Seattle approves five cent carfare plan with transfers
The city council passed the Fitzgerald five cent carfare ordinance after a unanimous vote. Effective March 1 1923 riders pay a nickel fare with one cent token or 23 cents for each transfer. Tokens sell at four for five cents. Transfers from several lines will be free and children pay reduced rates or ride free under age restrictions.
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Brown
Seattle
Wally
Oliver T. Erickson
N. 40Th St
Youngstown
Madison St
St. Cable
Ray St
Denver Mint Heist Sparks Nationwide Hunt
Forest rangers and state police sweep mountain peaks and canyons for any trace of the bandits tied to a sensational bank robbery. Officials fear a gun battle if found together, likening them to the Lewis gang’s downfall near Colorado Springs. Linton, the slain guard, had long served the mint and aided in transporting funds. Crowds filled the streets outside the mint as police aimed to control traffic after Denver’s greatest robbery backed by widespread sensational coverage.
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Forest Rangers
Ee Ee
Fed
United States Mint
Middle West
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Wesat
Serfbelieve
Linton
The
Mint
Denver
Chamber Chorus Brightens Kenney Home with Christmas Songs
The Chamber of Commerce chorus entertained the ladies of the Kenney Home Monday evening with a program of well known songs. The chorus has performed at several public homes in Seattle during fall and winter. The event began at 7 30 and lasted an hour.
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Chamber of Commerce
Kenney
Chamber
Seattle
Seek Reduction of Stage Fares in South Beacon Hill
Mrs. Ernestine Brodner of the South Beacon Hill Improvement Club led a protest Tuesday against the 10 cent bus fare, saying hundreds of residents have phoned since the Fitzgerald streetcar fare bill passed Monday. She urged a fare cut for the South Beacon Hill district, arguing the haul is short.
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South Beacon Hill
Ernestine Brodner
Republican Filibuster Delays Ship Subsidy Bill
Washington December 18 The Republican party filibustered to force a ship subsidy bill against farm legislation. Senator Brookhart of Iowa declared a strong speech in the Senate.
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Washington
Republican Party
Congress
Brookhart
Iowa
Yeater
Hig Flest
Senate
Navy appropriation bill passes with arms conference idea
The House approved the navy appropriation bill and urged President Harding to convene a new armament conference. The bill authorizes 425 million dollars, with 55 million earmarked for construction work and related needs.
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Washington
House
Navy
Harding
Foreman Stricken During Construction Work
Alexander C. Campbell, 60, an employee of the municipal railway, collapsed from a cerebral hemorrhage while directing a construction gang at First Ave and Pine St Monday afternoon. He was taken to Seattle General Hospital, unmarried and reportedly dying.
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First Ave
Pine St
Alexander C. Campbell
Atwood Hotel
Municipal Railway
Seattle General Hospital
Campbell
Man Crushed by Auto While Unloading Potatoes
Joe Covell a truck gardener was pinned by an auto driven by E Burr of Kent while unloading potatoes at 812 Cherry Street. Covell suffered a broken shoulder and was rushed to the city hospital.
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Cherry St
Joe Covell
E. Burr
Kent
Covell
Debate Over Emile Coue Doctrines At Commonwealth Club
Monday night the Commonwealth club hosted a clash over Dr. Emile Coue’s day by day in every way system. Former Mayor Max Wardall defended Coue after meeting the healer, while Dr Maud Parker assailed the methods.
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Emile Coue
Commonwealth Club
Max Wardall
Maud Parker
Seek Factory Site Seeks New Plant in Seattle
G C Rhodes and W F Spaulding of the Pioneer Lubricator Corpora tion Portland are in Seattle seeking a site for a new factory. They are stopping at the Butler.
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G. C. Rhodes
W. FH. Spaulding
Pioneer Lubricator Corporation
Portland
Seattle
The
Butler
Victims Recover From Knife Wounds After City Assault
Edward Holzer and Roland Berbower are in the city hospital Tuesday recovering from knife wounds inflicted Sunday morning by a man described as a negro. Police seek the assailant at Seventh Avenue and Olivest.
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Edward Holzer
Roland Berbower
Seventh Ave
Olivest
Wisconsin sweethearts wed after half century apart
Fifty years after first loving in a Wisconsin town Mrs. Loutee Rossey and John J. Ansbro aged 66 reunited in marriage. Justice of the Peace John B. Wright united the couple who had endured long separation and will begin married life anew as Mr. and Mrs. Ansbro.
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Wisconsin
Loutee Rossey
John J. Ansbro
Justice of the Peace
John B. Wright
Ansbro
Big Yuletide Trade Shows Heavier Christmas Buying
Reports from city retailers to the Chamber of Commerce retail trade bureau indicate 1923 holiday purchases will far exceed 1919 records. Staples, clothing, furniture, dry goods and household articles show augmented demand. toy departments rise near 100 percent. novelties are in strong demand and art departments struggle to maintain stock.
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Beattie
Chamber of Commerce Retail] Trade Bureau
Chicago Faces Severe Cold Wave and Crime Surge
Chicago endures a brutal cold spell with five deaths from the cold three days of intense fires causing massive damage and hundreds of robberies. Four frozen deaths reported. one man killed by slipping and a car. Firefighters logged over 200 alarms as relief agencies rush aid to affected families amid holiday season crime rise.
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Weather Bureau
Irish Rebels Executed in Portobello Barracks
Seven insurgents captured at Kildare were executed at Portobello barracks after death sentences were carried out at daybreak. Rebel leaders ordered demonstrations near jails as bombs exploded around Dublin objects, with violence including arson at Gordon Campbell house.
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Irish Independent
Gordon Campbell
Lord Grenavy
Senate
Kildare
Portobello Barracks
Bull Gores Woman as Bull Leaps Fence During Attack
In ELAIN on December 19 Mrs Henry Webb was charged by a bull that cleared a fence while she moved toward the barn. The animal gored her. details describe the sudden attack and injury as bystanders aided.
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Elain
Til
Henry Webb
Former Auburn Mayor Faces Malicious Prosecution Charge
Clarence R. West, once Auburn mayor, faced King County Superior Court to answer a malicious prosecution charge. The case stemmed from two complaints against Sheriff Matt Starwich involving alleged election irregularities, which the sheriff was later exonerated of. A jury was still being selected as of Monday afternoon.
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Clarence RE. West
Auburn
Matt Starwich
Wjlegel
Calvin 8. Hall
King County Superior Court
Bernhardt Stricken On Eve Of New Play
French stage icon Sarah Bernhardt suffered a syncope before appearing in Sacha Guitry's play at the Edward Wil theater in Paris. Doctors said there was no real danger, but Bernhardt refused to rest, insisting she would return to the stage as soon as recovered, despite being 78.
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Paris
Sarah Bernhardt
Sacha Guitry
Edward Wil
Desnos
United Press
Madame Bernhardt
Pert
Bernhardt
Tke Mollers
Greesing
Park Theater
Ilress
Epolis
United States weighs lenient debt policy and European peace plan
The United States considers a softer approach to war debt collection and assesses countries' individual obligations. It weighs a broader European peace initiative and a potential arms limitation pact if negotiations progress, while stressing firm U S protest if France occupies the Ruhr or similar drastic actions occur.
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Mentia
United States
Washington
America
France
Germany
United
Ruhr
British ultimatum over Dardanelles blocks Turkish settlement
Foreign Minister Curzon warned the Turkish delegates that unless they accept the allied project for freedom of the Dardanelles by tomorrow the Near East peace conference would end. Carson said the Turkish resistance to Russian and Turkish counter proposals makes acceptance impossible.
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Lausannd
Curzon
Great Britain
Dardanelles
Near Haat
Carson
Paper firms listed across West Coast and Northwest
A roster of paper companies and partners includes W Fales Paper Mu Mutual Paper Seattle Pulp & Paper Washington Pulp Paper Paper Warehouse Seattle Standard Paper Ta coma Ta coma Paper & Stationery Zellerbach Blake Moffitt Towne Bonestell Pacific Coast Spokane Bri G Ewing American Type Pounders Rogers Bake McFall Endicott KR Brackett Charles Frazier with locations in Seattle Tacoma Spokane Portland Salem Oregon and Washington state.
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W. Fales Paper Company
Mutual Paper Company
Washington Pulp & Paper Corporation
Paper Warehouse Company, Inc
Seattle Paper Company
Seattle
Standard Paper Company
Tacoma Paper & Stationery Co
Tacoma
Zellerbach Paper Co
Blake, Mofitt & Towne
Bonestell & Co
Pacific Coast Paper Company
San Francisco
John W. Graham & Co
Spokane Paper & Stationery Co
Bri. G. Ewing Paper Company
American Type Pounders Company
Spokanne
Rogers Paper Company
Balem
Ore
Bake McFall Paper Company
J. W. P. McFall
Endicott Paper Company
KR. L. Brackett
Charles L. Frazier
Partners
Portland
Seattle Merchants Welcome Federal Probe On Paper Prices
Secretary J. Y. C. Kelloge of the Seattle Tacoma Wholesale Paper Merchants association welcomed the federal trade commission inquiry. He said coast paper merchants seek a clear standard of operation and denied that price fixing is practiced, noting independent associations and yearly conferences aimed at better output and management.
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Seattle
Federal Trade Commission
J. Y. C. Kelloge
Seattle-Tacoma
Kellogg
Pacific States Paper Trade Association
Kel
Fraser Denies Federal Charges Against Paper Merchants
President R G Fraser of the Seattle Tacoma Paper Merchants Association defends the industry amid federal charges. He calls the inquiry a show of connivance claims and says profits are not as the government suggests, noting no Pacific Coast paper maker or jobber has been earning vast gains in four years.
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Federal Trade Commission
R. G. Fraser
Seattle-Tacoma Paper Merchants Association
Pacific Coast
Fraser
Seek Law To Resist Japs In Olympia Lobby
American Legion adjutants from every state vote to back an act excluding all immigrants for five years. Henry A. Wine moves to build a strong Olympia lobby to tighten anti Japanese land provisions and curb tenancy loopholes. They also push for broader soldiers land settlement programs, anti narcotic measures, and liberal amendments to the state compensation act.
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Aaporis
American Legion
Henry A. Wine
Department of Washington
Olympia
White Bluffs
Hanford
State Prosecuting Attorneys’ Organization
No Christmas Cheer Campaign Aimed at Drying Holiday Liquor
Washington reports a national campaign by the federal prohibition bureau to make the coming Christmas and New Year driest in history. President Harding and state governors urge public aid to enforce the dry law as federal and local forces intensify seizures of bootleg liquor before the holidays.
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Washington
Federal Prohibition Bureau
Harding
Prohibition Bureau
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Fitzgerald
Ryther
D. A. Ayers
Lee Davia
Lee
Ayer
C. C. Dalton
Minnie EB. Davia
32Nd Ave
Duluth, Minn
Jamen A. Ebert
H. K. Lee
Sonora
Lafayette
Victrola
Victor
Brunswick Records
Frederick
Fifth
Pine Streets
Foreman
Chicago
Charles R. Lynch
Dublin
Europe
Nelson
Avenue
Pine Street
UWE
Stort
Commodore
Grand Rapids
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