Salesgirls in Ziegfeld Beauty Contest to Perform for Scott Fund
A Scott Benefit at Levy's Orpheum next week will feature Seattle Ziegfeld beauty entrants as a fashion show finale. Proceeds from advance tickets go to Deputy Sheriff Robert C. Scott’s widow and children. Contestants must submit photos or appear at Bushnell or James Merrihew studios by Friday to qualify.
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Flag Day Reflections on Civic Pride and Elks Picnic Joys
The writer notes flag display in downtown and homes while lamenting lack in others. He praises the Elks Club picnic hosting 45 900 boys with free entertainment and Open hospitality, calling it a model of generosity and community spirit in a day of civic pride.
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Dope Cure Aims To Curb Crime Says City Officials
In a discussion endorsed by three officials, narcotics addiction is blamed for crime and cures through treatment and a sanatorium are urged. Inspector Damm notes about 8000 addicts. police have formed a dope squad and issued arrests. Captain Tennant and Justice Gordon back harsher jail terms for addicts to deter crime.
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EXPECT ARREST OF J. JOHNSON
United States immigration officials expect pugilist Jack Johnson to be arrested before night in San Diego. Cantu officials at Tia Juana say Johnson, who has lived there and run a cafe, was given 24 hours to leave Lower California and faces a Chicago white slave charge. They fear border tensions ahead of a planned July 4 bout with a white contender.
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Veterans Call Pacific Coast Unite Against Japanese Immigration
Seattle veterans at the Col Theodore Roosevelt Post 14 adopt a resolution urging all Pacific coast veterans and comrades in Canada Australia and New Zealand to unite in pressing for action on the Japanese immigration issue. The measure seeks a concerted front to curb immigration and prevent race clash while preserving peace.
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Near-beer brewers threaten strike over wages
New York June 15. Near-beer brewers announce they will strike unless wages are raised claiming the only hard thing about their product is their work.
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Seattle Flight Demonstrates Mail Carrying in Boeing Test
F W Strang of Strang Prosser and pilot Herbert Munter left Seattle at noon Tuesday bound for Spokane to showcase mail carrying in new Boeing planes. They expect three hour mountaine crossing at about 100 mph with Strang carrying a message from the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Forty federal agents in Chicago seek merchants who dodged taxes totaling 1 million dollars on luxury goods sales.
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Ice Vein Found in Old Black Diamond Mine
In Mount Carmel Pennsylvania on June 15 workers excavating the old Black Diamond colliery uncovered a vein of ice buried for at least thirty years as the heat climbed to around 80 degrees in the shade.
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Dublin Captain Is Murdered by Five
Dublin police inspector Captain P. A. Wilson was shot in the street when five men attacked an automobile carrying him. He was riddled with bullets and died. Authorities investigated the ambush and sought the assailants.
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William Battenfeld Wins Daily News Guess Prize
In San Francisco on June 15 William Battenfeld formerly a carrier boy for Warren Harding's Marion Ohio Star won the Daily News prize of fifty dollars for correctly guessing "Harding and Coolidge."
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Mayor To Decide On City Car Fare Increase
Mayor Caldwell has not signed the council approved car fare ordinance. The measure raises four rides to 25 cents, two rides to 15 cents, single rides 10 cents, and children’s fare at 3 cents, with school tickets at 10 for 25 cents. Caldwell plans to review and consult officials before deciding.
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Portland Fares Eight Cents
Portland car fares rose to eight cents today after the city council urged the state public service commission to delay the increase until after the Shrine convention.
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Louisiana House rejects suffrage measure
Baton Rouge report says the Louisiana house of representatives rejected the resolution ratifying the woman suffrage amendment by 67 to 44. The vote halted the state’s move to join the suffrage reform effort.
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Spokane May Raise Streetcar Fares to Eight Cents
D L Huntington president of Washington Water Power Co says seven or eight cent streetcar fares will be sought soon in Spokane. He notes May revenue $5 000 below the same month last year under the current six cent fare.
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View Property Homes in Seattle With Sound or Lake Views
The Classified Page highlights ideal Seattle homes for sale offering views of the sound or lake at bargain prices.
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Dempsey Cleared of Draft Evasion in Federal Court
Heavyweight boxer Jack Dempsey was found not guilty of draft evasion and conspiracy to evade the draft in a San Francisco federal trial. The jury deliberated under thirty minutes, while testimony detailed war service and boxing benefits.
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Jack Will Begins Training After Verdict
San Francisco June 15 Dempsey will start training at once and be ready to meet anyone within two weeks, Jack stated after the verdict. Kearns announced that Be issue formal statement.
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