheat coffee with figures such as 1.26 per dozen and 2.25 per can, but many words are misspelled or garbled.
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Stalin
Local Market Stalls Offer Pantry Essentials
Readable items list prices and items at stalls including pure fresh milk at stall 59, Carnation milk at stall 46, pure cane sugar at stall 17, Quaker puffed rice and Libby’s soups, Cascade and Bob White soaps, sardines, Welch's grape juice, and Welch’s juice price mentions. Reflects a busy market with varied grocery and household goods.
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Libby
Welch's
Fragmented OCR grocery list notes pricing
A garbled fragment lists items such as fresh ranch eggs Siedoz and Co-Operative milk with prices like $1.05 and references to cheese peanut butter and canned goods. The text resembles a shopper’s or store ledger entry with partial product names and amounts.
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Stalin
Westlake Market Ad List Presents Mixed Goods
Westlake storefront feature lists sugar stalls with pure cane sugar and prices, soap brands Crystal White and No Rub Naptha, flour varieties Gold Bond and Westlake Special, prunes, smoked herring, Cream of Parley, macaroni, apples, crabapples, peaches, watermelon, toilet paper, liquid cooking oil, and milk items with assorted prices and crate quantities. Local vendors reference stalls 105 135 110 and product glimpses include groceries and household goods.
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Westlake
Two Weak Partners Rise in a Failing Firm
A short note contrasts two weak partners with limited capital and influence, noting their inability to form a stable business firm. The piece hints at underlying tensions and the prospect of dissolution or restructuring as losses mount.
Seattle men buy nine ships in landmark Pacific coast deal
Seattle syndicate led by J. Chilberg purchased nine wooden ships from the Australian commonwealth. Built by Patterson MacDonald and Sloan yards, the vessels total 35 000 tons and motor powered. The sale, estimated at around 3 500 000, aims to run Seattle to Oriental ports Australia and the United Kingdom, establishing a permanent Seattle owned line.
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Sloan Shipyards
Olympia
Australian Commonwealth
Seattle
J. Chilberg
A. M. Mc Tyonald
Patterson-Mcdonald Yards
John MclIntosh
H. H. Sanderson
Oriental Porta
Australia
United Kingdom
Pacific Coast
Aiid
Vessel Movements From U Weather Bureau Port Angeles Report
Port Angeles notes show arrivals and passages of ships through dense fog and light winds. Vessels include Admiral Dewey Queenstown bound ships, Port Townsend and Seattle calls, with specific times and statuses, plus a long list of ships in port and sailing from various northwest ports.
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Queen
Chicago
Port Angeles
Bohr
Mr. Hamilton
Mary Foater
Lowe Point
Port Townsend
OY. M. Saited
Behr MY. Hamilton
NEAW
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Columbia
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Local Markets A Vast Woolly Listing Of Produce And Goods
A bustling market rundown lists Wash Gravensteins apricots cherries apples pears peaches grapes and berries with prices per crate per hundredweight and per pound. It also notes eggs butter creamery storage and dairy products sourced from Oregon Washington and local farms along with several shipper and trader names and loading destinations.
Market notes show lower hay grain and veal quotes
Notes indicate hay and grain quotations lower on Monday morning while veal prices fell 2 cents. It marks the second decline since surplus food sales began. Early apples stay steady as peaches and pears rise in popularity with first Eastern Washington Elberta peaches due in about ten days.
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Washington
New York Markets Coffee Prices and Grain Rates
New York market report shows coffee No. 4 Rio grade at 24.0 cents per pound and No. 4 Bantam at 20.0 cents per pound. Lugger centrifugal machinery price listed at 7.24 cents per pound.
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New York
Stock Market Opens With Broad Strength then Sags
New York opening shows United States Steel at 106% with gains in Bethlehem Central Leather ladwin and Mexican Petroleum. Most issues slide after noon with rails and Stutz slipping while steel aligns to a trading pattern as overall momentum weakens.
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United States Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Central Leather
Ladwin
Mexican Petroleum
United States Rubber
Ihs
Paul
New Haven
Market Report Reflects Bearish Pressure On Chicago Board
Chicago aug 11 interest in high cost of living agitation remains a bear influence on the Chicago Board of Trade with wide selling in December contracts. Crop conditions and labor stability, especially with railroads and packing houses, weigh on prices as corn and cattle futures move lower and trading centers on September December and May contracts show mixed shifts.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Ember Cats
May Cats
Frisco Market Prices For Grains Potatoes and Onions
Frisco market status lists seed prices for red and black milo with values around 2.75 to 3.25. Old ice house potatoes include Oregon Washington and Shimas with new crop garnet 2.25 to 2.50 and river white 82.25 to 2.75. Onions yellow 2.25 to 2.50 per cental on the street river white 2.25 to 2.60 Australian brown 2.25 to 3.50 green 1.26 1.50 per box. Dried peas old crop green 7 8c per lb.
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Oregon
Washington
Shimas
Imperial Valley
Merced
Sale Prices for Animal Hides and Pelts Catalog
The listing shows varied prices for salted and green calfskin, kip, dry hides, dry bulls, dry calfskins, horsehides, wool pelts by wool length, and m earlings. Prices range from 0.75 to 10.00 per unit with multiple entries for size and treatment.
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Cseseeres
Cisssrccivestssecevecsevechk
Disabled Fushimi Maru to Return to Sea by Thursday
Nippon Yusen Kaisha announced the liner Fushimi Maru, with a disabled steering gear and a nonfunctional starboard engine, will sail for Japan by Thursday. Capt. K. Irisawa said they could have continued but chose port safety to avoid mid ocean storm risk.
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Nippon Yusen Kaisha Steamship Company
Japan
K. Irisawa
Alameda Brings Salmon Shipment From Alaska
The Alaska Steamship liner Alameda arrived Sunday from Anchorage with 60 000 to 70 000 cases of salmon and several hundred boxes of fresh fish from southeastern Alaska. This marks the first fish cargo since last fall. the ship usually carries ore to Tacoma and will sail again Thursday on her return voyage carrying Col. Frederick Mears, newly named chair man of the Alaskan engineering commission.
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Alaska Steamship Company
Alameda
Anchorage
Alaska
Alaska Porta
Tacoma
Col
Frederick Mears
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Snoqualmie Steamship Launch Sponsored by Chief Kinship
Nearly 40 Snoqualmie Indians arrived in Seattle on Saturday for the launching of the Snoqualmie steamship, the largest wood vessel built by the U.S. Shipping Board. The Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co. will launch the steamer at 5:30 Monday afternoon. Mrs. Kate Borst of Tolt, 85, daughter of Chief John Kenum, sponsor the vessel named after the Snoqualmie tribe.
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Snoqualmie
Tug Goes to Aid of U. S. Schooner
On her voyage from Honolulu to Port Angeles the American schooner Mary E. Foster ran aground at Lowe Point near Port Angeles. The tug Pioneer and the coast guard cutter Snohomish were dispatched to assist, while the Footer under Capt. George H. Johnson, owned by Honolulu shipping men, carries lumber between Puget Sound and Honolulu.
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Port Angeles
Mary E. Foster
Lowe Point
Merchants’ Exchange
Pioneer
Coast Guard
Snohomish
Footer
George H. Johnson
Honolulu Shipping Men
Puget Sound
Oriental cargo steamer Javary arrives at Port Townsend
The Garland steamer Javary arrived Sunday from Shanghai with an exclusive Oriental cargo of oils. The Meridian completed a successful trial trip here Sunday with machinery working excellently.
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Port Townsend
Shanghai
Meridian
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