The Blindness of Virtue at the Metropolitan
Wilkes stock company presents The Blindness of Virtue led by Phoebe Hunt with Effie Pemberton and Norman Hackett. Richard Vivian stars as the lover in a melodrama about a father discovering his daughter in her lover's room. The Moore theatre showcases The Only Girl a cheerful musical farce with an opera pact premise. Orpheum features Catherine Powell toe dancing with a varied lineup including Pietro and Ethel Cliffton. Empress hosts Grant Gardner in blackface minstrelsy with a strong overall bill and The War Child in a one act drama.
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Wilkes Stock Company
Metropolitan Theatre
Phoebe Hunt
Effie Pemberton
Harry Pemberton
Miss Hunt
Effie
Norman Hackett
Richard Vivian
Orpheum Mias
Catherine Powell
Orpheum
George Moore
Gertrude Vanderbilt
Pietro
Mme
Chilson-Ohrman
Ethel Cliffton
Brenda Fowler
Fannie Hrice
le Grohs
Grant Gardner
Coon
Gardner
Ford Leaders Meet Foster at Reed College Speech
William T. Foster president of Reed College spoke Monday at 12 15 in Good Fate cafeteria on National Preparedness. Rev Hugh Elmer Brown presided and the meeting was under the Henry Ford Peace Club No 1 Auspices.
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William T. Foster
Reed College
Butter bricks spark city probe in Seattle crackdown
Deputy Worden says wholesalers unload thousands of shortweight butter bricks on unsuspecting Seattle housewives. Protests failed, and inspectors plan broad prosecutions to force 16 ounce weights. Warrants issued against Ellensburg Creamery Co, Mutual Creamery Co, and Bradner & Co amid high butter prices and shortweight bricks.
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Seattle
J. P. Worden
Ellensburg Creamery Co
The
Mutual Creamery Co
Bradner & Co
Alhambra and Hipp Popular Vaudeville Bills
Crowded Alhambra houses praise a Sunday show featuring Kenny and La France and other acts including Frank Colby and company, Davis and Walker, Sam Davin, and the Imperial Japs. The Hippodrome draws big crowds with Gillard and company in A Woman of the Streets, Linare's Hawaiians, the Georgian Trio, plus two new films Pincus at the Bat and Mr Jack Trifies.
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Alhambra
Kenny
la France
Frank Colby
Davis
Walker
Sam Davin
Mary Page
Gillard and Company
Mae Roberts
Linare
Brown
Kennedy
Pincus At the Bat
Frank Daniela
Mr. Jack Trifies
Butter Buyers Shortweight Claim Sparks State Probe
Worden says the average butter customer loses 24 cents per short weight pound. State law requires butter bricks to weigh 16 ounces, and housewives can seek help from weights and measures officers to obtain full value.
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Worden
Hhe
Marlano Still Denies Murder In Seattle Jail
Seattle market clerk Marlano, charged with the 11 year old San Francisco murder of B. Vilardo, denies the crime after two hours of questioning by Captain Tennant. He asserts innocence and says he would return to California for trial. Vilardo’s dismembered body was found in jute sacks. Pietro Torturiel had been charged in 1905 but never captured. Mariano was arrested at Pike Place Market by Detectives Bianchi and Cochran.
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Jim Marlano
Seattle
B. Vilardo
San Francisco
Tennant
Pietro Torturiel
California
Vilardo
Mariano
Pike Place
Bianchi
Cochran
G. Boozer
Kansas City
Boozer
Pietro Torturici
Cyclone tears up trees in Oregon in deadly storm
Portland March 20 One man is dead after an electrical storm hit at 6 p m Sunday. Thunder and lightning were followed by strong winds and heavy rain. A huge fir toppled onto the home of rancher Wm Marks, killing him. Lightning struck several houses causing minor damage.
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Portland
Wm. Marks
Marks
Lister Corrects Judge's Mistake In Clemency Action
Ex policeman Paul Schuman to serve six months in the reformatory after Gov Lister grants clemency. Judge Smith had sentenced him to the penitentiary by a slip of the tongue before the supreme court refused to change the record.
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Paul Schuman
Reformatory
Judge Smith
Gov. Lister
Supreme Court
Schuman
Bernhardt and stars headline ambitious city bill
The Coliseum and nearby venues showcase Bernhardt in Jeanne Dore with supporting acts from Mae Murray Lillian Walker Sis Hopkins Irene Fenwick and Vernon Castle in The Whirl of Life. Other films include The Spendthrift To Have and to Hold and The Black Orchid. A Burnett concert and The Moral Fabric headline at Liberty and Mission respectively.
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Paramount Pictures
Frederick Palmer
Hugo Muensterberg
Harvard
Mae Murray
Billie Ruehle
Kathryn Willams
Lilian Walker
Sis Hopkins
China Tops World in Duck Population
China reportedly holds a larger share of the global duck population than the rest of the world combined, indicating a substantial poultry industry footprint and potential implications for farming, markets, and food security.
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China
New York Interests Offer for Seattle Alaska Fleet Steamers
New York shipping interests reportedly bid $6,300,000 to buy the 10 largest steamers in Seattle's Alaska fleet. The offer was rejected despite totaling ten years of the ships current annual earnings.
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New York
Seattle
Alaska
Altho
Hebrew Society dedicates annex with Purim festival
The Young Men's Hebrew elation dedicated the new ay orium annex to its building at ave and E. Jefferson st. with a musical program. The event coincided with the Purim festival, a national holiday.
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The
Young Men's Hebrew Elation
Ayorium
Ave. and
E. Jefferson St
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