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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1922
Page
13
Seattle voters face a three year school director contest with many strong contenders. Dr. Tiffin leads a field including C. W. Sharples and Dean Burkheimer, while for the one year seat Claude Eckhart is opposed by E. F. Taylor.
A Boston girl wearing a pedometer danced five hours and covered 25 miles, finishing fresh. A German scientist notes dancers pause to recover, comparing it to a marathon’s steady run and intermissions.
Dr. Walter Lichtenstein argues for expanding exports of wheat and cotton to prevent stagnation, urging higher overseas sales as vital to the economy. The piece criticizes an amendment dismantling the department of public utilities and questions state control of utilities and rates amid calls for home rule.
The Women’s Civic club calls for converting vacant downtown lots into green spaces. They propose beautifying the old Hostel Lincoln site and the Providence hospital lot at Fifth and Madison, creating small neighborhood parks. Club members offer help with rakes hoes and shovels or planning ideas.
Andrew Keck, 04, returns to the lumber trade in Allentown Iowa after four years away. He argues work is a natural duty and compares life to planetary motion and flowing water, claiming idleness opposes natural law. The piece ends with a stray fishing remark and a crude economic aside about rat costs per year.
The piece explains expurgate meaning to purify from obscene matter with Latin roots and notes usage in a line about expurgated French plays. It then shifts to local issues where a telephone franchise renewal prompts calls for expert advice to the council and critiques a voter information league recommendation as inaccurate, urging a NO vote on the proposition.
In Rome on May 1 a collision with a horse as he turned sharp, Capt. Canton jumped from his motorcycle onto the horse. He then climbed aboard the animal and escaped injury.
London dispatch notes a unique bottle design with an air chamber featured in a May Day report. The item described appears to be a rare or experimental container highlighted by observers.
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