Best Town in the World welcomes booming convention season
Seattle urges residents to greet tens of thousands of visiting delegates with warmth and honesty. Prominent gatherings include Shriners in July Knights of Columbus in August and American Bankers Association in September. Public spirit aims to prove Seattle is the best town on earth and attract future residents.
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Seattle
Shriners
Knights of Columbus
American Bankers’ Association
Alaska
Panama Canal
America
Seattle council grapples with McBride milk ordinance split
Mayor Gill Health Commissioner McBride and Milk Inspector Henderson back a tuberculin testing measure to protect Seattle babies from tuberculosis. Some council members view it as an administration move and politically credit seeking, despite medical unanimity in favor.
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McBride
Gill
Henderson
Seattle
Bolton
It Doesn’t Stagger Us a nARE Tells Aboard Risk Change
The piece reports Pacific Mail Steamship Co plans to register in Britain making Vancouver or Victoria headquarters instead of San Francisco. It cites Uncle Sam's seamen laws as motivation and notes cheaper rates, foreign crews, and loss of U S navigational safeguards. It critiques the impact on the American merchant marine with bold jocular tone.
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Nare
Pacific Mail Steamship Co
Vancouver
Victoria
B. C
San Francisco
Uncle Sam
Get the Habit and Other Oddities from a Historic Column
A column discusses habits for summer, praising outdoor and family outing habits while condemning the dollar habit. It mentions the General Council of women's clubs in Portland rejecting a silk stocking fund and notes wartime munitions, Paris births falling, and a Seattle wife complaint about her 70 year old husband staying out late.
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General Council of Women’s Clubs
Portland
Seattle
Beattie to Seattle Drugist Built a Chain via Gold
George M. Bartell failed in Seattle, hunted gold in Alaska, learned why his first drug store failed, then returned to start a Seattle chain. He opened stores at Jackson and Second, Second and a block north, First and Pike, Ballard, Union and Second, Westlake and Pine, now employing 29 druggists. He stresses the infinite detail of the business and the need for convenient locations.
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George M. Bartel
Alaska
Beattie
Seattle
Dawson
Bartell
Partell
Sartell
Hartell
Jackson St
First
Pike
Ballard
Union
Westlake
Pine
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Owl
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2Nd Ave
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Kim
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