Knock Reuther Out Of The Bow In a Tight Eighth
The game ends in a 4 to 4 tie with Chicago and Cincinnati each scoring in the late innings. Kerr and Schalk catch for Chicago while Ring and Rariden handle Cincinnati’s battery duties.
07 Oct 1919
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1919
Page
1
The game ends in a 4 to 4 tie with Chicago and Cincinnati each scoring in the late innings. Kerr and Schalk catch for Chicago while Ring and Rariden handle Cincinnati’s battery duties.
A reflective piece contrasts early job boards offering exploitative terms with modern free postings. It notes workers seek fair pay, with some demanding seven to ten and a half dollars daily, while others strike or take lower paid odd jobs to support families. It questions whether determined strikers are heroes or fools.
Three days of street car strike rioting culminated when a Key Route train, manned by armed strikebreakers, struck two cars killing five people and injuring others. Police seek the guards. widespread violence and arrests follow as crowds gather in Oakland and Berkeley.
The speaker warns that sticking through hardship may affect families and jobs, noting concern over a hot headed agent who could end a strike or damage town employment. Many thoughtful locals feel pinched and unsure about the strike's outcome.
Wisconsin based veteran known as Ma Burdick the flapjack cooking and Croix de Guerre recipient who ministered to U S troops under fire in France hopes to travel to Seattle to aid a $250000 Elks campaign but is too feeble. Her life and service earned her Croix de Guerre and French medals while she tended soldiers and wore a steel helmet amid shell fire.
Senator Hiram Johnson of California arrived in Portland at 8 this morning. He will speak at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon at noon and deliver his main address opposing the League of Nations covenant at the public auditorium tonight.
In San Francisco on October 1 the Bay district shipyard strike enters a prolonged phase with 60 000 workers demanding a 50 cent wage rise while employers insist on not granting the increase. Both sides say they will not budge as they back government efforts to restore normal conditions.
Federal grand jurors in Tacoma traveled by boat to the McNeil's Island federal penitentiary to investigate the treatment of Hulet M. Wells former Seattle Central Labor Council president. Wells is serving two years for issuing a pamphlet opposing the draft and has been in solitary confinement for refusing to obey prison rules.
Aid was rushed today to the leaking American vessel Polar Land 1,000 miles east of New York. Her pumps could not control the rushing water as she sails for Gibraltar with a meat cargo.
A brief call invites entries from residents for a Star Want Ad rhyme contest. Mrs. H. W. Drew provided the sample verse and the show at Clemmer Theatre offers a cash prize for readers who submit rhymes.
Mayor Fitzgerald and Police Chief Warren bar a Mooney Defense League parade citing public peace risks. They warn anarchists and I W W supporters would provoke bloodshed, signaling Seattle will not permit the protest. Meanwhile, labor groups press a nationwide one day strike agenda.
James L. Bemen, 38, who shot himself in the neck after a quarrel with his wife over money, died Tuesday morning at 7 45 in the city hospital. Doctors operated Monday but could not locate the bullet as swelling prevented probing.
Umpires Evans at the plate Quigley at first Nallin at second Rigler at third are listed for the game.
Fifteen pilots at the Presidio will launch from San Francisco and Mineola at 6 am to race across the continent to New York and back. The neutral round trip will include 21 control stations with 30 minutes rest at each, totaling about 64 hours of flying with two rest days.
Early Tuesday morning police raided the Success hotel at 2304%. Nine people were arrested including Guy Greenstreet and Joe Wright for liquor and disorderly conduct. Officers found about 400 whisky bottles and declared the house used for bootlegging only.
The builders strike remained unsettled as a Tuesday meeting between master builders and strikers did not take place. Indications suggested action toward a settlement would wait until after a Building Trades Council gathering at night. Master builders must negotiate with the strikers once they return to work, but for now the status quo persists.
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