There’s Death in Your Gas Wardall Ordinance Debate
A Seattle council committee will discuss the Wardall gas ordinance on Wednesday, with potential council action Monday. The measure requires separate gas and electric installations to prevent gas locks during electrical use amid past gas asphyxiation deaths. Seattle Lighting Company calls it impracticable, while Wardall argues it protects life and asks for universal coverage in hotels and apartments.
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Committee On Public Safety
Haas, Erickson and
Wardall
Council
Seattle Lighting Company
Wardall Ordinance Aims to Guard Against Asphyxiation
City council discuss Wardall measure to require the Seattle Lighting Company to spend on patron safety. The ordinance, described as impracticable by the company, is to be reviewed by the public safety committee chaired by Wardall with Haas and Erickson. The Star urges the committee to back life saving protections.
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Seattle Lighting Company
Max Wardall
Wardall
Public Safety Committee
Council
Haas
Erickson
Star
Messrs
Ward
No Letup Of Rainfall In Sight In Seattle
Weather summary reports continued rainfall in Seattle over the past 48 hours totaling 1.69 inches with no sign of abatement for the next 24 to 36 hours. Rail lines faced minor delays from slides between Meadowdale and Everett as rivers swelled and railroads prepared for possible floods.
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Seattle
Weather Observer
N Salisbury
Meadowdale
Everett
President Wilson at Pass Christian Golf Links
President Wilson spent Sunday in Pass Christian enjoying fine weather. He played golf at the links early with a quiet day reported in Mins.
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Wilson
Pass
Christian
Mins
Night schools open tonight for second term registration
Registration for the second term of the free night schools begins at 7 15 p m at all high schools and at Central Seventh avenue and Madison street Washington eighteenth avenue and Main street and the Georgetown school. Classes in grammar and high school work will be formed and special English for foreigners organized.
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Crade
Central
Madison St
Washington
Main St
Georgetown
Woman Burned Cleaning Gloves With Gasoline
Mrs J E Newton suffered serious burns to her hands and arms around noon while cleaning a pair of gloves with gasoline in her rooms at the Tarrytown apartment located at 202 Republican Street.
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Mre
J KE
Newton
Tarrytown
Republican St
Belle Willard and Kermit Roosevelt to wed in spring
Announcement confirms the engagement of Belle Willard, daughter of the American ambassador to Madrid, and Kermit Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt. The wedding is set for spring.
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Richmond
Belle Willard
Madrid
Kermit Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Taxi Hits a Woman Near Third Avenue and Madison
Misa Edith Motter, a nurse at the Swedish Hospital, was struck by a taxi driven by H. Jackson Sunday night at Third Ave and Madison St. Her condition improved today following the accident. An advertisement touts Hyett Fowelle bookkeeping and shorthand services.
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Misa Edith Motter
H. Jackson
Third Av
Madison
Supreme Court validates Seattle tidelands tax
The U S Supreme Court upheld Seattle's right to tax improvements on leasehold tidelands. Washington courts had allowed taxing buildings on leased land. Trimble vs City of Seattle moved through state court to the U S Supreme Court, whose dismissal of the appeal affirms local improvement taxes on state leashed lands. Howard A. Hanson represented the city.
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Washington
Seattle
United States Supreme Court
Courts of
Supreme Court
Trimble
William Pitt Trimble
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Howard A. Hanson
Corporation
Commissioners balk at city improvement bond plan
The county commissioners failed to pass a formal resolution to employ funds for city improvements to provide jobs. Governor Lister and the state finance board rejected King county’s bid to sell 50,000 dollars of its 3,000,000 road issue. Tomorrow the commissioners are expected to approve the resolution. Joseph Jacobs of Seattle was elected president of the Pacific Northwest Society of Engineers at the Arctic Club annual meeting Saturday night.
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Lister
State Finance Board
King County
Joseph Jacobs
Seattle
Pacific Northwest Society of Engineers
Arctic Club
Copperfield under martial law as militiamen seize saloons
Copperfield 84 residents live under martial law as Col Lawson and his militiamen confiscate liquor and bar fixtures bound for Baker. Courts injunctions are ignored while saloons are dismantled and packed into a boxcar. Local officials are prevented from fleeing as citizens observe the occupation. Sunday school attendance soars amid the crackdown.
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Copperfield
Col. Lawson
Baker
Lawson
Ndge Anderson
Wiegand
Warner
Annssette
Citizens’ Committee
Snodgrass
Abbott
Human Fly Olaf Czarnowski Falls to Death
Olaf Czarnowski the 20 year old Russian known as the Human Fly recently arrived in San Francisco and demonstrated his dare devil climbs on tall buildings. He was found dead in an alley behind a major hotel with a fractured skull and crushed ribs. Authorities seek explanation for the fatal fall possibly during a display in the hotel area.
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Arthur Pelkey
Gunboat Smith
San Francisco
Smith
Jack Johnson
Pelkey
Luther McCarty
Canada
McCarty
Jim Griffin
Cal
Olaf Czarnowski
Singer
New York
Czarnowski
Trolley hits car kills MEAD in Vandalia incident
In Vandalia Ohio a trolley struck a car driven by FE Mead automobile engine maker and killed him.
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Vandalia
Ohio
FE. Mead
Seven Ships Circle Doomed American Liner
In a fierce Atlantic storm off Sandy Hook the Oklahoma sank after its stern went down, 32 crewmen drowned. Seven escort ships formed a breakwater to shield the wreck while eight survivors clung to a forward deck fragment. A Bavaria boat rescued them at sunrise.
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New York
Sandy Hook
Guenter
Oklahoma
J. M. Guffy Petroleum Co
Port Arthur
Tex
Atlantic
Bavaria
Secretary Stuart A. Rice Resigns from Olympia
January 5 report states the Industrial Welfare Commission accepted the resignation of Secretary Stuart A. Rice. He criticized the board for apprenticeship ideas and described himself as a socialist.
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Olympia
Stuart A. Rice
Industrial Welfare Commission
Rice
Ford adopts profit sharing and shorter workday in Detroit
Ford Motor Co announces a profit sharing plan distributing ten million dollars annually among employees. The company will cut the work day by one hour with no pay cut and add 4,000 workers, expanding total employment to 22,000 in Detroit. Three eight hour shifts will be used.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Pennant Coupon Offers Billie Burke Pennants at The Star
The Stage Beauty Art Series pennants available this week at The Star office and branches with this coupon and 20 cents per pennant or 25 cents by mail. Orders to The Star 1309 Seventh Ave. Main Branch Northwestern Photo Supply Co. 1320 Second Ave. Several city and state pennants including Washington San Francisco Wyoming Montana and Florida are sold at the main office for one coupon and 15 cents.
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Star
Northwestern Photo Supply Co., Inc
Eastman Kodak Co
Second Ave
Washington
San Francisco
Wyoming
Montana
Florida
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Pine
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Stewart & Warners
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Tony Warner
Fern Hobbs
T. E. McMeany
Oregon Short Line
State of
Oregon
Law
Jim Williams
Neterer
United States District Court
Jim
Great Northern
United States District Attorney
St. Pau
Martha Jones
Martha
Manuel Calvo
Bonet
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Rige
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