Drunkenness Declines in Seattle After 1914 Rise
Seattle officials report a 32 percent drop in arrests for drunkenness and disorderly conduct in June July and October 1915 compared with 1914. Officials cite factors such as fewer vagrants tied to wartime migration and recent rail service changes, plus summer floaters and a big drought as possible causes.
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Seattle
Charles Sullivan
Altho
Namor
Tacoma
Griffiths
Gill
Alaska
Bundy Loses Title Bid in California Tennis Finals
Mrs Bundy failed to defeat Molla Bjurstedt in Long Beach California as May Sutton Bundy reached the finals. Miss K Brown won 64 63 and beat Miss Florence Sutton. If Brown wins today she becomes champion and the two sisters would meet in a final clash.
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Long Beach
Cal
Sutton Bundy
En Molla Bjurstedt
California
Sabe
Miss K. Brown
Misa
Florence Sutton
Miss Brown
Candidates Put Over The Jumps In Port And School Board race
At a Friday night meeting at Queen Anne Congregational church candidates for the port commission and school board spoke in ten minute turns. Carl Ewald stressed railroads blocking waterfront improvements while J B R Powles touted business experience and support for the belt line plan. Remsberg defended belt line by citing Seattle industrial opposition and Daub urged railroad cooperation. Spencer faced questions about John Hay School fire escapes, McGill called for wider democracy and Irwin urged a woman on the board.
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Port Commission
School Board
Queen Anne Congregational Church
Sydney Strong
Carl A. Ewald
Powles
J. BR. Powles
Westerwave
Transportation Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Bob Bridges
Bridges
Remsberg
Gen Chittenden
Seattle
Albert Daub
Daub
Smith's
Spencer
Oscar H. McGill
Lillian Irwin
Ewald
Plan to limit immigration by country percentage urged
Dr Sidney L Gulick of the World Alliance urged a policy to admit aliens from each country only as a small percent of those already Americanized plus their American born children. He spoke at the Commercial Club luncheon on comprehensive immigration legislation and addressed Seattle groups about education for assimilation and a national alien registration bureau.
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Sidney L. Gulick
World Alliance of the Churches For the Promotion of International Friendship
Gulleck
Commercial Club
Seattle
Central Council of Social Agencies
Washington Annex
Bureau of Registration
Guggenheim Head Quits Tacoma Smelter President
Tacoma November 27 W R Rust ends 25 years as president of the Tacoma Smelter and withdraws from Guggenheim interests to focus on Alaska gold mining properties.
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Tacoma
W. R. Rust
Guggenheim
Rust
Alaska
Beauty culture at Bridewell: prison manicure lifts inmates
In Chicago's Bridewell, psychologist Misa Campbell leads a pilot beauty program teaching manicure, personal care, cooking and sewing to Magdalens. The first class transformed tired prisoners into more confident women as hands softened and posture improved. Three volunteers join weekly lessons.
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Honor Fanning
Chicago
Temple of Vanity
Hridewell
Misa Mary Campbell
Bridewell
Arizona's Woman Sheriff Hits the Broadway Trail
New York reports Arizona's Lucretia Roberts, the state’s only woman deputy sheriff and constable, arrives on Broadway with a 45 Colt and Mexican lariat. She boasts arrests of two dangerous criminals and many others, aims to value money for a Santa Cruz tuberculosis sanitarium.
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New York
Arizona
Lucretia Roberts
Santa Cruz County
Convicts rehearse Mikado at Fort Madison prison
State penitentiary convicts had their first rehearsal today of The Mikado, the comic opera they will present publicly at Fort Madison.
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Fort Madison
State Penitentiary
Munition factories near Boston see 50 percent profit rise
The leaders of Boston munitions plants report a surprising profit increase of about fifty percent on war orders, citing the unexpectedly simple labor involved in producing munitions.
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Boston
Mate Attacks Tug Captain On Morning Sparked Scare
Aboard the tug C C Cherry first mate A R Morse attacked Capt Turner with a pike pole at 5 am on Saturday as the vessel neared Pier 9. Morse was overpowered, escaped to the wharf, and fled swinging a club, prompting Ballard police to take him into custody after a report of possible insanity.
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A. R. Morse
C. C. Cherry
Turner
Morse
Ballard
City Considers 10000 Grant to Complete Traction Valuation
The city council finance committee proposes a 10000 appropriation and hiring an expert engineer to finish valuing the traction company's physical properties. The move aims to enable an early hearing on the company’s request to release franchise obligations. Assistant Corporation Counsel Pierce notes the public service commission may accept the traction company’s figures if the city lacks them.
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City Council
Traction Company
Corporation Council
Public Vervice Commission
Montgomery Named Bruin Captain After USC Game
Brud Montgomery quarterback and full back on the California varsity team is elected captain of the 1916 Bruins after the Thanksgiving game with USC. A former rugby star, he will be a senior next year.
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Los Angeles
Brud Montgomery
California
Bruin
California University of Southern California
Montgomery
Church League Scores Achieved By Four Friday Games
Four Seattle Church Athletic league games drew a large crowd on Leashi floor. University Place Baptist defeated Queen Anne M E 16 to 8 Fremont Baptist beat Trinity Lutheran 40 to 27 Woodland Park overcame Green Lake 28 to 22 University Methodist crushed First Baptist 70 to 14.
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Seattle Church Athletic League
Leachi
University Place Baptist
Queen Anne M. E
Fremont Baptist
Trinity Lutheran
Woodland Park
Green Lake
University Methodist
First Baptist
Dance Promises Odd Ballroom Night At Hippo Drome
The German Austrian Relief association hosts a Tuesday dance at the Hippo drome with a ladies choice plan. Seattle women will guide lonely bachelors to a private ballroom for paid dances and souvenir purchases. The program includes a bust unveiling of Gen Von Hindenberg, a rail driving event, and songs by the Beattle singing society under Prof Claude Madden.
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Hippodrome
Seattle
Gen, von Hindenberg
Gen. von Hindenberg
Marie Klinger
German Singing Societien of
Beattle
Claude Madden
Attempt to set fire to 40000 barrels of gasoline in Tacoma
Tacoma authorities investigate an arson attempt at the Standard Oil tanks. Unknown persons ignited oily waste and shoved it under the door of the gasoline room, threatening 40000 barrels of fuel stored at the facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Standard
O! Company
Geissler Sued by Daughter-in-Law After Narrow Mayoral Loss
Chehalis tale reports George Geissler who lost the mayoral race by three votes is being sued for 3000 dollars by his daughter-in-law Mrs Mabel Geissler. She accuses him of roughing her from an auto during a dispute over payments and says she has been bedbound from injuries.
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Chehalis
George Geissler
Mabel Geissler
W L McCabe Pioneer Waterfront Man Is Dead
William L. McCabe a pioneer waterfront business figure formerly of McCabe and Hamilton died at his home 496 West Mercer Street Saturday of heart failure. He leaves a widow and an adopted daughter.
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William L. McCabe
McCabe & Hamilton
West Mercer S T
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Goodrich
James Cruze
Armstrong
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Smelter
Mary Campbell
Mrs. LA Roberts
S. E. CO
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Pike
Advy
Chance For the Wallflowers
W. L M’cabe
Thomas Jefferson
Joseph
Tully Marshall
Griffith
Lorcha
Mabel Normand
Comedienne
Raymond Hitchcock
William S. Hart
the Disciple
DR. Gulick
Oxford Company
Star Lyceum
Association Auditor Alliance For the Promotion
In ‘Um
Gulick
United States
Uncle Sam
Melbourne
University ST
E. L. Swick
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