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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1915
Page
3
An English recipe for curried potatoes uses butter onions stock and curry powder with seasoned cubes. A reader asks about preventing dye from running on a red bathing cap and advice discusses dye removal and safety. The column answers cover etiquette dating polishing bronze and mahogany piano care along with fabric color restore and varnish removal tips.
Paris August 23 The ministry of marines announced that French torpedo boats from the second light squadron sank a German destroyer off Ostend last night Texas toll rises to 256 in the latest estimate.
The final report of Basil M. Manley, director of research for the United States commission on industrial relations, urges workers to mobilize to combat industrial evils. It calls for removing obstacles to organization by wage earners and applying democracy principles to industry, aiming to wipe out poor living and working conditions in American industry. The two year commission study is released for Congress.
A report led by J R Commons and J Borden Harriman blasts unequal wealth distribution, unemployment, legal injustice, and limits on worker organization as root causes of labor strife. It calls for a federal social welfare fund funded by inheritance taxes and a broad industrial relations commission to reform enforcement and open shop practices.
The Starstaff reporter, Fred L. Boalt, bought a 25 cent lottery ticket at 412 Main St while investigating gambling in cattle. Ten Chinese numerals were marked. five correct would pay two bits, all ten would pay 1500 dollars. The punched ticket was overlaid to show correct guesses, with another image displaying the lottery joint entrance.
In Seattle, patrons chase daily lottery drawings at various venues with names like Sang Yuen and Hung Fuk. A reporter notes no one wins big money. operators profit around $100 per drawing while a few patrons chase “systems” to beat the game.
In a crowded room a spectacled man drew numbers from tin pans while two elderly Chinese men counted duplicates and a quiet young man marked tickets. After each draw the crowd left for air, then returned for later drawings at 9:30 and 11 as a police officer stood outside. The piece denounces the operation as a transparent scam protected by police, thriving with their protection.
Capt. Bern J. Hilmes, 29, owner of tug Warrior, was found dead on railroad tracks in Bellingham. Authorities believe he was murdered and are probing the case as a homicide.
The Alaska bill opens with Mary Pickford in Rags where she plays a mother who becomes a ragged daughter, then a happy ending. The Clemmer features The Pursuit of Pleasure with Ruth Roland and Henry King. Other houses show Chaplin, Theda Bara, Marguerite Clark, and Beverly Bayne in varied dramas and comedies through Tuesday.
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