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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1917
Page
10
City budget committee prepares for a special Friday night session to discuss salary raises for city workers. Councilman Hanna, finance chair, highlights a wage comparison with private firms and urges payroll control by department heads, arguing retrenchment and better wages for the good employees.
Mrs Miller chairs the thrift committee for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She collaborates with Herbert Hoover on reducing food waste in the United States. Mrs Miller is vice president of the association and wife of Professor Miller at the University of Missouri.
Judge Ralph C. Bell in a visiting Snohomish court ruled Virginia Clark 11 could not recover after stepping on broken glass in the Lincoln playfield wading pool. The injury occurred on city furnished apparatus and the ruling held no liability.
W Bolton 61714 was struck by T H Heubl 140 21st Ave at Third Ave and Union St yesterday evening suffering bruises. Heubl was arrested for reckless driving and released on a $100 bond.
A simple lemon skin whitening lotion using juice from two lemons and three ounces of orchard white to make a quarter pint. Strain the juice to remove pulp then mix with the base. massage daily over face neck arms and hands to whiten soften and beautify skin.
Public safety committee urged a ban on alcohol and dancing in city halls after a Wednesday debate. Ministers lawyers and arcade workers backed or opposed the measure arguing it would curb vice or overburden statutes.
Attorney Solon T. Williams, counsel for August Wolfe, was reprimanded by Superior Judge Mackintosh after Wolfe was accused of furnishing money to Al J. Rounds Walter McDonald and Oscar Lowe in the Bothell bank robbery on December 6. The remarks about police and detectives who testified were cited as the cause.
A 1917 Seattle letter urges Congress to conscribe large incomes for war funding. It supports limiting munition profits to 3 percent and basic-necessity profits to 6 percent, with a progressive income tax rising to 100 percent above 100000. The signatory requests enactment of such legislation for broad national benefit.
Address instructions state that, when signed, correspondence should be mailed to Senator Miles Poindexter in Washington, D. C.
Ninety six Russian exiles supplied with funds by the Russian consulate are in Seattle awaiting I Schatoff of New York secretary of the United Russian Revolutionary conference of America. He arranged passage for the party via Nippon Yusen Kaisha line whose ships allegedly refused certain accommodations.
The government has officially taken over the German sailing ship Steinbek interned in Puget Sound since the war began. Capt S B Griggs of Seattle ordered the boat moved to drydock at Eagle Harbor on Wednesday. No orders yet on the Saxonia, also interned at Eagle Harbor.
Spirited bidding at the auction sale of confiscated dry goods brought in 740 75 into the treasury for the dry squad yesterday. John Bushell served as the auctioneer.
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