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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1917
Page
8
Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club committees wrap up a week long membership drive aiming to grow members from 1,803 to 2,000 and raise the budget from 75 308 50 to 100 000. Committees meet in the Arcade building Ad club room at 9 30 am Tuesday and return for luncheon at 12 50 as the drive closes with final reports.
Seattle barbers plot a fixed salary schedule with a weekly minimum of 18 dollars and a percentage on each haircut. They are finalizing details and plan to present the plan to their boss soon. The plan could raise service prices, creating a key unsettled question for customers.
University of Washington seniors numbering 347 will receive diplomas in Meany Hall on June 13. John Duncan Spaeth, coach of the Princeton crew and English professor there, will deliver the address.
A Liberty showing features Ethel Barrymore in The Call of Her People a gypsy romance from Egypt with Young Faro opposing marriage a wedding disrupted by tribe chiefs and exile of Egypt Marta Moreno stars in Aladdin From Broadway at Clemmer and The Sacrifice with Margaret Wharton at Mission. Rex presents Clara Kimball Young in The Woman Without a Soul and Class A screens The Circular Staircase Eugenie Besserer leads with a suspenseful five reel adaptation of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s novel.
The international longshoremen union led by president T. V. O'Conner of Buffalo declares that longshoremen individually and as a group will support the Wilson administration. The statement comes during a Seattle Sunday event.
Washington May 14 Senator Robinson Ark introduced a bill to declare print paper a public utility and to empower the federal trade board to fix reasonable prices. Colonial Mary Miles Minter's film story A Dream or Two Ago at the Colonial received praise for its charm and humor.
Advertisement note states Dr Anna C Beebe at 3045 Arcade offering free consultation for chronic diseases. The fragment cites medical services and location with minimal additional details.
Three auto accidents were reported to the police Sunday. J. C. Nichola of the Madison hotel was injured on arms and legs when struck by a car driven by Dr. E. C. Lanter, 5617 Rainier Ave N. Rousso, 1420 Jackson Jr., sustained head bruises when knocked down at Jackson Street and 14th Avenue by W. A. Thompson, 4604 West Brandon Street. Paul Lafoul, 23, of 1425 Harvard Ave was injured by a vehicle driven by Alex Steele, 1915 44th Ave S, at Roy Street and Westlake.
One hundred Mountaineers will climb Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Adams in a Seattle departure August 4 and return August 25. It marks the 11th summer expedition of the club.
Harry Cooper and Harry Davis, both Seattle residents, and Harry Smmitts, a dry squad man, were arrested in Tacoma after accepting a $200 marked bill bribe from hotel proprietors Peter Sandberg and R A Lambert. Davis was a witness in the Gill Billingsley trial.
Councilmen Lane Bolton and Fitzgerald will speak to the Ross Improvement Club Tuesday night at the car barns on Third Avenue. They will discuss Nickerson Street improvements West Union Street and wage increases.
President Wilson and the Washington congressional delegation acknowledged the pledge of the Washington Association of Drugless Physicians to furnish units for field service to care for wounded soldiers and sailors.
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