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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1916
Page
7
The executive committee of the Municipal Service League states it has no plan to approve or disapprove any candidacy for public office. The group rejects attempts to portray civil service employees as taking sides in elections.
An old time remedy Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound is popular for darkening gray hair. A bottle costs about fifty cents and promises dark, thick hair by morning with added benefits like reduced dandruff and healthier scalp.
The Rex opened with The Ne'er-Do-Well drawing large crowds in Seattle, matching Portland success. The Selig production stars Kathryn Williams and Wheeler Oakman in a high action drama based on Rex Beach's novel, with Selig supervising filming in the Canal Zone.
Griffiths denounces Mayor Gill for a foul attack on his wife calling it unexpected and defamatory. He asserts the public knows Gill and his wife as a mother of his children and condemns the likening as demeaning and unworthy of reply.
Edwin J. Brown announces debates with Fitzgerald or Gill on taxes and city progress. He cites bond history since 1910 and claims Beattie era debt growth, urging tax relief and economies. Brown and Griffiths share personal notes and pledge to discuss public duties and fiscal health.
A reminiscence paints Mrs. Griffiths proud of son Tom the 25 year old mayor and the couple's humble rise from Nebraska farms to law and public life. The page also includes a detailed 1916 notice of a special Port of Beattie election referencing three propositions to borrow funds for harbor and urban improvements in Seattle and surrounding areas.
Biographical sketch details Griffiths as lawyer city attorney of Montesano and later Seattle council member elected 1911 1913 mayoral candidate resigning from council. He served briefly as chief of police amid civic reform efforts including playgrounds and charitable work led by wife with five children, two football sons at UW.
Vladivoa tok, 20, set out to join the grand duke's army in the Caucasus but returned to Portland. He says the sight of Siberian port war preparations chilled his blood and he now seeks immediate naturalization papers.
Detectives in Los Angeles seek G. T. Dodge, a New York munitions broker, accused of making ...
A report states that $10,000 was received from Captain Hans Tauscher, a Krupp works representative, intended as payment for cart ridges to be delivered to a South American government.
A New York physician promotes Nuxated Iron as a fast path to renewed strength. He claims iron in a form easily absorbed can double strength in ten days and offers a $100 pledge to charitable institutions if it fails to increase strength by 200 percent in four weeks, with refunds if no gain. It is sold by Owl Drug Co Bartell Drug Co and Swift's Pharmacy.
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