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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1917
Page
2
A list of entrants and names appears with Jessie Welch leading a red hair competition. The page shows numerous individuals with addresses or occupations such as telephone operator, hotel staff, and postal worker, including Mae Morrey and Clara Harp among others, with varied street addresses and city references.
Washington Feb 20. Senator Poindexters bill granting homesteaders patents to land won Senate approval after a House vote. The measure affects about 50 settlers whose claims rested under an old Northern Pacific land grant.
Berlin reports German thrusting detachments south of latransiot captured a point in the Firitieh Hine by storming and in hand to hand conflict took 30 prisoners, according to an official statement dated February 20.
Sergt. Putnam's dry squad raided the Metropole hotel on Fifth avenue Monday night arresting W. F. Niebling a former bartender and chauffeur Doc Hill on dry law charges. F. C. Kelley 37 former Berghoff cafe proprietor was arrested in his Interurban hotel room for selling a drink of liquor to a squad member.
In Indianapolis on February 20, the judiciary committee backed the Maston woman suffrage bill with one dissenting vote, a measure already passed by the senate and now approved by the lower house.
The first victim of the United States navy submarine was the Old Dominion steamer Madison. It tangled in the Hampton Roads channel as she left Norfolk for New York. Efforts were underway early today to start her northward voyage.
Two men were killed and three injured when the car they rode in was struck by a Southern Pacific engine at Newhall crossing east of Newhall while returning to Fillmore.
Feb 20 reports of a German submarine off the coast were denied by Capt. Kenyon of the Coast Guard station. He stated he had seen no submarine and had reported nothing to confirm such claims.
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