City tax battle over nonresident teachers and budget
The Tax Reducer council urged removing nonresident teachers from the city payroll and replacing them with Seattle residents. They pressed for a published detailed budget by September 1 and criticized the school board for lax publication rules. Leaders argued for prioritizing local hires and questioned spending while promising reforms to educational salaries.
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Tax Reducer Council
Good Rats
Seattle
E Faylor
Cole
Shorrock
Lawler
Uton Council
M. Hill
Hin
A. H. Wiseman
Educational Committee
The
Chamber of Commerce
Star Carriers Attend Palace Hip Show
Star Carriers visit Palace Hip as guests of manager Joseph Muller. They enjoy a Wednesday evening program and enthusiastically encore each act while cheering the feature photoplay heroine.
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Joseph Muller
Palace Hip
Ghost Haunted Mandarin Coat
London readers recount a Mandarin coat said to carry a cursed history. A London woman wore her husband's birthday gift to the opera and felt a Chinese presence with a naked dagger. Her daughter later wore it to a dance and claimed fear throughout. The coat's past links to a Chinese mandarin who murdered five wives with daggers.
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London
Mra
John Broadfield
Local Officials Consider Cutting Non-Resident Staff
Wiseman opposes discharge of non-resident employees while Dr. Walter Kelton of the American Legion educational committee accuses Director Taylor of an about face on teacher salaries. Kelton urges removal of superfluous officials and trimming excess baggage. For rainfall the irrigation note states 101 tons of water per acre.
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Wiseman
Walter Kelton
American Legion Educational Committee
Taylor
the Legion
Kelton
Would Amend Civil Service Law Argues for City Executive Power
Dr. EB J Brown urged the Municipal league to reform civil service rules to grant city executives greater control over subordinates. He compared the current system to a general with no authority over his soldiers. Brown also called for expanded duties for the superintendent of public utilities. League members elected Julius L Failwin Howard A Adams and Robert F Sandall as vice presidents.
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EB. J. Brown
Municipal League
Eystem
League
Tast
Julius L. Faiiwin
Howard A. Adams
Robert F. Sandall
Wayfarer Cast Plans Refreshments and Transport
The Wayfarer cast and chorus will choose hot coffee or ice water for refreshment in the big tent city behind the stage. Executive committees will arrange service for thousands, with transportation by cars and motor buses from the university streetcar line to the stadium during production week.
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Wayfarer
Darwin Melanest
University
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