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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1913
Page
1
A female war reporter joins a newspaper to cover a great siege from the air, entering a tense camp of editors and pilots. The narrative follows her resolve to report the siege from a woman’s perspective, detailing the frontier battle as Hawkins and she scout the besieged port and fortress amid a vast aerial relief army.
A girl reporter arrives at the newspaper camp just before a major battle. The piece previews a looming war involving France and Germany or the United States against another power, highlighting air fleet involvement and imminent conflict dynamics.
In a grand meeting of the Weet Women's improvement club at the Grand Avenue House, Seattle housewives were urged to form egg storage plants and buy direct from producers. Mrs. F F Martin Mrs George A Smith and Mrs J W Brown outlined plans for a permanent Seattle women’s organization to curb high egg prices and middleman profits. They proposed water glass storage a silica mix and water to preserve eggs saving 20 to 30 cents a dozen in winter.
Bob Bridges won a three year term on the port commission by a 3 to 2 vote over O J C Dutton. School directors Pigott Ketein and Spencer were reelected. Bond issues for port projects faced mixed results with Propositions Four and Two uncertain or defeated. Mary G O Meara challenged Nathan Eckstein in the school board race with Eckstein and O Meara securing top votes. City and country precinct totals show Bridges winning and a land district proposal defeated.
The Star lists contributions up to noon for the Dream land Hall Christmas tree event. Pat Sullivan and employees 72.50 Byron Phelps 62.50 Johnny Clancy 10. Clarence Gerard 10.00 O rpheum Orchestra 00 M A Gottstein 6 Abe Hurwitz 1 Total 170.50.
William Hinty a Davenport Nebraska farmer county official and Sunday school superintendent was seized on a charge of embezzling 200 dollars of county money and fleeing with Lulu Huston a 20 year old hired girl from his wife.
Seattle's first automobile factory a branch of Ford Motor Company will begin operation on or about January 1 with an output of 26 cars daily. Located at Fairview avenue and Royston the plant is nearing completion and will employ 200 men with an annual payroll over 250000 dollars.
Split socialists aim to reconcile at a meeting tonight at the Good Feet cafeteria to present a single ticket in the city election. In Los Angeles, 200000 residents attended church yesterday as part of a go to church Sunday campaign.
President Wilson declined to send a special message or create a House committee on suffrage after a suffragist delegation faced cold winds at the White House. He thanked Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and Mrs Medill McCormick but refused to endorse enfranchisement in any regular or special address.
Emmeline Pankhurst, freed on seven days' leave from prison, reached London at noon. She was met by a large suffragette crowd and went to suffragette headquarters. A special suite was prepared and barricaded to avoid rearrest when the leave ends, a development troubling authorities.
Denver resumes main streetcar service as snow recedes. Southern Wyoming remains isolated while Northern New Mexico reports little relief from winter conditions.
George Fielding, a freshman at Brazil High School in Indiana, is the smallest student the school has admitted. At 2 feet 10 inches tall, he attends classes in Carbon and is progressing well academically.
Wakefield Baker, capitalist and brother of Leavitt Baker of Seattle, died after a sudden collapse on a ferry between Oakland and San Francisco on Sunday.
In Rainier Valley Seattle residents urge city to buy the Rainier avenue corridor from the Seattle Renton and Southern railway to permit regrading and filling, while the railway in receivership delays by court action. Local business leaders voice frustration over swampy streets and broken planks as officials anticipate a court hearing on December 16 and hope for year end progress.
Phillip Rappaport founder of the Indianapolis German Telegraph Tribune died in Indianapolis last night of heart failure. The note underscores the Kvatt Fowells School advertising claim that its bookkeeping and shorthand instruction, though costlier and slower, yields superior results.
Silas Christofferson plunged 2000 feet head down into San Francisco Bay yesterday after a crash in a hydro airplane. He freed himself, reached the surface and was rescued.
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