Panama Canal opening provoke Seattle official clash
William Pigott, Seattle school director and head of Seattle Car and Foundry Co., lashed out at Dr. J Allen Smith dean of UW social science after Smith testified before a federal commission on industrial relations. Pigott charged Smith with demagogy and questioned salary paid by the state while criticizing big business and class tensions.
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Panama Canal
Commercial Club
William Pigott
Seattle
Seattle Car & Foundry Co
J. Allen Smith
Department of Social Science
University of Washington
Smith
Federal Commission On Industrial Relations
Pigott
Dr. Smith
City to buy five motor busses to link streetcar divisions
Councilman Erickson will introduce an ordinance this afternoon to purchase five motor busses for twenty five thousand dollars. The plan extends transfers between municipal street cars and busses to improve Division A's viability and ease common user rights with nearby lines.
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Seattle, Renton & Southern
Seattle Electric Co
Erickson
Probing Oriental Labor Session Opens in Seattle
An executive session to investigate the Oriental labor and immigration question began this morning in court room No 2 by the United States commission on federal relations. It will continue today and tomorrow as the Seattle portion concludes. Public hearings ended Saturday, with a dozen subpoenaed witnesses unheard due to time. Prof John Rh Commons and Frank P Walsh of the commission visited the Merrill & Ring Logging Co camp in Snohomish county woods. The five commissioners spoke at the Municipal league dinner Tuesday and Commons will address the King County Progressive league at the Goods Eats cafeteria.
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Court Room No. 2
United States Commission On Federal Relations
Seattle
John Rh. Commons
Frank P. Walsh
Merrill & Ring Logging Co
Snohomish County Woods
Municipal League
Commons
King County Progressive League
Goods Eats
Northwest Merchants Convention Opens in Seattle
Hundreds of outside merchants arrive for the Northwest Merchants Association annual convention in Seattle. The Seattle Sales Managers Association oversees the meeting with a program of daily entertainment. The event opens Wednesday at noon, with a sightseeing tour planned for the first afternoon. A preliminary session of Northwest Hardware and Implement Dealers runs today.
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Seattle
Northwest Merchants’ Association
Seattle Sales Managers’ Association
Northwest Hardware and Implement Dealers
Hat Styles described with velvet bands and flowers
A description of wide brimmed hats on the candtier or boatman style, tilted and colored black brown blue and greens. Some feature dull bead strings, velvet bows, metallic ribbons, or oversized flowers in black white pink with pansies or poppies.
New Silk and Woolen Dress Goods Arrivals
The store showcases Autumn dress fabrics from foreign and domestic sources. German broadcloths 50 inches wide at $2.50 per yard, Fine French Gabardine Suitings 50 inches wide at $1.50, various Serges from $1.00 to $3.00, Challies and Crepes 28 29 inches wide at 50c and 65c, Faille Sublime all silk 44 inches wide at $3.00, and Taffeta Broches 36 inches wide at $3.50 for evening wear.
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Dresden
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