Realtors See Garden Cities Along Pacific Coast
Seattle and Pacific Coast cities must avoid slums and become garden cities with spacious dwellings not tied to crowding. Western states speakers urged vision in real estate to shape communities, reject the idea of Detroit as the auto city, and discussed expanding the Northwest Realty association to include exchanges in Canada and the East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Pacific Coast
Interto Realty Association
Northwest
Hanson
Detroit
America
Canada
J R Clynes Named British Food Controller
J R Clynes, parliamentary secretary to the British food ministry, becomes the new food controller succeeding the late Lord Rhondda. A labor leader with a night school education, he has long led the National Union of General Workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Clynes
British Food Ministry
Lord Rhondda
National Union of General Workers
Sailor Dresses Feature Serge Fabric and White Piping
MacDougall Southwick offers sailor dresses in serge with true sailor blue, white piping, eagle emblem, and red bar sleeves. Mid-dies include yoke and bust pocket, pleated skirts, and refined, corduroy-like feel. Priced at 18.50 with display at SECOND AVENUE AND PIKE STREET.
Attractive Sweater and Skirt School Outfit
The Sweater is a girlish slip-on in rose and myrtle green priced 6.50 available in sizes 32 plus. The Shepherd Check Skirt, sturdy cloth, with snap to its style, finishes well and fits ages up to 14 years at 4.50. Both from MacDougall-Southwick on the Third Floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shepherd
MacDougall
Southwick
MacDougall-Southwick
Boys Swagger Military Suits for Youth
The ad offers boys military style suits with fine tailoring and merit features. Various weaves colors and materials are available in a whole section, with prices from 8.50 to 20.00.
Coats for Girls Offer Velvet and Broadcloth Styles
A city store markets girls coats aged 6 to 14 with a specialized range in Velvet, Serge, Pompom and Broadcloth. Prices span 6.95 to 45.00 as new styles claim a distinct class for this shop.
Bricklayers Vote Censure Over Wells In Labor Parade
The Bricklayers' Union No. 2 of Seattle with 203 members passed a censure resolution against Hulet M. Wells former president of the Central Labor Council for seditious utterances. They refuse to join the Labor Day parade if Wells participates, citing wider union indorsements of his actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bricklayers’ Union
Hulet M. Wella
Central Labor Council
Welle
Charles B. Hawley
Seattle
Wash
Hulet M. Wells
Hulet M Wells
H. M. Wells
Reames Upheld by Elks in Resolution
A lodge passes a resolution condemning the Central Labor council for endorsing Hulet M. Wella’s acts. The document expresses full confidence in Assistant Attorney General Clarence L. Reames, whose removal was sought, and backs the prosecution of Hulet M. Wella and W. H. Kaufman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Labor Council
Acta
Hulet M. Wella
Elks’ Lodge
Clarence L. Reames
W. H. Kaufman
Loan Committees Ready for Drive
The Fourth Liberty Loan drive headquarters will be set in the Transportation Building at Second Avenue and Cherry Street. Committees are appointed by Chairman J. A. Swalwell and preliminary meetings are under way to prepare for an effective citywide kickoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Transportation Building
Second Ave
Cherry At
J. A. Swalwell
Carl Welcomes Twins at Swedish Hospital
Carl Lathrop of Fifth Avenue North West, a stereotyping department member of The Star, becomes father of twins a boy and a girl born Thursday afternoon. Mother and children are reported doing well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl
Carl Lathrop
Fifth Ave
N W
The
Star
Far and Near News items and city notices
A long local item list reports Vera Pym leaving Seattle for New York to join the medical corps anesthetists in France with offices closing at 6025 and a Moore theatre opening Monday at 8 45 AM. It lists regular free baby clinics Saturdays at Central school Seventh and Madison for 3 months to 6 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera Pym
Highland Ave
Seattle
New York City
France
Moore Theatre
Central School
Seventh and
Madison
Clarence E. Smith
Northern Pacific Railroad
Hi Ki* Adams
Charles Sound
Harry Sanderen
Spruce Production Corps
Skykomish
Herman Vernon Bowman
Lincoln High School
Pacific Coast
Orient
Caroline Furness
Vassar College
China Club
Furneas
Fred C. Harper
Republican State Central Committee
Chicago
National Association of Republican
Puyallup
Ladies of the
Portland
Ore
Sommarstrom
Columbia City
Olympia
Rendeger
Hoquiam
Ford Prairie
Pacific Highway
U. S
Clarence L. Reames
King County Democratic Club
Woodland Park
Victoria
B. C
Samuel H. Balcom
8. Balcom
Green
Huns Real Mad at Yankee Shotguns
Special to The Star from Amsterdam reports German newspapers decrying Pershing’s army use of sawed off shotguns as an atrocity. The Cologne Gazette accuses American officers of dishonor and aiding guerrilla warfare, warning whom they will face on the American front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star
NFLA
Amsterdam
Pershing
Cologne
Cupid snares phone girls in wartime staffing boon
Special to The Star reports many telephone operators have married recently, depleting numbers. London faces a shortage as young women join the women's auxiliary army corps or the women's royal naval service, reducing available telephone workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. 1
Landon
London
Women's Auxiliary Army Corps
Women's Royal Naval Service
Fever Strikes Murman Railway Workers
Special to The Star of NM reports that about sixty percent of workers on the Murman railway from Petrograd to the Arctic coast suffer typhoid fever and scurvy due to food shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL A
Stockholm
Murman
Petrograd
Arctic
Forced Belgian labor for road building in Courtrai
Special to The Star reports in August that one thousand Courtrai residents in West Flanders have been compelled to go to Bedan France where German forces force them to build roads and dig trenches. German convicts work with the civilians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courtrai
West Flanders
Bedan
France
Named Skipper of New Ship Houlton
Capt. C. B. McMullin, an Aldikan navigator, has been appointed commander of the new wood steamship Houlton which will be commissioned shortly. The Houlton is the first vessel launched by the Meecham and W Babcock Shipbuilding corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navigator
Houlton
Meecham & W Babcock Shipbuilding Corporation
Stefansson Coming Home From Arctic Lecture Tour
Jaimur Stefansson, the Arctic navigator, arrived here Thursday en route to Kequimalt then Ottawa and New York where he will begin a lecture tour for the benefit of the Red Cross.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pacific
Hoover
Britain
J. I. Clynes
Second Avenue and
Pike Street
Shane
Elkskin School
Elks
Cupid
Uncle Sam
Regan
Joshua Green Building
Pike
C. B. McMullin
Aldikan
Steffanson
Red Cross
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!