Wage Scale Promises Face Union Push in Washington Mills
Union headquarters deny the Employers' Association claim that 75 percent of state mills granted demands. Brown of the Shingle Weavers says Grays Harbor and Snohomish mills have raised pay to the requested scale. Everett mills stay closed while Edmonds and Snohomish mills run, with a few exceptions. about 40 Snohomish mills have granted the scale.
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Employers’ Association of Washington
Grays Harbor
Snohomish County
President Brown
Brown
Everett
Edmonds
Mukilteo
Three Lakes
Marysville
Copper Production Set To Reach Record In 1916
In Los Angeles on May 3 experts forecast a copper output exceeding two billion pounds for 1916, a rise of over 25 percent from 1915, according to Seeley W. Mudd of the Chamber of Oil and Mines.
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Los Angeles
Seeley W. Mudd
Chamber of Oil and Mines
Holding Institute at Calvary Methodist Church
The Ballard W C T VU holds an Institute on Wednesday at Calvary Methodist church located at West 76th Street and 23rd Avenue North West.
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Ballard W. C. T. VU
Calvary Methodist Church
W. 76Th St
23Rd Ave N. W
Real Flesh Builder For Thin People
An advertisement touts Sargol tablets as a fat producing, blood enriching supplement for thin individuals. It claims two weeks to see weight gain, with 5 to 8 pounds of solid fat and 10 to 25 pounds monthly in some cases, backed by drugstore availability and a money back guarantee.
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Bartell Drugs Co
Swift
The Clemmer and Coliseum Showings Populate Local Theaters
Theatre listings reveal Marie Doro in The Heart of Nora Flynn at the Coliseum starting Thursday, Pauline Frederick in The Eternal City at the Showplace, and The Immortal Flame at Class A. Also noted are The Beggar of Cawnpore at Liberty and A Man of Honor at Colonial, with reviews and additional acts across venues like Strand and Clemmer.
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Heeret-Vitegraph Weekly
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Anttea King
Heer
Muteal Weekly
Liberty Warner
Beggar of Cawepeore
Keystone
Pleremee Reed
al Bay
Mme Petreve
Mett and
Jeff
Marie Doro
Anita King
Victor Moore
Coliseum Theatre
Coliseum
Nora Flynn
Submarines Fire by Sound Without Periscopes
Berne reports describe a new German tactic using earphones and sound discs on the bow to detect approaching ships. Submarines reportedly fire torpedoes without seeing, relying on audible cues to steer and strike below the waterline.
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WM. G. Shepherd
United Press
Berne
Switzerland
British
Borden Heads North for Great Bear Arctic Expedition
Wealthy Chicago and Santa Barbara backers join Capt Louie Lane aboard the Great Bear for a six to eight month 10 000 mile voyage around Point Barrow to seek specimens for Eastern museums establish trading stations and meet Stefansson. The crew of 24 includes John Borden R B Slaughter C K Knickerbocker Norris Bokum Reginald Fernald and W E Boeing with a full motion picture outfit aboard. The expedition sails the first week of June from Port Blakeley.
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Reginald Fernald
W. E. Boeing
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GOLD MEDAL Haariem Capsules Promised Back Pain Relief
An advertising blurb touts GOLD MEDAL Haariem Capsules as a permanent cure for backache. It claims Holland government charter and national regard, urges purchase from Owl Drug Co, notes 50c and 1.00 packages with money back if ineffective.
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Netherlands
Haarlem
Maariem
Owl Drag Co
Individual Instruction at Seattle Engineering School
No matter your occupation or hours you can work in a course at the Seattle Engineering School. One hour a day or eight hours a day morning afternoon or night, whatever arrangement will suit you will suit us. Our plan of Individual Instruction makes this possible and scores of Seattle Men and Boys have improved their earning power or got into more congenial employment by simply using their spare time in some one of our many departments Steam Gas and Electrical Engineering taught by the most approved and thoroughly practical methods. Splendid Plant and High Grade Instructors. Send for New Illustrated Catalogue.
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Seattle Engineering School
Seattle
Drink Hot Water With Limestone Phosphate Each Morning
A health ad urges starting the day with a hot glass of water mixed with limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims this daily treatment flushes toxins before breakfast and improves overall health and energy.
SEATT ENGINEER SCHOOL AT 100 W ROY ST
An engineer school in Seattle operates near 100 West Roy Street. The brief item notes the location and the facility within the city. No further details are provided in the readable text.
Suffrage Envoys Leave Seattle For Spokane Campaign
Eastern suffrage envoys wrapped up a two day Seattle visit as six local women began preparing letters for Eastern papers aboard the Suffrage Special. The delegation praised Seattle reception and planned to travel via Great Northern tracks through Montana to Salt Lake City for the Women Voters convention May 11 and 12. The new women’s party was set to form in Chicago June 6 to 7.
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Seattle
King Street
Spokane
Pacific Coast
Montana
Boise
Idaho
Salt Lake City
Women's Party
Chicago
Powell Hearing on Charges Against City Inspector
Several witnesses testified Tuesday night at a partial civil service commission hearing into charges against H. W. Powell. Powell was discharged from the district sanitary inspector post by Health Commissioner Mc Bride amid claims of holding multiple remunerative positions while serving in city service.
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Civil Service Commission
H. W. Powell
McBride
Powell
German reply to submarine demand expected tomorrow
Berlin reports the German note to the American demand for changes in submarine methods will be delivered to Ambassador Gerard tomorrow. Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg’s return from the Kaiser's field headquarters is anticipated as the note is prepared, with possible alterations and a diplomatic form. London dispatches say the reply is unlikely to meet the American demands and may delay, placing blame on President Wilson.
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Gerard
von Bethmann-Hollweg
von Jagow
Reichstag
Many
Wilson
Gompers to Take Charge of Strike in NYC Cloak Industry
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is expected to personally supervise the cloak, suit and skirt strike. The action involves about 30,000 union workers and 10,000 others out of work due to closed shops, with 1,800 independent shops threatening to join, raising total strikers to about 60,000. Shipping is congested in New York, Jersey City, and Brooklyn as tugboat and lighter engineers and firemen strike, joined by cooks and other maritime workers.
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New York
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Jersey City
Brooklyn
Pacific Mail Stockholders Set May 16 Meeting
A special meeting of Pacific Mail Steamship stockholders is called for May 16 to approve increasing capital stock from 1 million to 4 million dollars. Pacific Mail was recently acquired by the American International corporation from the Southern Pacific company.
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New York
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Pacific Mail
American International Corporation
Southern Pacific Company
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