First Pictures of Street Car Strike Shown in Star-Liberty Weekly
The Star-Liberty News Weekly features the first motion pictures of the Seattle street car strike with leaders like James Duncan and Edward McMorrow, scenes at the North Seattle barn, and U. S. medical corps troops at Fort Lawton. Robert Warwick stars in The Argyle Case at the Coliseum, and other films include The Greatest Power with Ethel Barrymore, The Flame of the Yukon at the Mission, and Polly Redhead at the Class A.
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Star-Liberty Weekly
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Clemmer
Robert Warwick
Liberty Theatre
Star-Liberty News
Seattle
James Duncan
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Leonard
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U. S. Medical Corps
Fort Lawton
Star-Liberty
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Weat
Jim
Saturday Evening Post
Charles Ray
Coliseum
Wm. J. Burns
Yukon
Mission
Dorothy Dalton
Ethel
Nome
Dawcon
Midas Cafe
Car Strike Fails to Cut Attendance at Local Theatres
The street car strike is not reducing attendance at the Liberty and Coliseum theatres. Managers report higher crowds in the last part of the week than before the strike and note that a proposed shuttle bus plan has been dropped.
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Liberty and Coliseum
Coliseum
Siam Declares War on Germany and Austria
London July 23 Siam the land of the white elephant has declared war against Germany and Austria The object of the declaration is to uphold the sanctity of international rights against nations showing contempt for humanity and for the rights of smaller states
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London
Siam
Germany
Austria
Strike Will Halt Ships Amid Lumber Industry Strife
President A J Rhodes of the Chamber warns a lumber market crisis and I W W influence threaten the wooden shipbuilding program. Reports link fires near Wenatchee, the Columbia valleys, and Klamath Falls to incendiary W W activity as federal troops guard Sedro Woolley.
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A. J. Rhodes
Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club
I W. W
Campa
Wenatchee
Columbia River
Sedro Woolley
W. W
Klamath Falls
Ore
Government RR Extension Planned to Coal Field
At a luncheon Alaska Chamber of Commerce honors Herbert A Mover assistant secretary of the interior he says the government railroad will extend from Seward to the Matanuska coal field early in summer 1918 if Congress passes a $4 million deficiency appropriation item.
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Alaska Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce
Herbert A Mover
Seward
Matanurka
Congress
Cigaret Export Rise Shown in U S Trade Report
United States export trade in cigarettes shows a record rise with over 6.0 billion cigarets valued around 12 million dollars exported in the just completed fiscal year. This total surpasses all prior years in American cigarette history.
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United States
Pathe serial star Mollie King to headline new film with Hale and Bary
News notes list Mollie King switching from The Mystery of the Double Crown to a new serial with Creighton Hale and Leon Bary. Doris Kenyon, 19, from Syracuse, is profiled as a rising screen player. her father is Dr James F. Kenyon. The piece also covers Vitagraph stock, Fairbanks fine for hunting on a trip, censor Funkhouser’s case, and Mile Delysia’s US-absence in 1918.
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Mollie King
Pathe
Creighton Hale
Leon Bary
Doris Kenyon
Syracuse
N. Y
James F. Kenyon
Douglas Fairbanks
California
Bull Montana
Fairbanks
Neo Bull
Bull
We Are Not Opposed to Collective Bargaining or Direct Deals
The company states it is not opposed to collective bargaining or meeting with employe committees and will deal with trainmen directly or collectively as preferred. It opposes a closed shop and the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employer of America citing unreliability and broken agreements. The record shows over 500 million passengers in five years with one fatal accident amid Seattle’s steep grades, arguing direct dealings ensure safety and service.
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Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employer of America
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