Star's food conservation meeting at the Bon Marche
The Star promotes an educational meeting at the Bon Marche at 2 30 Thursday afternoon to explain food conservation during the war. Speakers include Robert Bridges port commissioner Seattle Mrs Filen P Dabney and Dr B J Miiod with Floyd Rader and Mabel Abbott detailing public health and production efforts.
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Star
America
Land of Plenty
Times
The
Robert Bridges
Seattle
Filen P Dabney
Jitneys Defy Judge as Donations Fuel Contention
Jitneys oper ated 29 units Tuesday despite an injunction from Superior Judge Smith. Auto Drivers union uses donations as a challenge to the traction company, planning a Thursday parade on Third Ave Jackson St and Second Ave with officials approving.
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Traction Company
Smith
Ate
Supreme Court
Auto Drivers’ Union
Conservator of Carnegies Visited Here
Dr. Henry S. Pritchett was named conservator of the Carnegie fortune. He visited Seattle in 1909 while head of the Carnegie Foundation and former MIT president. Charles A. Stone of Stone & Webster and Jacob Furth joined him on a Alaska coast inspection trip aboard a revenue cutter.
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Henry S. Pritchett
Carnegie
Seattle
United States Lighthouse Board
Alaska
Charles A. Stone
Boston
Stone & Webster
Jacob Furth
D. P. Robinson
Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation
Dr. Pritchett
Robinson
Carnegie Foundation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wells admits paying bill to fight Army law
The hearing of Hulet M. Wells and Sam Sadler on sedition charges opened before U S Commissioner McClellan in Seattle. Wells, a former Seattle Central Labor Council president, is jailed on two counts related to circulating anti conscription pamphlets and misusing the mail. He says he will not defend before the commissioner and will contest the law in district court.
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Hulet M. Wells
Sam Sadler
U. S
McClellan
Federal
Wells
Sadler
Wells Ts
Seattle Central Labor Council
University of Washington Law School
Washington
Sadier
Longshore Men's Union
Congress
Wilson
Australia
Propaganda fears as Argentine hub for pro-German activity
State Department notes Argentina as a hotbed for pro German and anti-American propaganda fed from Berlin via Spain to Buenos Aires. German firms are named as agents stirring anti-U.S. sentiment in Colombia Venezuela and beyond to keep neutrality under scrutiny.
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proGermans
State Department
Berlin
Spain
Buenos Aires
Colombia
Panama
U. S
Venezuela
Castro
Alet M Wells Arrested In Sedition Probe
The Star reports labor leader Alet M Wells has been arrested on sedition charges tied to anti conscription propaganda. Other arrests are expected as authorities pursue an apparently organized anti conscription movement claiming resistance to the select service law.
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Alet M. Wells
Star
Wells
Congress
United States
Bind Hoover cries from food lobby in Washington
In Washington on May 29 a Star correspondent reports that lawmakers face a swarm of lobbyists from flour millers bakers brewers distillers and packers trying to block food control measures. He warns that continued delays will worsen famine prices and threaten the war effort.
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Manly Ashington
America
Washington
House
Senate
The
Star
Herbert Hoover
Gulliver
Congress
Germany
Council Seeks Cost Estimates to Extend Streetcar Lines
Council requests engineer department figures on building and operating an extension to serve shipyard workers along the south waterfront. Resolution by Councilman Erickson passed unanimously. Utilities department to prepare revenue estimates.
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Engineer's Department
Erickson
Public Utilities Department
Gamblers buy up butter and eggs in Chicago market
Grain gamblers driven from the Board of Trade shift to produce trading. Butter rises 2 cents to 48 cents a pound after a 6 cent gain last week. Eggs and cheese also feature in the surge as traders stake on the dairy commodities.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Detectives Arrest Escapee After Fist Fight
Detective Dan McLennan arrested R. H. McClurg, an escaped forger from Monroe reformatory, following a fist fight on Monday.
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Dan McLennan
R. H. McClurg
Monroe Reformatory
Two Baja California crewmen charged with attempting to disable ship
Two crew members of the Norwegian steamer Baja California were turned over to federal officers at Port Townsend on Tuesday. They face charges of trying to disable the ship's machinery. The vessel carries nitrates from South America to the DuPont powder plant near Tacoma and calls at Mexican ports.
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Baja California
Port Townsend
South America
DuPont Powder Plant
Tacoma
Lansing exposes German plot to involve U S with England
Secretary of State Lansing testified before the Interstate Commerce Committee that Germans sought to trigger U S involvement with England or France by organizing a large steamship company. He said a German agent or spy helped fund grain purchases to inflame disputes over enemy acts before the war. He cited multiple neutral Germany inspired efforts to create friction with allies.
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J. M. Howell
Jorney Howe
Traction R Ny
Jitneys
Washington
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Lansing
Germany
United States
England
France
Department of Justice
Commerce Redfield
Warren
Interstate Commerce Committee
Berlin
Steamship Company
Local drive aims to fund soldiers camp facilities
Fifty men began a Tuesday pledge drive to raise 13,600 to meet the city share of a 3,000,000 national fund. The money funds Young Men's Christian Association projects providing buildings games and entertainments for soldiers camps.
Rochester Re-elected President of Seattle Day Nursery
Mrs. G. A. Rochester is re-elected president of the Seattle Day Nursery association which cared for 8,327 children of working mothers last year.
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G. A. Rochester
Seattle Day Nursery Association
Advertising Reduces Selling Cost
Mr. Sullivan of the Association of National Advertisers cites a breakfast food case where advertising boosted sales from 15 to 22.50 per package after a 50 percent size increase and price cut to 10. The Star promotes Seattle’s top stores with regular ads.
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Sullivan
The
Association of National Advertisers
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