Bursum bill urged to grant three quarters pay for emergency officers
The article argues for Senate Bill 1965 the Bursum bill providing three quarters pay for emergency army officers retired due to disability. It notes 1500 affected plus comparable Navy and Marine Corps provisions and calls on Americans, especially clubwomen, to press the Senate to pass the measure promptly. It questions Seattle and East Coast support.
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Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Senate
Seattle
New Year Reflections Echo Past and Future in Roving Sketcha
A long column of reflective snippets and aphorisms discusses self discipline, reform, and the holiday mood. It cites Epictetus and Kingsley, riffs on moral resolve, and closes with assorted quips about prosperity, politics, and everyday life amid a changing world.
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Epictetus
Letter to Editor on Ryther Child Home fund solicitations
The Ryther Child Home board asks readers to reject inauthentic solicitations claiming to fundraise for the home. No solicitors are authorized. the public should forward names and addresses of any fundraisers to 261 Empire Building Beattie Washington for action.
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Ryther Child Home
JL Greenwell
Ryther Child
Beattie
Canada
Empire Building
Wash
Board OF Trusters
Kyther Child Home
Concerted Action Is Needed to Rename Mount Tacoma
A 1921 Tacoma letter argues for restoring the name Tacoma for Mount Tacoma and the adjacent park. William Pigott, president of the Pacific Northwest Foreign Trade Council, urges concerted action, urging newspapers to back the change and a formal organization to pursue it.
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Mount Tacoma
Tacoma
Tacoma National Park
Puget Sound
Rainier
Seattle
WILLIAM PIG@TT
Pacific Northwest Foreign Trade Council
Beattie Should Forge Its Own Path Not Follow Fashion
Jessie P Mobster urges Beattie to abandon copying Eurcope and New York City and to cultivate local originality in dress, architecture, and industry. He argues the city has greater opportunities and can lead with new industries, better times, and employment for the unemployed.
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Thestar
Seattle
Eurcope
New York City
Pacific Coast
Beattie
United States
Jessie P. Mobster
Siath Ave
Reasons for High Food Prices Cited by Reader
A reader argues freight rate hikes explain rising food costs. He cites shipments to Aberdeen Washington and Portland Oregon with freight increases from 24 to 45 cents per hundred pounds and 71 to 45 cents respectively, claiming railroads raise prices 60 to 100 percent and that packers, jobbers, and retailers cannot fully counteract this.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Portland
M I
Women the Burden-Bearers
A reader comments on an interview about men who claim to understand women and offer advice to wives. The piece argues against separate laws for wives and husbands, noting that historical perceived male superiority was rooted in financial control and wage earning. It highlights the unseen labor of women in homemaking and child rearing.
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the Star
Charleston
End of the Year Reflections by Dr Barton
Dr William E Barton notes no scientist agrees on Earth's inhabited span. He portrays 240000 years of human life, using a midnight to noon metaphor to mark eras from caves to modern times and urges quiet year end reflection on time's meaning.
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Heinrich
Schmidt
Haeckel
America
Do We Need a Big Trade With World
Amateur Economist questions the value of large foreign commerce arguing specialization via transport has driven global production. The piece compares American farming and Japanese labor, asking whether more nation specialization could double output and if stopping commerce makes the world poorer.
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United States
Mississippi Valley
Japan
Women as burden bearers of the race and marriage equality
The author argues that women bear the burdens of motherhood and home life, noting they gain no inferiority to men and that laws restricting or directing women’s authority are unnecessary. Marriage grants equal rights and responsibilities, with both spouses prone to mistakes.
Letter From JAIWBRIDGE MANN Welcomes the New Year 1922
A New Year tribute reflects on 1921 as the old that is dead and a fresh page for 1922. The message urges hopeful beginnings, steady progress, and keeping high standards as time moves forward.
Only incompa tibility allows divorce say court pronouncement
A pronouncement states that punishment for mistakes rests with each party and infidelity is not a valid divorce cause. The ruling emphasizes mutual responsibility and that only incompatibility justifies divorce, asserting no one else can disgrace them.
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Adna Hughes
King Attacks Public School Spending and Quality
A letter to The Star quotes Henry King of the Seattle school board denouncing the opposition to public school education. The writer criticizes King for hot air and wasteful spending while urging thorough, affordable education and noting 50 percent of 2,700 university applicants failing to qualify.
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Eids
The
Star
Henry . King
Seattle
King
Mr. King
Washington Education Journal
A. T. Axpatyer
Birth Control Debate Sparks From Denver Judge Remark
J P M voices a heated opinion column on birth control versus self-control. The piece cites a Denver judge who urged preventing reproduction, discusses economic aims, war causes, and class disparity while inviting reader responses.
Fragmentary note on bills and business activity
Fragmentary OCR mentions a bill with the company in telephones and a reference to June and a customer business. Contents are unclear, with missing names, dates, and context.
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