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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1913
Page
6
London police formally charged Mrs Pankhurst with inciting women to use dynamite. She was arrested as she prepared to address a meeting near Waltonheath. A crowd trailed her as she was escorted to Scotland Yard for investigation, amid jeers from the mob.
In London on honeymoon, Mr. and Mrs. Findlay J. Shepard flee public glare after relentless press attention and paparazzi. Despite securing a secluded suite at the Ritz, reporters flood their hotel, while solicitous letters pile up, and the couple leaves by motor car seeking privacy away from the hunted life.
A special committee report to Mayor Cotterill urges voting down the subway market initiative on grounds of inaccessibility and insanitary conditions. It warns that more than $150,000 would be needed for market extensions and suggests studying markets in Cleveland Rochester New York Baltimore Washington New Orleans and San Francisco. The panel lists members from the Chamber of Commerce Commercial Club Municipal League labor and other groups including architects engineers and health officials.
Alexander Daylight of the Colville tribe, once chief, died in Colville on February 24. Government records list him as 14, while he claimed 123. He had been blind for the past 50 years. Also noted are New Haven health orders requiring whooping cough sufferers to wear badges.
In San Francisco on February 24 the actress known as the Divine Sarah Hern Bernhard paid $20 to cross the bay after the ferry was full of cars. She was bound for San Quentin to perform before inmates. A. W. Huggins of Berkeley offered to remove his car for $20, and the offer was accepted. About 1900 convicts, including five condemned men, watched her perform One Christmas Night in the prison yard.
A giant dredge will operate in the Duwamish waterway project soon after June 1 after valley evacuation ends. Right of way is secured and a $700,000 bond issue passed.
Theresa Johnson was named carnival queen at the Swedish hospital bazaar which closed in style at midnight on Saturday. More than 1,000 people attended the Swedish club event at Eighth Avenue and Oliver Street, where decorated booths showcased many novelties. Dr. Harry F. Ward spoke at the YMCA about socialism, arguing that class struggle and class consciousness are rising in the United States like Europe.
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