Broad range of city and national items mix in wartime era notes
A jumble of brief notices covers Union actions and philanthropy, wartime recruitment, civic projects, and local incidents. References include the Butte miners union, Rockefeller Foundation medical experiments in Pekin, Alaska governance, a Tacoma city water vote, and various harbor and railway events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Butte Miners’ Union
Western Federation of Miners
Rockefeller Foundation
Union Medical College
Pekin
China
Rockefeller
Colorado
State Department
900 GRADUATE GIRLS WIN HIGH SCHOOL HONORS
Nine hundred graduates across six Seattle high schools received diplomas in a Wednesday ceremony series. Broadway High issued 288 diplomas at the Moore Theatre where school board president Nathan Eckatein spoke. Valedictorians were Ebba Dahlin Jessie Brown Dorothy Thomas Clio Blair Evelyn Haugum and Eunice Fisher. Cecil Wray won the Whitman College scholarship Mayo Shattuck earned the Harvard scholarship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seettie High School
Larnin
Broadway High
Moore Theatre
Nathan Eckatein
Ebba Dahlin
Broadway
Jessie Brown
Lincoln
Dorothy Thomas
Queen Anne
Clio Blair
Franklin
Evelyn A. Haugum
Ballard
Eunice Fisher
West Seattle
Seattle
Cecil Wray
Whitman College
Harvard
Mayo Shattuck
Optical illusion tricks eyes with parallel lines
The text describes an optical illusion where long heavy lines appear to run in multiple directions while they are actually parallel. Viewers are instructed to tilt the paper to a horizontal position and gaze along the lines to perceive the effect.
Employers Visit Court Over M Mahon Attack
In police court on Tuesday afternoon Thomas B. MacMahon defended R W Madhen who distributed cards along Second Avenue denouncing Levinson's bakery boycott. MacMahon accused the Employers' association of stirring trouble while Judge Gordon denied a motion to dismiss and set fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Employers’ Association
Thomas B. MacMahon
R. W. Madhen
Second Ave
Levinson
Frank Brightman
Leslie N. Packard
MacMahon
Brightman
Gordon
Madsen
High Dudgeon
Judges Named for Pacific Northwest Rose Exhibition
Roland G Gamwell of Hellingham George A Hill of Point Defiance Park Tacoma and Herman Wiley of Seattle chosen as judges for the Pacific Northwest rose exhibition to be held in the Commercial Club rooms Arcade building Friday and Saturday with 1 pm start each day Out of town visitors are invited to view the show when roses are at their best The Pacific Northwest Rose Society includes the Puget Sound area and will display the Northwest's finest roses
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland G. Gamwell
Hellingham
George A. Hill
Point Defiance Park
Tacoma
Herman Wiley
Seattle
Commercial Club
Arcade
Northwest
Pacific Northwest Rose Society
Ite
Puget Sound
Bock Sues City Over Slippery Maple Sidewalk
George Bock files a $2,500 suit against the city alleging fractures of both legs after slipping on a maple wood sidewalk. He also claims splinters from the fall damaged his trousers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Joseph, Mo
George Bock
Bock
Bungalow Aprons Offered in Polka Dot and Stripe Styles
Bargain textiles advertise aprons priced at 50 cents each in choices of polka dot stripe and fancy figured effects. The notice promotes affordable kitchen wear.
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Bon Marche
Ansco
Felding Brown
Ingento” Jr
Ingento
Je. R. R. Lens
Universal Focus
8. A. Lena
Coe
A. Lena
Home Journal
Moving Picture
John Fleming Wilson
Trey
Nearta
Louis Joseph Vance
J. W. McConaughy
Harold MacGrath
Grace Miller White
Thomas Dixon
Marcua
W. J. Locke
Damon and Pythias
Albert Payson
Terhune
Tial
Caine
Edward Peple
James Oliver Curwood
the Hillas
Harriet Comstock
J. Hartley Manners
Daylight Sanitary
Batiste
Nion
Pike St
Elliott
Wilson
Bryan
HH. C, Pigott
WH. C. Pigott
Pacific Coast
Hoquiam
Kid Yoern
Aberdeen
Sharkey
Col. E. M. House
Woody
Europe
White House
Cornish
N. H
Phil Creamer
Dawson
Toronto Regiment
Victor Manweller
P. W. Bigelow
Oregon City
Civil Service
National Assembly
Los Angeles
William Wickham, Jr
John Springer
Oakland
Cal
Red Apple
Oroville
Wenatchee
Skagit County
Matt Stanley
Portland
Bucoda
Wash
Public Service Commission
NBP
Thurnton County
Sidney Leo Johnson
Abraham Pepper
U. S&s. National Bank of Centralia
W. H. Pauthamus
Northwest Apple Growers’ League
Spokane
Old Duwamish School
Georgetown
Woodland Park
Alexander Dickinson
Federal Grand Jury
A. E. le Ballieter
Second Ave. W
Stoneway
Hlewett
National Association of Real Estate Exchanges
Frisco
Elmer Carlson
East 55Th
14Th Ave. N. W
East 49Th
Elks
Temple State School For Blind
Cordova
Admiral Evans
Northland
Alaska
H. C. Bradford
Border Line Transportation Co
Military Academy
Missouri
M’mahon Wrath
Ladies’ Home
Journal Patterns
Frederick
Nelson
Cade
Hursday
Goodyear
Milan
Iwement
Vis
Corduroy Knickerbockers
OYS
Cardinal
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