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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1920
Page
2
A controversial essay argues that a bride should reveal past histories before marriage to avoid later tragedy fueled by publicity. It links changing morals, war time gender roles, and modern culture to increased risks of dishonor and domestic disruption.
A package containing $18,000 in bank notes was stolen from the mail room aboard the steamer Chetoshin near Vancouver. The theft occurred just before entering harbor and no thief has been found as passengers disembarked before police arrived.
New York report says Marin Dewal, a Holland native, accused of I. W. W. activity in Seattle, should be deported immediately by immigration authorities. He had been jailed two years. habeas corpus was denied in federal court by Judge Knox.
A jury in Justice Tierney's branch of the supreme court awarded $100,000 to Alexander McAuly a Toronto mining broker against Theodore LB Starr Inc New York jeweler for false arrest in the Christmas Keogh bogun check swindles.
National chairman Will Hays arrived in San Francisco after a Reno conference to praise unity among Nevada GOP leaders. A local boy's remark about coasting adds a light note to the dispatch.
Pearl O Dell 18 confesses to killing Edward Kneip after her husband James O Dell helped plan and execute a brutal murder in a lonely wayside. Sheriff Weidenmann and DA Love face mutual shielding while Pearl reads and denies pity, showing no remorse.
Ed ward J Kneip was lured by an impostor detective posing as Arnold into a trap set by O'Dell and Pearl O'Dell. Kneip was handcuffed to a tree five miles from town, battered with a file and weapons, then killed and his body dumped in a canal culvert to be found by a train crew.
Washington reports federal prohibition chief John F. Kramer announcing imminent drastic actions to enforce the 18th Amendment and Volstead Act. More than 25,000 officials nationwide, including federal agents, state officers, and local police, are mobilized to suppress bootlegging and illicit liquor sales as of midnight.
The Full subcommittee on Mexican affairs recessed public hearings until Monday with executive session planned. Witnesses fear returning to Mexico, including W. W. Miller of San Antonio who claimed Taft failed to aid persecuted Americans and noted $70,000 in losses tied to a Vera Cruz firm. The opera notes cover Trovatore at San Carlo, Carmen matinee, Madame Butterfly, Bettina Freeman as Cho Cho San, and Fortune Gallo's possible Chicago Grand Opera directorship.
London January 17 J Taylor Peddie international exchange authority said high U S interest rates fuel reconstruction problems in Europe He called current trading a crime against Eastern and Central Europe and warned the system inflates currency and will boomerang globally.
A local Birstone celebration of Lloyd George's birthday will be held in Fine Arte hall at 1213 Fourth Ave. Saturday night. The British American society sponsors the event with Samuel H. Piles, former senator, and Austin Griffiths, president of the local League to Enforce Peace branch, set to speak.
London report states Chancellor Austen Chamberlain announces a new issue of exchequer bonds to meet maturities due in the coming months.
A dispatch from Peking reports that Mr. Sameon, Britain's diplomatic agent at Irkutsk, escaped Bolshevik capture and reached Harbin after Irkutsk fell. No escape details are given, but the agent is said to be en route to Harbin.
Washington January 17 Members of Congress are urged by the Friends of Conscientious Objectors organization based in New York to release all objectors at once. The group argues that all other warring nations except the United States have freed objectors.
In a woods south of Tacoma deputies and a city detective opened fire on a moonshiner during a raid. Despite multiple shots hitting trees, the moonshiner escaped unharmed and remained at large Saturday.
Madison reports northern Wisconsin sees illness labeled winter cholera by state health officials. Oklahoma towns had prior outbreaks as more than 300 people in one Wisconsin community fall ill.
Topeka Kansas January 17 The Kansas senate late yesterday passed a measure creating an industrial court and sent it to the house for consideration amid ongoing dispute over its structure and jurisdiction.
Saturday marked the final day of precinct registration as books closed at 9 30 pm and would reopen Monday morning for further registration before the January 7 deadline. Hundreds were turned away amid complaints of delays by registration clerks and a slow processing pace.
The bill establishing a court of industrial relations passed the senate by 32 to 5 and was sent to the house immediately for consideration.
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