The Price She Paid in New York to Seattle
A photoplay titled The Price She Paid is shown this week in Seattle after Lois Weber selected the story from Young's Magazine. Mrs Chester Ort, wife of a United States Rubber Co salesman, recalls her rise from clerk to author and her decision to prioritize home over a film career.
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Seattle
Reel” Life
Chester Ort
17Th Ave. N
Ort
Young's Magazine
Altho
Lois Weber
Miss Weber
Dess Dimmy
Jimmy
Liberty Theatre
George Randolph Chester
Government orders eight hour lumber day in Northwest
The Lumbermen's Protective Association ratified a new government order mandating an eight hour day for milled lumber and camp workers in the Northwest. The association backed Col Disque's production speed efforts and pledged support for government action. A meeting of employe representatives in Portland was set to outline the new requirements.
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Oregon
Washington
Bryce Disque
Portland
The
Aircraft Board
Loyal Legion of
Lumbermen’s Protective Association
Cot
Disque
Lumbermen's Protective Association
Death Penalty for Sleep on Post Marines Sentenced in France
In Washington on February 28 the judiciary committee backed broad penalties for destroying war supplies. A bill would impose up to 10 000 dollars fine or 30 years in prison for arson or bombing of war plants and related targets. Also in France four American soldiers were sentenced to death for sleeping on post, approved by Pershing, awaiting final review by the War Department and President Wilson.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Rep. Gard
France
Pershing
War Department
Wilson
United States
French Love for Country Will Not Die
A 1918 Paris column mocks wartime language books as two archetypes clash. An academic uses the verb focused approach while the hand to mouther grips nouns like cheese, both bungling conversation and prompting humor about French phrases and misfires at the table.
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Roland
Allied envoys desert Petrograd in mixed withdrawal
United Press reports the American envoy left Petrograd for Vologda with Japanese Brazilian and Siamese colleagues. Vologda lies 375 miles east of Petrograd and 275 miles north of Moscow, from which routes to Archangel or Moscow by rail are possible. May stay at Vologda as spring ice limits direct travel.
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Vologda
Moscow
Archangel
Pacific Coast
Siberia
Sach
Woman Found Murdered in Local Hotel
After a drunken brawl in a Japanese rooming house at 14 Seventh Ave SS, Carrie Howard is dead and John Garrison is jailed. A colored man entered twice, and Garrison was found with a bloodied handkerchief. Police say a struggle occurred as the woman was injured and choked.
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Seventh Ave SS
Mra
Carrie Howard
John Garrison
A. Tuckumuga
Henry
Garrison
Seventh Ave
Austria Refuses to Aid Fight in Volhynia Front
Petrograd dispatches report Austrian refusal to advance against Russians in Volhynia. German troops concentrate 990000 in Dubno district amid disobedience rumors. Homes and workers flood Petrograd for revolutionary army as women arm for guerrilla defense.
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Pakoff
Novo Selyve
Laga
Hussiana
Polatek
Reval
Nargen Island
Villagen
Farma
Petrograd
Smolny Institute
German Fleet Speeds North in the Baltic
Berlin dispatches report the German fleet in the Baltic steaming northward at full speed, likely toward Finland, as of today.
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Copenhagen
Finland
Berlin
Scheidemann Boasts Kaiser's War Speech Criticized
Amsterdam reports Philip Scheidemann a leading Social Democrat condemned the Kaiser’s Hamburg address in a Reichstag speech. He called it displeasing and unpolitic and said they energetically repudiate such views.
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Scheidemann
Kaiser
Amsterdam
Philip Scheidemann
Hamburg
Mexican Rebels Reported Killing 15 Americans
Reports from El Paso state U S patrol attacks last month caused 15 deaths as Maj Gen Reed filed a protest with Mexican Consul General Andres Garcia. Villa and Carranza troops clash near the Durango line as 5000 rebels face federal forces near Tampico amid anti American demonstrations linked to German spies.
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United States
Reed
Andres Garcia
Villa
Carranza
Villistas
Durango
Tampico
Mex
Manuel Palaez
Spanish Cabinet Resigns as King Names Alpucemas Leader
Madrid reports the Spanish cabinet has resigned with King Alfonso showing confidence in Senor Alpucemas, newly appointed prime minister. In Louisiana, Lieut William Magill of Jersey City and Lieut Leland Coleman of the marine corps were in a fall near Lake Charles. Magill died and Coleman was slightly hurt.
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Alfonso
Senor Alpucemas
Lake Charles
Wm. L. Magill
Jersey City
Leland I. Coleman
Magill
Gerstner Field
Here
Coleman
Marine Corps
Tacoma physician ordered arrested by federal agents
On orders from the department of justice at Washington Dr. John B. Reitz a prominent local physician was placed under arrest here today by officers from the United States marshal's office He has been listed as an alien enemy.
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Tacoma
Department of Justice
Washington
John B. Reitz
United States Marshal’s Office
City Says It Did Not Default In Gas Rate Appeal
Assistant Corporation Counsel Walter Meier disputed the state public service commission claim that Seattle defaulted on its appeal of the rate increase. He said the city received notice February 1 and has 30 days to file, with the review ready for service before the deadline. The commission had alleged a default to justify its action.
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Walter Meier
State Public Service Commission
Commission
Seattle
Meier
Japan
Korea
Extend Time One Month for Tax Returns
An extension of time to April 1 was granted for all corporations and individuals to file income tax and excess profits tax returns. The original deadline was March 1. officials cited the rush of the last week and many incomplete returns. Taxpayers with smaller taxes should file promptly while blanks are awaited for corporations and excess profits tax filers.
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Collector of Internal Revenue's
Federal Building
Japanese May Enter Russia
Washington reported that Japan could send 200000 troops to Siberia within two weeks with ally approval. A larger force of 600000 would follow, as Tokyo seeks allied and American sanction to protect allied interests.
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Washington
Siberia
America
Japan
Fish market suit targets city control of stalls
John Reeks, a fish dealer at Stall 100 Corner Market, files complaint with Mayor Gill seeking a permanent injunction to halt the market until a public vote. He argues no ordinance or charter authorizes the market. A temporary injunction is sought and City Treasurer Ed Terry is served. city has 20 days to defend. Mayor Gill promises to fight.
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Gill
Terry
Ed Terry
Gill vetoes council on free jitney measure
Mayor Gill Thursday vetoed the free jitney bus ordinance passed by council. He said it conflicts with state law and would force the prosecuting attorney to violate his oath of office and could embroil the city in lawsuits against individual bus drivers.
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