Labor's Homes in Jeopardy in Union City
In Danbury a hat factory owner attached homes of union workers to enforce a strike. Citizens blame laws favoring capital as 4,000 unionists face unemployment while the national union battles to release bank bonds. Local leaders call for reform amid shared hardship.
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Panbury
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Herman Laught
German Lutheran Church
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Connecticut
Howard Taylor
John
Denny
Teens Protest Billboards Near Franklin High School
Eighth grade pupils A. C. Cohen and E. C. Youngs urged the council’s fire and Water committee to curb billboard advertising near Franklin High School. They called posters garish and indecent, saying they disturb students and glamorize alcohol. The committee took the protest under advisement.
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E. C. Youngs
Council
Fire and Water Committee
Nazareth
Hoya
Holt Osteopath and Optician Offers Eye Treatments in Seattle
Electricity vibration light therapy hot air sweat baths and other progress methods are offered in an optical room for fitting glasses and eye treatment. Free consultation. Treatments one dollar cath. H Holt osteopath and optician at 407 408 409 People's Bank Building, 2nd and Pike. Main 2451.
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Seattle
H. Holt
People’s Bank
2Nd and
Pike
Ingredient Alert Offers Reward For Safe Rising Agents
A notice offers a $500 reward for identifying risen foods using Crescent Egg Phos phate Baking Powder containing alum lime cream of tartar rochelle salts or other injurious substances.
New Alaska Customs Collector Takes Oath of Office
Juneau reports J R Wilde has been sworn in as collector of customs by Judge Gunatson, succeeding L Hobart who resigned to join the Northwest Fisheries Company. Special deputy D Garfield of Nome, serving five years there, is en route and expected to arrive April 1. A local ad promotes a Champion Gas Range offer.
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Alaska
U P
J. R. Wilde
Roosevelt
L. Hobart
Jarvis
Northwest Fisheries Company
Gunatson
Willis
D. Garfield
Nome
Garfield
Ole Hanson Denies Laying Down to Senate in Debate
The document records Ole Hanson denying claims that he laid down during a senate session. He asserts no emergency clause was considered and contends his position remained firm. Hanson states he was not subdued or coerced and calls for fair publication of his account.
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Senate
House
Garene
Vieane
Brief Wire News Snapshots From Across the Nation
A collection of brief wire items reports volcano activity at Colima and political shifts in Ireland Japan possible concessions to ease California relations and a tainted agricultural bill vote in Washington. Idaho passes a local option for liquor sales legal action in California and Utah, plus sentences in California and a Utah child abduction case linked to Philip Goirer.
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Allews
John Redmond
Ireland
Washington
Laver
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Ida
Idaho Senate
Ban Quentin
Charlies Gavin
Joseph Elffer
Noes
Frank Willis
Omen
Utah
Philip Goirer
Oakland
Cal
Coroner Probes Death as Body Found in Woods
State report notes no cause determined for CB Hanson whose body was found in the woods. Aberdeen reports visiting Seattle capitalists L H Griffiths and others. Exra Stratton, veteran, dies at 76. Navy yard ships to dock for Pacific fleet repairs. A physician, Dr James A Stewart, is accused of theft after helping a staggering woman. he was arrested in New York.
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New York
James A. Stewart
Seattle Electric freeze out bill faces Senate vote
Olympia February 11 The Seattle Electric company freeze out bill which would allow majority stockholders to compel sale of minority holdings is struggling to reach a senate vote The measure has a long history and is opposed by some and backed by Stone & Webster interests as amendments reduce the required minority participation to 5 percent of stockholders before a sale can proceed, aiming to enable mergers under Stone & Webster control.
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Seattle Electric Company
Senate
Ono
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Judiciary Committee
Booth
King County
Seattle E Electric Company
Clean newspaper ads praised by Seattle Young Men
The Seattle Young Men praise the Star as a clean newspaper with commendable advertising. They urge honesty in ads, warn against quack medicines, and insist papers must reveal truth to protect public health and lives.
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Seattle
M. A
Btar
Newapaper
Newepaper
Great Labor Happenings Worldwide Stir Reform Debates
Analyzes global labor movements from Britain to Belgium and Australia. Discusses a royal commission proposal to replace poor laws with universal employment schemes and a government labor department. Describes Belgium's spring general strike against voting reform and eight hour demands, plus a Jerusalem printers strike over apprentice treatment.
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Great Britain
Royal Commission
Preas Associaons
Belgium
France
Germany
May Move Soldiers Home to Bremerton
Olympia Feb 11 Special Correspondence Kitsap county officials and soldiers from Port Orchard pressed for moving and merging the Orting Soldiers Home with the Port Orchard facility acting Gov M F E Hay recommended the change Former Senator R A Condon and Superintendent Willie Ames argued before the appropriations committee in favor of the move
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Kitsap County
Port Orchard
M. FE. Hay
Orting
R. A. Condon
Willie Ames
Joint Appropriations Committee
Webster Pleads Guilty in Embezzlement Case at Cascade Laundry
J Grant Webster former Cascade Laundry employee pleaded guilty to embezzling 3500 dollars and was sentenced yesterday by Superior Judge A W Frater to seven months in prison. Webster had left for San Francisco but was brought back for trial. counsel Gomel said he had repaid the funds.
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Embelzssement
J. Grant Webster
Cascade Laundry Company
A W. Frater
Webster
San Franciseco
Gomel
McMillan Former Puyallup Mayor Dies at 67
Christopher CC McMillan aged 67 longtime Puyallup figure and six term mayor died yesterday after a brief illness blamed on acute kidney trouble. News of his passing shocked city and valley residents.
Work Starts on Big Tube Harriman Tunnel Contract
The Twohy Brothers of Spokane have the Harriman tunnel contract and began construction in Tacoma yesterday. The bore will be 1,600 feet long and provide direct access to the tide land district, removing a heavy surface grade.
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Twohy Brothers
Spokane
Harriman
Tacoma
Tide Land
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