Fifteen vaudeville acts for Star Tobacco fund show
Mitel Hajos will headline The Star noon vaudeville at the Metropolitan Friday for Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund. Tom Walsh will announce all 15 acts, with Margaret Jarman and Mitzi Hajon featured among a long lineup of performers. Stage director Harry Child oversees rehearsals for the benefit program.
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Laaanardies
Genie Men
Mital Hajos
Metropolitan
Our Boys In
France
Lillian Morton
Mitzi
George Brigger
Viector le Roy
Eleanor Livingston
Helen Leyne
Livingstone and
Birney
Tom
Tom Walsh
Public meeting invites candidates for city council
The Taxpayers league and Community clubs invite the public to a Thursday 12 15 pm joint meeting at Good Eats cafeteria to hear city council candidates. Funeral services for Thomas Wardall are set for Thursday January 31 at 6 pm at Theosophical hall 5000 Arcade building. A Japanese suspect, 5 feet tall 19, in a yellow working suit and hat, is being hunted after reportedly escaping from the steamer Ikso man Maru. Reverend Hugh Gordon Ross will start Bible studies at Plymouth Congregational church Thursday night for students and teachers. Chinese banker Lin says China desires closer cooperation with the United States and carries a letter from Shanghai chamber chair Chu Paesan to Seattle trade bureau.
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Taxpayers’ League
Good Eats
Thomas Wardall
Theosophical Hall
Arcade
Hugh Gordon Ross
Plymouth Congregational Church
Tienma K. Lin
Lin
Chu Paesan
Chinese General Chamber of Commerce
Shanghai
Foreign Trade Bureau
Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commer
Save Coal and Win the War Shovel Tag Day
Washington January 30 1920 More than 21 million school children canvass neighborhoods to promote coal saving nationwide Fuel Administrator Garfield designates today as Shovel Tag Day urging all users to conserve at least a shovel of coal The plan relies on school children distributing notices and tagging shovels to raise public awareness
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Washington
America
Garfield
Hats Featured in New Showing with Satin and Embroidered Crepe
The Hats sketches present two styles from a new showing. One is quilted satin with fur edging and the other metallic embroidered crepe with a straw crown. Priced at five dollars.
Silk Flounce Petticoats for Smart Practical Wear
Durable percaline or sateen top with a wide double ruffled taffeta flounce, offering good looks and practicality. Available in plain colors and two tone flounce effects, adjustable tops and cotton underlay. Lengths 34 to 40 inches. Price $1.95. Basement Salesroom.
Silk and cloth skirts priced across navy and plaids
The silk skirts in taffeta and messaline are navy and black and cost 4.75 dollars. The cloth skirts come in bright gingham plaids checks and stripes with plain colors priced 4.50 to 8.50 dollars.
Dr Scholl expert to advise on foot ailments at Basement Salesroom
A Dr Scholl Foot Appliances phage expert from the Dr Scholl factory will be in the Basement Salesroom Shoe Section tomorrow and for the balance of the week to advise on correcting Weak Ankles Flat Foot Weakened Arch Ingrowing Nails Corns Enlarged Joints Bunions and other foot ailments.
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Phage
Seattle Builds 135 Ships For U S In War Drive
Seattle now has 135 vessels under construction for the U S emergency fleet corp. Contracts total 27 million dollars with Skinner & Eddy building fourteen 800 ton steel cargo carriers and Puget Sound Dredging Co. eight 4,000 ton wooden Grays Harbor type ships. Other firms and counts listed include Seattle Construction & Dry Dock 27 and Patterson MacDonald 20 among others.
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Seattle
United States Emergency Fleet Corporation
Skinner & Eddy
Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co
Skinner & Eddy Boata
Puget Sound Company
Grays Harbor
Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co
Patterson-MacDonald Co
Meacham & Babcock
Ames Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co
J. F. Duthie Co
Erickson Construction & Shipbuilding Co
Eliott Bay Shipbuilding Co
Boats Worth Millions Swept Away In Flood
Evansville Indiana January 30 river vessels valued at over a million dollars were lost in a flood from breaking ice gorges on the Ohio River. The main loss occurred at Paducah Kentucky with vessels like the Spread Eagle and Gray Eagle of the St Louis Packet line among the largest. Vessels worth millions tied at the Green River mouth risk loss if the Rochester gorge breaks. The river is rising and ice may break before night. locally about 80000 dollars of boats rest in the harbor but face no immediate danger.
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Evansville
Ind
Ohio River
Paducah
Spread Eagle
Gray Eagle
St. Louis Packet Line
Green River
Rochester
Novel Styles in Women's Smocks at $3.75
Linen finished smocks in coat or slip over styles with large collars patch pockets and wide belts. Fancy stitching in bright worsteds trims. Sizes 86 to 44. Price 3.75.
New Silk Dress Fabrics Offer Wide Color Range
OMEN planning new evening frocks for themselves or daughters can provide material at unusual advantage in this offering. The Nets are of soft filmy qualities in colorings that are doubling when layered. 40-inch width lists Mars Copper red Copenhagen King s blue Tan. 36-inch width includes Navy Pink Old-rose Bottle green White Cunard. Priced at 65 cents per yard. Basement Salesroom.
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Mars
Purple
Copenhagen
Tan
Cunard
Probe of Government Ship Contracts Ties to Sloan
Senator Sherman told the senate commerce committee he seeks the names of Clinchfield Navigation officers and stockholders and how they won government contracts for Sloan Shipbuilding of Seattle. He aims to uncover what influences used to win the deals. The Shipping Board representative promised to obtain the information.
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Washington
Sloan Shipbuilding Company
Seattle
Clinchfield Navigation Company
Sherman
Illinois
Senate Commerce Committee
Theodore RE. Ferris
Sloan Company
Shipping Board
Portland Policeman Tracks German Plot Details
Patrolman Humphrey said he has positive information that an organization exists in Portland favoring Germany and that it sent $2,000 for German war purposes. He could not name members but provided clues for investigators.
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Portland
Humphrey
Germany
Five Boys Charged In Dynamite Theft Case
Federal agents investigated five boys charged with stealing 60 sticks of dynamite from an East Side powder magazine. They suspect the youths may have been used by German agents for sabotage, as powder was cached near railroad yards and a government wireless plant.
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Portland
East Side
Coroner rules death by misadventure in lieutenant’s fatal flight
London inquest finds Lieut. Garrett of Washington an American army officer died in a flying accident. The coroner’s verdict attributes death to misadventure. War Savings Stamps note appears in the clipping, indicating a separate promotional line.
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London
Lieut
Garrett
Washington
Wilson letter seen to aid Allied cause in neutral lands
Washington reporters and lawmakers say President Wilson's letter to the United Press could win neutral sympathy for the United States. They cite the pledge to avoid aggression and to seek peace with all nations, noting its impact on South American friendship and neutral blocs.
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Washington
Wilson
United Press
United States
Congress
New Lace Sleeve Underblouse with Pink Crepe de Chine
The garment features lace sleeve style favored by many women with a shadow lace yoke, ribbon-run lace beading, and edge topping pink crepe de Chine. Price is $1.25.
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Valenciennes
Campaigners Gear Up Business Men for Seattle Growth
Three hundred city builders set out from the Butler early Wednesday to campaign among business men. They aim to recruit manpower and funds to back the Chamber of Commerce plans for wartime readiness and future growth. A Tuesday drive raised 25 000 dollars toward the 75 000 needed, and 37 new members joined the chamber. A public efficiency board of 25 to 30 members is envisioned to tackle looming big problems. Campaign committees convened at the Butler for a noon luncheon.
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Seattle
Butler
Chamber of Commerce
President Unveils Ethics Code to Ease Pan American Ties
South American and Mexican diplomats praised the ethics code as a step toward clearer mutual understanding with the United States. They believed it would pave the way for a more sympathetic tone in inter national relations among the pan American republics and the United States.
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South America
United States
Flood
House Foreign Relations Committee
Germany
Americas
Germain
Kitchin
House
Women Bandits Steal Six Pairs Trousers in Kansas City
Two women held up a store in Kansas City's business district and stole six pairs of trousers and other merchandise. Henry S. Bolcom, president of Bobcom Canal Lumber Co., was moved to Columbus sanitarium with pneumonia poisoning but improved Wednesday.
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Kansas City
Henry S. Bolcom
Bobcom Canal Lumber Co
Columbus
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