What Sort of Americans Are We Today
A Seattle Red Cross plea for clothing for returned soldiers contrasts with a thousand veterans begging for work in the city. The Olympia legislature is urged to pass the Lamping bill delivering discharge funds to veterans, not leave them in charity. The piece challenges readers to support veterans and act now.
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Seattle
Red Cross
Olympia
Senate
Lamping
Neementa
Rules
Organ Tion
President to Speak in New York on League Talk
President Wilson plans a speech in New York on Tuesday night March 4 to promote a nonpartisan league of nations demonstration. He hopes Taft will attend. Gov. Smith will head a nonpartisan welcome committee. Wilson aims to finish work and depart D.C. after the last bill.
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Washington
Wilson
New York
Tumulty
League of Nations
William Howard Taft
White House
Taft
Gov
A. KB. Smith
Gov. Smith
Congress
Capital
Democratic National Committee
House
Senate
Coast Meeting to Come Says Dr Marshall
Dr L C Marshall, fleet corporation mediation chief, in San Francisco said a Pacific coast wage conference for shipyard workers may be granted, with details possibly settled within a week. Workers will vote on returning to work, while a coast conference is arranged to set a new shipyard wage schedule.
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L. C. Marshall
Fleet Corporation
San Francisco
East
Marshall
Metal Trades
H. A. Brotherton
Shipping Board Industrial Examiner
A. F. Miller
63rd Men in New York End Voyage
The 63rd Regiment has reached New York aboard the Caserta with wounded soldiers among the convoy. Delayed by Gibraltar stopovers and storms, the unit is welcomed by local officials and veterans groups. A coastal welcome plan includes school holidays and military honors.
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New York
Artillery
Vian
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Welfare Committee
6Ird Coast Artillery Regiment
Seattle
Joer Scot
Ne Board
Statles
Severs
Furnie
Nolee
Pearl smuggling ring spotted near Puget Sound
Customs inspectors suspect a band of smugglers is ferrying pearls valued at about 2,000,000 toward Seattle aboard approaching vessels led by the Tahiti Queen. Roscoe M. Drumheller, Seattle district customs collector, declines to confirm details but says inspectors are on the job to thwart the effort.
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Ban Francisco
Veessels
Puget Sound
Sava
Tahiti
Roscoe M. Drumheller
U. S
Seattle
Charles E Van Loan Taken To Hospital
Charles E Van Loan humorist and writer is in Abington hospital Philadelphia with chronic nephritis according to Geo H Lorimer editor in chief of the Saturday Evening Poet His condition described as somewhat improved The Admiral Sebree sails Thursday from Baltimore to Seattle via the Panama canal to join the Pacific Steamship Co coastwise fleet.
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Charles E. van Loan
Philadelphia
Chas
BE. van Loan
Abington Hospital
Geo. H. Lorimer
Admiral Sebree
Baltimore
Seattle
Panama Canal
Pacific Steamship Company
Married Women Urged to Quit Jobs Without Vital Excuse
Miss Birdie Campbell of the U S employment service in Seattle declares married women should leave industrial work unless they have a legitimate reason. She argues homes are the basis of social progress and warns that employed wives undercut wages and threaten national readjustment, equating selfish workers with alien slackers and urging employers to refuse hiring married women without vital excuses.
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Birdie Campbell
U. S. Employment Service
Seattle
Uncle Sam
Mies Campbell
Miss Campbell
Resolution Would Oust Reds From the Labor Council
A proposal to expel all delegates connected with I W W or dual bodies from the Central Labor council was read at a Wednesday evening meeting of the Butter, Eye and Produce Workers union. The issue, debated next week after committee review, drew anticipated clashes between radicals and conservatives.
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Central Labor Council
Butter, Eye and Produce Workers Union
American Federation of Labor
Resolutions Committee
Man Seeks Recovery After Bay Rum Incident
Ben Swapp Sr a city teamster bought a bottle of Bay Rum with alcohol at a barber shop below Yeelor Way Thursday morning. He was taken to the city hospital and may recover.
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Ben Swapp, Sr
Teamster
Yeelor Way
City Hospital
Republicans Pick Speaker
Republican members will meet tonight to choose the party’s candidate for speaker of the next congress. The trio of contenders are Representatives Gillett of Massachusetts James Rorman of Illinois and Phil Campbell of Kansas. Each claims victory as factions duel with no letup.
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House
Representatives Gillett
Massachusetts
James Ro Mann
Ilioois
Phil Campbell
Kansas
Air Three
Woman Demands Fees After Moving Furnished House
W C Jackson sues Mrs McNichol owner of 215 Ross Place for $1000 claiming moving furniture caused illness in his wife and child after he agreed to rent the house. Jackson testified before Superior Judge Aten on Thursday.
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McNichol
Ross Place
W. C. Jackson
Jackson
Hearing Set After Rush on Cedar River Watershed Bill
A legislative bid to condemn perm roads in the Cedar River watershed was temporarily blocked as Dr. M’Bride protested the rush. Senators and representatives aimed to railroad the bill without hearing Seattle health officials, prompting renewed scrutiny ahead of tomorrow’s hearing.
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Howard Taylor
Cedar River
Seattle
House
Senate
Can You Make the Trip to Olympia
Citizens urged to attend Friday night session in Olympia where the Cedar River Watershed bill is set to appear in the house. Readers are asked to protest the measure, seen as harmful to health and children, with physicians described as unanimously condemning it.
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Olympia
Road bill sparks Senate and House clash over watershed pollution
The measure faced rapid committee moves and amendments as Cotterill's minority report warned it risks public water safety. Health officials and Seattle water leaders urged united opposition while the rules committee delayed, pushing a public hearing for the measure.
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Senate
Bell
Mtport
Cotterill
Seattle
Youngs
Water Department
Good Cop in Police Court Case Involves Discharge and Pawned Revolver
Kaward and sinner, a returned soldier, was charged in police court on Wednesday afternoon with joining the police force as a special patrolman and resigning without the chief's consent. He was accused of disposing of his police revolver to a pawn shop dealer and fined $50.
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Kaward
Sinner
John KB. Gordon
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